Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies (1881)
Association of Engineering Societies (U.S.) · New York, [etc.] Board of Managers · leaf 117
a cableway for conveying and dumping the waste below the dam-site, and a considerable part of this time was re- quired to excavate a deep "pot-hole" developed directly under the base of the dam, and within the exterior limits of the foundation. This hole was filled with bowlders and gravel tightly… … Fig. 2. As a key or anchorage to receive the masonry of the dam, a center trench of irregular depth and width was cut in the rock on each side from bottom to top. While the work was progressing, the company's teams were busily engaged hauling up cement. The distance by the road from Hemet Station,…
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