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Show PROBABLE EFFECTS OF DAM CONSTRUCTION With the future of the Boulder Dam now in the hands of the states concerned, speculation is rife in this flection of Utah rcf?ardin? the effect the construction of the dam would have on business locally. An increased amount of freight shipping ovt r the L. A. & S- L. would be the first immediate rsult. As there are no steel plants in southern California, a vast shipment of steel from the north would pass through Milford. Other materials moved in larpe quant-'ties would be cement and' lumber. A s.-.ur line from the town of Las Vegas to the site of the dam at Black Canyon would be built, according accord-ing to announcement already given out by President Carl Gray, of the Union Pacific. A possibility not too remote is that of the electrification of this unit of the Union Pacific. Ordinarily, there would be no reason to believe that this line would ever become electrified, electrifi-ed, as the railroad traverses mainly level desert and mountain valleys, with fed bad grades. However, eastern east-ern lines, running over a less severe topography than the L. A. & S. L. are becoming electrified, and there will be plenty of electric power in this section of the southwest on completion comple-tion of the dam. As to agriculture, we fail to see how sections this far north will derive much benefit. The lower basin, particularly par-ticularly California, will receive a good supply of water from gravity irrigation. Even considering the immensity im-mensity of the proposed water reservoir, reser-voir, there is small chance that sufficient suf-ficient water accumulation will be stored to cause more moisture in this neighborhood. The south winds, together to-gether with the evaporating power of our hot summer sun, might cause a little more precipitation of rain this far away, but not to any great degree-But degree-But all in all, the elements of flood control, southern irrigation for California Cali-fornia and the desert lands of lower Nevada, and far-reaching electric power, will make the construction of the dam the greatest milestone of progress in the West since the building build-ing of the railroad lines. n |