Word: boulder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME usually well-informed makes two erroneous statements in its report of the Las Vegas, Nev. Boulder Dam celebration. In your issue of Sept. 29 you quote Secretary Wilbur saying, "I have the honor to name this dam after a great engineer who really started this greatest project of all time, the Hoover Dam." If the Secretary said that he was mistaken. Arthur Powell Davis, then U. S. Commissioner of Reclamation, was the man who started the engineering investigations and made the first report urging a government-built dam in Boulder Canyon. Senator Hiram Johnson and Representative Phil Swing...
Gauntly in the sagebrush on a windswept Nevada plain about 22 mi. from the Boulder Canyon damsite stood Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur last week. He held a sledge hammer in his hand. Up over his shoulder he swung it, awkwardly but resoundingly brought it down on a silver spike, pinning together a 90-lb. (per yard) rail and its first tie. Thus he began construction (by Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp.) of a Union Pacific spur railroad which is to link Las Vegas, Nev. and the Boulder Canyon of the Colorado River, first step in building...
...Southern California, $5,593,226,600. Contribution to Cost of State Government. Northern California, 40%; Southern California 60%. High State and U. S. officeholders. Northern California, 130; Southern California, 57. Governor Young started the campaign with the support of Senator Hiram Johnson. He claimed credit (with the Senator) for Boulder Dam. Candidate Fitts taunted Governor Young with reminders of the anti-Hoover attitude of Senator Johnson, insisted that he (Fitts) was the only "100% Hoover man" in the race. This caused Governor Young to declare for President Hoover's renomination in 1932. Whereupon the Johnson forces promptly turned cold...
...that this sum was $208,692,465.12 more than the 70th Congress had appropriated for the last fiscal year, but argued that the in- creases were all for worthy causes. Major increases over 1930: Farm relief, $101,900,000; rivers & harbors, $21,600,000; public buildings, $20,000,000; Boulder Dam, $10,660,000; public roads, $37,400,-ooo. Declared Congressman Wood: "The Republican Party [is] anxious and proud to place before the American people the constructive, honest and efficient fiscal record it has made. . . . This record and the traditional capacity of the Republican Party to provide efficient and sane...
Chief Engineer of Boulder Dam is Raymond F. Walter of the Reclamation Service. Born in Chicago 57 years ago, he was named Arthur Raymond Walter. Aged 5, he migrated with his father, a printer, in a covered wagon to the Leadville, Col., gold rush, drifted from one boom town to the next. As a boy he dropped the Arthur from his name, inserted a meaningless initial F. He learned civil engineering at Colorado Agricultural College (1893), surveyed Cameron Pass over the Great Divide, has done much irrigation work. He entered the U. S. Reclamation Service in 1902, rose...