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2008.13.28Description
B & W digital scan of Marion Electric Shovel excavating channel on open, lined section of LA Aqueduct. Work taking place on the Olancha Division. Electricity to run shovel supplied by Cottonwood Power Plant. The Owens Lake, still full of water, is just visible in the upper left corner. Note excavated material on berm.
"The excavated material on the Olancha from desert soil to difficult 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. 16
This photo was either taken by or from the collection of Edward Francis Leahey.Collection
Edward Francis Leahey Collection