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Show MQvestoclc) The Boulder Dam is a big thing for the West; in fact, when completed it will be the biggest construction job that has ever been done anywhere in the world. The seven states bordering bord-ering on the Colorado River will apparently ap-parently be the chief beneficiaries but, the effect of the work in building build-ing the Dam, harnessing the 'water and conveying the electric energy is far reaching and will, in some way or another, be felt by every state in the Union, and when finished it becomes a national asset for all time. Speaking from the humane standpoint, stand-point, it is a wonderful thing for the more than sixty thousand people whose lives and property have been in jeopardy to feel assured that they are going to have relief so that they may live and work without the fear of being wiped out by the flood waters wa-ters of the Colorado, and it will also be assuring to others who wish to come into that section to live and work. Of course, the building of the Dam and the orderly distribution of water will bring into agricultural use a vast undeveloped area, a portion of- which may be designated as reclaimed re-claimed from seasonal overflow, and the remainder, lands which have not been tilled on account of the lack of water, but the actual amount of land that may be irrigated is likely to be overestimated and be it remembered that the laws of gravity have not been changed. When we take toll of the amount of land "being withdrawn from agriculture and put into civic |