Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-19
DAM TO
INCREASE
PROPERTY
Great Wealth Coming To
Southland Is Prediction
OF Engineer.
EXPLAINS REASONS
Scientists Told OF I'm
usual Progress That Is
To Be Expected.
BY GEORGE II. BEALE
United Press Staff Correspondent

PASADENA, Cal, June 10. U.P)-
Predictions that property wealth In
the area to be served by the Boul-
der Dam water and power will in
crease more than ten-fold were
made today by E. F. Scattergood,
electrical engineer of the Los Ange-
les municipal department Of water
and power. before the American As
sociation for the advancement of
science.
Ten years after the completion of
the structure, Scattergood declared,
property values will jump $4,000
600 and industrial productions will
jump 100000.
He said he based his estimate on
the growth that followed the de-
yelopment OF the Owens Valley
power and water project and an
economic survey he made for con-
gress.
THE first power of the Owens
River project was available in 1917.
During the II years that followed,
the total wealth of the Los Ange-
les metropolitan area tripled. In
dustrial activity in the area in
creased from sl67 000, 900 in 1916 TO
$l.250, 900 in 1923. These figures in
dicate what Boulder Dam will do
for the district.
Because of the great trade posi-
bilities of the countries bordering
the Pacific; of the undeveloped fer
tile agricultural areas and mineral
deposits; and of favorable oppor-
tunity for manufacturing which are
conditional only on an assured per-
manency of water and power, II
may be expected that the total
4 wealth OF property values will more
than double.
Increased gross production In
combined industries may be expect
cd TO increase In greater proper
tions. The gross annual production
OF Industries throughout the Boul-
der Dam area was $l,750 900, 600 In
1924. This may be expected 10 In
crease $4,000, 100000 during the de-
oade following the construction of
the DAM
PASADENA, Cal. June 10. (UP-
The discovery of a second milky
way" was announced today to the
S8th meeting of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of
Science by DR.. Edwin F. Carpenter
OF the University of Arizona.
This Milky Way, he said. was
composed of approximately go ne
bulae, or star clusters. He estimated
It's distance from the earth at about
10000, 900 light years. The largest
of the star groups, he said, was
about $4,000 light years in diameter.
The entire cluster measured about
100000 light years in diameter.
The hundreds of millions of stars
In this new group the scientist
said. truly can be compared with
our own milky way"
Some additional material for the
argument over the age of man OH
the North American continent was
offered by M. r. Harrington of the
Southwest Museum, Los Angeles.
Remains found in the Gypsum
caves in Nevada indicates that man
has been on the continent over TO-
900 years, he contended.
This age was determined by the
association with extinct animals. He
said the caves showed three periods
plainly.
In the first, primitive man and
camel horses occupied the caves.
This was period of great damp
ness and rainfall. In the second,
a dry period, the ground sloth
moved in with primitive man and
the camel horses. Later came still
dryer period when man disap-
peared until 5000 years ago when
the Basket-Maker Indians ap-
peared