Imperial Valley press., 1921-10-01
LA, NEWSMAN
WRITES Of
BOULDER
CANYON
Interesting Story of Great
est Project of Kind in the
World. Possibilities of Re-
clamatiOn and Control.

Last week party of power officials
of the city of Los Angeles aecompaf-
led by number of newspaper men
visited the Boulder Canyon dam site
on the Colorado river, just as a city
landlord goes to inspect his country
property. That Los Angeles is mod
estly claiming the whole project as
her own at this time is amply test
flied by the spirit of the news stories
written about the trip. But as most
of the stories are interesting and of
information value. the Press here
with gives that one written by Eddie
Hollingworth of the Los Angeles
Herald. His story in part is as follows:
The new reclamation, irrigation
and power dam at Boulder canyon on
the Colorado river, which is being
planned by the city of Los Angeles in
conjunction with the United States
government, will be, when completed,
by far the greatest project of it's kind
in the world. .~
Here in Los Angeles we are so ac-
customed to deal in superlatives that
the average citizens will not be great
ly impressed with that statement.
Hence it will be the writer's object
to present the matter in such way
as to be as comprehensive as possible
so that all may understand.
Possibly the greatest undertaking
of the kind now existing on the face
of the earth is the immense dam at
Assouan, on the Nile river in Egypt,
with its resulting irrigation system.
In comparison with the AssOuan pro-
ject, however. that at Boulder canyoa
will befso much larger as to be almost
beyond relative estimate.
The amount of water impounded at
Assouan is 100000 acre feet that
lis sufficient to cover 100000 acres
one foot deep. When the Boulder
canyon reservoir is completed, il will
hold 81 100000 acre feet, over IT
times as much as the great Egyptian
undertaking can accommodate.
AS an Illustration of what this i'm
mense body of water means, one of
the engineers has calculated that it
would be sufficient to spread liquid
belt two miles wide and one foot deep
entirely around the earth at the
equator.
Or, if the capacity of the reservoir
were expressed in terms of concrete
instead of water, there would be suf.
ficient for strip of pavement six feet
wide and six inches thick stretching
from the earth to the sun.
There are three great objects in
view by the city in seeking to build
the dam at Boulder canyon-flood con-
troll, irrigation or reclamation of waste
lands and power.
| When the Boulder canyon project is
completed, and under the control of
Los Angeles and it's allied municipal
ties, more than 100000 additional
acres will automatically be given op-
portunity for becoming productive
with still another 100000 which may
later be made fertile, or total of
100000 acres which will be irrigated
through the lower part of the river
alone.
When the third great factor, power
is considered. the possibilities are tre-
mendous. The present municipal aque-
duct system, when developed to its
fullest possible capacity, will provide
|220, 900 net horsepower. This city it.
self needs vastly more than that
amount, to say nothing of the othe,
cities in Southern California and Ar
zona which will be associated with
Los Angeles in the project.
The Boulder canyon dam Will make
possible. after taking adequate care
of flood protection and irrigation, 1
generation of 100000 horsepower
which will be available for presen
and future industries in the grea
Southwest, with Los Angeles as tn,
distributing station.
| This power can also be used for tn