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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
  • Subject Keys: Robins
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    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Power. 1936-05-14


    • Industry would shun Bonneville if rate uniform, Robins testifies.

    • 1936

    • Industry would shun Bonneville if rate uniform, Robins testifies. - Colonel Thomas M. Robins, Portland, Or., regional army engineer in charge of construction of the Bonneville project, today described a common wholesale rate structure for the...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Power. 1936-05-14
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Locks & navigation. 1936-01-22


    • 27-foot depth favored to dam. - Columbia channel work okehed by engineer.

    • 1936

    • 27-foot depth favored to dam. - Columbia channel work okehed by engineer. - Work justified nationally asserts Colonel Robins of navigation plan. - A ship channel 300 feet wide and 27 feet deep at low water as an aid to navigation of the Columbia...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Locks & navigation. 1936-01-22
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Locks & navigation. 1936-02-03


    • Columbia river improvement plan gets endorsement.

    • 1936

    • Columbia river improvement plan gets endorsement. - Channel improvements in the Columbia river from Vancouver, Wash., to Bonneville dam, a distance of approximately 40 miles, opening the Columbia river as far inland as The Dalles, about 190 miles...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Locks & navigation. 1936-02-03
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Locks & navigation. 1936-01-31


    • Favor 27-foot river channel.

    • 1936

    • Favor 27-foot river channel. - A ship channel 300 feet wide and 27 feet deep at low water as an aid to navigation on the Columbia river between Vancouver and The Dalles has been approved by Colonel Thomas M. Robins, U. S. division engineer, in a...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Locks & navigation. 1936-01-31
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Engineers. 1934-06-03


    • Officers come to view dam

    • 1934

    • Officers come to view dam. - Army engineers here to inspect project speak highly of it. - Lieutenant Colonel Thomas M. Robins, one of the army engineers who first approved the feasibility of a dam at the Grand coulee, came back Saturday, firm in...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Engineers. 1934-06-03
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Bids & contracts. 1933-10-05


    • Call for Bonneville bids

    • 1933

    • Call for Bonneville bids - Open them October 9 for federal dam in Columbia. - Colonel T. M. Robins of the Army Engineers' Office here, announced today bids would be opened at San Francisco October 9 for construction of a dam across the Columbia...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Bids & contracts. 1933-10-05
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1937-02-26


    • Columbia river closed at the Bonneville dam

    • 1937

    • Columbia river closed at the Bonneville dam. - Col. T. M. Robins, U. S. division engineer has set Tuesday, February 23, at 6 p. m., as the date when the locks will be closed at Bonneville to permit installation of gates and anchor chains, and river...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1937-02-26
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1937-04-08


    • No cause for alarm over dams in river?

    • 1937

    • No cause for alarm over dams in river? - Col. T. M. Robins, United States division engineer in charge of construction of Bonneville dam, today told meeting of sportsmen, fishermen and government representative that he did not believe there is any...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1937-04-08
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Engineers. 1936-01-31


    • Bonneville power needed.

    • 1936

    • Bonneville power needed. - Col. T. M. Robins, U. S. engineer in charge of construction at Bonneville dam, recently told Vancouver (Wash.) Chamber of Commerce that the Bonneville dam will be completed by July 1, 1937.
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Engineers. 1936-01-31
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Engineers. 1936-05-25


    • Bonneville fish ladders success, U. S. engineers survey reveals.

    • 1936

    • Bonneville fish ladders success, U. S. engineers survey reveals. - Investigations by United States engineers show definitely that fish in the Columbia river are using the fish ladders to pass workings at the Bonneville dam, Colonel T. M. Robins,...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Engineers. 1936-05-25
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Engineers. 1937-01-31


    • Shift scheduled from city in July. - Dam area district slated to take dozen from here.

    • 1937

    • Shift scheduled from city in July. - Dam area district slated to take dozen from here / by Lawrence Barber. - Second Portland District, United States Engineer Corps, will be moved to Bonneville July 1 and thereafter will be known as "Bonneville...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Engineers. 1937-01-31
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Engineers. 1937-02-05


    • U. S. engineers move to dam.

    • 1937

    • U. S. engineers move to dam. - Headquarters of U. S. engineers, Second District, will be moved to Bonneville dam July 1, according to notice give by T. M. Robins, district engineer at Portland, last week.
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Engineers. 1937-02-05
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Engineers. 1937-02-20


    • Portland Corps will go to dam. - Transfer of engineers due about July 1.

    • 1937

    • Portland Corps will go to dam. - Transfer of engineers due about July 1. - About 30 engineers and clerks from the Second Portland engineer district will be transferred from Portland to Bonneville about July 1, Colonel Thomas M. Robins, division...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Engineers. 1937-02-20
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Fish. 1936-05-23


    • Salmon using ladder at Bonneville dam.

    • 1936

    • Salmon using ladder at Bonneville dam. - Col. T. M. Robins, U. S. division engineer, said today that tests show salmon in the Columbia river are using the new fish ladders at Bonneville dam. When the dam is finished, the fish will be able either to...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Fish. 1936-05-23
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Fish. 1936-07-24


    • Claims fish are getting by dam.

    • 1936

    • Claims fish are getting by dam. - Colonel T. M. Robins, U. S. engineer, described a "gross exaggeration" today claims of fish officials of Oregon and Washington that the salmon industry faces ruin during construction of the Bonneville dam.
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Fish. 1936-07-24
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Fish. 1937-01-26


    • Dam stops fish, experts assert. - U. S. engineers attacked by state officials

    • 1937

    • Dam stops fish, experts assert. - U. S. engineers attacked by state officials. - Colonel Robins flayed on charge of inadequate salmon protection. - Failure to provide adequate passage for migrant salmon over Bonneville dam during the present year...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Fish. 1937-01-26

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