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...contains an excellent summary of the events of the day. But there is one respect in which it might be improved: that is by the elimination of the vulgarity which is so frequently quoted; e. g., in the last issue on p. 14, one article is headed "Damn Big Dam," and on p. 16, the words of Senator Norris are quoted: "Take a bundle of straw and go across the river and start a little hell of his own." Such quotations are the fly in the ointment. They have a bad influence on the minds of the children...
...condition as Senator Robinson says and the people have to wait for rain for relief, why wouldn't the best plan be to ask the Red Cross for enough money to transplant the whole crowd out here to Arizona and California where we have irrigation water (the dams are sure filling up); have Congress speed up Boulder Dam and maybe build another one or two. Here in this country they can farm twelve months a year 365 days to the year with the extra one leap year...
Meanwhile Frank T. Crowe, hard-rock engineer who will superintend the actual construction of Hoover Dam, opened a Six Companies office at Las Vegas, Nev., the rail junction for the job. Then he proceeded across the mountain wastes to Black Canyon. Before Superintendent Crowe could start actual dambuilding, he had to do these things: 1) complete the 20-mile railroad from Las Vegas to Black Canyon rim over which all material must be lowered. 2) Construct Boulder City to house 2,500 workers and their families. 3) Build an eightmile, double-track, standard-gauge rail line from Boulder City down...
When finished the dam will rise 727 ft. between the canyon walls, will back the river up into a reservoir 115 miles long, two miles wide. The U. S. already owns as part of the undistributed Public Domain the land in Nevada and Arizona on which the dam will rest.* Settlement will have to be made later for upstream private property to be inundated by the new lake. Most interesting to engineers in the construction will be an experiment to hasten the cooling process of concrete by means of a special ammonia refrigerator plant from which ice water will...
...Supreme Court of the U. S., Arizona, unwilling partner to Hoover Dam, has pending a suit to halt the construction as an infringement on its sovereign rights...