| Title |
189_Mazatlan Breakwater |
| Creator |
Utah Construction Company |
| Contributors |
Utah Construction Company |
| Image Captions |
Heeling he wide paces. TORQUE CONVERTER UPS PRODUCTION he takes the grade in stride and is moving a total of 338,000 yards at high speed. Hauls averaged approximately a half mile over the length of the 6.5-mile job. Hard, rock-like caliche that has to be ripped before it can be loaded predominates on a job of Lougenbaugh & Coe who are grading new runways at the City- County Airport near Lovington, North Mexico. Two 12-yard six wheelers are handling the job which consists of moving 28,800 yards. Runways will be 4,800 ft. in length. Clyde Coe of the firm also has a big new TC- 12 Crawler tractor he is using to build a basin to catch storm water from the City of Hobbs, New Mexico. The crawler is dozing out of the outside per-imeter of a 600-ft. square basin to a depth of six feet after which the scrapers will take over, moving an average of 263 cubic yards per hour an average of 345 feet. South of Albuquerque along the Rio Grande River, O.D. Cowart is working a two mile haul on U.S. 85 between Los Lunas and Belden, a job totaling 490,000 yards over a total distance of 7.3 miles. High speeds on the haul road are essential to success. Two six-wheel spreads working on U.S. 260, which runs north and south across the Arizona- New Mexico line, utilize torqmatic drive scrapers to good advantage in Iben, working near St. Johns, Arizona, find the torque converts productive on variable grades. Says Johnny Iben, who has both standard and torqmatic units working at 8,700 ft. altitude: Scale weights prove an 80-ton advantage per shift in favor of the torqmatic drive, averaging two tons per load. The advantage is particularly noticeable in the afternoon when drivers get tired from shifting so much. The haul required eight shifts per trip for a total of 40 to 42 trips per day. Hauls are up to two and a half miles and the material is fine, hard loading blow sand. South of Albuquerque along the Rio Grande River, O.D. Cowart is moving 480,000 yards of sand at high speed. Scale weights prove an 80-ton advan-tage per shift in favor of torque converters, averaging two tons per load. Says Johnny Iben of Givens & Iben, seen at the right. His partner, Eddie Givens heartily agrees. |
| Description |
In 1928, Utah Construction Company completed its first project outside of the United States with the 110 mile railroad for Southern Pacific of Mexico. Over the next 30 years, UCC continued to work on projects in Mexico including dams, roads, mining, and canals. The collection contains several booklets and correspondence along with approximately 500 photographs. |
| Subject |
Ferrocarril Sud Pacífico de Mexico--History; Mexico; Dams--Design and construction; Asphalt pavers--Mexico; Canals--Mexico; Sonora (Mexico : State); Chihuahua (Mexico : State); Sinaloa (Mexico : State); La Quemada (Mexico); Tepic (Mexico : Territory); Railroads--Design and construction |
| Digital Publisher |
Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA |
| Date Digital |
2010 |
| Temporal Coverage |
1923-1928; 1945-1958 |
| Medium |
Photography |
| Item Description |
2.1 x 2.1-9.6 x 7.7 in. photograph; 9.9 x 8.8 in. paper and slides |
| Spatial Coverage |
Mexico, http://sws.geonames.org/3996063, 23, -102 |
| Type |
Image/StillImage |
| Conversion Specifications |
Archived TIFF images were scanned at 400 dpi with an Epson Expression 10000XL scanner. |
| Language |
eng |
| Relation |
https://archivesspace.weber.edu/repositories/3/resources/212 |
| Rights |
Materials may be used for non-profit and educational purposes; please credit Special Collections Department, Stewart Library, Weber State University. |
| Source |
MS 100 Bx 93, 100, 101 Special Collections, Stewart Library, Weber State University |
| Format |
image/jpeg |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6tq56cb |
| Setname |
wsu_ucc_mp |
| ID |
58806 |
| Reference URL |
https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s6tq56cb |
