Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1934-11-15

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4HNM8M instead OF Indiana,
why we are putting
1t In the West, as we wanted to get
some western and ranch atmosphere.
SO we all bundled OF up to Sonora,
California. on what we call Location.
A great many OF the company dident
go because they dident happen to be
In the scenes up there. But a regular
movie crew since we have sound,
(Which makes 1t about twice as big
and expensive as 1t used to be In the
old days. takes so or rs people on a
movie even Ii there Is no actors at all.
Mrs. Rogers and | started in on one
of our periodical little automobile
jaunts. We went away up by Hoover
Dam. that's about $50 miles from Los
Angeles, and Its the greatest sight In
America today. | tell you you ought to
get In your car and drive by there be-
fore it gets finished. Its sure worth the
trip and Its got good roads coming in
there from all ways. They are over two
years ahead with the Dam. They took
us across and out and oVer and dropped
us down into. and under and every
where else in a cable and little plat
form arrangement. Mrs r dident know
where she was going till she was away
out over 1t. There is guys riding across
there tWorkmenl on little old gadgets.
One has a sign on 1t saying It's the Fly.
ing Trapeze'' and bet Its kick on it.
The thing that impressed me about this
great Dam was the amount Of things
they had to do that In reality have or
never did have anything to really do
with the Dam. railroads to build, tun-
nells to dig. Some OF EN- they incident
have built. But they had no idea 1t
would be this dry all these years. In
fact Ii 1t don't get wetter, maybe they
shouldn't have built the Dam. towns
and water works away out on q desert.
Clara Bows ranch is the nearest to
civilization, II you can call Claras and
Rexes ranch that. Fellow up there
named Grove. he Ia a real engineer,
and some great lei under him. You
know there Is something about an IN
gineer that, Just about next to the medi.
cal profession makes EN- about the most
worthy folks we got.
| a give you an idea how near the
Dam Is finished. The various states
have started fighting over the water.
Even away up In Wyoming. and Colo
RADIO, and Utah. And states that never
paid much attention to 1t as they dident
think 1t would amount to anything. But
now they see 1t will SO they claim some
of the water. or something. About the
best way to claim water that comes
from your state Is to grab II of before
1t gets out OF your state. Its awful hard
to get water back after Its run down
hill of your place. but 1t makes a good
state argument, and gives some law
yers some work. and wont take any
water out of the Dam. Its going to be
through In just about a year from now.
You know | found out something
about this silt thing. you know what all
US dumb ones been worrying about Is.
wont the silt fill up the DAMP" Now
| know | built me a little dam on my
place at Santa Monica. and the silt
filled up faster than we could build the
dam. and backed up further up the
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dam did was just level off the ground
above the dam. We corraled no water.
In fact we just seemed to lift the bed
of the creek up so 1t could get over the
dam better. The water thought we did
IL purposely SO 1t could get out OF there