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The Chip Board Archive 24

circa 1941 MS/TW Illegal

While getting ready to get back in the swing of things, I was organizing my collection and found that I have 9 extra of each color, MS/TW chips from the game ran at the government camp at the site of the construction of the Anderson Ranch Dam in Idaho. The initials represent the 4 general contractors that were awarded the bid for construction.

I would like $15 a piece

exerp from USBR Project File

"Construction of the dam was approved by the Secretary of the Interior on August 25, 1940.
Appropriations to begin construction were approved by Congress in June 1941.
Bids for the primary contract which covered construction of the dam, spillway and outlet works, and the
first stage of the powerplant, were opened on July 7, 1941. The contract was awarded to the
lowest bidder, a joint venture made up of the Morrison-Knudson Company, Inc., the J. F. Shea
Company, Inc., the Ford J. Twaits Company, and the Winston Brothers Company. The low bid
was $9,986,203.47. Work under the primary contract began in early August 1941."


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