Hungry Horse news., 1949-06-03
June Days Bring More Jobs
1000 Working at H.H.

'~ON UVtNiiIy a. ii.i1.
Employment on the Hungry
Horse project is now 1000 and the
weekly payroll is nearing $3.50, 900.
This week jobs on the project
passed the previous record num-
Der OF 1850 reached last August
20, and approached again last
October. A year ago the employ
ment figure was $50. Late June
employment will near 1000 and
the summers peak will be in ex-
cess of $500 in August or Sept
ember.
There is no local labor shortage
outside of a few skills such as
comments Frank Kirk
patrick, manager of the state en-
ployment offices at Columbia Falls
and Hungry Horse. With few ex-
ceptions, he added, there are men
available locally for all job open
ings.
LIST EMPLOYMENT
Employment includes: GSM, the
prime contractor, 835, increasing
slowly; Wilson, Grove aand Iris
dale on their 1910 acre clearing
contract, 155 men; Flathead Tim
Der products Inc. $50 on reservoir
area timber purchases; Seaboard
Surety on 1885 acre clearing con-
tract at and near the damsite, IS;
F. R. Hewett on their 14-mile
section of the being relocated
Spotted Bear road, As; Mclaughlin
Inc. on the second section 1877
mile relocation, Is up to IS next
week.
Chicago Bridge and Iron Co.
on penstock fabricating, %; F, K
and L on timber purchases in the
reservoir area, IA; Hollingsworth
Electric on fire alarm system in
goernment camp, 2; Mccain Con-
telephone lines in the
camp, S; Jensen and LaValley on
Lion lake fence 6; Askevold Con-
struction Co. completing their
s468, 27009 contract for 20 houses,
a 24-room dormitory and SO by
l28-foot office annex, 9. Working
,or the bureau of reclamation, 26O. |
AT THE DAMSITE
At the damsite, drilling is prin-
,ipal activity as 165 drillers work
hree shifts to prepare rock can
ION sides for concrete placing
scheduled to start this fall. When
he Flathead rivers south fork
rops further, the cofferdam--not
armed by floods--will be COM
leted. Then the river bottom, it
Elf, will see drillers making holes
Dr. dynamite packers and next
lasting followed by power shovels
fading dump trucks. Finally the
ock on which the concrete will
e placed will appear.
$50 feet above the river bed
lie concrete mixing plant is ris- ,,
lg. This ten-sided 52-foot in dia- ,
leter structure will be 1876 feet
lgh when completed. It's ten IL
m steel columns will support the
'ur concrete mixers capable of
lrning out 800 cubic yards an I
our. Weight factors require this I
Hiding to support 1000 tons of t
sand and gravel and 200 tons c
cement at one time. q
Behind the concrete mixing :
ant, the cement and pozzolan
eel storage silos are taking
ape.
High above the river on the Col
nbia mountain side-6OO or so
ct above the river-three 500
hoist units are being
stalled. After the machinery is
aced and covered, steel columns
Ill rise to form the spectacular
0-foot headtower for the cable
ay. First of the three inch in di-
meter 2,450-foot long cables will +
strung in July. Concrete from B
e mixing plant will be trans
rted to the rising dam by four
bic yard buckets attached to the .
g cables.
At Coram is a cotton "dinky"
,omotive to shuttle freight cars
: GSM. Next summer, their 100
4 diesel switch engine will ar
re. d.
ROAD HAZARDOUS II
Definite hazard is the Spotted !"
ar forest service road that runs ~
so miles from U. S. highway
'. 2 through reservoir area to
Cited Bear ranger station. 1t is
one-way road with occasional
'nouts meant for light traffic.
ediction is that in another month
re will be an average of
ok every II minutes. Result is
oday's international release by
Flathead national forest and
ngry Horse project asking for
olic cooperation to keep off the
ID in the interest of less traffic
.idents and reduced fire hazards.
t may become necessary to re-
let the road permitting only es-.
tial traffic, but public coopera-
/ is being asked first by Clyde
Spencer, Hungry Horse pro-
t construction engineer, and F.
Ieitzling, Flathead national for
supervisor.
after July 4, reservoir logging
witty will include large scale
ling of spruce and pine logs
m F'lathead Timber Products