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    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-02-02


    • Bonneville today.

    • 1936

    • Bonneville today. - Panorama from Bradford island, looking upstream and toward the Washington shore. In the foreground, the foundation of the spillway dam is taking form. The projections are concrete piers 50 feet wide. Spillway gates will go on...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-02-02
    • 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. 1936-05-10


    • Main spillway dam grows at Bonneville.

    • 1936

    • Main spillway dam grows at Bonneville. - Girder spans on the south section of the main spillway dam near completion, with forms removed in this photograph from one, and concrete poured for two others to its right. The long, slanting roadway leads...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-05-10
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-05-24


    • A future aid to shipping on the Columbia river.

    • 1936

    • A future aid to shipping on the Columbia river. - This view is of the downstream end of the navigation lock at Bonneville dam. It will be 500 feet long. 76 feet wide and 26 feet deep. Its lift of 66 feet at low water level will be the highest of...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-05-24
    • 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
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-09-04


    • Bonneville locks are finally open

    • 1936

    • Bonneville locks are finally open. - The long wait for the opening of navigation through the Bonneville locks was ended this week when the 60th stoplog was placed in the open units of the powerhouse, thus slackening the heavy current in Bradford...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-09-04
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Fish. 1938-05-25


    • Meager salmon run in Columbia.

    • 1938

    • Meager salmon run in Columbia. - Biologists and engineers, frequently at odds over the efficiency of the Bonneville dam fish ladders, were united in common concern today for the long overdue spring run of great Columbia river salmon.
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Fish. 1938-05-25
    • 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. Locks & navigation. 1936-05-02


    • Bonneville locks are finally open.

    • 1936

    • Bonneville locks are finally open. - The long wait for the opening of navigation through the Bonneville locks was ended last week when the 60th stoplog was placed in the open units of the powerhouse, thus slackening the heavy current in Bradford...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Locks & navigation. 1936-05-02
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Locks & navigation. 1936-09-03


    • Bonneville locks are finally open.

    • 1936

    • Bonneville locks are finally open. - The long wait for the opening of navigation through the Bonneville locks was ended last week when the 60th stoplog was placed in the open units of the powerhouse, thus slackening the heavy current in Bradford...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Locks & navigation. 1936-09-03
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Power. 1936-05-15


    • Governor issues power warning.

    • 1936

    • Governor issues power warning. - Absorption of transmission costs held absurdity. - Absorption of transmission costs or reservation of any large amount of power for any particular group over a long period of time would result disasterously to the...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Power. 1936-05-15
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Power. 1938-03-07


    • May send power over long line.

    • 1938

    • May send power over long line. - Electric power from the Bonneville dam may be used not only at Grand Coulee, but on through the Idaho panhandle and into western Montana, E. F. Banker, former Washington state director of conservation and...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Power. 1938-03-07
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Statistics. 1937-09-29


    • Facts on Bonneville dam.

    • 1937

    • Facts on Bonneville dam. - The Bonneville dam on the Columbia river, where it forms a boundary between Oregon and Washington 42 miles east of Portland, is a concrete gravity type dam 170 feet high, 1250 feet long at the crest. It has an overflow...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Statistics. 1937-09-29
    • Northwest history. International affairs. 1937-07-12


    • Settle the fumes case speedily.

    • 1937

    • Settle the fumes case speedily. - While high government officials were debating in formal halls of justice in Spokane over the damage alleged to have been caused by fumes from the smelter at Trail, B. C., scores of Stevens county farmers were...
    • Northwest history. International affairs. 1937-07-12

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