Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-17

Popular interest in the Harvesting of
the Colorado at Boulder Dam as an en-
cheering feat promises to rival or per-
haps eclipse the building of the Panama
Canal, If comment on the launching of
this great project may be taken as an
indication.
Nothing but an act of Providence
can stop the colossal enterprise now" Is
the satisfied exclamation of the Pasa-
dena Star-News, though 1t recognizes
that this being one of the great en-
cheering projects Of all time, there are
diverse problems connected with the
huge enterprise. Provision must be
made" explains the Pasadena paper,
for housing, in comfortable, sanitary
fashion, the small army of engineers
and workmen who will be employed for
many years In this monumental work
A new city will be laid out near the
site of the dam. A railroad extension
must be built to the site Of the dam,
to carry supplies"
What will come after the compile
ton of the DAM" suggests the SPRING
field Union, sounds like fairy story.
It Is expected that by such source of
power new mines and new industries
will be created in Arizona, Nevada and
California; Los Angeles and the sur
rounding cities will see new homes, new
new financial credit and new courage
will be given to those districts which
have heretofore 5eea menaced by floods.
In short, the greatness of the dam itself
will offer and expect greatness OF the
people in the districts which 1t serves.
The most dramatic feature of this
gigantic structure, however. is that the
brain of man is the master Of 1t, and
it is the hands of men that will carry
1t out. There Is thrill in
this, even for those who know nothing
likely to be one of the sights which
travellers will visit In the future"
Secretary Wilbur is quoted by the
Flint Daily Journal to the effect that
"he believes this dam will 'signalize our
National conquest over the Great Amer
lean Desert" and that paper adds:
THE dam is to be placed in canyon
which rises 1000 feet. The water which
flows through this canyon at times
equals that Of the Mississippi ct st.
Louis" The Journal concludes: 1.-THE
Nation welcomes the start of this won
derful dam, which will set new world
records. It will be valuable source OF
power and water supply, and will be a
great show place"
American enterprise already has sew
eral such construction jobs to its credit
Jobs which other nations would look
upon as physical and financial impos-
sibilities," says the Santa Rosa Press
Democrat. The Providence Journal sees
In 1t an appeal to the imagination, :"
and remarks that, irrespective of the
question whether the Government
should have embarked on such an en-
terprise, there is something impressive
in the spectacle of man addressing him.
self to so mammoth labor" The Los
Angeles Express greets the happy con-
clusion of the long years Of struggle for
development Of the Colorado River" and
declares: "All the Southwest will have
reason to remember for years to come
the Fourth of July Of 1880, when, by
his approval of the first appropriation
for Boulder Dam, President Hoover gave
the signal to get to work and make the
dirt n.y."
Americans whose pride is stirred by
the vaStness of projects undertaken by
the Government will be satisfied with
the task" thinks the Pittsburgh Post
Gazette, with the belief that Elm the
American way, It will be put through in
workmanlike manner" The st. Louis
Glohe.Democrat hopes for Continuing
blessings 10 be conferred on great re-
gion under the rainless curse" and that
"a soil needing only water for amazing
fertility will be made productive for the
sower. that an energy measured not