Show SKILL BRIDLES TORRENT FOR HOOVER DAM 4 mulder boulder city NOV nev UP A year ago torre torrential rutial colorado river beat its ita muddy waters unmolested against the precipitous sides aides ot of black canyon yo where the colorado lorms forms the boun ry between nevada and arizona today it looked upward and know knew that its tempestuous career was vas doomed I 1 poor overhead ant like charles A shea construction director ot of six companies inc bunders builders of hoover dam looked down from tho the portal of a diversion tunnel shook his list fist and said maid by december well have changed your course so that now low peacefully through tour four tunnels tun on your riverbed river bed well start building hoover dam a gigantic tombstone to mark tho the end of your career work progressing work ot of driving the tunnels and pouring tho the tunnel portion of the 41 I 1 cubic yards ot of concrete that will go into hoover dam Is progressing rapidly shea said after tho the colorado has boon divert iod from its age long course the dam proper will bo be started up ciack nac I 1 k canyons fildes aides hoover dam will mar its ita concrete bulk feet tile tho highest dam over ever constructed its crest will bo be 1180 feet long back ot of this barrier wll wil bo be impounding aero acre teet feet ot of water waters from this lake miles long and twice as large as san francisco bay abny will be used tor for irrigating dry areas and generating horsepower hydroelectric energy the dam will check river floods when the six companies inc him clam contractors started work just one year ago they got get into black canyon except by boat tho the spiteful colorado bolls through the canyon so vociferously thill it Is five teet feet higher lit in midstream than at the banks dangerous task the work vork wits was as dangerous as construction st work can be eherd la Is a rumor that insurance experts estimated that men would be killed the first year so far 14 men havo have been killed after a years activity the construction st area forms a triangle from boulder city seven miles away a highway and railroad stretch to tho the upper tunnel portals on the river another highway winds down to the tha lower portals plunging the last two miles along a 10 per der cent grade tunnels connect the upper and lower por per atals foot feet apart bridges span the river cotter damo dame protect the portals ot of tho the diversion tunnels eighteen hundred men are pitting niana mans science against nature and uio the elements and scion will havo have changed the colorado from its course |