The Fort Peck press., 1935-07-04
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A belt conveyor system isin place
IN a tunnel under aggregate piles,
Tor carrying materials to top of
concrete mixing plant now set I'D.
Two. 2-yard mixers of the fitting.
cascading type are in place. The
heavy, wood-frame, cement stor-
age bins are almost completed. &C.
ment deliveries will Don be recv'd
under existing Govt contracts.
A new channeling machine has
arrived & tried out. This digger is
to cut shale to neat lines in exca-
waiting foundations.
Small cuts have been made on
east side of spillway where a road.
way is required. A total of 36,7O6
cu.yds of dirt is moved to date by
this firm.
In boiler house, an electric mot
or-driven air-compressor is installd.
Air lines are laid from air receivers
TO various parts of the job.
An initial shipment of steel is
here stored in large areas made
ready in cut. Construction rail
road tracks are tamped & aligned
as rapidly as possible. 1t is said
Addison Miller has about $50 men
on payroll at present.
Massman Co. has moved over
Il million Gu. yds of dirt from area
above gates since they moved up
there June 8. Because of the move
which was accompanied by laying
off 3 shovels & a number of dump
trucks, Massman fell short of NOV
ing a million Gu yds of dirt in June
as in both April & May. However
the very creditable showing of $685.
900 Gu. yds vas made. Last week,
182,600 Gu. yds was moved in 6 da
Martin Wunderlich turned out
52,225 Gu. yds. in same time, a de-
crease from previous week.
TUNNELS GENERATE POWER
Mason & Walsh begun work in
earnest again at upstream ends of
tunnels. Work is under way on 4
block sections of the inlet portal
structure. WOrkmen are excava
ting &placing f4-inch I-beam wales
in horizontal position against bank
and 14inch steel raker beams at
an angle to the wales TO brace the
hillside Nearby, they are setting
up the new concrete mixing plant
1t will contain TWO. 2-yard mixers
giving plant same capacity as one
at lower portals. A mixer is re-
moved from latter plant to install
upstredm. Steel sheets are on
hand for a cement silo $4,000 bbl.
capacity to be built alongside of
mixing plant near upper portals.
Sand & gravel aggregates for con-
crete are pillng up in storage near
railroad treStle. Trackage layout
for steel yards is nearing compile
ton.
Steel framework is being placed
underground at foundations of the
control shafts. Shafts above have
been dug very consistently during
past week. No. 3 main shaft is
14S feet, & No. 4 main shaft
IS down 149 feet. Nos. | and 2 are
down as far as they will 20 for the
present., as is Nc. l emergency
shaft. No. 2 Emergency shaft is
down 14O feet, No. 3 emergency is
$50 feet. Work has been
stopt in No. 4 emergency at eleva-
ion 1000, which is 100 feet below
he top OF the ground.
Crews of Mason & Walsh compa-
~ working at outlet portals poured
/ top sections and 7 bases ots0dth
etaining wall during week. II re-
luired $500 Gu. yds. of co1frete-
IN additional pour of 7COfds. was.
made in NO. 4 open cut 1lnne! to
mark completion of th] work for
he present.
All 4 of the steel .1fmbos' to be
lsed for enlargemSht, operations,
re received & 2 erected. Assem-