The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., February 7, 1935, page 1

WISHRAM GRAVEL MAY BE USED FOR BONNEVILLE DAM
WILL PROVIDE MUCH LABOR
ENGINEERS EXAMINE GRAVEL TO SEE IF SUITABLE; TRAIN WILL HAUL GRAVEL TO WORK AT BONNEVILLE.

     A new enterprise is to come to this county and provide work for fifty men, if present plans materialize. The past week government en-gineers visited the gravel pits of the S.P. & S. Ry., three and a half miles west of Wishram, with the idea of examining the quality of the material. The plan is to have the railroad haul this gravel, of which there is a great quantity to Bonneville, where it will be used in the concrete work construction of the dam.
     If the government accepts this gravel the railway company will do all of the transporting. The plan is to furnish one hundred car loads of gravel to Bonneville daily. That will mean at least fifty men on this end of the work. These men can be recruited from work relief lists and the situation will furnish employment where it is greatly needed. There are few men from this section working directly on the Bonneville project, although it was understood the work would be given proportionately to sections up and down the river, in both states. This would bring a share of labor to this county, and would be most welcome.
     It is estimated it will take nine months time to secure the amount of gravel needed, which at a hundred carloads of gravel delivered daily, will make quite some pile. Besides furnishing work for men directly handling the gravel, there will be several train crews put to work on the job, if and when it materializes.

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