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    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Appropriations. 1938-01-11


    • Seeks TVA plan for Bonneville

    • 1938

    • Seeks TVA plan for Bonneville - Approximately $10,000,000 of the government's expenditure of $170,000,000 on the Tennessee Valley authority has been allocated for electrical development, Senator Charles McNary of Oregon, republican leader, said...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Appropriations. 1938-01-11
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Appropriations. 1938-03-01


    • Bonneville dam cash approved

    • 1938

    • Bonneville dam cash approved - A $3,500,000 appropriation for construction of power transmission lines at Bonneville dam, on the Oregon-Washington line, won tentative approval today. Representative Dondero (Rep., Mich.) sought to reduce the...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Appropriations. 1938-03-01
    • 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. Bids & contracts. 1933-12-28


    • Local concerns bid on big job.

    • 1933

    • Local concerns bid on big job. - Clifton & Applegate and Diamond Drill low on Bonneville projects. - Spokane contractors were low bidders on two jobs at the $31,000,000 Bonneville dam when bids were opened at the district office of the United...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Bids & contracts. 1933-12-28
    • 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. 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. Construction. 1933-08-19


    • Bonneville dam is O. K.'d. - Chief engineer has report but has not acted.

    • 1933

    • Bonneville dam is O. K.'d. - Chief engineer has report but has not acted. - A special dispatch to the Journal from Washington said today, "The board of engineers for rivers and harbors has acted favorably on the report of the division engineers on...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1933-08-19
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1933-11-04


    • Agitate for big locks. - The Dalles group pushes for Bonneville dam change.

    • 1933

    • Agitate for big locks. - The Dalles group pushes for Bonneville dam change. - The construction of navigation locks at the Bonneville dam project large enough to accommodate ocean-going vessels was urged upon Major Charles F. Williams, army engineer...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1933-11-04
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1934-02-24


    • Opposes sea lock on dam.

    • 1934

    • Opposes sea lock on dam. - Senator McNary (Rep., Ore.) said after a visit to the White House today that President Roosevelt had upheld the Board of Army Engineers in opposing at this time a system of sea locks on the Bonneville dam project in...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1934-02-24
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1934-06-02


    • Bids low on S., P. & S. Relocation.

    • 1934

    • Bids low on S., P. & S. Relocation. - The $339,395 bid of P. L. Crooks & Co., Inc., of Portland, was under the government estimate and lowest of bids opened her today for relocation of about six miles of the S., P. & S. railway to accommodate...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1934-06-02
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1934-08-09


    • Asks sea locks at Bonneville. - Army engineer recommends they replace barge locks originally planned.

    • 1934

    • Asks sea locks at Bonneville. - Army engineer recommends they replace barge locks originally planned. - No channel proviso - That must await arrival of business to attract sea-going ships, he says. -
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1934-08-09
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1934-08-29


    • Plan locks at Bonneville. - $1,200,000 allotted to build ways for sea-going ships.

    • 1934

    • Plan locks at Bonneville. - $1,200,000 allotted to build ways for sea-going ships. - Secretary Ickes, PWA administration today announced an additional allotment of $1,200,000 to equip the Bonneville, Ore., dam with locks permitting the passage of...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1934-08-29
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1934-09-01


    • Orino's $846,247 bid low. - Spokane man part of firm bidding on Bonneville job.

    • 1934

    • Orino's $846,247 bid low. - Spokane man part of firm bidding on Bonneville job. - A low bid of $846,247 for relocation of the Union Pacific railroad tracks at Bonneville was submitted jointly by Sam Orino of Spokane and Ralph Bell and C. T. Malcolm...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1934-09-01
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1935-07-05


    • Bonneville power project rises like magic.

    • 1935

    • Bonneville power project rises like magic. - About 60,000 horse power will be generated by the power equipment of the Bonneville power and navigation project. The substructure of the plant to house the huge turbines is shown here in the process of...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1935-07-05
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1935-09-27


    • Start pouring concrete.

    • 1935

    • Start pouring concrete. - The Columbia Construction Company tonight began pouring concrete behind the huge main river cofferdam of Bonneville dam, after having driven the last piece of steel piling around a leak which had hampered work since...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1935-09-27

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