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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam

Description: Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - Looking northward across Stevenson Creek channel over excavation for Shaver Dam and showing in upper left-hand corner the trestle leading to the crushing plant. The secondary crusher, together with bins over which screens will be installed, is just beginning to show up in this picture. It will be interesting to compare this picture with those which I expect to have taken on September 1st as there will be quite a contrast and a large amount of work will be shown as having taken place during the month of August. .
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 8/2/1926
Call number: photCL SCE 02 - 14047
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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam

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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - View of Shaver Dam, showing particularly Section 18, which was left low when work was stopped late in 1926 and to allow for spillway. This section is now being brought up along with the others but will be kept four feet lower for a while. The track running up along the face of the dam lengthwise of the picture is the one over which concrete will be supplied to one of the towers not shown in the picture and which tower will be out of reach of the chuting system. .

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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam

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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - Northwest Gas Shovel at work in the excavation at the north end of the Shaver Lake Dam. The man standing just below the team of horses in the upper central part of the picture is at approximately elevation 5370, which will be the top of the Shaver Dam. The excavation at this point has been made wider than really necessary for the dam in ordcer to secure material to make the fill for the bottom of the storage piles.

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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam

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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - Close-up of excavation with Marion Electric shovel type 37 at Shaver Dam. The trestle in the upper left-hand corner is that over which rock from the quarry will be transported to the primary crushing plant.

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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam

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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - Looking upstream through main channel of Stevenson Creek, showing foundation in its final state and as it will be when covered with concrete.

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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam

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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - Looking across main channel of Stevenson Creek towards foundation on south side, showing general cleanup of bottom between Stevenson Creek channel and higher part of foundation. The piles of rock noticed in the picture are to be distributed into the concrete when this particuloar section is poured.

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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam

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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - On the left side of the picture is the fill which has been made for the bottom of the lower side of the storage piles. The tunnel in which the concrete aggregate will be loaded into cars is shown just beyond the mast of the derrick. The secondary crusher is being installed just below the wagon shown in the central part of the picture while the screening plant is located just in front of the wagon. The excavation shown just below the mule is for the primary crusher, the foundation for which is now being poured. The trestle bents in the central part of the picture will carry the track out onto the primary crusher and after passing beyond the curusher the empty trains will return to the quarry on the trestle shown on the right. .

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