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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • 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. 1933-12-28


    • Spokane builders bid on Bonneville.

    • 1933

    • Spokane builders bid on Bonneville. - Two jobs totaling more than $60,000 at Bonneville damsite on the lower Columbia are expected to be awarded to Spokane contractors, who were low bidders when bids were opened Wednesday at Portland.
    • 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. 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. 1935-04-09


    • $1,160,307 low bid for building 2 more units at Bonneville dam.

    • 1935

    • $1,160,307 low bid for building 2 more units at Bonneville dam. - General Construction Company and J. F. Shea Company of Portland, with a joint proposal of $1,160,307.90 were low bidders for construction of the powerhouse super-structure and...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Bids & contracts. 1935-04-09
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Bids & contracts. 1935-07-29


    • Power plant award will be made later.

    • 1935

    • Power plant award will be made later. - Contract for the construction of the Bonneville dam powerhouse super-structure in Bradford slough will be held up until November and awarded about the time Columbia Construction Company finishes its first...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Bids & contracts. 1935-07-29
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Bids & contracts. 1937-01-31


    • Westinghouse low on Bonneville control

    • 1935

    • Westinghouse low on Bonneville control - Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, Pittsburgh, appeared to be low bidder for control equipment for a swing bridge over the navigation lock on Bonneville dam, when bids were submitted to the...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Bids & contracts. 1937-01-31
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1934-02-23


    • Schedule beaten on dam buildings - Administration center and auditorium rise fast.

    • 1934

    • Schedule beaten on dam buildings - Administration center and auditorium rise fast. - Running at top speed under the most favorable of conditions, the E. B. Hansen Company of Seattle, disclosed this week that it would complete its $57,500...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1934-02-23
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1935-02-16


    • Titan of dredges braves Columbia. - Huge Monighan moved over to Oregon shore.

    • 1935

    • Titan of dredges braves Columbia. - Huge Monighan moved over to Oregon shore. - The Columbia Construction company's monster Monighan dragline was moved safely to the Oregon shore today by a crew under supervision of Edgar Keiser Jr., general...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1935-02-16
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1935-06-03


    • Big bucket dips into lock canal. - Excavation under way on dam approach channel.

    • 1935

    • Big bucket dips into lock canal. - Excavation under way on dam approach channel. - Excavation of Bonneville dam's lower lock approach channel and the fishways was begun Saturday by Columbia Construction Company with the moving from Bradford Island...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1935-06-03
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1935-06-10


    • Break holds up Bonneville dam.

    • 1935

    • Break holds up Bonneville dam. - A break in the Northwestern Electric's 23,000-volt submarine cable across the Columbia river resulted in an abrupt closing down of the work on the $32,000,000 Bonneville dam yesterday. The electric contractors...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1935-06-10
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1935-09-17


    • Concrete poured on spillway dam. - Columbia Construction Co. plans to rush work.

    • 1935

    • Concrete poured on spillway dam. - Columbia Construction Co. plans to rush work. - Another step in man's battle with the Columbia river at Bonneville dam was taken when Columbia Construction Company dropped the first cement into forms of the main...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1935-09-17
    • 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
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1935-10-21


    • Concrete gangs speed dam work. - Columbia now pouring 1500 yards each 24 hours.

    • 1935

    • Concrete gangs speed dam work. - Columbia now pouring 1500 yards each 24 hours. - Columbia Construction Company is gradually stepping up its pour on the main spillway dam preparatory to going to work in earnest. Working more than 1000 men, the...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1935-10-21
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1935-12-15


    • Gets Bonneville order.

    • 1935

    • Gets Bonneville order. - The DuBois Lumber Co., Vancouver, Wn., late in November received an order for 1,200,000 feet of cribbing material for the Bonneville dam. It is to be cut during December, January, February, and March. The order is in...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1935-12-15
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-03-08


    • Main generator foundation laid. - River soon to take course through sealocks.

    • 1936

    • Main generator foundation laid. - River soon to take course through sealocks. - With winter apparently well behind, General-Shea Company set to work in earnest this week on the construction of the Bonneville dam power house superstructure and...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-03-08
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-03-20


    • Studies in futurism at big Bonneville dam.

    • 1936

    • Studies in futurism at big Bonneville dam. - Left--One of the piers under construction on the main spillway dam, as it might look to a bird. There are 18 of these huge monoliths of steel and concrete in plans for the completed dam and nine are now...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-03-20
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-08-27


    • Stoplogs placed at upriver dam. - Locks at Bonneville now available to shipping.

    • 1936

    • Stoplogs placed at upriver dam. - Locks at Bonneville now available to shipping. - The rivermen's long wait for opening of navigation through the locks here was ended when the 60th stoplog was placed in the open units of the powerhouse, thus...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-08-27

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