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Shows three-cableway system to place concrete in dam. Photo of artist's drawing. Note on back: "Artist's painting of three-cableway system being used to place concrete in Dworshak Dam. It is 2915 feet between the head towers (right) and tail towers (background). The bucket, weighing 25 tons with its load of concrete, travels across the river gorge at 2200 feet per minute and down the dam site at 950 feet per minute. The batch plants are at lower left. The sand and aggregate comes into the plants on conveyor belts. The fresh concrete is transported to the cableway loading dock in rail-mounted hopper cars. (Note bucket being loaded at middle right of picture.) Dworshak is being constructed under a $131-million contract by Dworshak Dam Constructors, a joint venture of five contractors sponsored by Dravo Corporation. From: Duane L. Cronk & Associates, 100 Bush St., San Francisco 94104 For: Dravo Corporation, 225 108th N.E., Bellevue, Washington 98004"
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Title:
Dworshak Dam Project 50 (Three-cableway system)
Creator:
Cronk & Associates
Date Created (ISO Standard):
1965
Description:
Shows three-cableway system to place concrete in dam. Photo of artist's drawing. Note on back: "Artist's painting of three-cableway system being used to place concrete in Dworshak Dam. It is 2915 feet between the head towers (right) and tail towers (background). The bucket, weighing 25 tons with its load of concrete, travels across the river gorge at 2200 feet per minute and down the dam site at 950 feet per minute. The batch plants are at lower left. The sand and aggregate comes into the plants on conveyor belts. The fresh concrete is transported to the cableway loading dock in rail-mounted hopper cars. (Note bucket being loaded at middle right of picture.) Dworshak is being constructed under a $131-million contract by Dworshak Dam Constructors, a joint venture of five contractors sponsored by Dravo Corporation. From: Duane L. Cronk & Associates, 100 Bush St., San Francisco 94104 For: Dravo Corporation, 225 108th N.E., Bellevue, Washington 98004"
Subjects:
Dworshak Dam Project 1965 three-cableway system concrete artist's drawing Cronk and Associates towers bucket river gorge batch plants sand aggregate conveyor belts hopper cars Dworshak Dam Constructors contractors Dravo Corporation Duane L. Cronk
Latitude:
46.513913
Longitude:
-116.297579
Source:
MG 147
Source Identifier:
13-00777
Type:
Image;StillImage
Format:
image/jpeg

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"Dworshak Dam Project 50 (Three-cableway system)", Dworshak Dam Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/dworshak/items/dworshak536.html
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Material produced by the United States Army Corp of Engineers and is in Public Domain. For more information, please contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu
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https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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