Pacific service magazine . dam,a four-mile, concrete-lined tunnelof nineteen feet finished diameter,and a power plant of 107,000horsepower installed capacity. Inaddition, before work could starton any of these construction feat-ures it was necessary to open upthe country, as it were, with aneleven-mile extension of our Bar-tle-Pit River railroad down theriver canyon, build ten miles ofmountain roads, thirty miles eachof power and telephone lines, andfour fully equipped camps to house1,500 men. This preliminary work wasplanned and executed so that thefacilities provided would be of thegreatest
Pacific service magazine . dam,a four-mile, concrete-lined tunnelof nineteen feet finished diameter,and a power plant of 107,000horsepower installed capacity. Inaddition, before work could starton any of these construction feat-ures it was necessary to open upthe country, as it were, with aneleven-mile extension of our Bar-tle-Pit River railroad down theriver canyon, build ten miles ofmountain roads, thirty miles eachof power and telephone lines, andfour fully equipped camps to house1,500 men. This preliminary work wasplanned and executed so that thefacilities provided would be of thegreatest value in building themain elements of the project. Therailroad was laid on a route passingjust above the diversion dam, pastall points of work on Pit No. 3tunnel, and directly to the power-house site. (From this terminus,extension will soon be started toour next project. Pit No. 4.) Thefour camps were established atthe following points: Headquar-ters Camp near the dam site, to care forwork at the dam and at No. 1
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