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McKay ended Interior's struggle for power. One evening last year, soon after taking over, McKay told his wife: "I've made my decision on Hell's Canyon-boy, will I catch hell tomorrow." His decision: to drop Interior's delaying action against the Idaho Power Co. No Congress, Democratic or Republican, had ever authorized Interior to build at Hell's Canyon, and no Congress in the foreseeable future would vote the needed funds ($842.5 million). But Interior had done everything possible to get the site and to stop Idaho Power from building dams with...
...area bigger than the state of Massachusetts. Deep in the Canadian Rockies, 400 miles north of Vancouver, Alcan harnessed a chain of mountain lakes and eastward-flowing rivers by throwing one of the world's biggest dams - a 317-ft. dike of rock and clay-across a canyon to create a great reservoir in the hills. Then Alcan drillers drove a ten-mile tunnel through the rock to sluice the water down the west side of the mountains. Falling 2,600 ft.-15 times the height of Niagara Falls-the water spins huge turbines in Alcan's underground...
...hottest political fight is over the Hell's Canyon dam on the Pacific Northwest's Snake River, one of the last great undeveloped river valleys in the U.S. The fight started in 1948 when the Interior Department proposed a huge new dam. The Idaho Power Co. countered with an offer to build three smaller dams. They would cost only $133 million, compared to $383 million for the Government's one dam, yet furnish two-thirds as much power. The Interior Department opposed Idaho Power's application, argued that it would not fit in with overall plans...
...laid down considerably more than 4,000 years ago, the people who sheltered in the cave were simple hunters. They lived on wild plants and game, which they killed with crude spears. Fishing equipment (nets and wooden harpoons) suggests that the climate was wetter then, and that Little Hell Canyon may have contained a lake...
Figurines & Child. Two thousand years later (about the time of Julius Caesar) a more sophisticated culture flourished in Little Hell Canyon. Corncobs were more numerous, and pods of beans, the second staple of Mexican diet, lay in the dust among them. Fragments of grinding stones suggest that the corn was ground into meal. The people had learned to make pottery, and their artistic or religious impulses led them to manufacture small clay figurines...