Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
2012.16.250Description
B & W digital scan of Los Angeles Aqueduct Steam Shovel (Marion 60 Model) excavating channel in the Alabama Hills for Open, Lined Section of LA Aqueduct that would eventually run to Haiwee Resevoir. (Work being done in Owens Valley Division of Aqueduct Project.)
"The excavated material on the Olancha from desert soil to difiicult work in cemented boulders frequently requiring the use of dynamite to loosen them prior to excavation Some of the boulders weight as much as five or six tons shovels used on this division are very powerful machines in this boulder formation is extremely hard on but they are making reasonable progress and material at a very low cost The boulders are in masses at of the canyons some of them far too large to go into of the shovels These are pushed out of the ditch with of the shovels involving most skilful handling on the the shovel operators." from LA Aqueduct Construction, Annual Report, 1911, pg. 16Collection
Alex Ross Collection