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When machinery tool< over the grading operations. This is one of the first outfits of the 

 Olympia Oyster Co. The bucket at the end of the boom was lowered, filled, swung to present 

 position, dumped on peak of scow house, floated to place to be filled and dumped by raising 

 scov/ house side doors. 



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Hand Leveling. — Scows were loaded by cutting down high part of bed to desired level, then 

 floated to part to be filled and shoveled off. 



Building creosote lumber dikes by Olympia Oyster Co. J. Y. Waldrip, foreman, on right. 



