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Died. Frank Gardner, 76. onetime Confederate drummer boy, mining promoter, good friend of the late Tsar Nicholas II and the late Edward VII of England; in Paris; of apoplexy. Consulting engineers for his great Boulder Perseverance Gold Mining Co. (Australia) were Bewick, Moreing & Co., of which Herbert Clark Hoover was a member at the time...
Questions & Answers. What lately bred the storm against Secretary Wilbur was a set of questions relating to Boulder Dam which he submitted to Solicitor Edward Clingan Finney of the Interior Department. Mr. Finney's answers implied that Secretary Wilbur might turn all the power at the dam over to Southern California Edison, allowing the other bidders to obtain their share from S. C. E. by subcontracts backed by bond issues. Under such an arrangement, S. C. E. would install all the power generating machinery, set up all the transmission lines, do all the real selling and distributing...
Warned Nebraska's Senator Norris last week: "Under that [Finney] decision the Secretary of the Interior is able to nullify the most important provision in the Boulder Dam Bill and give to the power trust every kilowatt of power generated by the expenditure of public money at Boulder...
Water. Arizona, dissatisfied over water rights, has held out from the Boulder Dam compact. Last week at Reno, Nev., water commissioners from the six other interested states* met to evolve a compromise with Arizona, which has threatened otherwise to hamstring the whole development by prolonged litigation. At this Reno conference, California made new concessions to Arizona...
Meanwhile nothing has been done at Boulder Canyon. The dam's actual construction will probably be under the joint supervision of the army engineers and the Interior Department's reclamation service. Thirty miles of railroad must first be laid through a desolate rock-strewn wilderness and a town for 6,000 workmen built on the brink of the gorge. The prospect of Boulder Dam brought land booms at Las Vegas, Nev. and Kingman, Ariz. But so slow has the government been in getting started that these have mostly collapsed. Last week a gold strike outside Kingman made speculators...