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Arizona. Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst, famed Boulder Dam filibusterer, handily won his Democratic renomination. Democrat George Wylie Paul Hunt. Arizona's habitual (1911-19; 1923-28) Governor, was put up for an eighth term. If Arizona goes in November as in September, Senator Ashurst will be re-elected by three-to-one over Republican Nominee Ralph H. Cameron. Governor Hunt's opponent will be Judge John C. Phillips...
Secretary of the Interior Roy Owen West called, to bring the President up to date on the Boulder Dam (Colorado River) project and also, presumably, on the Hoover campaign as seen from Washington...
...next pilgrimage was to a certain spot on the streamlet for which West Branch* is named. Part of the villagers' preparations had been to restore, with a dam, what used to be the Old Swimming Hole. The Nominee eyed the work and then said to Newton C. Butler, one of the three playmates of his youth whom he had found still in West Branch: "No, this is not the place at all. I think it is up yonder by that tree...
...better Los Angeles would be when its waters were thoroughly exploited. He implied that such exploitation should be under Government auspices, but by no syllable did he express hostility towards private operation, or commit himself beyond the findings of "the engineers."* He was careful to add that the "highest dam" and "greatest reservoir" must have the full approval of the six other Colorado River States...
...There have been a half-dozen separate engineering reports, pro and con, on Boulder Dam. Nominee Hoover apparently referred to the commission of five engineers, appointed last spring at the Senate's behest by the Secretary of the Interior, to restudy the project and report once more this Autumn. This commission began its work last week, at Denver...