Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, former Congresswoman from Illinois and daughter of Mark Hanna, filed a civil suit against some 400 defendants to clear up old claims and establish positive title to the famed Trinchera Ranch in southern Colorado, which she bought last February for a reported $500,000. Some of the defendants: Scout Kit Carson (once stationed near the Trinchera as commandant), Presidents James Buchanan, Chester Alan Arthur, William McKinley...
...Colorado River Aqueduct will lift a river higher than any river has ever been lifted before. It will divert a billion gallons a day of the copious Colorado River and lift that water 1,600 ft.-a small mountain's height - and drop it down again 340 miles from where...
...late William Mulholland. He fetched them a river from the snowy slopes of the Sierras by way of the Owens Valley Aqueduct ($25,000,000). And when the people of the Los Angeles region promptly multiplied to 3,000,000, he set out to fetch them the Colorado at a cost of $200,000,000. In charge of Engineer Frank Elwin Weymouth, the job gave work to 45,000 men, fun and head aches to no less than 300 engineers. The last tunnel was holed through by blasting last month. Expectations were At the rubble would be cleared by next...
...intake is at Parker Dam on the Colorado River, 155 miles south of Boulder Dam. Five pumping stations raise the stream high enough to get over or through the mountains. Downhill gravity flow takes care of most of the route. There are 38 tunnels totaling 108 miles...
...road would have been needed to get the ore around the mountain to a shipping point. Lacking capital, William Schmidt decided to tunnel through the mountain - alone. For 32 years he worked on his bore, using only blasting powder, hand drills and picks. Like the builders of the great Colorado River Aqueduct, he had to learn as he went along. At the start, he did not even know how to temper his tools. But he learned how. Last week the tunnel was finished - 2,000 ft. through solid rock. William Schmidt expected at last to make some money from...