Show Cause of the Arizona Dam Disaster CHICAGO Feb 9In conversation witha PTcics reporter tonight regarding the Arizona Ari-zona dam disaster E B Priest an engineer en-gineer of Phoanix said the disaster was due to faulty construction Engineer Bates first in charge of the work proposed pro-posed to have the spaces between the walls I tilled with concrete instead of loose rock as was done because of the cost Suflicient cement was not used to make the wall and foundation secure Priest examined the dam last June and says it was leaking badly in the middle then He asserts that the statements made as to the cost of the dam are erroneous and that as built it did not cost more than a hundred and fifty < thousand |