Show MODERN CITY IS 13 7 t TO BE BUILT ON BO BOULDER DAM SITE plans drawn for city to house the workmen who witt will construct huge river project plans plana arc being drawn in tile tho department part ment of tile tho interior for a town ns as yot yet unnamed led which Is to be brought into bollig being on oil tho the brink of tha colo rado river for the housing oatho workmen who will construct const boulder dam and of oc their families and tho the normal population necessary to their comfortable existence secretary wllbur wilbur and ana mond ivi cati commission of reclamation selected tile tho site for this town whon alien they tho the colorado river early in the summer it la Is on tho the doares t level of tho the river on oil the nearest level land a little more than a mile from the dam site alte thoy have otten often con ferrod on the plans plana since that ehno and experts are working on details intended for making iv V modele corn f As tile the visitor of today driving from las vegas to black canyon hp ap preaches proa choa the colorado river his hla road winds down a canyon which oie opens ns out fanlike fan like in a gravel str strewn own valley tho view from this canyon look on oil a panorama of f the colorado river looking up lip stream stream with hum huge batick black cliffs rising perpendicularly front from tho the water and a chaca ot of bare rock moun bains stretching away for a hundred miles inthe in the background it is ascano a scene of such grandeur as the construction town VB S adam dam will lie ho located at the pot polo hafti 9 othis 0 this canyon widens out and afforde affo ds a mv dav setting the dam dalu aselt will bo be a mile away over a chaeff chaab ot broken hills the bottom of the canyon where the work must begin aad where tho the greater part datt of its must bo be dono done will bo boat at a level 1600 feet U bolow the rim of the town in tho abbt torn of the great canyon there will go every day a thousand men who will emerge again when their work la Is dono done and return to the town tho the task of lowering those men into the canyon and bringing them out again presents in itself a batog bit spec engineering it will be b ac coin comp pi llah ed through tho the installation e of huge elevators eleva tora which will lift litt their passengers perpendicularly 1000 1006 feet which to Is practically twice as great a iett lift as that which carries passengers to the top floors of our ky scrapers scra pors water for the lie proposed town wll need to be pumped dumped from trio colorado river refrigeration will bo provided tho the town itself will bo be located on government lanil land tho government will retain ownership land and lease it to those who live on it or use it 1 jor for poses one ona of the features foi of these i leases will bo that they will cc n tigue only under the period of good go od behavior of the tenant it Is the intention of the government that th atthe the bootlegger or other law violator A shall a tere fore with the well being of ltd its workmen while assigned to this huge task the power to terminate leases and therefore residence in this town hlll be buted as aa one of tho means ot of enforcing proper conduct the construction of the great work k at black canyon will require bequir a period of eight years something like aa a thousand workmen will be constantly employed with their families and those hoare drawn to the dam site by the general activity it Is estimated that this town will rave have a population of some people it should be brno borne in mind however that there la no employment a at present abr nor will there be tor for perhaps another jear year the proposed town la is being planned as a permanent community tind and isi Is expected to live eyen after the construction period has passed when tho the reservoir is fg full the water will come up the valley almost to io the town and a great lake will stretch away for tora many miles through a regio not af rare scenic beauty the region isa one of admiria admirable ble healthfulness an and it la is thought that a popular I 1 may here grownup gro grow up when hen the reservoir has been so developed as to provide its incidental attractions |