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Show progress of work at di interest Governor's Party Left Sunday Sun-day for Salt Lake City via the Parks After Week's Stay Here for Recuperation Governor George H. Dern and party who . spent part of last week in St. George, on Friday went to the Boulder canyon dam-site dam-site where they viewed the development de-velopment work being carried on there. The party returned ' to St. George Saturday morning and left Sunday for Salt Lake City. En route they visited the parks. At the damsite, through the courtesy of Frank Crowe, engineer engi-neer in charge .of the dam construction con-struction for Six Companies, Inc., the work of blasting along a mile or two of the canyon wall was suspended long enough to permit the party to go down to the damsite in boats furnished through the courtesy of James Cashman and the reclamation service. The following account of the trip was written by Charles P. Squires, editor cf the Las Vegas Age, who accompanied the party: In the canyon the governor and the members of his party who were there for the first time; were amazed at the magnitude of the work already being undertaken. At the site of the dam proper, workmen work-men are placing series of ladders here and there to provide more easy access to the towering cliffs. And along the cliff seventy feet above the water, crews of men are drilling holes for blasting a roadbed through the sheer wall of the canyon for the construction construc-tion railroad. Great circles 50 feet in diameter, diam-eter, painted on the walls show where the four great tunnels will enter the solid rock and leave it again four thousand feet down the stream. After the boats' return to the landing, the engineer in charge gave the signal to resume firing, and soon puffs of smoke and showers of rock were spurting from the side of the canyon wall, making a foothold for the railroad. rail-road. On the way home the party had more leisure and stopped a short time to see the site where, within the next few months, Boulder Boul-der City will arise from the sandy hills. And the landscape, so peaceful and quiet but a few months ago, is now cut and scored this way and that by the Union Pacific (Continued on page 4) GOVERNOR BERN (Continued from page 1) railroad and the government railroad, rail-road, the state highway and the government highway and by temporary tem-porary roads graded up the mountain moun-tain sides to aid construction. And new cities of tents have already arisen. There is the reclamation recla-mation service camp; the LaTour-neau LaTour-neau camp, the Lewis Construction Construc-tion camp and the Six Companies Compan-ies camp, all providing shelder and food for the gangs of men employed em-ployed on the various features, and all temporary, to give way in a few months to an orderly, well-built well-built semi-permanent camp city at Boulder City. Even to those who have long been contemplating Boulder dam in its various features of creation, crea-tion, the wide-flung crews of men, the great shovels and tractors and other machines, the many trucks hurrying here and there; the miles of completed tracks in the railroad transfer yards with strings of freight cars loaded with more equipment for the work even to the old timers who have lived with Boulder dam for years, the activities were confusing. But to the engineers in charge of the great project, everything was simply a matter of course. The machines for making and sharpening hundreds of drills each day, which to most of us w'as a new wonder, to them was only an incident of the job. The surveyors' sur-veyors' flags here and there and the engineers' painted marks on the canyon walls and the compressors com-pressors pumping air for the drills and the pumps lifting water to the drill holes; the floating sidewalk side-walk tied to a perpendicular canyon can-yon wall, and down which the engineers can walk clear to the damsite without troubling with a boat they are only simple meth-; meth-; ods of getting results of some i kind. So Governor Dern who has : i contributed such able statesman-! ! ship to the work of providing the j i legal means cf making the proj-1 lect possible; who has been so uni-j formly consistent and earnest in his efforts to arrive at correct conclusions, saw the work at its inception. And he promised to see ; it again in saven years when its: : completion will be celebrated, and . l m:ny limes as the work pro-j ' gresscs. j i Governor Ba'.zir of Nevada, up- ; ! on learning of the arrival of Gov-; eraor Dern in his stale, sent a; message of welcome from Carson ! City. |