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Show BOULDER CITY COMESTO LIFE Barren, Lonely Country Is Transformed By'Boulder ; Darit Activity. BOULDER CITY, Nev., Sept. 19 (U.R) One year ago today this community com-munity was a barren lonely country. coun-try. Today it is teeming with life as workers labor to construct the $165,000,000 Boulder dam. Such . Is -the twelve-months' history his-tory behind the progress of, the construction of the nation's greatest great-est power project. . , Formal Dedication September 17, 1930, Secretary of I the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur drove , a silver spike into the first tie for the 22-mile railroad between Las Vegas, and the dam site. It was the formal dedication of work, Today this is a thriving community, com-munity, a township of 3,000 persons, under government control. Within a few months the town will be complete. Paved roads, electric elec-tric lights, a water system, sewage disposal agencies, and amusement and recreational facilities will be finished then. At the dam site the Six Companies, Compan-ies, Inc., the contractors, are drilling drill-ing four diversion tunnels, each 56 feet in diameter and 4,000 feet long, to carry the waters of the Colorado Colora-do river while the dam is under construction. The railroad link was the first unit to be completed. Built at a cost of $1,000,000 by the Union Pacific, Pa-cific, railroad, the line was opened for operation February 1. It connects con-nects Boulder City with the main line at Boulder Junction. Huge Power Project Then a 234-mile electric transmission trans-mission line fwas completed by the Southern Sierras Power company J after $1,500,000 had been spent. The power is used by the contractors contrac-tors in construction of the dam. The government itself, during a period of 11 months, spent $2,-800,000 $2,-800,000 on construction of roads and railways in the vicinity of the dam. The Six Companies, Inc., it is estimated, has spent $3,500,000 in preparing preliminary plans and in work done so far on the diversion dam. This includes construction of accommodations for workers at. the dam site proper. To feed workmen at the dam, more than $650,000 has been expended. |
