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...Canyon, the FPC last month rejected a bid by the Pacific Northwest Power Co. to build two more private dams-costing $170 million-downstream at Mountain Sheep and Pleasant Valley. FPC said it favors a far bigger $450 million dam farther downstream at Nez Perce, which would produce 1,672,000 kw. and store 3,900,000 acre-feet of water, also curb the flood-prone Salmon River, a wild branch of the Snake. Though FPC left Nez Perce open to private construction by Pacific Northwest Power, a four-company combine, powermen feared that such a dam would almost certainly...
...higher level of tax revenue than in 1958. On the expense side, the Budget Bureau will scissor administrative non-defense spending; e.g., the Interior Department will start no new dam or reclamation projects (with the possible exception of the $400 million-plus Colorado River storage dam at Glen Canyon, Ariz.); nonessential defense spending for "chrome trimmed" military construction will...
...GRAND CANYON SUITE (Grofé): Andre Kostelanetz and Orchestra...
...deposits held at least 100,000 tons and thought he knew how to go about getting it. Buying out the remaining leases, he went to U.S. Steel Corp.'s Consolidated Western Steel Division, asked it to stretch a huge cable-and-bucket rig from the caves to the canyon's south rim, where the guano could be trucked to market. Specifications: the cable must be strong enough to withstand 100-m.p.h. gales, the bucket big enough to cart 3,500 lbs. of guano in one scoop...
...Steel's history. The company had to plant huge towers at the cave and on the rim, sling light cables across the chasm by helicopter, then use them to haul across a 20-ton, 1½-in-thick main cable. In summer, 130° heat down in the canyon made tools so hot they blistered workers' hands. All food and supplies had to be flown in from Los Angeles 435 miles away; some 200 tons of equipment (compressors, hoists, welding machines) was airlifted in pieces and assembled on the canyon floor. Finally, after nine months...