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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam

Description: Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - Another view looking north in the excavation for the Shaver Dam, showing one of the rock out-crops just beneath the marion electric #37 shovel.
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Date: 8/2/1926
Call number: photCL SCE 02 - 14053
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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam
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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - Looking south across excavation for the Shaver Dam. In this view five shovels can be seen, all in operation. The first one at the bottom of the picture is our gasoline Northwest 1, the next one is our new Marion electric #37; our electric Marion #32 is working near the Stevenson Creek channel, and beyond is the Bucyrus, with our Marion Steam shovel #21 in the extreme southern end of the excavation with just the end of the boom and top of the cab showing.
photCL SCE 02 - 14037
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 south across Stevenson Creek in the excavation for the Shaver Dam. The Marion electric #32 shovel is in the foreground, with our recently purchased Bucyrus on top of the bench across Stevenson Creek channel. Please note the expoxure of good rock underneath the bucyrus shovel.
photCL SCE 02 - 14036
Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam
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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - Excavating at Shaver damsite with Marion shovel "37" and loading to a Mack "Bulldog" truck.
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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam
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Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - Close-up of the Marion 21 steam shovel which is working near the south end of the excavation for the Shaver Dam.
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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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