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    • 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. 1936-03-08


    • South unit main spillway dam rises at Bonneville.

    • 1936

    • South unit main spillway dam rises at Bonneville. - The top picture shows what has been going on at Bonneville dam since last September when the cofferdam was pumped dry. This is known as the south unit of the main spillway dam. The structural...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-03-08
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-03-22


    • Bonneville--past history and future at damsite.

    • 1936

    • Bonneville--past history and future at damsite. - Top--Looking downstream at the south unit of the main spillway dam as it appears today under the water which covered it last Saturday. Below--This view shows the next step in removal of the old...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-03-22
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-03-26


    • Boulder tough, but Bonneville tougher.

    • 1936

    • Boulder tough, but Bonneville tougher. - This is the last chapter in the life of the famous Boulder dam trucks. It got too near the edge of the road with a load of concrete and rolled over. The manifold set the gasoline afire after the driver had...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-03-26
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-04-10


    • Barrier slated to close soon. - Columbia diverted to new course during work.

    • 1936

    • Barrier slated to close soon. - Columbia diverted to new course during work. - Taut, three-inch cables hummed and steam winches puffed as crib 28, the next to the last section in the main channel cofferdam of the Bonneville power and navigation...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-04-10
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-05-22


    • Bonneville--Past history and future at damsite.

    • 1936

    • Bonneville--Past history and future at damsite. - Top--Looking downstream at the south unit of the main spillway dam as it appears today under the water which covered it last Saturday. Below--This view shows the next step in removal of the old...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-05-22
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-05-24


    • Highlights of news of Oregon country and her neighboring states

    • 1936

    • Highlights of news of Oregon country and her neighboring states / by Arthur Jones, Northwest editor.
      - Threats that the great flood of 1894 would be repeated hung over cities along the course of the Columbia river last week as warm weather...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-05-24
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-05-27


    • Boat hits power line and dam work halted.

    • 1936

    • Boat hits power line and dam work halted. - Operations at the dam here stopped for 12 hours last night, and government departments were without light, power or water when a large pile driver being towed down river for dismantling fouled an...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-05-27
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-09-24


    • Work starts on $142,000 revetment.

    • 1936

    • Work starts on $142,000 revetment. - Clearing of willows on the local waterfront was started last week by J. A. Terteling, Boise, Idaho, contractor, preparatory to starting work on the $142,000 revetment being erected here by the government to...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-09-24
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-11-01


    • Bonneville project speeds schedule.

    • 1936

    • Bonneville project speeds schedule. - Favored by weather and a short flood season contractors of construction on the giant $42,500,000 Bonneville dam power and navigation project are a month and a half ahead of last year's operations.
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-11-01
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1937-04-16


    • Dam builders reduce roster as end nears.

    • 1937

    • Dam builders reduce roster as end nears. - Employment is falling off at Bonneville as the end of construction on the big dam approaches. A year ago more than 3000 men were employed on the dam, and last December the payroll had 2700 names. Today...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1937-04-16
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1937-09-23


    • Work starts on $142,000 revetment.

    • 1937

    • Work starts on $142,000 revetment. - Clearing of willows on the local waterfront was started last week by J. A. Terteling, Boise, Idaho, contractor, preparatory to starting of work on the $142,000 revetment being erected here by the government to...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1937-09-23
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Engineers. 1932-02-05


    • Refuses to retain downstream dam.

    • 1932

    • Refuses to retain downstream dam. - Colonel T. M. Robbins, district U. S. engineer in charge of Bonneville dam construction, last week refused the request of Washington and Oregon fisheries chiefs to retain the downstream cofferdam in the...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Engineers. 1932-02-05
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Engineers. 1936-01-14


    • McNary tries to keep Columbia river open.

    • 1936

    • McNary tries to keep Columbia river open. - Senator McNary of Oregon informed the Port of The Dalles last week that after conferring with army engineers regarding the closing of Bonneville dam to river traffic, the district engineer concluded...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Engineers. 1936-01-14
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Engineers. 1936-05-22


    • Bonneville dam faces disaster.

    • 1936

    • Bonneville dam faces disaster. - The mighty Columbia, swollen by rain and melting snow to its highest lower-river point in two years, showed its power last Friday by cutting a new and deeper channel between Washington end of the main cofferdam and...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Engineers. 1936-05-22
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Engineers. 1937-01-15


    • McNary tries to keep Columbia river open.

    • 1937

    • McNary tries to keep Columbia river open. - Senator McNary of Oregon informed the Port of The Dalles last week that after conferring with Army engineers regarding closing of Bonneville dam to river traffic, the district engineer concluded "there...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Engineers. 1937-01-15
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Engineers. 1937-02-03


    • Refuses to retain downstream dam.

    • 1937

    • Refuses to retain downstream dam. - Colonel T. M. Robbins, district U. S. engineer in charge of Bonneville dam construction, last week refused the request of Washington and Oregon state fisheries chiefs to retain the downstream cofferdam in the...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Engineers. 1937-02-03
    • 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. Fish. 1937-02-05


    • Refuses to retain downstream dam.

    • 1937

    • Refuses to retain downstream dam. - Colonel T. M. Robbins, district U. S. engineer in charge of Bonneville dam construction, last week refused the request of Washington and Oregon state fisheries chiefs to retain the downstream cofferdam in the...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Fish. 1937-02-05
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Floods. 1936-04-28


    • Rise in Columbia slower at dam. - Bonneville project work to await recession.

    • 1936

    • Rise in Columbia slower at dam. - Bonneville project work to await recession. - The Columbia river freshet has brought the level at Bonneville dam more than a foot above last year's peak, but the flow is considerably less, engineers said today.
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Floods. 1936-04-28

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