RECORD AMERICAN DAM.
ONE MILLION HORSE-POWER. EXPENDITURE OF £33,000,000. Australian ami N.Z. Presa Association. (Received December 23, 5.5 p.m.) WASHIXCiTOX, Dec. 22. The President, Mr. Coolidge, lias signed ttic Boulder Darn Act, which ends years of argument in Congress over the greatest Government engineering project. The measure calls for an expenditure estimated at £33.000.000 in the construction of the dam and its accompanying works in the Black Canyon, Colorado T!iver. 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. These will all be benefited by the wafer power and irrigation. Utah and Arizona must still ratify the measure. The work will lie supervised by Dr. Elmer Meade, the head of the reclamation service- of the Department of the Interior. The dam will be nearly twice as high as anv now in existence. It will have an estimated development of 1.000.000 horsepower.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20137, 24 December 1928, Page 9
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