Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-05-18
Story of Las Vegas
Is First Told Over Radio


be the greatest railroad genius
the world has ever known, has
been brOadcaSting over the
radio from Los Angeles some
very big and constructive in
formation about Las Vegas that
is attracting wide attention.
Mr.. owen is employed by T. j.
Lawrence, Incorporated, to tell the
world about Las Vegas and Artesian
Park Estates and has made several
trips to this city to study its pos
sibilitieS and he has discovered
and told the world of many that
we're both startling and instruc-
tive.
His last radio talk was as fol-
lows:
In the Worlds Eye
Through a series of startling and
dramatic incidents Las Vegas, Ne
vada, has stepped right out int
the front rank of national pub
licity and men, women and none,
from all parts of the world are
either coming to Las Vegas to take
advantage of the many opportuni-
ties it offers for investment and
development along industrial, COM
mercial. financial and manufac-
turing lines or else they are pre-
pairing to come later
For this reason I am directinp
my talk to the young men and
women cf radioland for they should
know when Boulder Dam is to be
built, and what it means to them
because it is the greatest enter
prise of its kind in the world and
its effect will be farreaching.
1t is important to know when
the great irrigation canal will be
built that will turn 1,250,000 acres
of unproductive desert into tn
richest district of its size on earth
the thing is Stupendous. the
values it will create are almost be-
yond computation and compre-
henSion.
Colossal Power Plant
It is important to know when
the colossal power plant will be
in operation for it will be revolu-
tionary in it's effect upon the
growth of Las Vegas and upon the
State of Nevada and upon all OF
the. Great Southwest.
It is important to koriw when
the all-embracing network Of pow
er lines are to be strung all over
Southern California and all around
Las Vegas and all through Nevada
and the other states because 1t
means the cheapest electric power
in the world and it means untold
growth and great factories, in
dustries, payrollS and property for
all of us and especially for Las
Vegas.
1t is important to know when the
gigantic aqueduct is going to reach
out its life-creating arms from the
Colorado to all the cities of the
Metropolitan Water District be-
cause this aaueduct and this powe'
plant and these power lines will
furnish water and power to sever
and one half millions of peonlo
or more than the combined pop
ulation of the great cities Of New
York and Philadelphia.
Great Populations
And these 100000 new men,
women and children will leave the
blizzards and the like-struggleS OF
the East and come to the flowers
and sunshine and health and pros
perity of the Great Southwest OF
which Las Vegas is to be a great
center.
Many people over the radio and
otherwise are guessing" that It
will require from ten to fifteen
wears to do all these things and II
is time to stop guessing and list
en-, carefully, to what one of the
most noted authorities in the Unit
ed States has to say about it
Louis C. Hill-and here are Mr..
Hills credentials;
He is one of the three consulting
engineers appointed by the United
States government to pass on the
plans for the Boulder Dam.
He was engineer in charge OF
government reclamation work in
the areas of the Colorado and Rio
Grande rivers.
Roosevelt Dam Supervisor
He is vice-president of the Am
erican Society Of Civil Engineers
and he supervised the construc-
ton Of Roosevelt, Elephant Butte
and Laguna dams and I think you
will agree with me that he knows
what he is talking about and he
expresses the opinion that the
dam may be built in from five to
six wears and the power plant pro-
ducing power in much less time.
The many other great correlated
enterprises will of course, keep
efep with the construction of the
dam and the power plant and this
really means that hundreds OF
millions of dollars will be put in
circulation in the Great Southwest
during the coming five or six
years.
know that these sound like bic
statements but mean exactly what
I say. -,
am not exaggerating, at all
do not need to for the situation
is SO big that even the truth taxes
ones understanding. imagination
and even ones credulity were these
things to be done by anyone eX'
cent the very efficient United
States government supplemental
bv the equally efficient city Of Lo
Angeles and the many other cite
of the Metropolitan Water Dis
trict.
Furthermore there will follow il