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HB1213066
Overview Of Headworks, Looking Northeast
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HB1213067
View Of Headgate Frame
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HB1213068
View From Flume Of Headgate Lower Framework
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HB1213069
Detail View Of Rock Chute #2 Gearworks, Showing Rock Chute #1 In Background
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HB1213070
View From Flume Of Rock Chute #1, Showing Single Shear And Gate Set Back Because Of Debris
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HB1213071
View From Flume Of Rock Chute #1, Looking Down Chute To Gate
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HB1213072
View Of Tongue And Groove In Upper Flume
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HB1213073
Detail View Of Tongue And Groove In Upper Flume
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HB1213074
View Of Shack #1, Neisson Creek, Looking Upstream
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HB1213075
View Of Shack #1, Neisson Creek, Looking From Top Of Flume
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HB1213076
Interior View Of Shack #1, Neisson Creek
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HB1213077
View Of Plywood To Tongue And Groove Transition, Looking Inside Flume Upstream Of Settling Basin
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HB1213078
View Of Gearworks For Settling Pond Gate, Brake On Left, Needle Rack, Looking Northwest
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HB1213079
Inside View Of Flume, Looking Downstream Toward Settling Basin, Showing Right Fork To Bypass, Left Fork To Basin
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HB1213080
Inside View Of Flume, Looking Downstream, Left Fork To Settling Basin, Snowing Right Fork With Gate In Place And A Few Needles In Place
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HB1213081
View Of Gate From Flume To Settling Basin, Showing Crank And Needle Rack In Background, Looking Southeast
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HB1213082
View Of Settling Basin, Showing Flume Track Spur Crossing Over Settling Basin, Spare Bent Material In Right-hand Foreground, Bypass Flume, And Shack #6 In Background, Looking Northwest
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HB1213083
View Of Settling Basin From Upstream Trestle, Showing Bulkhead On Right And Sand Bank On Left, Looking Northwest
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HB1213084
View Of Settling Basin Sluice Gate, Showing Bypass Flume In Background
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HB1213085
View Of Discharge Chute, Looking North From Settling Basin Sluice Gate
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HB1213086
View Of Trestle Work Upstream Of Bridge #4, Showing Bents
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HB1213087
Detail View Of Bridge #4, Showing Double Bent Construction
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HB1213088
Detail View Of Bridge #4, Snowing Double Bent And Bent Construction
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HB1213089
Detail View Of Bridge #4, Showing Double Bent Joint, Jack Block (2x4 Is New Construction)
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HB1213090
View Looking Under And Through Tall Bents
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HB1213091
View Of Staggered Stringers Under Flume
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HB1213092
View Of Top Of Flume, Looking Upstream, Snowing Repetition Of Bents
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HB1213093
Detail View Of Gears At Spillway #12, Front Uncovered, Back Covered, With Front Gate Open
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HB1213094
Detail View Of Bent On Inside Curve
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HB1213095
Detail View Of Bent And Flume On Inside Curve
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HB1213096
View Of Straight On Elevation Of Flume
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HB1213097
Detail View Of Bent, Straight Section
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HB1213098
View Of Flume On Side Hill
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HB1213099
View Of 's' Curve, From Walkway On Flume
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HB1213100
View Of Shack #4, Log Land, Showing Spur Track To Materials
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HB1213101
View Of Log Landing
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HB1213102
View Of Gears At Spillway #12, Front Uncovered, Showing Spillway To Left, Tracks Over Flume On Right
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HB1213103
View Showing Inside Of Spillway #12, With One Gate Open And Rock Piled Up
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HB1213104
View, Looking West, Of Top Of Flume Near Forebay, Showing Lumber Shed, Two Tracks, Craneway Shed In Background, Reservoir To Left, Right To Yards And Facilities, And Overflow Spillway On Lower Right
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HB1213105
View From End Of Flume, Looking West, Snowing Overflow Chute On Right (parallel To Flume), Reservoir Embankment In Background, And Hooks On End Of Railing For Spillboards
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HB1213106
Detail View Of Inside Of Flume, Showing Solid Wall And Various Levels Of Spillboards
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HB1213107
View Of End Of Overflow Chute, Showing Flume On Right
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HB1213108
Interior View Of Flume With Plywood Walls, Looking Upstream
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HB1213109
Detail View Of Plywood Inside Flume, Showing Moss On Wall
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HB1213110
View, Looking West From Deteriorated End Of Flume At Reservoir's East Edge, Showing Dredge In Left Background, Side View Of Forebay Shed On Right
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HB1213111
View, Looking West Of Forebay, Showing Dredge On Left, Flume End On Right, And Forebay Shed In Background
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HB1213112
Detail View Of Stub Switch, Looking Into Switch, Showing Mainline Moves To Connect
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HB1213113
Detail View Of Dutchman, Stub Switch, And Typical Mainline Attachment
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HB1213114
View Of Boom Car
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HB1213115
View Of Bent Machine
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HB1213116
View Showing Boom Speeder In Middle, Passenger Car On Left, And Flat Car On Right
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HB1213117
View Of Passenger Speeder 04 In Foreground, Boom Speeder 75 In Background Left, And Boom Speeder 59 In Background Right
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HB1213118
View Of Boom Speeder 59
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HB1213119
View Of Boom Speeder 75
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HB1213120
View Of Double Drum Car
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HB1213121
View Showing Compressor Car At Left, Electrical Generator Car In Middle, And Speeder 75 Boom At Right
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HB1213122
View Of Cable Incline, Located On The Hillside Below The Forebay (northwest Of Forebay), Print No
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HB1213123
View Of Laying Stringers Near The Slide, Print No
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HB1213124
View Looking Up Line Over Slide, Print No
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HB1213125
View Of Warehouse, Machine Shop, And Hoisting Plant, With Forebay On Right In Foreground, Prints No
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HB1213126
View Of Pole Line In Stuck Valley, North Of Sumner, Print No
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HB1213127
Panoramic View Of Headworks From West Side Of River, Looking Upstream, Prints No
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HB1213128
View Of West Side Of The River, Showing The Intake And Flume Line, Print No
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HB1213129
View Looking Upstream From Flume Substructure, Showing Columbia Improvement Company's Neisson Creek Sawmill
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HB1213130
View Of Completed Flume, Looking Southeast In Section 18, Township 17n, Range 63, Print No
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HB1213131
View, From Southeast Corner, Showing Forebay In Construction, Print No
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HB1213132
View Of Wood Stave Pipe Taken From The Top Of The Penstock Line, Looking South
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HB1213133
View Of Forebay And Reservoir, Showing Flume Entrance To Reservoir On The Right Of Forebay In The Background (shown By The White X On The Photographs), Print No
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HB1213134
View Of Partially Completed Flume Below The Automatic Spill At The Reservoir, Showing Mount Rainier In The Distance, Print No
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HB1213135
View Of Flume Construction Through Puyallup Canyon Between Camps 4 And 5, Print No
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HB1213136
View Of Dam, Looking East, Prints No
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HB1213137
View Looking Down On The Powerhouse From The Southeast, Print No
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HB1213138
View Looking Down On The Powerhouse From The Northwest, Print No
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HB1213139
View Of Flume Construction Through The Puyallup Canyon Near Camp No
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HB1213140
Panoramic View Of Headworks, Showing Gatekeeper's Lodge On The Right, Prints No
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HB1213141
View Of Intake Of The Dam, Looking East, Showing Uncompleted Radial Gate To The Left, Print No
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HB1213142
View Of Uncompleted Reservoir, Showing Forebay And Flume; Also Showing Pool Arrangement For Temporarily Utilizing Water Without Filling The Reservoir, Print No
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HB1213143
View Of Spillway That Automatically Regulates Height Of Water In Reservoir, 'backwater Overflow,' Print No
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HB1213144
View Of Placing Wheels In Shaft Of No
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HB1213145
View Of Connection Between Intake And Flume, Showing Uncompleted Radial Gate In Place, Print No
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HB1213146
View Showing Placing Waterwheels And Rotor Shaft In Bearings In No
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HB1213147
Overview Of Partially Completed Powerhouse With Two Units In Operation, Looking Upstream, Print No
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HB1213148
View Of Powerhouse Cross Section, Looking East, Showing Circuits No
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HB1213149
View Of Powerhouse Cross Section, Looking East, Showing Circuits No
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HB1213150
Interior View Of Powerhouse, Looking West, Print No
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HB1213151
View Of Completed Flume, Snowing Curve Construction Power Line In The Background, Print No
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HB1213152
Overview Of Headworks, Looking Upstream, Print No
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HB1213153
Overview Of Powerhouse And Penstocks, Looking South, Print No
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HB1213154
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Item Title
LocationAlong Puyallup River,
Electron, WA
Find maps of Electron, WA
Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER WA-12
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-10).
Building/structure dates:
1903 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1984 subsequent work
Significance: The Electron Project, originally known as the Puyallup Project, is characteristic of the turn-of-the-century Pacific Coast hydroelectric development in having a high head/low volume plant, impulse waterwheels, a long water-gathering network, and relatively long distance power transmission. The project is also a transition between a run-of-the-river project and a storage project. The wood flume at the Electron Project is likely the largest flume used in hydroelectric development in the country.
Subjects
Power IndustryHydroelectric Power Plants
Related Names
Shuffleton, Samuel L.
Puget Sound Power & Light Company
Congdon, Chester A.
Stone & Webster
Webster, Edwin S.
Stone, Charles A.
Fitzsimons, Gray, Historian
Garvey, Dick, Photographer
Lombard, Barry, Historian
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. OVERVIEW OF HEADWORKS, LOOKING NORTHEAST
2. VIEW OF HEADGATE FRAME
3. VIEW FROM FLUME OF HEADGATE LOWER FRAMEWORK
4. DETAIL VIEW OF ROCK CHUTE #2 GEARWORKS, SHOWING ROCK CHUTE #1 IN BACKGROUND
5. VIEW FROM FLUME OF ROCK CHUTE #1, SHOWING SINGLE SHEAR AND GATE SET BACK BECAUSE OF DEBRIS
6. VIEW FROM FLUME OF ROCK CHUTE #1, LOOKING DOWN CHUTE TO GATE
7. VIEW OF TONGUE AND GROOVE IN UPPER FLUME
8. DETAIL VIEW OF TONGUE AND GROOVE IN UPPER FLUME
9. VIEW OF SHACK #1, NEISSON CREEK, LOOKING UPSTREAM
10. VIEW OF SHACK #1, NEISSON CREEK, LOOKING FROM TOP OF FLUME
11. INTERIOR VIEW OF SHACK #1, NEISSON CREEK
12. VIEW OF PLYWOOD TO TONGUE AND GROOVE TRANSITION, LOOKING INSIDE FLUME UPSTREAM OF SETTLING BASIN
13. VIEW OF GEARWORKS FOR SETTLING POND GATE, BRAKE ON LEFT, NEEDLE RACK, LOOKING NORTHWEST
14. INSIDE VIEW OF FLUME, LOOKING DOWNSTREAM TOWARD SETTLING BASIN, SHOWING RIGHT FORK TO BYPASS, LEFT FORK TO BASIN
15. INSIDE VIEW OF FLUME, LOOKING DOWNSTREAM, LEFT FORK TO SETTLING BASIN, SNOWING RIGHT FORK WITH GATE IN PLACE AND A FEW NEEDLES IN PLACE
16. VIEW OF GATE FROM FLUME TO SETTLING BASIN, SHOWING CRANK AND NEEDLE RACK IN BACKGROUND, LOOKING SOUTHEAST
17. VIEW OF SETTLING BASIN, SHOWING FLUME TRACK SPUR CROSSING OVER SETTLING BASIN, SPARE BENT MATERIAL IN RIGHT-HAND FOREGROUND, BYPASS FLUME, AND SHACK #6 IN BACKGROUND, LOOKING NORTHWEST
18. VIEW OF SETTLING BASIN FROM UPSTREAM TRESTLE, SHOWING BULKHEAD ON RIGHT AND SAND BANK ON LEFT, LOOKING NORTHWEST
19. VIEW OF SETTLING BASIN SLUICE GATE, SHOWING BYPASS FLUME IN BACKGROUND
20. VIEW OF DISCHARGE CHUTE, LOOKING NORTH FROM SETTLING BASIN SLUICE GATE
21. VIEW OF TRESTLE WORK UPSTREAM OF BRIDGE #4, SHOWING BENTS
22. DETAIL VIEW OF BRIDGE #4, SHOWING DOUBLE BENT CONSTRUCTION
23. DETAIL VIEW OF BRIDGE #4, SNOWING DOUBLE BENT AND BENT CONSTRUCTION
24. DETAIL VIEW OF BRIDGE #4, SHOWING DOUBLE BENT JOINT, JACK BLOCK (2X4 IS NEW CONSTRUCTION)
25. VIEW LOOKING UNDER AND THROUGH TALL BENTS
26. VIEW OF STAGGERED STRINGERS UNDER FLUME
27. VIEW OF TOP OF FLUME, LOOKING UPSTREAM, SNOWING REPETITION OF BENTS
28. DETAIL VIEW OF GEARS AT SPILLWAY #12, FRONT UNCOVERED, BACK COVERED, WITH FRONT GATE OPEN
29. DETAIL VIEW OF BENT ON INSIDE CURVE
30. DETAIL VIEW OF BENT AND FLUME ON INSIDE CURVE
31. VIEW OF STRAIGHT ON ELEVATION OF FLUME
32. DETAIL VIEW OF BENT, STRAIGHT SECTION
33. VIEW OF FLUME ON SIDE HILL
34. VIEW OF 'S' CURVE, FROM WALKWAY ON FLUME
35. VIEW OF SHACK #4, LOG LAND, SHOWING SPUR TRACK TO MATERIALS
36. VIEW OF LOG LANDING
37. VIEW OF GEARS AT SPILLWAY #12, FRONT UNCOVERED, SHOWING SPILLWAY TO LEFT, TRACKS OVER FLUME ON RIGHT
39. VIEW SHOWING INSIDE OF SPILLWAY #12, WITH ONE GATE OPEN AND ROCK PILED UP
40. VIEW, LOOKING WEST, OF TOP OF FLUME NEAR FOREBAY, SHOWING LUMBER SHED, TWO TRACKS, CRANEWAY SHED IN BACKGROUND, RESERVOIR TO LEFT, RIGHT TO YARDS AND FACILITIES, AND OVERFLOW SPILLWAY ON LOWER RIGHT
41. VIEW FROM END OF FLUME, LOOKING WEST, SNOWING OVERFLOW CHUTE ON RIGHT (PARALLEL TO FLUME), RESERVOIR EMBANKMENT IN BACKGROUND, AND HOOKS ON END OF RAILING FOR SPILLBOARDS
42. DETAIL VIEW OF INSIDE OF FLUME, SHOWING SOLID WALL AND VARIOUS LEVELS OF SPILLBOARDS
43. VIEW OF END OF OVERFLOW CHUTE, SHOWING FLUME ON RIGHT
44. INTERIOR VIEW OF FLUME WITH PLYWOOD WALLS, LOOKING UPSTREAM
45. DETAIL VIEW OF PLYWOOD INSIDE FLUME, SHOWING MOSS ON WALL
46. VIEW, LOOKING WEST FROM DETERIORATED END OF FLUME AT RESERVOIR'S EAST EDGE, SHOWING DREDGE IN LEFT BACKGROUND, SIDE VIEW OF FOREBAY SHED ON RIGHT
47. VIEW, LOOKING WEST OF FOREBAY, SHOWING DREDGE ON LEFT, FLUME END ON RIGHT, AND FOREBAY SHED IN BACKGROUND
48. DETAIL VIEW OF STUB SWITCH, LOOKING INTO SWITCH, SHOWING MAINLINE MOVES TO CONNECT
49. DETAIL VIEW OF DUTCHMAN, STUB SWITCH, AND TYPICAL MAINLINE ATTACHMENT
50. VIEW OF BOOM CAR
51. VIEW OF BENT MACHINE
52. VIEW SHOWING BOOM SPEEDER IN MIDDLE, PASSENGER CAR ON LEFT, AND FLAT CAR ON RIGHT
53. VIEW OF PASSENGER SPEEDER 04 IN FOREGROUND, BOOM SPEEDER 75 IN BACKGROUND LEFT, AND BOOM SPEEDER 59 IN BACKGROUND RIGHT
54. VIEW OF BOOM SPEEDER 59
55. VIEW OF BOOM SPEEDER 75
56. VIEW OF DOUBLE DRUM CAR
57. VIEW SHOWING COMPRESSOR CAR AT LEFT, ELECTRICAL GENERATOR CAR IN MIDDLE, AND SPEEDER 75 BOOM AT RIGHT
58. VIEW OF CABLE INCLINE, LOCATED ON THE HILLSIDE BELOW THE FOREBAY (NORTHWEST OF FOREBAY), Print No. 156, August 1903
59. VIEW OF LAYING STRINGERS NEAR THE SLIDE, Print No. 157, August 1903
60. VIEW LOOKING UP LINE OVER SLIDE, Print No. 161, August 1903
61. VIEW OF WAREHOUSE, MACHINE SHOP, AND HOISTING PLANT, WITH FOREBAY ON RIGHT IN FOREGROUND, Prints No. 158 and 159, August 1903
62. VIEW OF POLE LINE IN STUCK VALLEY, NORTH OF SUMNER, Print No. 162, August 1903
63. PANORAMIC VIEW OF HEADWORKS FROM WEST SIDE OF RIVER, LOOKING UPSTREAM, Prints No. 173, 174 and 175, November 1903
64. VIEW OF WEST SIDE OF THE RIVER, SHOWING THE INTAKE AND FLUME LINE, Print No. 146, November 1903
65. VIEW LOOKING UPSTREAM FROM FLUME SUBSTRUCTURE, SHOWING COLUMBIA IMPROVEMENT COMPANY'S NEISSON CREEK SAWMILL. Print No. 177, November 1903
66. VIEW OF COMPLETED FLUME, LOOKING SOUTHEAST IN SECTION 18, TOWNSHIP 17N, RANGE 63, Print No. 178, November 1903
67. VIEW, FROM SOUTHEAST CORNER, SHOWING FOREBAY IN CONSTRUCTION, Print No. 184, November 1903
68. VIEW OF WOOD STAVE PIPE TAKEN FROM THE TOP OF THE PENSTOCK LINE, LOOKING SOUTH. PORTION OF PIPE BETWEEN THE FOREBAY AND RAILROAD TRACK WILL BE COVERED WITH CONCRETE CORE WALL AND EARTH EMBANKMENT OF RESERVOIR, Print No. 185, November 1903
69. VIEW OF FOREBAY AND RESERVOIR, SHOWING FLUME ENTRANCE TO RESERVOIR ON THE RIGHT OF FOREBAY IN THE BACKGROUND (SHOWN BY THE WHITE X ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS), Print No. 191, December 1903
70. VIEW OF PARTIALLY COMPLETED FLUME BELOW THE AUTOMATIC SPILL AT THE RESERVOIR, SHOWING MOUNT RAINIER IN THE DISTANCE, Print No. 192, December 1903
71. VIEW OF FLUME CONSTRUCTION THROUGH PUYALLUP CANYON BETWEEN CAMPS 4 AND 5, Print No. 194, December 1903
72. VIEW OF DAM, LOOKING EAST, Prints No. 195 and 196, December 1903
73. VIEW LOOKING DOWN ON THE POWERHOUSE FROM THE SOUTHEAST, Print No. 199, January 1904
74. VIEW LOOKING DOWN ON THE POWERHOUSE FROM THE NORTHWEST, Print No. 202, January 1904
75. VIEW OF FLUME CONSTRUCTION THROUGH THE PUYALLUP CANYON NEAR CAMP NO. 4, Print No. 206, December 1903
76. PANORAMIC VIEW OF HEADWORKS, SHOWING GATEKEEPER'S LODGE ON THE RIGHT, Prints NO. 213-218, April 1904
77. VIEW OF INTAKE OF THE DAM, LOOKING EAST, SHOWING UNCOMPLETED RADIAL GATE TO THE LEFT, Print No. 230, April 1904
78. VIEW OF UNCOMPLETED RESERVOIR, SHOWING FOREBAY AND FLUME; ALSO SHOWING POOL ARRANGEMENT FOR TEMPORARILY UTILIZING WATER WITHOUT FILLING THE RESERVOIR, Print No. 232, April 1904
79. VIEW OF SPILLWAY THAT AUTOMATICALLY REGULATES HEIGHT OF WATER IN RESERVOIR, 'BACKWATER OVERFLOW,' Print No. 233, April 1904
80. VIEW OF PLACING WHEELS IN SHAFT OF NO. 2 UNIT IN POSITION. OVERVIEW LOOKING EAST IN THE POWERHOUSE, Print No. 234, April 1904
81. VIEW OF CONNECTION BETWEEN INTAKE AND FLUME, SHOWING UNCOMPLETED RADIAL GATE IN PLACE, Print No. 240, April 1904
82. VIEW SHOWING PLACING WATERWHEELS AND ROTOR SHAFT IN BEARINGS IN NO. 3 UNIT, Print No. 250, June 1904
83. OVERVIEW OF PARTIALLY COMPLETED POWERHOUSE WITH TWO UNITS IN OPERATION, LOOKING UPSTREAM, Print No. 274, June 1904
84. VIEW OF POWERHOUSE CROSS SECTION, LOOKING EAST, SHOWING CIRCUITS NO. 2 AND NO. 3, Print No. 279B, 1903
85. VIEW OF POWERHOUSE CROSS SECTION, LOOKING EAST, SHOWING CIRCUITS NO. 1 AND NO. 4, Print No. 279C, 1903
86. INTERIOR VIEW OF POWERHOUSE, LOOKING WEST, Print No. 315, October 1904
87. VIEW OF COMPLETED FLUME, SNOWING CURVE CONSTRUCTION POWER LINE IN THE BACKGROUND, Print No. 358, 1904
88. OVERVIEW OF HEADWORKS, LOOKING UPSTREAM, Print No. 359, 1904
89. OVERVIEW OF POWERHOUSE AND PENSTOCKS, LOOKING SOUTH, Print No. 368, 1904
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