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...Boulder Dam on the Colorado River is the world's biggest dam, but the Grand Coulee project on the Columbia River will be much bigger. This mighty barrier in the wild heart of Washington, 92 miles west of Spokane, will be not only the world's greatest but the costliest engineering job ever undertaken by man. The dam, power plant and irrigation canals will cost some $400,000,000-$25.000,000 more than the Panama Canal. The rampart across the Columbia, which has ten times the annual run-off of the Colorado, will be 4,300 ft. long...
...Texas Legislature was considering an "emergency" bill to permit divorces after six weeks' residence. For Nevada's boosters, their State's chief asset, after low taxes, is its virginity. After they have talked about its transcontinental rail, plane and bus services; its cheap power from Boulder Dam; its natural resources of gold, silver, copper, zinc and lead, from comparatively old Virginia City, Mountain City, Goldfield and the scattered "ghost towns," to the great open pit mines at Ely and such recent strikes as Jumbo in the northwest; its sheep and cattle; its agricultural industries (alfalfa, turkeys, cantaloupes...
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...lithographs are by William Woolett and they provide a graphic record of Boulder Dam and other national projects from their conception to completion...
Thirty-five prints are included in the exhibit, forming a record of the construction of the all-American Canal, the Boulder Dam Transmission Line, the Colorado River Aqueduct, and the San Francisco Bridges. These scenes were visited by Woolett over a period of five years, so that the various stages of the project might be sketched...