Word: damming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: . . . The original surveys were made with the intention of placing the dam in Boulder Canyon but the dam is actually being built in Black Canyon, a few [20] miles below Boulder Canyon...
Please permit me to correct a statement in May 22 issue: "From time out of memory the Colorado River canyon in which the Government today is building the world's biggest dam was called Boulder...
This canyon is today, and I believe for a good many years has been, known as Black Canyon. Boulder Canyon is a considerable distance up stream, and was abandoned as a dam site after the preliminary surveys. I would suggest, for the benefit of your Eastern readers and the Secretary of the Interior, that you publish a correction...
...extent of my limited knowledge no attempt has ever been made to change the names of Wilson Dam, Cleveland Forest or Jefferson City. Democratic Washington may designate this great project by the misnomer "Boulder,'1 but to me, and I think many another Democrat, it shall continue to be known as Hoover Dam...
Less childish and more courteous would have been renaming the dam by the more accurate though less euphonious title of "Black Canyon Dam," as this would have implied some other reason besides politics for the change...