Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-03-25

biggest dam in the world" is saying GOOD
DEAL There is, for example, the Assuan ualns -
Upper Egypt at the first cataract of the Nile, =
is an irrigation dam of solid masonry ana Is TUG
largest of its kind in the world. It is 656l feeI
long and cost $24,OOO,OO0 1t is 118 feet high ana
is to be raised to 141 feet.
Then there is the Gatun dam, an essential part
Of the Panama canal 1t is an earth dam, 9'o4O
feet long, 1900 feet wide and 60 feet high y
creates Gatun lake, which is 164 square miles.
The Shoshone dam in Wyoming, just east OF
the Yellowstone, rises 800 feet and Is the nlghest
masonry dam in the world
The Roosevelt dam on the Salt river in Arr
zona is 286 feet high its base is 235 feet and its
top 1880 feet long. It cost $6,500,0O0. It makes
a reservoir lake about % miles long and TO
miles wide.
The Grand valley reclamation project in Col
orado has roller-crest dam across the Grand
river which is the largest in the world
Now of course, the proposed Colorado river dam
will not be bigger in every way than these mighty
DAMS Nevertheless it will be the biggest Of
all in the sense that it will be the most spectacu
lar Of all dams, from an engineering view point.
Perhaps an engineer might call it the most spec
tacular engineering feat in all history.
For the proposed dam will have to be. from
500 to 900 feet high-nearly twice as high as any
such structure in existence, To attain this inn
mense height it will have to be many times as
great in bulk It will have to be built between
floods in desperate race against time. It will
create tremendous reservoir nobody knows just
how big it will back up the waters Of the Col
orado for hundred miles and find its level in the
innumerable canons leading off both sides.
It's promoters claim that it will make fertile by
irrigation great desert; that it will furnish vast
hydro-electric power; that it will help solve the
problem of the Colorado at the Mexican boundary
line, which continually endangers the Imperial
valley of California
TIL of hic ncn6 mon to1.7 ie D.
der canon. The Colorado, after leaving the Grand
canon, runs straight west for a hundred miles.
Then it turns almost at right angles to the south,
forming the boundary line between Nevada and
California on the west and Arizona on the east.
Near this rghtangled turn is Boulder canon
1000 feet deep and 320 feet wide at the base
and $50 feet wide where the top of the dam will
come One end Of the dam will be in Arizona and
the other in Nevada.
This you see, is dam site worthy of the
great Colorado, which has its headwaters in
wyoming and drains parts of seven big states.
In Wyoming and Utah this river is called the
Green The Colorado branch Is called the Grand.
The Grand and the Green unite in southeast Utah
to form the Colorado. Curiously enough the leg
islatures Of Wyoming, Utah and Colorado are now
in q race to change the "Green' and "Grand" to
colorado" and bill to this effect is also pending
In congress-
Many rivers unite to form the majestic Col
orado The principal branches of the Green are
the Uinta Price, Yampa and White; of the Grand
the Eagle, Roaring Fork, Gunnison and Dolores;
of the Colorado, the Fremont Escalante, Paria,
Kanab and Virgin on the right and the San Juan,
Little Colorado, Bill Williams and ella the
left.
The Grand canon is the main river in Ari-
iona and extends from the mouth of the Little
Colorado to the Grand Wash. The Grand Canon
National park contains 994 square miles and en-
closes 217 miles of the river, which in places
e hoI0 no i'm of hQ
The lower Colorado runs through low desert
country At Yuma on the Mexican line is an i'm
mense irrigation project which consists Of di-
version dam nearly mile long, 400 miles of
canals and 20 miles of bikes and cost about So
100000 The water is carried to Arizona lands