Hungry Horse news. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1948-current, 1949-05-20
H.H. Employment Takes Squirt

Total employment at the Hun
cry Horse project took a mid May
squirt to 1,443 this week, up 1870
from last week.
Ebbing waters of the Flathead
rivers south fork also in
dictated that more jobs would be
created as men could cross the
river for clearing and logging pur-
poses, and start excavating in the
river bed at the damsite itself.
In late June employment is ex-
pected to total 2.OOn- and during
the August-September period peak
employment will approach 5000
However no labor shortage is ex-
pected in the Flathead until at
least late July, if at all.
Payrolls on the project now ex-
coed 100000 week. Noticed has
been less spending as men are To-
Gated in camps and working six
and seven days a week.
Employment totals include 800
for GSM, the prime contractor;
255 for the bureau of reclamation;
1T for Wilson, Grove and iris
dale and 81 for Seaboard Surety,
both on reservoir clearing; build
ing the new Spotted Bear road,
F. R. Hewett has AZ, and Nc
Laughlin Inc. just getting started
on their 1877 mile section, 10.
Activities of Flathead Timber
Products Inc. who are to log a.
100000 board feet this summer
and next, include establishment of
camps, building of access roads,
operation of mills and some log
ging. Ties are coming out, and
loads of pine and spruce logs for
valley mills are expected any day.
The Spotted Bear road is to have
a traffic average of truck every
IL minutes.
Flathead Timber Products en-
ployees now exceed 100. They
have no central hiring office, and
are combination of five con-
tractors with six subcontractors
working in different sections of
the reservoir.
F, K and L Lumber Co., Mar
Tin City, has the contract to log
3 100000 board feet in the Hungry
Horse creek area. They are road |
Earl Wagner, whose bid to pur-
chase 2,250,000 board feet of
Wounded Buck creek timber was
given final acceptance this week,
will take equipment across the
liver for road building as soon as
water drops.
Other employment totals include
chicago Bridge and Iron fabrica-
ing penstocks with % men; E. J.
furnishing shovel
nd trucks, 4; Jensen and LaValley ]
n Lion lake fence, 4; Askevold
the painting and side {
valks on a--building contract, 10.
Expected to start their $37,71O.5O I
next week for poles and
,lephone lines in the government '
rea is Mccain Construction Co., t
[issoula. 6
Setting up camp at Elk park
forest survey crew with Herb
in charge. This crew will O
tai IL men, and will survey the a
ootted Bear road from the end tt
the Mclaughlin contract to a
Tin creeks, section to be relo- t;
ted by the forest service. In 81
Getting the project this week
as William Morris, newly ap- r;
tinted Flathead forest engineer, 81
d Roger Nelson, engineer in el
arge of survey and design for m
e regional forest offices, Mis- re
Ila. as
Rising from point $50 feet
owe the Flathead rivers south in
k this week was 80-foot &C
IN water-tower- like steel COL
ms for the concrete mixing :
mt. Each of the eight steel COL II
ms now in place weighs II tons. =
70 more will be placed. This 81 ID
It ten sided structure when
nplete will be 126-feet high,
l will house the four concrete -
xers that can produce 800 cubic w
n G Of onpcrofo On how ~