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Show I LEH1 FREE PRESS. are C. UTLEV now part owner of ram. the sentinel YOU of Oilorailu. and the Mgcefit eontmit construct loo jot eer rouipletetl an turned oier to the L'nit It wan turned eJ Stafeg governmentwhich Is you orer to the piiverrniieiil -- Just five years, minim a few day. ince count rue! Ion he.'an 11. - issi. The ceremony of uas Imleeil a s ij J ' one for the completion k so lart'e utnl Ions. It of a were two hlj;, husky engineering fellows vim met at the dam. near Boulder City. Nev. 'Take V, it's yours now," said Krank of (Vowe. construction iiierlritetnli-n- t n I i ! tM-- Ijaru. The project will reula'e fiii water, control kilt. Irrigateahe thirsty valley, create cheap electric imwer and provide a supply of water for the eitie In the southwestern arf-- which a It the It will he ahou! sis we-kpower generated at tlie pl.int a ill he user). The power plant, whi. h will he r.itei hy the city of Log Angeles and the Southern C'aiifoi :ii. l;l;s"w t company, will etentually C.(ii,(nk),i)iki kilowatt hours of ei,i-r-- : every year. The Installed cap.o itj w,' 'i he horsepower, which may comparil with the cio-ra- 1 liorepeia' which the l'tiitel States jreiierates Niagara Fall. ft Is expected that the city of l.o-- bo! CAHIAL rieia CarterCORRESPONDENT by rMOUS lf s Unc'e Sam C'tsn Up In ..' ., ..,!' cae Hie . o!i:r ('!!o!, to wouM remain on 'be on. .ar. opera ' ions .ei i.n:i a'. the c!eani:ig-i:io ie:i,ove all c.i:ip!net.t 1:0 ling. the b'l b .t In fl.is i' er take agre-la.'iiarion of h;is rei real) over the work T.' e h.ire.tu .!! p.v the adtniiiiv rat. 0:1 buiidifgs of the Six Companies. I;a-.urp'! U'.obcr la Ion of a' the to faeillmte the r In the power c i tti'.-nearly thirty years irrigation and Hood control projects on the Colo rado river have been tailed about in the circb s of government. In lv."7 an army ..Hicer sent out to f:i,d the head of navigation of the Colorado wrote: intended by nature that the "It Colorado river along the greater portion of its lone and majestic way shall he forever unvisiteil and unmolested." And not until 1!n7 was t lie first note of defiance to this attitude sounded by President Theodore Boosevelt. Then In 101S Arthur P. Iavls, a civil engineer, conceived the Idea of building the world's largest dam to litem Herbert Hoover, as the Colorado. secretary of commerce. In 1021 created On the Colorado river commission. November 24. 1022, the states of California, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming ami I'tah signed a compact. A survey authork'.ed by congress selected Black Canyon as the site. Two years later the bureau of reclamation recommended Boulder Canyon as a better site, and this site was accepted In the Boulder Canyon act passed by both e houses and signed by President I few ;ig he '7 Coo-lidg- In 102S. President Hoover's proclamation in 1020 declared the act In ef- Boulder City, Nev. Here'a the latest air picture of the Boulder dam cince the completion of pouring at the top. Photograph taken from upstream angle. the Sis Coi'ipimies, Inc., the contractors on tlin job. "It's a great tlutn, Ralph." "Well, you oiiirht to know, Krank," replied Italplt Lowry, engineer of the United States reclninatlon service. And Unit brief remark was Uncle Sam's ipeech of acceptance. Boulder Dntn was completed two and years ahead of schedule. It root the Roverniiient $lO."i.(MK).(H, both the dam Itself and the Of this amount power stations. will represent the gross earn-Inttof the Six Companies, Inc. After reductions have been made for services like the supplylns of power to the contractor, and rentals tit Boulder City, the actual amount of money paid for the construction Job will he about ) s Other projects associated with Boulder Ontn will cost npproxl BatclyN$L':?0,0(t0,000 when completed. Is 727 Feet High. The Rrent mass of concrete towers 127 feet from the bottom of the canyon, Bulking 'It about the same height us the Eiffel tower In Paris. Into the clfrnn tie molds which shaped the great pate that will hold nature prisoner In her own wildest and most fearful lulr have been poured 4,ri00,000 cubic yards barDf concrete, made from tS.MMt.OOO rels of cement. This vast quantity of material could have built a standard highway across the entire continent. Instead, It hns built ft Rrent wall 1.10 feet lone, 0r.'t feet thick at the base and 45 feet thick at the top. was The finish of construction hailed by Secretary of the Interior Harold I,. Ickes In Washington, I. C s "another milestone" In the history of the West. "Man hns asserted his mastery over a jreat and dangerous river, one which, endangered tens of thousands while It was unregulated, but which will be an active benefit to millions, now that U lias been harnessed," said Ickes. "The people of southern California, Arizona and Nevada are to be congrnt-nlated- . for the security of their futures has been vastly Increased. Water supplies have been guaranteed for their farms and cities. A source of a tremendous amount of cheap power hns been provided for use In Increasing their comforts and developing their Industries." Worth Found Already. In more than one Instance, the Importance of Ickes' statements has been demonstrated already. II was only a few months after the diversion tiioaeis were first closed that I'.nuMer I.itn as ierted Its supremacy over the most dangerous river In America; that was In February of liVI.'i, when It caught and stored the wafers oT what would have been a devastating flood. Poring the summer of IRTi, the dam worked the other way. and used some of the Stored up flood waters to prevent a dls astrous drouth In the Irrigated valleys With the along the lower Colorado. water stored above the dam In Mead Jnke, wh'ch Is already the world's larg est artlflcl.il Inke, despite the fact full. It was that .lt la only possible to release more water than the river carried last summer and fall In 1W4, a drouth tike hnt' which was averted cost the valley f t0.000.noo. ' There ara five purposes. In reality, lwMnd the construction of Boulder one-sixt- h Angeles will take over operation of the generating plant May 1, but it will probably be more than a year before all the power required by the city will be generated there. About May 1 the Southern Nevada Power company will begin serving cheap Boulder Dam power to Las Vegas and the adjoining territory In Nevada. The company has contracted with the state of Nevada for 4,000,000 kilowatt hours per year, nt rates which will begin at 2.0 mills per kilowatt lmr. It Is expected that these rates will be decreased us time goes on. Cost of Making Power. The primary cost of generating power tit the dam Is estimated nt 1 uV! mills per kilowatt hour, and secondary power nt .5 mill per kilowatt hour. Capacity Is 7,r0.(MHI horsepower primary and 750,000 horsepower secondary. Towers 100 feet high carry the electricity 275 miles from the dam Into California, Nevada and Arizona. The most expensive of the addition nl projects In connection with the dam Is the aqueduct which will carry drinking water to the city of Los An geles. The great duct, when completed, will be more than 200 miles long und will cost $220,000,1 10, An ambitious undertaking. It Is Intended to care for the needs of water of the greatly inN - I I. ' .' ... V- - , per' vv Former President Herbert Hoover, for whom the dam was originally named. creased populations which are expected In I ,os Angeles and other southern California cities In the future. It Is through the sale of power that the government expects to get hack all of the taxpayers' money which will have been spent on Boulder I :i 11. According to Secretary Ickes. It will he repaid to the federal government with 4 per cent Interest In 50 fears. Estimates have It that the sale of electricity will bring an average of $7.0"MHX a year. This would he a total of In Hfty years with an operat Ing surplus of $1i'.(i.0imi.i)OO. Having accepted the dam, the government now operates and maintains It, as well as the reservoir, the pros sure tunnels, the outlet works and pen stocks to the valves at the Inletj to the turbine cases In the power plant. ' The dam has really not all been cm'l pieted, but It Is nearly so. Af least jtb work of the construction company; Is - " ;. fect. In lO.'iO and provide . '?4J5,1" , "1 - ein.-- in. i t'.ey vli wrong. S"U at ui vvt tal,. cl.i ,1 .!.er uf p. t!:eo g rea I'iins i t;: tail. !! takers'' were the really guilty parties. recent epi ides must have amused the d ploniatii group here no the (ieneral llagood end line w case, whb h is ill spouting tiiewoi ls. and the other was the definitely closed Mar;ne band episode. K'.eryone on the inside In the Navy department knows perfectly well that the then assistant secretary at the bad navv. the late Henry I Boosevi function in the no more important Marine band episode than an errand had his It is well known that bov. orders direct from the While House. It is even known who signed the orBut there der, for It was in writing. Is no use dragging that In, for nobody thinks the secretary who signed the Two either. But Henry Boosevelt was roundly denounced for having withdrawn the bund from a patriotic women's society convention because Bainhridge Colhy had made a speech the night criticizing President Boosevelt. he-fo- Craig Takes Rap In the Genera! llagood case, which has distinctly become a "hot potato," If not a boomerang, the gentleman to take the rap Is Genera! Malin Craig. It was jus! terrible, to hear Representative Thomas !.. Blantoti of Texas tell It, that a tough, hard boiled horse whippcr of petty thieves In the army should have been permitted to deprive an honest soldier like General llagood of his coiiimnrid. Blanton felt sure President Roosevelt would not stand for any such nonsense, hut would force Craig to reinstate the innocent llagood Now no one is going to claim that Craig's heart heats warmly at the mere mention of 1.a good's name That 1 Is not important But one win looks nt the - ! vs.' ; old ! - s v. neither Is anyrecord going to figure that Craig suddenly became his horsewhipping self if you believe Blanton just because General llagood talked boondoggling and stage money, and demanded that the army should have better quarters for its men instead of squandering money on useless 1 i projects. It's much harder than trying to that the young Japanese officers acted on their own Initiative. Kor every army officer who has discussed the situation In private thinks that llagood is perfectly right, though, some, of course, say he was indiscreet, to talk about "stage money." But they do agree emphatically that it would he better to spend some of this money on e Harold L. Ickes, secretary of the interior, changed the name of the dam from "Hoover" to "Boulder." than any other, until the present secit retary of the Interior "Boulder nam" on May 4. V.m. President Dedicates Dam. Construction contracts were awarded to the Six Companies, Inc., in lOl'.l. and the actual work began on March 11 of that year. Diversion or the river was completed the following year, and the first concrete placed In the dam in 10'!.'?. PWA funds were allotted to the project In 10,"4, to make possible its completion two years ahead of scheduled time. The dam was completed and the storage of water begun last year, and on September 30 President Boosevelt dedicated It. A pleasant result Incidental to the construction of the dam will he the opening up of a vast recreational and scenic wonderland along the waters of the artificial lake and the river above It. The lake Is excellent for fishing, boating am! swimming, and added to the attraction of the dam for curiosity seekers are the presence nearby of the Crand. Zion and Bryce canyons. Already visitors are arriving In number. The average Is about I.ih'hi n lay. Inst year's total was approximately 400.0(H), and dam olliclals estimate that It will not he long before they Increase to half a million n year. The dam. all hough In a Is spot. aetenlly pretty easy of access to the tourist. The highway from Kinsman. Arb... to Las Vegas, crosses It, Is now open sevm! hours every day and will soon be opcr all the time. This tine road may '" reached eas'lv from principal trar.s continental and southern highways Vast Playground Opened. I'ntil the great artiticlal Ink Boulder Dam was bnlit. the waters o the Colorado, lined by rugged, eolorfo' mountains, had been navigated otilv a few times, by bold explorers. No om had even so much as tried an upstrea'c passage. Now the lake has miv a the. out the cafnracts for io miles, t! when completed will make it ens si IliR for another 2" miles. There ui be countless canyons and st-- earn .. accessible as the water fills thei... ' C WwMM-- n ' t'n Nf ' . - the army. So that It would appear a reasonable deduction that however Craig may have disliked llagoond. he di ln't origi-I'fltthe Idea of punishing him for that. Yet as a result the friends of Boosevelt. trying to protect the President from such an unspeakable martinet's have nianemerlngs. actuary muckraking Craig's past history, dig ging out this episode on which he was exonerated by a sen ntorial committee years ago. h-- en Annoys New Dealers Father Couglilin has yielded to William .1. Cameron in being the ,ost annoying speakerfrom the New Heal standpoint on the radio each Sabbath evening from Detroit. n his talk ust t:,x message. Cameron devoted all his time to explaining, in simple language. the value to the nation in and the working man In parTcular was of a big corporation surplus. He pointed out. instance, that In the years since this depression (,. gan Industry has spent s27.iki.ii'hi,ihi out or surplus) in carrying on. eniphn lug labor and bovine materials kee-- i ing the wheels tiinnn.'. lie made 'it perfectly clear that the corporations had spent Sl'Tikhhunh 00 m,T(, they took in during title period, in ml diHon. of course, to every dollar !b;,t they did take In, In the same period. Cameron pointed out. the government spending n, lief of the employed, for provid ng obs for them, and evervfleng that goes witn n It. was only j,is, , oiienfih. With the tremendous diTer rnce that this spending by the govern-meameans taxes-- winch hamper business ami reduce tuning power No one can estimate 'be number of persons who listen to Cameron. The radio companies have never perfected any device which would show how many n.dio sets are tuned n rfn given program. And as Cnmeron hap pens to make .no apt.riil for rumis nor an request for cimunetu, .juuca! lew preceding president Roosevelt's (,-wha- rr fr m 1.1 m 1.1 w.iiih Ford '' and a mouth adv. cititif -- Fannie Price tan Magazii'.e. 'St in t! e Cameron t llv minded folks id ui" w, ;'!. oil T ii ....1 l .. c niiinu aine: . what they should .1 t p :.S ... H better." Mrs. Jas. Fillet, Adlerika acts en BOTH upper and lower bowels while ordinary laxativej ict on the lower bowel only. Adlerika jives your system a thorough cleansing, bringing out old, poisonous matter that rou would not believe was in your syj lem and that has been causing ga ains, sour stomach, nervousness and leadaches for months. Dr. fiT. L. Shoub, New York, reports! "In addition to intestinal cleansing, Adlerika greatly reduces bacteria ind colon bacilli." Sive your stomach and bowels a REAL deansing with Adlerika and see ho ood you feel. Just one spoonful relieve Sold HAS and chronic constipation. y all druggists and drug departments. Off and On He ho "swears off" has mor noney to spend on his other habits. Jl ieve ;.hnessAl ' UiSum. WITH MEW IIav win 4tlo1 iho MEHTHOLATUM tiaUID for head coldi ? Like Menlholalnm oinlment 11 brings oothin condor! HAIR COMIHG OUT? rurf- rr.mr.m 9 You need - s ' to Stop use of Clover lt-t- cgu'" Mange Mcdicineaod Glover's Medicated Revolt Fomenting Soap tor th- - sharn-po- S;cpt'-:-'s,v- really important sit.iafroth of tax consideration hy the house ' " senate. I, explains why , bers be house t !.,;, itre In " abjcc, fear wl,-- n " B.x bill gets over to 'I' the notion ,lf senators v all the K 1 v.ii''. ,.,., ,n .fi V.t,.i,i3 4 111 The iou-- e member m. .. idea of reaching down ""ii i uhe me to the small in. ome ti'Npayers. Thev do,. , nKe conveisation ilholll it. "or is too much conversation the v"lers may reali-- e 'bat even If the ax (foesu't fall this year It Is sure to come. Falling li ':'vove': fflinn OanJi'iii:t i,?'. a r notes eiorn Krowth andscalp health. Askyau: I ,jrure . ,j " JsH i '"re v kidneys function badly suffer a nagging aekjene, with dizziness, burning, scanty cr xo frequent urination and getting ? ncrvou' night, when you feel. tired all upset use Doan's PJI- ftf Doan are especially for pooror bJK of working kidneys. Millions are used every year. They v mended th country over. A 1V ncignoon WHEN ' !. inn (tn'i r. . .. i . admlidsti atou's the legislators Know iMTfVrily wH1 not eye:, mine, -- but against tlin ci.oh.i: . . s ,r;;av ... e. mi'" half pa liiffl- fil bear nc that Ru f a "The as on my etomach was so bad coujd not Even mj eat or sleep. heart hurt, A triendaufr Rested Adlerika. The first dose I took brought me relief Now I eat as wish, eleep fine and never ftlt Taking the good round figure of one billion for relief, however, for no other reason than It is the best obtain-'blat the present moment, this would mean that the government will go one ,'"""n ,,",,,lrs '""her into debt durin-th- e " . vear " "my 1. s pi THE TIME, CANT EAT OR SLEEP know what it is really going to he when they ask for it. nor after congress has given it to them. They may less than is appropriated, 'or the precise amount, or more. This last. I"'s- '.v Is not as silly as it sounds. Covertiuient agencies that have the hacking of the President have never worried too much about what has been iippropriated. That is what we have deficiency hills for to take rare of Just such "emergencies." Am! there are generally about two of those omnibus measures a year. rli'-- bung door. di' J , steps GAS, GAS ALL ministrator Harry L. Hopkins. Not only that, but thev will not ' cu.. And Living The man who thinks he knowg 11 has merely stopped thinking. mos-sag- i e he...ft"""1 T ivnil ! ay 1, Bugle. into Assuming that congress does vote a tax hill calculated to bring in $7S(S,000,-00- 0 additional, the budget will be precisely balanced except for whatever may be appropriated later for relief, and ilns. of course, anything else con gress may appropriate which is not now on the program. Which means that the federal government will go into debt during the year beginning July 1 precisely the amount of the relief appropriations. In his budget President Boosevelt pointed out that if relief appropriations are less than two billion dollars, the budget picture will be just that much better than It was for the present year. There Is no doubt whatever that the relief appropriation will be less than two billion dollars. It will not be anything like that much. But it will have to be a good round sum. Some of the experts are talking about one billion dollars, but nobody knows, not even Hie men who, will decide what congress Is to he asked to appropriate-Presid- ent Roosevelt him-el- f and Ad- is the tbe sei toob ''7 'or 1;) AS i Worjj tliould tuend ourst'Iv. . ;.t:d teach Kg children to be not v.. . v.e a:e bat t Cut Down on Relief ;,;;:!';:;," r. What They Shcvll ne , 0 This - time ti, oDce that he is saving IS wants said. Much way of flattering Henry '..id and he kind of business Ford r lis. rather th.itiMisenssing any alleged Merits of the cars that Ford turns out. '.nt Ford from time to time has been !v interested in politics, and v k. the Cameron talk about the use to which the corporations of t'ae country put their surpluses may be accepted as Ford's relied ion on the Ideas un derlying the Roosevelt tax proposal. Which Is the more interests g because it projects itself into the Presidential campaign. Because at the moment there seems little real doubt that the Roosevelt idea of forcing bigger distribution of corporation earnings Is going to become law. As experts here analyze the situation, the new tax policy would mean bigger dividends, bigger spending for replacements, more advertising aimed nt the future as well as the present, and more wages. So far all to the good. But they also figure that it points inevitably to bigger and worse depressions punctuating the spells of greater prosperity. This on the theory that when depression comes there will not he the cushion to break the full. Hence it will be more precipitate. There would not be this $27,000,000,-00for the corporations to spend, for instance. The New Deal answer Is thai if the surpluses are spent as they are earned, there won't he any depressions. "" Present when 1i Ford wli.i: I of it is an imlin for it i jjPTER u,vi u- a:.., :,, .1 . ,,, ness of that face had nrrangH p!t Info two eves 'tint- ,., . " , ... r Km Talks for Ford Mi.le ling !:a! s. nobody eKe did -- happens In America everyone is very serious. It is So eOilliV I bated hi the house Uind sena'e just as though the "rap iio! ti I - i int. lie e ministers re fo nt. aine type of thing but taking 'he blame the the faintest g!iinpsV a long, lean body place face but a ft. girl wns made up a taw what a mag; that long, lean bodv I wh. 1! llu : ?N " charu,- -. r ' fcj would never gee. I have often s::t v.'th , at ditions and wond 'J certain types. her, g , S' 1:1 sending in some , r. lie t no wro- g' order originated contracts to deliver water electric power were signed. On September 17 of that year, Bay Lyman Wilbur, secretary of the Interior, drove the first spike In the construction of a railroad to the dam site, then and there giving the project the name "Hoover Dam." This name It bore, In honor of the man who had had more to do with Its realization aw ha n i s 1.0 a t. : It.-'- B for n . by : ' !oit lb. t hat may win a prize. no me: s of arriving at ever figure. to work .iocs bapiK-He talks on the Ford devoted to tnu- mos-lnormally be clause.,' in fact, mostly gr:ol Ati d no! people say this he nui her of listeners iid dealer should do a little !e.v haw lieell k' own to e an rii.'Hi iplomats cyriieallj ore 1 . tin-r- Ii'nent. i.'-- iiii-ded- L any f. jest. oil carte! covers youbg ate a force a , feld's genius in tt'.:.s haaia, k. as painters use th c, su a 0J ... IT., tnf.ac , .t. lie iMlsseSS"; j. ftlnct when u Some of his girls I,, l" a qua'vT6 "9 than beauty a u WASHINGTON feW apje iaj. I'-- i-s NATIONAL :i . fri me reason the Foi:it-- i Institution they were fui to new tlevelopi;.T;Ts ;a", f! around the done. There ti!l remain the work of n tunplugging up one of the dier-tonels hut until the power p ant is placed In ...er:i!:on (his tunnel wiilhe used to reni.i'e irrigation w.iter. When the of reclamatime is right, the b'm-iition ii;i have if pl'igged up by day 111 Ziegfeld X'as a Cenlus in R .l: UPARD cccM Government Takes Over Boulder Dam By WILLIAM KHL UTAH ami |