 Gus Savela, a Finn and Alaskan fish buyer with engineering experience, oversaw the building of the dam.With the sawmill that had arrived on the "Tongass", the Paddock brothers built the wharf, fish house and started the boardwalk.When the summer fishing season began, the men left to work other jobs or fish their boats and even Raatikainen had to take his scows to their summer stations.