Show WORK BEING RUSHED ON BOULDER DAM work at boulder dam near las vegas vega nevada la Is rapidly being 1 roun rounded out to ho he point whore where dam construction will soon be the tha order I 1 0 of f tho the day according to ed backman Back mau engineering engi engineer fin charge ot of mining for or the general company who has returned return od from tho boulder dam houses tor for the accommodation of 0 I 1 workers are being erected under contract tract by dickerson of lehl A filtering system and pipe line to handle water from the colorado river is being constructed tho the permanent camp ca mp at boulder city la Is being leveled aff by tho the government preliminary to tho the building of 0 seventy five permanent dwellings tor for employees about eight hundred men are employed at the dam said mr air backman the six sit companies Compan lna inc which has the contract for erecting the dam Is building a six mile railroad branch from the union pacific to the base of vie the dam while at the same time the government is constructing under contract a six mile line to boulder city this branch will be permanent while the other will bo be torn up UD when the dam to Is completed A mile power line Is being constructed ted by the southern power company from california to boulder dam labor conditions while better than before work on the dam was waa started are not any too good since las vegas has drawn the unemployed from ull all I 1 over the country bringing more men than can pol possibly sibly be ba employed tho the has aas business to some extent at las vegas said mr backman co people aro are driving the miles from los loa angeles over the tha week froeb end to take a fling at games ol of chance western mineral survey |