Show TAME THE COLORADO IN HOOVER PROJECT Diversion of River Soon to toBe toBe toBe Be Accomplished Boulder CIt City Nov A Nev-A A year eal ago the tho torrential Colorado river beat its muddy a waters ers unmolested against the pre sides of Black cnn canyon where canyon where on where the Colorado forms the boundary between Nevada and Arizona Today It looked upward and antI knew that its tempestuous career was doomed For overhead o like ant e Charles CharlesA A A. A Shea construction director tor of Six Companies Inc builder of Hoover dam looked down from the portal of a diversion tunnel and antI said n By December well we'll have changed your our course so that you'll How flow pe peacefully through h four tunnels On your river bed hed well we'll start buildIng build Ing fug Hoover er dam a gigantic tombstone tombstone tomb s stone one to mark marl the end of your career I Work Progressing Work of driving the tunnels and antI pouring the lite tunnel portion of the tile cubic yards of concrete that will will go Into Hoover daub dam Is progressing rapidly Shea said After Arter the thc Colorado has been dl di l vented from Its u long age lon e-lon course COUlse till the dam dum proper will be started Up UI Black mack canyons canyon's ons sides side's Hoover Hoo dam will rear Its concrete bulk 7 feet recto the highest dam tIam ever constructed Its crest will be 1180 feet long Back of this barrier will be Ini Iw pounded 30 feet acre of water Waters from this lake lake 11 miles Ion long and as IS lur large e aSan as ns asSan San Francisco bay will Imy will be he used for Irrigating dry areas Grill arid gen crating horse power h hydroelectric hy lay energy y The rue dam darn will wail check disastrous rou river Hoods 1 When the Six Ix Companies dun darn contractors stu started ted work worl Just om- om on year a ago o they couldn't get gut Black canyon except lt h by hoa boat t. t Th spiteful Colorado lIlo holla bulls through h then th tip tipI en pm so viciously that It II Is II feet higher In stream mid-stream than at atthe atthe I the banks banIs Dangerous Task The work was as dangerous as construction work can be There Is a rumor that insurance experts estimated that men would be killed the first year So far 14 men been killed After a years year's activity the construction construction con con- area forms a triangle From Boulder City seven miles away a highway and antI a railroad stretch to the upper tunnel portals on the river Another highway winds down to the the lower portals plunging the last laft two miles along alonga a 10 per cent grade gratIe Tunnels connect connect con con- the thc upper and lower ver portals I feet apart I |