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Show DAM SURVEY TO START IN JUNE Preliminary Work on Huge Project Now Getting Under Way; Finances are Available That the preliminary work on the Boulder canyon dam is getting under un-der way is evidence by the session of the reclamation commission at Denver on March 13 at which the various plans for the work were discussed. Dr. Elwood Mead, commissioner of reclamation, told the conference of reclamation engineers he had found a way to finance preliminary engineering- work for the construction of the Boulder dam and the all-Ameri-can canal. The commissioner pointed point-ed out the funds will come out of a special appropriation of $230,000 made by the last congress for investigating in-vestigating of reclamation projects. This sum, he said, will not be available avail-able to reclamation service until June because of provisions in the Swing-Johnson Swing-Johnson bill ihat no money may be spent on the dam until six months after the bill is signed by the presi dent and a six-state pact is ratified. "Our conference in Denver is to consider many details in the expenditure ex-penditure of our appropriation of $11,-000,000 $11,-000,000 for the year 1929-30," Dr. Mead said, "In our 20 years' service there have been left many projects unfinished and as we are nearing the end of our 10-year program we want to clear all of them up." Following this session the engineers engi-neers met with a delegation from the Imperial valley and the subject of the ail-American canal was gone into, the Imperialites putting forward a plan for the financing of this enterprise, en-terprise, which was estimated to face a cost of $150,000,000. Dr. Mead expected ex-pected the plan would be put into operation as soon as possible. Dr. Mead is not apprehensive of any impediment --to- the building of Boulder canyon dam, as the funds for the project have been located, only the arrival of the tri-state compact, or the expiration of the 6 months' period pe-riod being awaited to start the gath ering of contracts for power that will assure amortization of the project within the next fifty years. While he feels that Arizona should come into the compact of states, he believes be-lieves that it is not necessary to the success of the financing to have all the states in agreement. The six-state six-state compact assures the success of the undertaking, and it appears that suits or other vexatious impediments cannot hold the work up for one minute. |