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Show ! INDIANS GIVEN DANGEROUS JOB The American Indian has been called upon to help in the greatest great-est American engineering project proj-ect since the Panama canal. Six Apache braves, brought from their reservation in Arizona, Ari-zona, are at Boulder dam for work which is considered the most dangerous on the project. I These Apaches will act as "high scalers". Hanging from ropes and standing on flimsy scaffolding, they will chip the oxidized rock from the face of the canyon cliffs a feat that has already cost the lives of several white men. The Indians are experienced in this work, havingg had similar simi-lar jobs in the building of the Roosevelt and Coolidge dams. Government engineers deem it necessary to break away ah of the "dead" rock on the face of the thousand foot canyon walls in order that the gian: concrete wedge that will form the dam may rest against "live" rock that has not been weakened weak-ened by exposure to the elements. |