Word: dams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next pilgrimage was to a certain spot on the streamlet for which West Branch* is named. Part of the villagers' preparations had been to restore, with a dam, what used to be the Old Swimming Hole. The Nominee eyed the work and then said to Newton C. Butler, one of the three playmates of his youth whom he had found still in West Branch: "No, this is not the place at all. I think it is up yonder by that tree...
...vast is the project, so complex the factors, that Nominee Hoover might well have wished to avoid stump discussion of Boulder Dam. But Senator Johnson, his alleged ally, without whose friendship California might not be Hooverized, last fortnight cried out that "no man on earth is so sacrosanct but that his position on the Power Trust and Boulder Dam should be made plain" (TIME, Aug. 13). And so, after his multitudinous reception in Los Angeles last week, Nominee Hoover mounted the city hall steps and said...
...There is but one limitation [to the growth of Los Angeles] which looms, . . . and that is adequate water supply. That can and must be assured from the Colorado River. . . . We want the greatest reservoir and the highest dam at Boulder Canyon that the engineers will recommend and I am hopeful that the project will receive favorable action from the present Congress...
...better Los Angeles would be when its waters were thoroughly exploited. He implied that such exploitation should be under Government auspices, but by no syllable did he express hostility towards private operation, or commit himself beyond the findings of "the engineers."* He was careful to add that the "highest dam" and "greatest reservoir" must have the full approval of the six other Colorado River States...
...There have been a half-dozen separate engineering reports, pro and con, on Boulder Dam. Nominee Hoover apparently referred to the commission of five engineers, appointed last spring at the Senate's behest by the Secretary of the Interior, to restudy the project and report once more this Autumn. This commission began its work last week, at Denver...