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Show DAM WILL BE SECOND LARGEST PROJECTIN WORLD Will Cost Close to $165,000,000 Compared t o $382,000,000 Spent on the Panama Canal The building of the dam across the Colorado river at Black canyon will be one of the greatest engineering engineer-ing tasks in history, surpassed only by the Panama canal. The total cost of the project has been set at $165,-000,000, $165,-000,000, as compared with $382,000-000, $382,000-000, expended in the construction of the Panama canal, and $127,000,000 for the Suez canal. According to the bureau of reclamation recla-mation no reclamation or irrigation project in history' equals the Boulder dam proposal either in size or cost. Upper Basin States Protected Convinced that the Swing-Johnson bill, as approved by President Cool- ; idge, affords all reasonable protection protec-tion to the upper basin states and paves the way for maximum development develop-ment of the resources of the Colorado Colo-rado river, William R. Wallace, of Salt Lake, Colorado river commissioner, commis-sioner, returned home Thursday night from Washington, says the Tribune. Mr. Wallace will present to Governor Gov-ernor George H. Dern a report of his activities in connection with the Swing-Johnson bill during the last six weeks, which probably will contain con-tain recommendations regarding Utah's attitude toward the Boulder dam project. pro-ject. A number of the more important senate amendments to the bill were suggested by Mr. Wallace and submitted sub-mitted by Senator W. H. King of Utah with the concurrence of Senator Hyrum Johnson of California. Generally, Gen-erally, the amendments suggested by Mr. Wallace were intended to pro-' pro-' vide for the full development of the l 1 river instead of limiting development ' to the lower reaches of the stream. j Along with the provisions for financing fin-ancing future development of the Colorado river resources, the amendments amend-ments give the slates of the basin 1 a voice in the formulation of the j construction programs and reserve to the individual states authority over j water appropriations subject to the ' provisions of the Calorado river com- ! pact. |