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Just the Beginning. As spring of 1961 comes to the high country, work is forging ahead at half a dozen dusty sites on the Upper Colorado Basin Project, the most ambitious water-harnessing program in U.S. history. The effort now includes four huge dam complexes and eleven satellite projects, is budgeted at more than $1 billion. But the U.S. Reclamation Department engineers insist that this is just the beginning; they talk of an expanding network of dams, power stations, storage lakes and irrigation canals that will stir to life huge, drowsing areas of Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona...
...throughout most of its upper vastness, the Colorado River Basin has long seemed to be dying of thirst. The Colorado has merely rushed through the landscape, unharnessed for use by man, leaving behind only magnificent wasteland. Last week, as Interior Secretary Stewart Udall inspected the giant dam rising across Glen Canyon in northwest Arizona, it was apparent that the Upper Colorado Basin was at last on its way to becoming a land of incomparable opportunity...
...northern Utah last week squads of workers were raising the level of the Flaming Gorge Dam by 7½ ft. a week, planned to get its 108,000-kw. power plant in full operation by the summer of 1964. In northwest New Mexico, work was three-quarters done on the earth-and-rock Navajo Dam, which will be 480 ft. high and one-third of a mile thick at its base...
...Machines. But the key to the entire development of the Upper Colorado is Arizona's 700-ft. Glen Canyon Dam. When completed in 1964, the structure will have a capacity of 900,000 kw. of electricity, back up Lake Powell through 186 miles of some of the most dramatic scenery in the U.S. The job of building Glen Canyon compares in sheer size with the land itself. Workers erected from scratch the town of Page, which now has a population of 7,000. A giant refrigeration plant daily turns out 4,000 tons of ice to cool the concrete...
...tents. "I stole coal from Northern Pacific railroad cars, and we ate plenty of stale bread with that old purple mold coming through," recalls Egbert. He went to Washington State on an athletic scholarship (state discus-throw record in 1937), but dropped out to work on the Grand Coulee Dam to support his family...