Show MOTION PICTURES OF BIG ROAD JOB 1 repaired by the th united states att 0 of dynamite black powder steam hydraulic nozzle compressed air iron steel and cement became the tools ot of tile alio road builder when engineers of the bureau ot of public roads undertook to build a modern highway through the lie rugged buyama cuyama valley in souther lif C cal at and found themselves tackling tile the heaviest road construction job in the west the building of 0 the cuya buyama cuyama mak road Is graphically depleted in the now new united states department of agriculture educational motion picture the road hoad goes Tb through rought I 1 the old road through tho the guyana followed the chourio correo of the cuyama buyama river and forded corded t the he stream nearly seventy five times the flood waters of this river endangered tile tho lives of tr travelers ay keeping the road closed at certain seasons and the treacherous cuy ama extended tt a perpetual challenge to ninn man federal engineers accepted tilts this challenge and conceived a new road to bo be carved in the mountain side aide a thousand feet above the river bed that would be open to truffle 12 months every year huge quantities of dynamite and blasting powder were employed to shoot the right of cf way and enormous nils were mado with rock and earth of the mountain sides when the alkali waters ot of the put some of the steam boilers out of commission air compressors were installed to 0 operate 1 11 the steel jaws of the shovels modern bridges were built to span dry gullies which became roaring torrents tor renta during rainy seas seasons oniL barrier after barrier was met and overcome and in the end the skill and industry of the road builder triumphed over nature and the cuyala cuyama road went through |