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<br />~ <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />." .f.l <br />.l "J 18 <br />T RAN ,", ~I I S S ION I. I N E S <br /> <br />24~ <br /> <br />From October 1, 1936, when concreting operations were resumed <br />after the summer layoff, to the end of the year excavation and con- <br />creting of footings were pushed energetically while two crews of <br />men followed closely erecting towers. From 24 to :n towers <br />were erected by the two crews each week when working lindeI' <br />favorable conditions. By the end of 1936 towers had been erected <br />iii, from the Boulder plant to a point near the Iron Mountain ]Jump- <br />ing plant and from Camino to within 13 miles of Gene. At the <br />same time stringing was finished from Boulder to the Danby Dry <br />Lake and to Mile 27 on the Camino-Gene line. <br />During January 1937 work of all kinds was slowed down by <br />the unusually cold weather. At Camino the temperature fell to 17' <br />and exposed water pipes were frozen. The cold and the wind at <br />times made tower erection impossible and concrete could not be <br />placed on account of freezing. <br />Tower erection on the Camino-Gene section was completed late in <br />February t937, but due to difficulty in handling cable in the rough <br />Whipple Mountain country, stringing was not finished to Gene until <br />I two months later. <br />" All of the tower and stringing crews were then concentrated in <br />the Iron Mountain-Hayfield section and by May 12th the towers <br />were all erected. By July 19, 1937 stringing of conductors for the <br />entire line was completed and by August 16, 1937, five months be- <br />fore the date specified in the contract, the clean-up crews had fin- <br />ished and a certificate of completion for the 230-kv transmission' <br />line was filed. ' <br />When the contractor finished the main lines, switch racks at the <br />]Jumping plants had not been erected. It was therefore impossible <br />for him to make the required connections between conductors and <br />racks. Minor items also remained on the Parker dam standby <br />loop, After this line had been taken out of service in March 1938 <br />and the switch racks had been constructed District forces pro- <br />ceeded to string all terminal spans at the racks and to finish the <br />Parker loop. The entire 230-kv line was completed May 3, 1938 <br />except the terminal span at the Bonlder switch rack which awaits <br />construction of this rack by the Federal Government. <br /> <br />Const1-uction of 69-kv line <br />The Gene branch of the 230-kv line terminates at the Gene switch <br />rack. From this point power will be transmitted to the Intake <br />rack by a double circuit 69-kv line 2.2 miles in length. The steel <br /> <br />~, <br />