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THE SITE OF THE BIG JOB
Lake Spaulding in the Sierra Nevada, lies near the trail over which came the emigrants and the gold-hungry horde and the builders of the Central Pacific. This year, a new generation is carrying on the work begun by the stout-hearted pioneers. This fall may see completed, in the gorge of the South Yuba, a dam which will exceed the height of the famous Pathfinder dam, heretofore the highest in the world. This dam will rise almost to the base of the tree in the foreground of this picture, creating a vast lake in which the present lake will be lost
