The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-02-27

SEVEN MILLIONS
SPENT AT DAM
BY END OF '34
Costs Of Big Project Tabulated
By Columbia Basin Com
mission
Entire State Helped
Money Is Distributed To Many
Communities, O'Sullivan
Reports
Entire State Helped
SPOKANE, Feb. Is (speciaD Elk

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Coulee power project up to Deem
Der 81, 1884, it was revealed today
in a tabulation prepared by the
Columbia Basin commission. The
report shows that financial bene-
fits from the construction of the
power project have been well dis
tributed throughout the state.
Exclusive of the general contract
of $28,339, 301 81 awarded the
Mason Walsh -Atkinson-Kier COM
pany, contracts have been awarded
totalling about $6,629, 219.57. OF this
amount $3,407, 783.O5 has been ex-
pended in Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma,
Wenatchee and Coulee.
One-Half Left
About $30,O00,G GOO remains unex-
pended in the ALLEGATION of $63, 600, :
600 made by President Roosevelt for
development of the Grand Coulee
project. From this amount will be
awarded the major contracts for the
purchase of tons and tons Of cement
to be used in building the huge dam
and for the purchase Of electrical
equipment for the power plant.
The following interesting figures
include contract awards by the Re-
clamation Bureau and MWAK COM
pany to contracting firms in var
ious cities:
Spokane 81, $50, CTS so
Seattle .........s.g 1,O61,o64.oo
Eeit.sa Git y $3.50, 839. 0t
Wenatchee ............ 215,5UO.OO
Tacoma ............... 2J2,887. 90
1--WE are very much pleased to
find the Grand Coulee project has
meant so much financially to our
state" said James O'Sullivan, secre-
tary of the Columbia Basin COM
mission. ct is sometimes said that
all of the financial benefits have
gone and are going to one cOmmun-
ity or another. Our tabulation Of
expenditures does not indicate that
to be true. It seems that every
section of the state has been well
represented.
Nearly All In State
Contract awards outside of the
state amount to slightly more than
$3,OOO,OOO. OF this amount about
one third went for the purchase OF
steel sheet piling, which is being
driven at this time by the MWAK
company in the construction of the
big rotterdam. Considerable of the
remaining $2,OO0,00O expended else
where went to Pacific coast con-
tractors in Oregon and California,
who were low bidders on the var
ious jobs" s
Mr.. O'Sullivan mentioned in
particular the $601,342 spent by the
State Highway department in de-
velopment of heavy traffic roads to
the project from Wilbur, Almira and
Coulee.
Reads Help
"Had it not been for the splendid
cooperation we received from L. V.
Murrow, director of highways, work
on the project would have been
greatly delayed" Mr.. O'Sullivan ex-
planned. "As it is, all materials for
the project are still being trucked
TO Inc OdIIl, lilo WILL COllClIluE w NC
trucked until the railroad Is put
into operation"
Major contract awards among the
various cities of the state by the
Reclamation bureau and MWAK
company, generally, are as follows:
Reclamation MWAK
Spokane .$545, 310.5O $1,014, 665 90
Seattle -. 526,33l.55 556,25U.OO
wenatchee 255, SOC. 90
Tacoma 80. 2O2, 88700
Coulee 1876, 1884, 90
This report generally does not in
clude salaries paid for labor ON the
project" Mr.. O'Sullivan continued.
"For the past several weeks men
employed on the project have aver
aged about $500. To Large extent
these men are paid the higher
wages, because as work progresses
on the project it is necessary to en-
ploy a greater number OF skilled
labor"
NEW VERA NURSE NAMED