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Stone & Webster #11 is working the gravel pit in the Basin in February 1913

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Stone & Webster #11, which began life in 1866 as Central Pacific #24 "Montana," is working the gravel pit in the Basin in February 1913. Trainloads of gravel were carried several miles to a crushing and mixing plant, where the rock was made into concrete for the three dams then under construction on the perimeter of the Basin.
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Date
Feb. 1913
Call number
photCL SCE 12 - 00038
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