Show SKILL BRIDLES TORRENT FOR HOOVER DAM 4 boulder city noy nov UP A year ngo ago torre torrential lattal Cl colorado orado river bent its muddy waters unmolested against tho the precipitous sides of dlack black canyon choro tho the colorado borins tho the boondry between novada and all arizona today it looked upward and knew that its ita tempestuous cardor was doomed 1 poor foor overhead ant like charlea A construction director of six Coni inc builders of hoover dam looked down clown from froin the portal of it a divri diversion slon tun tunnel liol shook his flat fist und and said bald hy by december well have chanod chan chall od ool your course couie 0 80 0 o that flow po ro r o fully through tour four tunnels tun tulla on oil your riverbed river bed start building dam dain a gigantic tombstone to mark tile tho end of your career work progressing work of oe driving tile tho junnola and pouring tile tho portion of the cubic yards of con croto that 41 will go into hoover dam d im Is progressing rapidly alica said after tho the colorado has been diverted from its ago 90 long course tile tho d dam a in proper will bo be start started LI d up n W tek ack cau yona dam dain will rear its ita con croto cretO bulk foot tho the highest dall avor its ita crest will bo 1180 foot feet long back of this barrier wll wit bo be impounding pounding fill acro foot of water from tills lako laka nilles long and twice its largo large its as san francisco bay will bo be used for irrigating dry areas find and goll orating horsepower hydroelectric tile dam dain will chock check river floods whon when tho alio six companies inc ian dum contractors started work just ono one boar ago they got get into black canyon by boat beat tile tho spiteful colorado bolts bolls through tile the canyon so ao vociferously that it Is five foot higher in than at tho the banks dangerous task rask tile work was waa as 09 dangerous as aa con bollt At ruction work can bo be there la Is a rumor that insurance exports osti estimated mat that men ion would bo be killed th tho first year so far 14 men havo boon been killed after a years activity tile tho construction st area forms a triangle F from rom moulder city seven miles away a I 1 highway anti railroad stretch to tile upper tipper tunnel portals on oil the river another highway winds down to the tha lower portals plunging tile tho last two miles along a 10 per cent grade tun nola connect tile tho upper tipper old I 1 lower ower portals 1000 foot feet apart bridges span the river coffer damo protect tho the portals os of tho the dinoi diversion blon tunnels tun E eighteen Ight eoll hundred men are pitting blans science against n nature aturo and tile tho clomenta ol omenta and soon will havo have changed the colorado from its a ase 6 long course |