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Thrifty Christ Kutras ran a Greek restaurant at Redding in California's deep, fertile Sacramento Valley. He put his profits into real estate outside of town. When construction began in 1938 on the $36,000,000 Shasta Dam, devised to stabilize Sacramento Valley's water supply, engineers built a ten-mile belt line to convey 10,000,000 cubic yards of gravel to the world's No. 2 dam. For their gravel pit they chose Christ Kutras' tract of land...
...miss a bet, Christ saw a business opportunity: California, No. 1 U. S. gold producer (25%), is salted with not-quite-commercial flecks and traces of gold. Why not pan the gravel for it before whisking the gravel to Shasta? As the first gravel moved over the conveyor last week a $30,291 gold-reduction plant (built by Columbia Construction Co.) was nearing completion. The deal: Christ to split the profits, if any, with Columbia after interest, plant and production costs. Oldtimers, recalling that Sacramento is part of the motherlode country, figured that the works might gross some...
...Shasta Indians never enjoyed a war fully unless they had first smeared their faces with reddish cinnabar (mercury sulfide), which they got from a big deposit in northern California. Last week it appeared that California's mercury mines, and smaller mines in Oregon, Texas, Arkansas, may soon be furnishing European braves with mercury for war: for antifouling paint for battleship bottoms, photographs, batteries, medicine, and especially for mercury fulminate detonators...
...Despite the personal support (by telegram and telephone) of Franklin Roosevelt, Jim Farley, Harold Ickes, rejected a proposal to develop and distribute public power from mighty Shasta Dam in the Central Valley...
...Shasta Dam will be one more world wonder for Californians to boast about-more than half again as vast a bulk of masonry as the Great Pyramid, only 167 ft. lower than Boulder Dam (world's highest: 727 ft.), only 700 ft. shorter at the crest than Grand Coulee (world's longest: 4.200 ft.). World's No. 2 Dam in these respects, it will be No. 1 for the height of its overflow: 480 ft., or thrice the fall of Niagara...