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Crawling & Walking. For the next few years, M-K crawled, and after that, says Morrison, "it walked." In 1914, M-K made $14,000 on a $120,000 contract for Three-Mile Falls Dam on Oregon's Umatilla River. "Up to then," says Morrison, "I really had no idea that you could make money on a dam. But when we came out with more than 10%-what a lift!" The other great event of that year was his marriage to Anna Daly, who lived next door to Morrison's sister in Boise...
...trade her life for any other. But at first, she wondered "why any girl would cast her lot with the big, romantic outdoor type." Her first home was a dirt-floor tent in the Utah wilderness. The mess hall was crawling with ants, and to top it off, M-K lost...
...young, untried company. (Today, Morrison borrows as much as $200 million a year from banks and insurance companies spread across the U.S.. is so highly regarded that the Bank of America once wanted to handle all MK's business.) It took years of saving before M-K got its first big steam shovel...
Guernsey & Beyond. For young Harry Morrison, the machines opened up a new era. As the coughing, spitting machinery took over, the horses gradually disappeared. In 1939, Knudsen, tired and lost in the new technology, turned over M-K to Morrison. Four years later, he died...
With his shiny new equipment, Morrison joined the big Utah Construction Co. in 1925 on a joint bid for the $2,300,000 Guernsey Dam in Wyoming, followed it up with another for Deadwood Dam in the mountains of central Idaho. The experience gave M-K the know-how to tackle the biggest of them all in 1931-the Arizona-Nevada giant Hoover Dam that was to rise 726 ft. above the Colorado River, generate power at the rate of 4 billion kw. a year. On Deadwood, M-K used some of the first bulldozers, began testing diesel trucks...