Mt Rushmore Research Paper

In October of 1927, Mt Rushmore started its building journey that involved the efforts of about 400 Men and Woman over a decade to finally complete. It is a project of colossal proportion, colossal ambition and colossal achievement. In Building Mt. Rushmore, It included jobs such as call boy to drillers to the blacksmiths to even housekeepers. With a compensation of $8 a day, the workers endured conditions from the blazing Hot Summers to the Bitter Cold Winters. Each worker would have to climb a total of 700 stairs to the top of the mountain to punch in and out of work. Although the workers loved coming to work on this historical project, it was also a dangerous worksite. 90% of the moutaint was carved using a dynamite.
Working on Mt. Rushmore

came in handy during the great depression where work and the means to get finiancial stability was at an all time high, men and woman of all ages was accepting to take the job. During the 14 years of construction not one fatality occurred.
Before the dynamite charges could be set off, the workers would have to be cleared from the mountain. Call boys sat at the edge of the mountain and shout messages back and forth assuring safety.
After the honeycombing, the workers smoothed the surface of the faces with a hand facer or bumper tool. In this final step, the bumper tool would even up the granite, creating a surface as smooth as a sidewalk.
From 1927 to 1941 the 400 workers at Mount Rushmore were doing more than operating a jackhammer, they were doing more than earning $8.00 a day, they were building a Memorial that people across the nation and around the world would come to see for generations.