The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-08-03
BUOL FOR SENATE
A VISITOR HERE
Las Vegas Man, Making Complete
Canvass of City, Tells About
the Great Boulder Canyon
Project and Prospects

Peter Buol, candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for United
States senator, arrived in Winnie
mucca late Tuesday evening and has
been engaged since in a thorough
canvass of the city to meet voters.
Buol impresses one as being man
who generally accomplishes what
he sets out to do and he has been
untiring in his political zeal while
here.
His home being in Las Vegas, in
the extreme southern portion of
this state, he is naturally greatly
interested in the Boulder Canyon
dam project, for the building of
which he has worked early and late.
That the people of the northern
counties may become further ac-
quainted with the project, Buol cites
the following facts as comparisons
Similar projects now range from
$50 to $50 feet above bedrock,
while concrete in the Boulder dam
would extend 600 feet above bed
rock and 45O feet above high water.
The Assuan project in Egypt,
constructed by Sir John Jackson,
contains 1,S65,000 acre feet of
water; the Elephant Butte dam of
New Mexico holds 2,350,000 acre
feet; Gatun Lake of the Panama
canal, 100000, while Boulder
Canyon would hold back the stu
pendous amount of 24,000,000 acre
feet of water.
Hydro-electric power contemplate
ed would make 100000 horsepower
continuously. The plant will even
tually have 100000 horsepower ca
pacity, equal to all Niagara Falls
plants. This power would save
yearly in southwestern states 49,
100000 barrels of oil, and save
Tonopah, Ely and the Comstock
mines and mills two thirds of their
present power bills. AS illustration,
one Tonopah mining company uses
power that costs $4,000, which
would mean a saving to the one
company alone of 100000 a year
if the project is completed.
Water to be stored in the project
it has been estimated will reclaim
more than one million acres of land
One hundred thousand ex-service
men and women have applied to
Secretary Fall for farms on the
project should it become certainty
that the project will be completed
Buol says the lasting benefits to
Nevada because of the Boulder
Canyon project will be far greater
than all the wealth from the Com.
stock mines. He made the first sur
vey and soundings at Boulder Can.
yon fifteen years ago and has
worked for its advancement evel
since. 1t has been only in the last
two years that the people of the
southwestern states have realized
the tremendous power going to
waste.
Buol is reluctant to tell about
his own achievements, but it wa.
learned that he controls the Nevada
Lime and Rock plant, twenty mile.
south of Las Vegas, which nov
gives employment to 115 men anc
ships 10000 tons of lime rock tc
purify sugar each month, in addi
tion to fifty tons daily of burnt anc
hydrated lime. Buol was one o.
four owners of big borax deposits il
southern Nevada which were recent
ly sold to the West End Mininl
Company. He is member of tn.
board of directors of the Nevad;
Fire Insurance Company, which ha.
been built up in recent years t.
a dividend paying concern. HI
served one term in the state as
sembly and one term in the stat,
senate, from 1918 to 1919, and wa,
chairman of the ways and mean,
committee of the senate which mad,
fight to keep taxation down.