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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
  • All fields: Dam (and)
  • Date.Original: 1934
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    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Bids & contracts. 1934-02-02


    • Bonneville dam work bid. - Excavation for power house and lock to cost at least $1,173,390.

    • 1934

    • Bonneville dam work bid. - Excavation for power house and lock to cost at least $1,173,390. - A low bid of $1,173,390 was submitted by Guy F. Atkinson Company of San Francisco and Portland on excavation work for the power house structure and lock...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Bids & contracts. 1934-02-02
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Bids & contracts. 1935-03-02


    • Gates contract let for big dam. - Award for Bonneville job won by Seattle concern.

    • 1934

    • Gates contract let for big dam. - Award for Bonneville job won by Seattle concern. - Pacific Car & Foundry Company of Seattle was low on the government contract for emergency gates for the sealocks, engineers disclosed here today. Winning bids,...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Bids & contracts. 1935-03-02
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Bids & contracts. 1934-07-07


    • Mason will bid on Bonneville. - Low bidder at Coulee hopes to build $3,500,000 lock and power house

    • 1934

    • Mason will bid on Bonneville. - Low bidder at Coulee hopes to build $3,500,000 lock and power house. - June emergency $14,575. - Rail right of way cost $15,000 - Probe of Ryan continues.
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Bids & contracts. 1934-07-07
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Bids & contracts. 1934-07-08


    • To open Bonneville bids - Cover contracts on project that will cost $5,260,000.

    • 1934

    • To open Bonneville bids - Cover contracts on project that will cost $5,260,000. - The Army Engineers Corps announced today additional bids on contracts for construction on the Bonneville flood control project in the state of Washington, amounting...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Bids & contracts. 1934-07-08
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Roosevelt, Franklin  Delano. 1934-07-15


    • President's arrival set for August 3. - Roosevelt expected to go directly to Bonneville.

    • 1934

    • President's arrival set for August 3. - Roosevelt expected to go directly to Bonneville. - No public appearance here on Program, word to General Martin indicates. - President Roosevelt will arrive in Portland shortly after noon August 3, two days...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. 1934-07-15
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. General. 1934-07-15


    • New dam town bustles. - North Bonneville alive with activity.

    • 1934

    • New dam town bustles. - North Bonneville alive with activity. - Old rail station nearly buried by fill being made for track relocation. - The increasing business brought about by the activities in connection with building the Bonneville dam has...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. General. 1934-07-15
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. General. 1934-06-02


    • Public works forge ahead. - Count 76 in May, 53 more to be let this month in this region.

    • 1934

    • Public works forge ahead. - Count 76 in May, 53 more to be let this month in this region. -Totaling $14,934,188, 76 Public Works contracts covering engineering projects only were let in the Pacific northwest during May, a Pacific Builder and...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. General. 1934-06-02
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Geology. 1934-01-15


    • Geology worries the Bonneville promoters.

    • 1934

    • Geology worries the Bonneville promoters. - Portland reports, on authority of the chief engineer at the Bonneville dam, that a favorable rock base has been discovered by drilling that will permit material saving in cost of construction over the...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Geology. 1934-01-15
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Locks & navigation. 1934-06-02


    • Good case for sea locks at Bonneville.

    • 1934

    • Good case for sea locks at Bonneville. - Testifying that sea locks at Bonneville dam, on the Columbia, to permit ocean-going vessels to reach The Dalles, would give that city a 24 per cent differential over Portland in grain rates, Edward M....
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Locks & navigation. 1934-06-02
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Locks & navigation. 1934-06-01


    • Big dam locks hit Portland. - Would give The Dalles 24 per cent differential over port.

    • 1934

    • Big dam locks hit Portland. - Would give The Dalles 24 per cent differential over port. - Rate adjuster says. - Engineer asserts Columbia closed to ocean-going ships 107 days a year. - Sea locks at Bonneville dam of the Columbia river would permit...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Locks & navigation. 1934-06-01
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. General. 1934-01-03


    • Where Columbia's backwater will spread.

    • 1934

    • Where Columbia's backwater will spread. - Part of the answer to the question, "What will happen to the gorge when the dam is finished?" This view, taken from the Washington shore near Wind river, shows the Columbia at low-water stage. In the...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. General. 1934-01-03
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Politics. 1934-08-14


    • Add more to cost of Bonneville dam.

    • 1934

    • Add more to cost of Bonneville dam. - The War Department announced today that Secretary Dern, upon recommendation of the chief of engineers, has approved changes in the plan for the Bonneville dam, on the Columbia river, to cost an additional...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Politics. 1934-08-14
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. General. 1934-08-04


    • Dams will shift U. S. population.

    • 1934

    • Dams will shift U. S. population. - President Roosevelt's word picture of a future Pacific northwest with a "vastly increased population," and a highly developed inland water system remained today in the minds of thousands who welcomed him home...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. General. 1934-08-04
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Fish. 1934-03-13


    • Bonneville dam fishways fund set at $3,200,000.

    • 1934

    • Bonneville dam fishways fund set at $3,200,000. - News of an increase of $700,000 in appropriations for Bonneville fishways was greeted by Oregon fish culturists with subdued enthusiasm yesterday.
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Fish. 1934-03-13
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Fish. 1934-06-24


    • Honeymooning salmon will get $3,200,000.

    • 1934

    • Honeymooning salmon will get $3,200,000. - Money was found from PWA's $3,700,000,000 fund to take care of honeymooning salmon. Writing in "Back to Work," on a $30,000,000 allotment to the Bonneville dam on the Columbia river, Secretary Ickes said.
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Fish. 1934-06-24
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Fish. 1934-02-19


    • Bonneville dam is worry to fish men.

    • 1934

    • Bonneville dam is worry to fish men. - Considerable concern over the effect on the Pacific salmon industry of the construction of Bonneville dam is expressed in a monthly bulletin issued by United States Bureau of Fisheries.
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Fish. 1934-02-19

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