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...some people at home and abroad thought that he was only going to preach. They soon discovered that this mission ary did a lot of practicing. He not only carried the word into the jungle, quieted the local tribes and performed marriages, but also helped to clear the ground, dam the streams and stop epidemics of fear...
Share & Share Alike. A group of five Northwest power companies, headed by Paul Raver, onetime Bonneville Power administrator and now president of Seattle's city-owned Municipal Light and Power System, want to build a 700-ft. high, $250-million earth-fill dam across the Columbia where it winds through the Canadian wilderness. At the dam itself and two other sites between Mica Creek and the border, Canada could build powerhouses to produce 1,700,000 kw. of power. The Canadian government would also release enough water from Mica Creek during the dry winter months to produce...
Under the proposed deal, one of the five U.S. companies, probably the Puget Sound Power & Light Co., would build the dam, turn it over to Canada free. In return, Puget Sound would get an 800,000-kw. share of the new power produced in the U.S. (a portion of which it would resell to the other companies), leaving 440,000 kw. for the federal-power network. Total cost to the company for the Mica Creek dam: $700 million, which it would pay off at the rate of $14 million annually for 50 years through the sale of low-cost power...
Salmon & Aluminum. In Washington and Ottawa last week, both the U.S. and Canadian governments were enthusiastic about the new plan, praised it for its cooperative approach. Besides Mica Creek, federal and private dam builders have projects for 49 more dams with a combined potential of some 11,900.000 kw., enough to give the Northwest power aplenty. But on most of them, battles over who shall build the dams, water rights, etc. are blocking construction. One of the most serious fights is between dam builders and conservation groups. So far, conservationists have filed "major" objections to 20 projects, "minor" objections...
...proposed $263-million federal Libby Dam (600,000 kw.) on Montana's Kootenay River is being blocked by objections from Canada, where the water would be stored, and by railroad and conservation interests...