Hungry Horse news., 1949-01-28

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ject, prepared the foHo1Oimg "o'
nIp' article for newspaper reIe'
today. 1t us being presented
its entirety.
Full-speed construction of m
or plant facilities at the Hung
Horse project will be started
soon as weather conditions "
permit, the Bureau of Reclal
alton said today.
E. Construction work.. which h
been proceeding at a slow-b
during the below-zero temper
lures of the past few weeks, w
be stepped up to a 24-hour a ds
tempo as soon as the temperate
rises above zero and stays ther
Major plant additions to (
completed by the general contra'
tor, General Shea Morrison, th
spring and summer will include a
facilities needed to permit place
ment of the first concrete in tn
huge dam this summer.
Already under construction an
scheduled for completion this sum
mer is the big cement unloadin;
dock at Coram. The dock, which
will be approximately 800 fee
long, So feet high and 25 fee
wide, will house 20 silos with
a total capacity of 10000 barrels
of cement and pozzolan. Six
freight cars can be emptied at
one time in the unloading dock
Cement will be hauled from
the unloading dock to the dam site
in $50 barrel capacity trucks.
Sand and gravel will be hauled
in rs cubic yard capacity trucks
to the dam site from the aggre-
gate pit, which is situated at the
confluence of the south fork and
the middle fork of the Flathead
river, approximately 5 miles from
the dam. Construction will be
completed this spring on road
from the aggregate pit to the dam
site.
Construction work at the dam
site this spring and summer will
include installation of the concrete
patching and mixing plant, cement
and pozzolan silos and the aggre-
gate screening plant
The cement plant will include
four 4-cubic yard mixers and the
latest electrically controlled equip
'ment for accurately measuring
and controlling the quantities of
cement, sand and gravel and water
used in the concrete mix. Maxi
mum capacity of the plant will
be 800 cubic yards of concrete
per hour. Approximately 5000, 900
cubic yards of concrete will be
required to complete the 52O-foot
high Hungry Horse dam and DOW
err house.
The aggregate screening plant
which will occupy an area approx
imately 200 feet wide and 1000
feet long, will have a capacity
of 700 tons of graded sand and
gravel per hour. 1t will produce
tour different sizes of gravel rang
ing in size from three sixteenth
nch in diameter to inches, and
various grades of sand.
Water to be used in mixing
ind cooling concrete for the dam {
Will be obtained from Fawn creek ]
Which flows into the south fork
short distance below the dam I
ute. A l6 inch wood pipe line c
100 feet long is being constructed
rom Fawn creek to the dam. t
Placement of concrete in the
am and powerhouse will be ac- f
emphasized with 8-cubic yard bot I
om-dump buckets operating from t.
our steel cableways to be strung
etween steel towers on the can Il
on walls. a
The main headtower will be 200 d
BET high and will be anchored L
the south wall of the CANYON
hitch forms the left abutment for 7;
ne dam. A 15-ton crane will be Fl
lounted on top of the tower to @
andle equipment and facilitate =
epair work. Three steel cables
ach inches in diameter will {
pan the river canyon from the !
eadtower to three movable tail !
'wers operating on an 81O-foot !
'ack on the north canyon wall. !
be tailtowers will be So feet I
Ugh. ]
The fourth galloway to be To- I
tied a short distance downstream, I
ill be used to place concrete in !
e powerhouse. The 85-foot high I
eadtower will be situated on the !
ght abutment, and the 1O2-foot I
9Th tailtower will operate on !
600-foot long track on the left !
)utment.
Other construction scheduled
toe dam site this spring and I
Immer by General Shea-Morrison !
i'll include a pipe shop and field I
flee, and a combination rigging I
I'd electrical shop. !
Plant facilities already COM I
eted by Observation-Disclosures \
clude machine shop, blacksmith I
Top, carpenter shop, warehouse !
cilities, truck and tire shops, !
I'd complete camp facilities, in I
lding single family houses, !
mess hall. recreation (