GLANT IRRIGATION PROJECT.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20168, 21 February 1931, Page 9

GLANT IRRIGATION PROJECT.

♦— —— ■ DAM ON THE COLORADO BIVEH. I * v ; 1 " 1 V '* '' (vbom otra own eoaiussro*DitST.) SAN FRANCISCO, January 17. Work on the, the Hoover dam, on the Colorado river, is* to sta^t-., on 1 April Ist, this -being the date Dr. £l- - Mead, the Australian irrigation expert, and n<Jw* chief of the U.S. Eecla- ' mation Bureati', has set- for the letting, ! of, the contracts.' Only one thing'may I delay matters—rtbo mampoth 'aize of i the undertaking. It may prove that the, I contract, is too largo, - its spQcifieations ' too difficult for any one company /to J handle. In that case the Government, | will turn contactor and build the prOI ject—so vital to California and. - the ! south-west —as itf d-d the | The project is the biggest pedcSttinie | contract ever let by the United States Government; A dam twice as high as I any ever built by man, involving the i pouring'of 5,000,000 cubic yards Of con- ' crete, the use of 30,000 tons of struc* i tural isteel, thet boring of rock-tunnels ■ 50-, to 70 feet in diameter. According to 1 the "Engineering News Record," the I job 1 ' ranks with the greatest ever tempted,fey human hands." ' \ An irrigation, ditch, the AH-^ 1 canal, 7fi mUis long, carrying 15,000 cubic feet of water ptijr second, is larger •.by 100 per .cent, than* any irrigation ' canal ever 'built. It will be a moneymaker for Uncle Sam that will return to the United States Treasury in power i xevenu,e in 50 years over 06 million :.olI lars in clear profits and 16 million dol* , Jars for maintenance and depreciation, i and pay tb. Arizona and Nevada each 31,235,000 dollars. It is the first of a series of., great' power projects on the ! horetofote unused Colorado river, that i has in>itsi raging gorges upwards of 6,000,000 horee-power, or enough' to tlfe antire south-west <«. •the United Stipes of America. _ These are some of r the staggering fafcta that "contractors dre learning as they prepare to submit tenders. The first jobi coveting a total Of more than fifty / million dollars, includes the erection t»f the dawi the diverting tunnels, and the I coffer data; i ' i WARNING, Broken time, reduced wages,' p\lls, and bilk often follow the -neglect' of nature's warnings. Bead streaming nose, tightness <of the, throat, are signs of coming trouble | Taken early in the course of Pulmonas never fail to'-give' relief. Make sure you get Pumionhd, l8r«® and 2s 6d at all chemists' and stores.