Show Darn Dam Projects Could Create A Million Jobs Material l Makers as Well As Actual Construction Workers Would Benefit Jobs for tor thousands of skilled and unskilled workmen will be created in every part of the country when congress approves plans and provides provides provides pro pro- vides funds for tor building more than irrigation and power projects proposed by the bureau of reclamation reclamation reclamation rec rec- in its postwar postwar postwar post post- war inventory Although these proposed irrigation and power projects will be located II in the 17 western states where the bureau of ot reclamation since 1902 has been responsible for the conservation conservation conservation conserva conserva- tion and wise use of ot water resources resources resources re re- re- re sources their construction will create create create cre cre- ate job opportunities from Maine to California Behind every man on the construction construction construction con con- job there will be one or more helpers who may be thousands of ot miles away An employment analysis of the bureaus bureau's postwar inventory reveals that of the man hours of labor required to construct all the projects about man-hours man will be required requIred required re re- at construction sites Materials l from 31 States The materials needed for reclamation reclamation rec rec- work of which such b basic sic products as iron and steel cement electrical equipment and supplies foundry and shop machine-shop products and lumber are of primary importance importance importance tance must be obtained from widely separated sources Much of ot this material material material ma ma- and equipment will come from the 31 outside the arid and semiarid regions of the west If U funds are male maJc available for construction of or all aU tLe the projects bureau officials estimate that more than men could be put to work the first year ear less than half of ot these at construction sites At peak employment in the second or or- third year almost men could receive pay envelopes In different different dif dif- f ferent rent parts of oC the country as a result result re re- sult suJi of oC this mighty effort Agricultural and industrial enterprises enterprises enterprises enter enter- i i. i the tho West will help to support support support sup sup- port and give homes to servicemen and anc others who have expressed their desire to settle on irrigated farms Of the westerners In the armed forces it ft is estimated that will want to ret return rn to the theland land Veteran legislation authorized and pending gives servicemen priority j of or settlement on OU b bureau reau of rec- rec projects On some projects projects projects public lands will be open to homestead entry I |