BIG POWER SCHEME.
DAM ON COLORADO RIVER. SEVEN STATES TO BENEFIT. United Press Association —By Eiectrio Telegrapn Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. President Coolidge has signed the Boulder Dam Bill, thus ending years of Congressional argument oyer the greatest governmental engineering project. The measure calls for expenditure estimated at 165,000,000 dollars to construct a dam and accompanying works in Black Canyon, Colorado River. It is proposed to repay the Government within 50 years from the sale of power in the States of Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado. Nevada, California, Utah and Arizona, all of which will be benefited by water, power and irrigation. The two last-named States must still ratify the measure. The work will be .supervised by Dr Elmer Meade as chief of the reclamation service of the Department of the Interior. The dam wil be nearly twice as high ais any now existing, with a capacity of 26,000,000 acre feet of water with an estimated development of 1,000,000 horse-power.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 December 1928, Page 5
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162BIG POWER SCHEME. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 December 1928, Page 5
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