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When Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur goes back to California and his home at Stanford University, it is to work, not to play. Last week he was hard at work there in the name of oil conservation. As his train sped him back from Los Angeles to Washington and an office stacked with the most technically complex problems of the Hoover administration, he left behind him a large group of California oil operators more conservation-conscious than ever before. Secretary Wilbur's parting words had been: "Unless oil operators quit squabbling, the government will have to take...
Questions & Answers. What lately bred the storm against Secretary Wilbur was a set of questions relating to Boulder Dam which he submitted to Solicitor Edward Clingan Finney of the Interior Department. Mr. Finney's answers implied that Secretary Wilbur might turn all the power at the dam over to Southern California Edison, allowing the other bidders to obtain their share from S. C. E. by subcontracts backed by bond issues. Under such an arrangement, S. C. E. would install all the power generating machinery, set up all the transmission lines, do all the real selling and distributing...
Warned Nebraska's Senator Norris last week: "Under that [Finney] decision the Secretary of the Interior is able to nullify the most important provision in the Boulder Dam Bill and give to the power trust every kilowatt of power generated by the expenditure of public money at Boulder...
Meanwhile nothing has been done at Boulder Canyon. The dam's actual construction will probably be under the joint supervision of the army engineers and the Interior Department's reclamation service. Thirty miles of railroad must first be laid through a desolate rock-strewn wilderness and a town for 6,000 workmen built on the brink of the gorge. The prospect of Boulder Dam brought land booms at Las Vegas, Nev. and Kingman, Ariz. But so slow has the government been in getting started that these have mostly collapsed. Last week a gold strike outside Kingman made speculators...
Died. Stephen Tyng Mather, 62, founder & since 1917 Director of National Park Service (Department of the Interior); at Brookline, Mass. Through his efforts, a large part of Sequoia National Park was privately purchased, presented...