Word: boulder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because construction of Hoover (Boulder) Dam across the Colorado River at Black Canyon is the largest single engineering feat ever attempted in the U. S., individual contracting companies were hesitant about undertaking the job for the Government. Therefore a group of potent Western contractors got together, organized Six Companies, Inc. Pooling their resources they submitted a bid to the Interior Department. Last week in Washington, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur awarded the Hoover Dam contract to Six Companies as low bidder. Their price: $48,890,995.50. The U. S. is to supply concrete?20.000 freight cars of it?steel, other...
...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 to the canyon, to the dam site. 4) Blast out of solid rock in the canyon walls four tunnels 50 ft. in diameter to divert temporarily...
While their constituents prayed in church for presidential approval, southern Senators and Representatives flocked to the White House to ask President Hoover to sign the bill. He was reminded that he had approved Boulder Dam Act which called for Government power production and its cheap sale to his own California. To his attention was called the fact that he had helped put the U. S. Bureau of Mines into the production of helium, thereby putting a private industry out of business...
Last summer Boulder Dam advocates proposed that the U. S. settle its dispute with Mexico over the waters of the Colorado River (which empties 80 mi. below the border) by the purchase of Lower California. With the money she got from the sale, they contended, "Mexico could settle not only U. S. claims but also all her debts to Britain, France and every other country." Big Navy men, who have repeatedly charged that Japan covets Magdalena Bay on the Pacific coast of Lower California as a base from which to attack the U. S., warmed to any proposition which would...
...Hoover (Boulder) Dam he said: "If one State [Arizona] can block the destiny of a region and a watershed . . . a great part of the West's future control of its water will be relinquished...