March 26, 1975 (8 pages)

The $64 million foundation work for the Arburn Dam is presently underway and scheduled for completion in November of 1977. “At this time construction of the dam itself will begin,” project engineer Donald Alexander told a group of the Nevada County Builders Exchange at adinner meeting at The Office Monday. Three large firms are invloved in»moving the seven and one-half million yards of earth and rock — Ball, Atkinson and Arundel Construction — Alexander said. -To handle this enormous excavation project, the firms‘ Mail your check tod *Subscribe Now . . . Recieve Back Issue To March 5th THE NUGGET, P.O. Box 828, Nevada are using extremely large equipment, including D-8 and D9 cats and trucks able to carry from 50 to 85 tons of rock in a single load. A 100-ton crane, which is five years old, and. cost $370,000 is also on the job. Presently there is one shift per day but two shifts will be. working when ‘“‘weather breaks,” Alexander advised. Of the 190 persons employed, 140 are craftsmen and 50 are office and engineering personnel. Auburn Dam, scheduled for completion in ti. fall of 1982, will be a double-curvature, thinarch dam, with two spillways starting 150-feet below the crest to pass flood flows into Folsom C— 6 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., March 26, 1975 $64 million Auburn Dam reservoir. In the center will be the power plant consisting of five units, twice as big as the main units at the Shasta power plant near Redding. The dam will rise 700-feet high, equivalent to the heighth of a 70-story building. The center radius will measure 1400-feet; the outer edge radius, 4,000-feet. A thin arch dam converts water pressure so it is transferred outward to the canyon wallsthus the base will only. be 150feet wide as opposed to Shasta Dam’s 800-foot base. Shasta is a gravity dam. Plans are underway to relocate Highway 49 over the top of the dam, with a four-lane highway and supporting pillars. Facilities will be available for a large recreational potential, Alexander said, similar to that of Oroville and Bullards Bar . dams. A contract for developing recreational aréas will be between the California Department of Parks and Beaches and the Bureau of Reclamation. Acreage acquired is 29,000, of which the lake will use 10,000; the remaining will be a game refuge for wildlife. The shoreline will be more than 140 Once the work on the arch begins, workmen will be placing 10,000 yards of concrete daily to complete the job, requiring a foundation total of six and one-half million yards. The concrete continues to gain strength, according to Allexander, and will rt 5,000-pounds per square inch at one year. Total cost of the project is estimated to be $850-million. Had the work gone ahead as originally proposed it would have been completed in 1976 at a cost of $467-million. CLASSIFIED “The Divine Eccentric” by Nevada City Author Doris Foley A WELL DOCUMENTED STORY OF LOLA MONTEZ STARTED® MARCH 5th IN THE NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET. “Divine and eccentric’ were two words most often used by newspapermen of the 1850’ the European danseuse and favori that is before she caused his abdic s to describe Lola Montez, te of King Ludwig of Bavaria, ation and her own exile. Lola’s California adventure began the morning she stepped off the rocked and scand Northerner, and never stopped until she had alized the state from city to mining camp and bock again. Her marriages, her lovers, her wild tantrums, her talent and her strange efforts to settle for keeps in Grass Valley, has tied her inseparably to California history. Nevada City author Doris Foley assiduously searched through California’s newspapers, ween 1853 and 1861 for the material in t of every issue published bethis different kind of historical book. What the newspapers said about divine Lola makes rather contrasty reading with what Lola said about herself — for her autobiography is included also in this work. Your Western Nevada County Historical Weekly Newspaper nevapa county NUGGET Serving the historical Gold Rush communities of Nevada City, G i y, Grass Valley, Red Dog, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Li Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San . Nocti Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City. ay—don't miss a single issue A Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hil Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill Brandy Flat see sia oJ oJ 7 Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore’s Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. City, Calif. 95959 Don’t Miss it! SUBSCRIBE NOW TO THE NUGGET “ier $600 3 Years $7.00

The $64 million foundation work for the Arburn Dam is presently underway and scheduled for completion in November of 1977. “At this time construction of the dam itself will begin,” project engineer Donald Alexander told a group of the Nevada County Builders Exchange at adinner meeting at The Office Monday. Three large firms are invloved in»moving the seven and one-half million yards of earth and rock — Ball, Atkinson and Arundel Construction — Alexander said. -To handle this enormous excavation project, the firms‘ Mail your check tod *Subscribe Now . . . Recieve Back Issue To March 5th THE NUGGET, P.O. Box 828, Nevada are using extremely large equipment, including D-8 and D9 cats and trucks able to carry from 50 to 85 tons of rock in a single load. A 100-ton crane, which is five years old, and. cost $370,000 is also on the job. Presently there is one shift per day but two shifts will be. working when ‘“‘weather breaks,” Alexander advised. Of the 190 persons employed, 140 are craftsmen and 50 are office and engineering personnel. Auburn Dam, scheduled for completion in ti. fall of 1982, will be a double-curvature, thinarch dam, with two spillways starting 150-feet below the crest to pass flood flows into Folsom C— 6 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., March 26, 1975 $64 million Auburn Dam reservoir. In the center will be the power plant consisting of five units, twice as big as the main units at the Shasta power plant near Redding. The dam will rise 700-feet high, equivalent to the heighth of a 70-story building. The center radius will measure 1400-feet; the outer edge radius, 4,000-feet. A thin arch dam converts water pressure so it is transferred outward to the canyon wallsthus the base will only. be 150feet wide as opposed to Shasta Dam’s 800-foot base. Shasta is a gravity dam. Plans are underway to relocate Highway 49 over the top of the dam, with a four-lane highway and supporting pillars. Facilities will be available for a large recreational potential, Alexander said, similar to that of Oroville and Bullards Bar . dams. A contract for developing recreational aréas will be between the California

Department of Parks and Beaches and the Bureau of Reclamation. Acreage acquired is 29,000, of which the lake will use 10,000; the remaining will be a game refuge for wildlife. The shoreline will be more than 140 Once the work on the arch begins, workmen will be placing 10,000 yards of concrete daily to complete the job, requiring a foundation total of six and one-half million yards. The concrete continues to gain strength, according to Allexander, and will rt 5,000-pounds per square inch at one year. Total cost of the project is estimated to be $850-million. Had the work gone ahead as originally proposed it would have been completed in 1976 at a cost of $467-million. CLASSIFIED “The Divine Eccentric” by Nevada City Author Doris Foley A WELL DOCUMENTED STORY OF LOLA MONTEZ STARTED® MARCH 5th IN THE NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET. “Divine and eccentric’ were two words most often used by newspapermen of the 1850’ the European danseuse and favori that is before she caused his abdic s to describe Lola Montez, te of King Ludwig of Bavaria, ation and her own exile. Lola’s California adventure began the morning she stepped off the rocked and scand Northerner, and never stopped until she had alized the state from city to mining camp and bock again. Her marriages, her lovers, her wild tantrums, her talent and her strange efforts to settle for keeps in Grass Valley, has tied her inseparably to California history. Nevada City author Doris Foley assiduously searched through California’s newspapers, ween 1853 and 1861 for the material in t of every issue published bethis different kind of historical book. What the newspapers said about divine Lola makes rather contrasty reading with what Lola said about herself — for her autobiography is included also in this work. Your Western Nevada County Historical Weekly Newspaper nevapa county NUGGET Serving the historical Gold Rush communities of Nevada City, G i y, Grass Valley, Red Dog, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Li Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San . Nocti Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City. ay—don't miss a single issue A Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hil Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill Brandy Flat see sia oJ oJ 7 Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore’s Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. City, Calif. 95959 Don’t Miss it! SUBSCRIBE NOW TO THE NUGGET “ier $600 3 Years $7.00