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(Fig. 24b) "Wayne Thomas, mining engineer in charge, and a party of visitors inspecting preparations for pouring the concrete for the retaining wall to hold out surface water and sand until a reinforced [sic] concrete collar could be constructed on the bed-rock [sic] about 15 feet below the surface. Note several sacks of gilsonite salvaged from the vein in order to make room for the shaft collar."

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(Fig. 24b) "Wayne Thomas, mining engineer in charge, and a party of visitors inspecting preparations for pouring the concrete for the retaining wall to hold out surface water and sand until a reinforced [sic] concrete collar could be constructed on the bed-rock [sic] about 15 feet below the surface. Note several sacks of gilsonite salvaged from the vein in order to make room for the shaft collar."
Title (Fig. 24b) "Wayne Thomas, mining engineer in charge, and a party of visitors inspecting preparations for pouring the concrete for the retaining wall to hold out surface water and sand until a reinforced [sic] concrete collar could be constructed on the bed-rock [sic] about 15 feet below the surface. Note several sacks of gilsonite salvaged from the vein in order to make room for the shaft collar."
Photo Number P0873n1_01_01b
Description Photo from a 1940 work by Arthur Crawford showing mining engineer Wayne Thomas and visitors inspecting construction work at a gilsonite mine in Uintah County, Utah.
Creator Crawford, Arthur L. (Arthur Lorenzo), 1899-1980
Date 1940
Textual Date 1940
Keywords Utah; Eastern Utah; Uintah or Uinta; Mining; Gilsonite; Miners; Excavating machinery
Subject Gilsonite--Utah--Photographs; Mines and mineral resources--Uinta Basin (Utah and Colo.)--Photographs; Uinta Basin (Utah and Colo.)--Photographs
Spatial Coverage Uintah County (Utah); Uinta Basin (Utah and Colo.)
Additional Information Western Americana (see Original Source field).
Collection Number and Name P0873 Gilsonite Mining Photograph Collection
Holding Institution Multimedia Archives, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Original Source "Gilsonite : a general discussion with special reference to the Arrowchis Lease of the Western Gilsonite & Elaterite Company" by Arthur L. Crawford. [Salt Lake City, Utah?] : [s.n.], [1940] "Gilsonite" by John L. Kemmerer. Thesis (M.S.)--Dept. of Geology, University of Utah, 1934. "Dissertation on the history, occurrence, mining, and economics of gilsonite" by Irving Craig Roberts and Glen A. Carey. Thesis (B.S.)--Department of Mining Engineering, University of Utah, 1949
Donated By/Purchased From Collection derived from written documents in Western Americana, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library.
Rights COPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATED
Type Image/StillImage
ARK ark:/87278/s6320fmk
Setname uum_map
ID 942902
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6320fmk