Show dam n projects C could create A million jobs material makers as well As actual construction workers would benefit jobs for thousands of skilled and unskilled workmen will be bd created create in every part of the country when congress con coh grecs gress approves plans and provides funds for building more than irrigation and power projects proposed by the bureau of reclamation la in its postwar inventory although these proposed irrigation and power projects will be located in the 17 western states where the bureau of reclamation since 1902 has been responsible for the conservation and wise use of water resources their construction will create job opportunities from maine to california behind every man on the construction st job there will be one or more helpers who may be thousands of miles away an employment analysis of the bureaus postwar inventory reveals that of the man hours of labor required to construct all the projects about man hours will be required at construction sites materials from 31 states the materials needed for reclamation lar la work of which such basic products as iron and steel cement electrical equipment and supplies foundry and machine shop products and lumber are of primary im I 1 importance por must be obtained from widely separated sources much of this material and equipment will come from the 31 states outside the arid and and semiarid regions of the west if funds are made available tor for construction of all the projects bureau officials estimate that more than men could be put to work the first year 1 less e 3 s t than ban halt half of these at construction sites at peak employment in the second or third year almost men could receive pay envelo envelopes in different parts of the country as a result of this mighty effort agricultural and industrial enterprises in the west will help to support and give homes to servicemen and others who have expressed their desire to settle on irrigated farms of the westerners in the armed forces it is estimate estimated e d that will want to return to the land veteran legislation authorized and pending gives servicemen priority of settlement on bureau of reclamation la projects on some projects public lands will be open to homestead entry |