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A four-horse team pulls a scraper, guided by three unidentified students, possibly including Julian Steward DS18 (center). Side view of a nice-looking team.

Teams of four horses (left), two horses (center) and two mules (right) begin to dig the lower reservoir, pulling the bucket scrapers known as "Fresnos". A very fine pair of mules on the right.

Unidentified students swim in the newly completed and filled lower reservoir

Jim Holmes DS17, (unk), Harvey Gerry DS17, Sherlock Davis DS17 with team of horses preparing to dig lower reservoir

A 4-horse, a 2-horse, and a 2-mule team pulling bucket-type "Fresno" scrapers, probably the early stages of digging the lower reservoir

Students toss a fellow student fully clothed into the reservoir shortly after completion

Katherine Baily was the daughter of workers at the salt works at Deep Springs Lake, and socialized with the Deep Springs community. In these photos she is pointing a shotgun and (it seems, if oddly) washing a roll of developed film

A team of horses begins digging the lower reservoir, guided by three unidentified people. The handle extending above the left-hand person's head was a lever to control the depth of cut, and could require (and deliver) considerable force.

Two concrete silos were built in the early days to hold dairy feed, probably corn silage - caption reads building the silos 65 feet high. One remains as of 2018. "

Sheldon Callaway DS18, apparently standing on a rock above the dairy barn