File #834: "Newspaper Clipping - Water Main"

Newspaper Clipping - Water Main

Title

Newspaper Clipping - Water Main

Description

Nampa city workmen (Nampa Water Dept.) used a mechanized trencher to lay new 8-inch water main. This process was a vast improvement over using picks & shovels; the machine could dig one block's worth of trench in a day.

Photo: Taken in 1950s, on 7th Street South. Wayne Fairchild riding on side of the machine.

Relation

Date

1950s

Contributor

Wayne Fairchild