452 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 19 3 5 



Tlie Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is commenc- 

 ing construction of a line to take power from the dam to pumping sta- 

 tions 125 miles to the southwest. Communities in Nevada, as many as 

 150 miles away, are already making efforts to obtain the cheap power 

 that will soon be generated. An electrochemical laboratory is ex- 

 pected to be established in Boulder City shortly to aid in the develop- 

 ment of the mining areas in the nearby regions. 



Boulder Dam was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President 

 Franklin D. Roosevelt in a ceremony which was attended by Secretary 

 of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, several Senators and Governors from 

 the Colorado River Basin States, high officials of the Bureau of Recla- 

 mation, and many prominent persons whose names are linked with the 

 Colorado River conflict and the development of the Southwest. 



The question is often asked " Who planned this great works ? " and 

 the answer must be " No one man." It represents the combined train- 

 ing and experience of engineers of the Bureau of Reclamation gained 

 in 30 years of building similar structures. In the days when the 

 project was in its formative period, A. P. Davis was its director and 

 F. E. Weymouth chief engineer. During the later years, and through- 

 out construction, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation has 

 been Dr. Elwood Mead; the chief engineer, R. F. Walter; assistant 

 chief engineer, S. O. Harper; chief designing engineer, J. L. Savage; 

 chief electrical engineer, L. N. McClellan ; and chief mechanical engi- 

 neer, C. M. Day. Construction engineer Walker R. Young is in 

 charge of construction on the project. 



REFERENCE LITERATURE 



Bureau of Reclamation : Annual Histories of the Boulder Canyon Project. 



Maps, Drawings, and Specifications. 

 Compressed Air Magazine : The Story of Boulder Dam. 

 Boulder Dam Service Bureau : Construction of Boulder Dam, seventh edition. 



