BIG POWER SOME

Evening Star, Issue 20057, 24 December 1928, Page 5

BIG POWER SOME

TO GOST 165,000,000 DOLLARS BILL PASSED BY CONGRESS. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, December 21. President Coolidge has signed the Boulder Dam Bill, thus ending years of Congressional argument over the greatest of all Governmental engineering projects. The measure calls for an expenditure estimated at 165,01)0,OOOdol to construct the dam and the accompanying works in Black Canyon, Colorado River. It is proposed to repay the Government within fifty 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 tbo measure. The work will be supervised by Dr Elmer Meade, as chief of the Reclamation Service Department of the Interior. The clam will ho nearly twice as high as any now existing, with a capacity of 26,000,000-acro feet of water, with an estimated development of 1,000,000 horse-power. Australian Press Association.