Name/Title
PostcardEntry/Object ID
A1135.31bDescription
Photo postcard of a long mule team and teamsters hauling a steam shovel part across the sandy desert. It is so large it took two wagons to carry it. The location may possibly be between Lone Pine and Olancha in the Olancha Division where steam shovels were used to carve out a ditch for the open, lined section of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.
Information from the L.A. Aqueduct Construction Annual Report, 1908:
"Prior to the completion of the California and Nevada Railway to Siding No. 6 all materials necessary for preliminary construction and commissary supplies were transported by wagon haul from the Mojave warehouse north to the various camps. These materials included all lumber for bridges and buildings, pipe and fittings for water supply, cement tools and powder for the building of roads and trails, wire poles and hardware for both telephone and transmission lines, and all supplies necessary for the subsistence of from two hundred to one thousand men."Collection
Beryl Miller and Grace O'Neal Collection