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A Yes.
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And then the rest of the dam went l'Q the hill. Would
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you call them wingsor what?
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A No, part of the arch. It ta is allin one arch.
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1 So the hill itselfon eitherside wasa kind d natural
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4Tke is that right?
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A The hill itself. We built to the hill. !he hill on
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the east side ruis up to a greatheight.
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Q Does it run up at an angle, the inclind of it where
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you placed this cement on top of it?
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A Yes sir. That is all buried now. When the damwent
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out it permitted a slide from that mountainand thereis only one
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spot there -- at leastd therewas on the day beofre yesterday,when
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I went upthere --that was visible fhe east abutmentof the
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dam was against a very solid massof hari. schistd
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Q. How about the west?
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A ne westdgoes up a differentformation.
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Q, Goes up on a formation of what you would call a conglomerate?
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Yes sir.
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What is that?
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A A conglomeration:tfmlled by water, by the solidification
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of drifted matter by water. It is called conglomerate. It is a
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admixture generally of rock, gravel and other materials, maybe
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sand and 1 it is a peculiar type. It is an altered conglomerate,
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that is, it was originallyconglomerate and then it was altered

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by heat and induration, heat and pressure,it is a very different
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form. The tunnels are thereyet. I tunnelled intothat to find
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out if it was secureto build part of the dam. It wasquite solid
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and veryimpervious.
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Q. In going up to the top ot this hill with Yf10 dam,what