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Press Release Regarding the Start of Construction on the Boulder Canyon Project
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This item is a press release from the Department of the Interior regarding the start of construction on the Boulder Canyon Project, specifically on the railroad and roads to the construction site, laying out the town of Boulder City, and surveys for the water system. It also contains details about how the construction contract will be awarded and the steps involved for the building of Boulder Dam.
- Parte de Herbert Hoover Papers, President's Subject Files
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OCR Page 1 of 7DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESS
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 7, 1930.
The Secretary of the Interior announced today that construction of the
Boulder Canyon Project had commenced, immediately on the President's signature
of the Appropriation Bill.
The engineer in charge, Mr. Walker R. Young, and his assistants, were
already on the ground waiting telegraphic instructions. The first day's work
began the staking out of the railroad and the construction road, surveys of
which have already been completed, laying out streets for the town site, and
continuation of surveys for the water supply system.
The order which started construction was signed by the Secretary imme-
diately following the President's signature of the Appropriation Bill, and read
as follows:
"ORDER NO. 436.
Hon. Elwood Mead,
Commissioner of Reclamation.
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Sir:
JUL
You are directed to commence construction on
Boulder Dam today.
Respectfully,
RAY LYMAN WILBUR,
Secretary."
The Secretary stated that the plans and specifications are being carried
to completion with all possible expedition, looking to the advertising of bids
and the awarding of construction contracts at the earliest possible date. Follow-
ing the completion of the work begun today on the railroad, construction road,
town site and water works, the money appropriated will be used to commence con-
struction of the coffer dams and diversion tunnels.
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