Iron County Record | 1932-12-08 | Page 3 | Four Big Projects to Cost Two Billion

OUR BIG PROJECTS TO OST aST TWO T BILLION Jams ams Will ViII Provide of Horse Horae Pow Power r. r Outweighing Outweighing nil ill other Ile gle constructive enterprise nf of except the of r ra rouls i iJ J J railroads railroad four c gigantic entitle I aler pole v projects nil now under tinder way In America Il II make economic history when ought to completion The Th total 1111 I rest cost I the four projects Is 1 more than 2 iThe The four projects are the till Muscle pals project on the Tennessee river rh user cover dam on the Colorado the pro srI sed od St SI Lawrence dam or dams 1 and andi ande e i proposed Columbia river darns dams The Muscle Shoals project built ier er the beginning of nt the Ihl WorM World war tear is s primarily to tn provide a n dependable of ot nitrogen for making I to III provide tin tin-Hi III by 1 them 1 I nun the Hie air n a rIt process requiring I the lie n u ii- i p of f i city Tin The 11 rt was all the Ih Wilson II IIII lout dam a majestic 4 l feet wide 12 1 f. f feel 1 nil amid equipped od with Hl I great fud L 11 gules To Ill dHe dite It II ha tins hll cost cast the 1 gu government rill II mil I I In nil the 1110 neighborhood of ot otI I II NN N I The Ill Ia dam 1 amid the IIII plant were not until l I II completed I. I Since 1111 W 1921 11 the dam ilam has hns ben been producing power though because of an 1111 Inadequate ata distributing system nut not to 10 Its full rapacity capacity At AI times the till Tennessee sends down enough water to produce horse power and It has hils been estimated esti mated that If It the river were Improved along Its whose whole length horse horsepower horsepower horsepower power could he be developed III Hoover lr dam originally lly known as liS Bouhler dam Is the only one of ot the