Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-16 | Page 1 | Owyhee Dam, Highest in America, to be Dedicated at Nyssa, Ore., Sunday

Owyhee Dam Highest in America toBe to toBe toBe Be Dedicated at Nyssa Ore Sunday By my Associated NYSSA NISSA Ore July 16 16 Owyhee Owyhee dam the highest structure of its kind in n America built at nt a cost of 00 for the irrigation of acres of f land will vili be dedicated tomorrow Work Vork on the project a unit of the Owyhee Vale development develop- develop ment started four years ears ago Dr Ray Lyman Wilbur secretary ot of f the interior will dedicate the dam Dr Elwood Mead Mend commissioner of reclamation also will participate in inic inthe inthe the ic ceremony Wedged ed In the brightly colored rocky walls of Ow Owyhee hee can canyon on a pattern pattern pat- pat tern of the titanic Colorado the mammoth mammoth mammoth mam mam- moth structure rises It is 25 miles southwest of Nyssa in coun- coun ty y Only at completion of the Hoover Hoove dam am will the Owyhee e project yield the he distinction of being belne the highest I America From the lowest founds founds- J YO If S tion to the parap parapet t is a of feet It is 20 feet wide at the top and a driveway feet in lows the crest lined by railings and electric li lights First visual visualized zed 25 years years' ago reclamation reclamation rec rec- I officials say the project will wil provide opportunity for many homes on the Oregon side of the warm and fertile Snake river valley An unusual feature of the data dam Is the ring gate spillway or glory hole built buill in a natural shelf of rock behind the dam A drop of about feet into the depths of 01 the earth links with a diversion tunnel cut through the interposing rock and below the main portion of the dam Th The entire Snake river thus is sent through trough this I subterranean passage Thousands of persons are expected to Lo attend the dedication ceremony to tobe tobe be held at nt 2 f i p. p nv JUt f I If f r