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...attention has been called to your issue of Oct. 27, p. 19, where, in a footnote, you state with reference to the dam to be built pursuant to the Boulder Canyon Project Act, at Black Canyon on the Colorado River, "its legal title remains fixed by the Boulder Canyon Project...
...statement is in error. That Act names the project the Boulder Canyon Project, but this project includes not only a dam in the Colorado River, but the all-American Canal, and incidental works, including a diversion dam, also in the Colorado, and power development structures. The only other title fixed by the Act is that of the "Colorado River Dam Fund," a fund into which Federal advances for the construction of the various parts of the Boulder Canyon Project, including.Hoover Dam, a diversion dam, and All-American Canal, etc., will be made...
...Boulder Canyon Project Act is expressly stipulated to be a "supplement to the Reclamation Law." Under the Reclamation Law the Secretary, pursuant to his authority "to do any and all acts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act," has designated by his own order the name of the Roosevelt Dam in Arizona, the Elephant Butte Dam in New Mexico, and the Shoshone Dam in Wyoming...
...gives Miss Roland a chance to sing a lullaby. She talks, too, in a manner emphatically refined, and finally finds a way of escaping from troubles quite as turbid as those which, in her famous oldtime serials, she eluded in the last reel by jumping her horse over a canyon. Silliest shot: a description of Reno, enunciated by an off stage voice and synchronized into the shot of the train...
...over foothills and broken mesa interspersed by patches of desert, signposts to the Rockies. Over the first range, the Continental Divide, near Winslow. Then into a glory of reds, greens and browns if the atmosphere is clear and the afternoon sun bright, across the fearful maw of Red Rock Canyon. To the north is the Painted Desert and farther on, famed Meteor Crater, 600 ft. deep; the tiny boxes at the bottom are cabins of an expedition which has located, is digging up the meteorite. Farther on mesa dwellers, descendants of the original Hopi, gaze up from their doorways...