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Show KGjVER asks cash : F03 SILT INQUIRY WASHINOTON. Feb. WV-Presl lent Hoover today asked eongreaa tc make immediately available ilMJ.MX for the reclamation service to con duct an investigation of ailt in Mm American canal from the Hoover dan-protect dan-protect on the Colorado river. Director J. Clawaoa Roop of th tiodiet explained that "before fina deaigns ef the diversion dam, deaUtini werks. and that portion of the all American canal between heedworki and the Imperial valley, can be pre pared, certain fundamental data re carding the action of silt must ba secured." "Tha purpose of thl estimate," hi added, is to provide the funds be lieved to be necessary for tha conducl Of this investigation. With this in-vestlgstion, in-vestlgstion, all of the necessary in vestigstlons preliminary to the prep ration of design and tha initiation ol construction work will have been completed." |