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D9639-8
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- 1940-04-09 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Mud Mountain. View of large complex showing lumber yard, houses in background, automobiles parked in parking lot, railroad tracks. This was the construction camp looking northeast from the top of the concrete mixing plant at the site of the Mud Mountain Dam in April of 1940. The Mud Mountain Dam, dubbed by the Tacoma Times as the world's highest earth-filled dam, is located seven miles southeast of Eatonville in the White River canyon. 600 men were working 24-hour days in three shifts to build the $6,000,000 dam to provide the Puyallup and White River valleys and the Tacoma tideflats with flood protection. For Harold Shaw. (T.Times 4-15-1940, p. 1, 16)
Dam construction; Dams--Mud Mountain;