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...Work on Boulder Dam, world's highest (727 ft.), was ready to start last week. Congress had appropriated $10,660,000 to get the $165,000,000 project under way. Secretary of the Interior Wilbur approved a construction order which was telegraphed to Las Vegas, Nev., where Walker R. Young, resident U. S. engineer, received it. Said Secretary Wilbur: "With dollars, men and engineering brains we will build a great natural resource . . . make new geography . . . start a new era ... conquer the Great American Desert. To bring about this transformation requires a dam higher than any the engineer has hitherto conceived...
Great was the excitement at Las Vegas (pop. 5,177) as work was about to start. The town suffered a premature land boom two years ago when the Boulder Dam Bill was signed. Houses were erected but no tenants arrived. Today ample quarters exist there for workmen and their families...
...voted for: Restrictive Immigration (1923), Tax Reduction (1924), Boulder Dam (1928), Farm Relief (1929), Jones ("Five & Ten") act (1929), Reapportionment...
...Farm Relief (1929), the Tariff (1922, 1929), the Navy's 15-Cruiser bill (1929), Reapportionment (1929), Immigration Restriction (1923). He voted against: The Soldier Bonus (1924), the 18th Amendment (1918), the Volstead Act (1919), the Jones ("Five & Ten") Law (1929), Farm Relief (1927, 1928), Boulder...
...Boulder Dam, as a power-and-flood project, moved a long notch toward reality last week when President Hoover asked Congress to make an initial appropriation of $10,600,000 to commence construction at Black Canyon on the Colorado river...