Hungry Horse news. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1948-current, 1948-05-28
Announce Contractor Building Schedule

General-Shea Morrison employ
ment on the Hungry Horse prof.
ect reached 116 this week as clea-
ring of their campsite on land set
aside by the government continued.
Arriving here this weekend will
be Tom Meyer, buildings super
intendent for the prime contractor
and scheduled to start in the next
weeks is a 40 by 120-foot office,
80 by 120-foot quonset type ware
house: cook house, water and sew
er system and H type dormitor-
les each housing $50 men.
Already built are a 20 by 4S-foot
warehouse, oil house, carpenters
shed, electricians shed, and a
rigger's loft will be built along
the Great Northern in Coram next
week. 1t will be a small building.
Idaho Floods Stop Traffic
Holding up arrival of equip
ment are the north Idaho floods
The 116 employees include nine
carpenters, two electricians, sew
en- equipment operators, two mech
anics. supervisors, clerical staff
and laborers. The force will con-
tinue to increase gradually to an
expected peak of 600 next Septenn-
Der; activity will be somewhat
reduced during the winter, but
next year should pass the 1000
mark.
Arriving on the job this week
were o. W. Luther, Portland, ell
ectrician's foreman, and K. G.
Jack" Johnson, rigging. superin-
tendent from Ross dam, Washing
ton. However in hiring both fore
men and crews who already have
homes in the area are given pre-
ference.
| New office assistant is Basil
Everin. Columbia Falls. and field
timekeeper, George Savage, SOM
ers.
Negotiations are nearly compile
ted on the union contract between
General Morrison, represent
ing the ~ companies and organi-
zed labor as announced in last
Fridays Hungry Horse News.
Wage Minimum Set $1.371A
The wage scale will start from
S1.371a an hour base for labor,
representing a 1919 cent raise ov-
err the prevalent wage; carpenters
and painters will get $1.95, a 20
cent raise over the present S1.75
base. Generally the increase will
range from 10 to Is cents an hour
over prevailing scales in the area.
A ,prefabricated steel heavy
duty" bridge will be erected this
summer about 1000 feet below the
damsite by the prime contractor,
who is presently clearing the
right-of-way in preparation for
rebuilding the lower road to the
dam. Work on the powerline from
the Hungry Horse substation to
the damsite will start next week.
This power comes from Kerr dam
at the foot of Flathead lake.
River Raises Is Feet
The Flathead rivers south fork
reached a peak flow of $4,000 Gu
bic feet last Saturday evening re-
presenting a raise at the dam
site of rs feet. Last years peak
was $4,000 and the record, 49,
200 on June 10, 1916.
AS the result of high water, X
and S construction company
clearing contractors, lost about
10000 board feet of saw logs, anc
Guy F. Atkinson company, two
small buildings and some tools.
r and S employment dropped
from 90 to 83 as the result of higf
water, and Guy F. Atkinson COM
pany who is completing the 1,1SC
foot tunnel, now flooded, dropped
from "a to 8 men. The clearing l:
a S4O8, 800 contract, and the tun
mel, S643,4O0.
F and S &C and F. construction
company this weekend hope to OF
and complete the 3.9-mile Access:
road from highway No. 2 to neaI
the damsite. This was S479, 40,
contract, and presently employ
20.
To Open Housing Bids
Bids will be opend by the bur
eau of reclamation at Hungr.
Horse village June 2 for construc
ton of a 24-room dormitory, a g
by 1913 office annex, IA five room
and 6 six-room residences, guar
house, a ten car garage, repai
garage and fire station.
Awarding is expected shortly o.
the April 20 opening in Denve
where H and L Building service
Missoula, was low at S424, 461.1
to build, wire and equip with plum:
bling, "a two-bedroom and 2
three bedroom prefabricated he
mes.
Expected within the next week
is F. R. Hewett, Spokane, who ar