| Show ULDER DAM PROJECT STARTED BY SEC WILBUR LAS VEGAS nev sept 17 sledge ing a spike of nevada silver into a railroad tie in a desolate desert section seven miles from here secretary Sec rotary of the interior ray lyman wilbur albur today officially placed tion the governments SIG boulder dam project dedicating it to president hoover As the ringing blows pt of the sledge echoed across the tha gray mesquite mes qulie covered wastes secretary wllbur wilbur faced assembled representatives of six colorado river basin states and spoke perhaps the briefest dedicatory lines ever before recorded 1 I have the honor bonor he said to name this dam after it a great engineer who really started this great project of gil all time the hoover dam celebration marked the 1 starting arting of the 22 mile union pacific b branch r anch lin line e which will run from boulder junction seven miles west of las vegas to the damsite at ahe the mouth ot of black canyon it was waa the first step la in a gigantic construction program which will several years year a hence bence with the completion ot of the greatest reclamation project in the world actual on the dam proper will sot not start for more than a year preliminary steps ste ps tho the building of the railroad spur over which materials anu anil men will be transported to the dam site the construction odthe of the boulder city ft A model community under the shadow of the darn dam where workmen and their families will live liva during the I 1 construction period the excavating ot of runways tho the blasting away ot of tons of rock and hundreds of other details must be accomplished before the huge dam starts skyward dr elwood mead head ot of tho the reclamation cla la bureau department ot of the interior who will supervise work on the project was unable to be present at the ceremony ile he became ill at the la last t moment and remained at a here I 1 official representatives of california nevada utah colorado wyoming and new mexico the six sl basin states a signing nig the boulder Bo tilder dam compact allocating water and power were present after governor fred balzar ot of nevada handed the spike to carl II 11 iray gray president ot of the railroad and he in turn presented it to secretary wllbur wilbur who drove it home the secretary said this Is one ot of mans greatest victories over nature it to Is as it if our country suddenly had a new nevi state added to it for a now new and feider uso use of this controlled water will care tor for six sit millions ot of demple and create billions of wealth |
