Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-12-17
MISSOURI DAM CAUSING NEW
LAKE SIMILAR TO THAT TO
BE CREATEDBY BOULDER DAM
Resort Towns Being Built Around Midwest
Water Body in Same Fashion They Are
Expected to Grow When Boulder Lake
Makes Big Territory Accessible to Tourist


A lake similar in many important
respects to the one to be created
by Boulder dam is now in process
of formation in Missouri.
While this lake will never have
the gigantic proportions of the pro-
iected Boulder dam lake. it not on!5
is the result of the same cause, but
is already developing on its shores
two pleasure resort towns, as it IS
propheSied such towns will grow on
the shore of the Colorado river lake
One of the coming beauty spots
of Missouri, Lake Sacosage, has
been in existence only little moT2
than two months, and is gradually
being built up behind the new dam
impounding the waters of the Sac
and Usage rivers.
The dam takes its name from
these two rivers. and was built Dy
utilities company at OSceola. for
power purposes.
Will Be Huge Lake
The magnitude of the lake to be
formed by Boulder dam is almost
incomprehenSible to the layman,
and doubtless there is no compari-
son between the size of the Missouri
lake and the gigantic body of water
to be created by the dam in Black
canyon.
For the lake here will aggregate
more than a hundred miles in
length. including the main stem
and the two fingers, one of which
will extend each direction from the
main Colorado river course.
Extending for twenty or thirty
miles back up the present course
of the river from the actual dam
site, the lake will be narrow to the
approximate point where the two
large fingers branch off.
Many Miles Wide
The Virgin river finger, however,
coming in from the north side OF
the Colorado, will be ten or twenty
miles wide in places and nearly fifty
miles long, it is estimated.
The other finger, coming IN from
the south side of the Colorado, viii
also be ten or twenty miles wide in
places and will be ten TO fifteen
miles long. ta.s
The main lake" following the
present canyon. will extend thirty
five or more miles upstream from
the point at which the fingers con-
verge with the main stream.
So tremendous will be. he lake
that it is estimated the entire flow
of the Colorado would have to &C
cumulate more than two years TO
fill It.
Will Have Many Boats
Unconfirmed rumor has 1t that a
large steamship company is serious
ly considering placing large eXcur-
sion boats on the lake for tourist
outings. 1t is a commonly accepted
supposition that there will be many
boats of various types on the lake
for both commercial and pleasure
purposes.
1t is an accepted hypothesis, also,
that there will be many resort
towns on the lake shore, for the
health and scenic values of this
great desert and mountain country,
set off with this immense body oI
water, will be not only playground
of great beauty and endless variety
but something unique and OF lively
interest to people from the ends OF
the earth
interest Widespread
That a small artificial lake nes-
Ting among the hills of Missouri
should draw pleaSure-seeklng pat
ronage is conceded to be evidence
enough that there is certain to be
much more widespread and compel
ling interest in the great inland sea
to be held in place by Boulder dam.
A recent United Press dispatch
received by The Age describes
among other things, an old farm
house overlooking the little Missouri
lake from it's perch on a cliff.
THAT ancient building lends
scholarly atmosphere to the region,
for in it are housed $4,000 volumes
of Greek literature. An old scholar
named Johnson, so the legend IN
the vicinity runs, lived in the farm
house and Greek manuscripts from
all parts of the country were sent
him to translate.
when Jack Lanes guerillas
burned Osceola during the Civil
war, Lane used the farm house as
his headquarters, and the voumes
were saved"
Will Be Story Land
I Unquestionably the colorful lore
of the Grand Canyon, with its many
successful and ill-fated boat eXpedi-
tions, the lore of the great sur
rounding desert country, Sparsely
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