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...quarter-mile-high walls of the awesome Royal Gorge, and out again. Only a daring Swiss pair finished; most others dropped out short of the gorge, where capsized boatmen, flanked by sheer rock palisades, have little choice but to sink or be swept, dead or alive, through the canyon. Though .safer, the present shorter course is still a grim ordeal by white water, spiced by three major rapids threatening upsets and death to even the best boatmen...
...second agreement, Yugoslavia and Rumania set up a joint administration for the Iron Gate, a rocky canyon on the Danube where it passes between the two nations. A canal bypasses the gorge...
...Northwest's turbulent Snake River is one of the last great U.S. river valleys still unexploited for hydroelectric power. For 125 miles along the Idaho-Oregon boundary line, the Snake tumbles through an almost inaccessible, rocky gorge called Hell's Canyon (see map), where it drops almost twelve feet in every mile. For control of this vast hydroelectric potential, public and private power interests in the power-short Northwest have been fighting for almost five years...
...harness the Snake, the Idaho Power Co. proposed spending $133 million in private funds to build three hydroelectric dams at Oxbow, Brownlee and Hell's Canyon, with a combined generating capacity of 783,000 kilowatts. But under the Fair Deal's Secretary Oscar Chapman, the Interior Department planned a much more ambitious public power program for the Snake. Chapman wanted to build a $559,791,000 multi-purpose dam that would back up the waters of the Snake River into a lake 93 miles long and flood Idaho Power's dam sites. The entire cost for power...
...Idaho Power the green light to go ahead with its three dams. In a letter to the Federal Power Commission, which must still approve the project, McKay noted that the privately built dams would produce almost as much electricity and flood protection as Chapman's Hell's Canyon project. The first of the private dams could also be completed seven to eight years sooner. In any case, there was now little chance that Congress would vote funds for such a project. Said McKay: "We will not oppose any development by privately owned public utilities so long as their...