as it was delivered, gentlemen, like joe chesnutt here, would pick up a compactor and his job was to make sure there were no air bubbles in the concrete. you can see it is a pretty stiff, dry mix. not very fluid, so if you end up with an air pocket, that would end up collapsing. his job was important. imagine doing that all day long. hour would pay 90 cents an thee able to do that in summer, sun, rain, it did not matter. it did not stop. by this time point, they had built a permanent home for the train and use that same tunnel they used for the train as a diversion tunnel to move the water through so they could dry out this area for the spillway. they did it block on top of lock on top of block. of block.n top once they got to the spillway, valves allowed the river to take its natural course and they could plug up that tunnel. why would they do that? what they wanted to do was get the lake full. the superintendent in charge of construction, same guy who builds hoover dam and others, thought the most prudent thing was to start filling the late as they were building it. he was an engin

as it was delivered, gentlemen, like joe chesnutt here, would pick up a compactor and his job was to pack the concrete down and make sure there were no air bubbles. you can see it is a pretty stiff, dry mix. it is not very fluid. so if you end up with an air pocket, that would end up collapsing on itself is you put more weight on top of it. his job was important. imagine doing that all day long. they would pay big box, $.90 an hour or $7.20 a day to do that in the summer sun, rain it did , not matter. once it started, to did not stop for 4.5 years. 20 47. -- 24/7. by this time point, they had built a permanent home for the train and use that same tunnel they used for the train as a diversion tunnel to move the water through so they could dry out this area for the spillway. they did this spillway the same section. block on top of block. once they got to write about here, but placed the four lower valves. those valves allowed the river to take its natural course and they could plug up that tunnel. you might think why would they , do that? what they wanted to do was get the lake full. f