Diversion tunnel lining pushed as excavation completes
After a year long program starting May 1931, diversion tunnel excavation ends Sunday morning and concrete lining proceeds. Six Companies Inc. handles arch dam portals with 1,500 workers at peak and 400,000 cubic yards of concrete planned for lining and portals. By May 20, invert and side walls near completion, with arch jumbo forms and cableway transfer planned for No. 3 portal. Lining expected across all four tunnels by October to enable dam construction before flood season 1933.
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Companies, Inc
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Lopes
Edmund Lowe Stars in Attorney for the Defense Boulder Showing
Edmund Lowe headlines a two day Boulder theater show in Attorney for the Defense. The feature opens this morning with an 11 a.m. matinee. Evelyn Brent Constance Cummings and Roscoe Ates appear in supporting or additional comedy.
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Edmund Lowe
Boulder
Evelyn Brent
Constance Cummings
Roscoe Ates
Water flow at Bright Angel River shows receding levels
River conditions remain normal for the season as Bright Angel gaging station records a peak rise of seven thousand feet per second Sunday and a drop of about three thousand second feet by yesterday. Flow in the canyon is estimated near ten thousand cubic feet per second and beginning a slow retreat late yesterday afternoon.
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Bright Angel
Black Canyon
Dam building may be turned into film epic
A party from Ives Universal Pictures visited Hoover Dam and Las Vegas this weekend. They discussed a possible historical epic about the conquest of the Colorado and the building of a dam, with a projection for today only at Boulder City Useacer.
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Ives Universal Pictures
Hollywood
Hoover Dam
Las Vegas
Colorado
Boulder City
Prospectors Expand Operations in Blue Ridge and Black Ranges
A number of prospectors and miners operate in the Blue Ridge and Black ranges near Arizona and Nevada. German interests reportedly exploit a jade section, with payees listed and potential mining activity expanding in the region.
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Black Ranges
Arizona
Adis
Nevada
Bite Ridge
Boulder Briefs Snapshot of Local Moves and Visits
Lloyd Ramey has been ill at home on Avenue D. Residents attended picnics and services in Boulder City and Las Vegas. Rex Newman left for Los Angeles on an extended visit. Frank Moore and daughter Verna left for Los Angeles. Kenri and others from Seattle have moved to Avenue D. Residents visited the dam tunnels and workings. Mary Wyatt attended calUareate services in Veg Sunday. Ben Joyce and daughter headed to Sheridan Wyoming. William Price took a position with Tiptons in Los Angeles.
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T. C. White
A. L. Ott
Boulder City
Boulder City Party Visits Mt Charleston Resort
Social notes show Mrs C D Wyatt and others forming a party that spent a day at Mt Charleston resort Suncay sane with snowbail and relatives visits. Mrs Winnifred Hamilton, a third and fourth grade teacher, fell ill and was excused for the day.
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Phil Lawson
J. A. Barker
Georgy Crampton
T. C. Cooper
A. Robinson
Georgin
Mt. Charleston
Suncay Sane
Winnifred Hamilton
Six Companies workmen escape serious injury in truck incident
Last Sunday night six workers on a flatbed truck in Gordon, Oklahoma, were exposed to an explosion risk when dynamite and mishandled detonators were found in a confined space. The blast was narrowly contained, leaving workers shaken but physically uninjured. Investigations focus on safety lapses and the role of Six Companies insurance officials in the incident.
Akron Accident Highlights News Picture At Portal Today
The Akron accident is noted in a news picture at El Portal today as Bert Lahr and Charlotte Greenwood star in a high flying aviation revue. Greenwood plays Pansy Potts, while Lahr and Greenwood perform a romantic, comic courtship aboard an airplane with aerial antics. The program also features a Mickey Mouse cartoon, stage comedy, and Fox news.
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Akron
Portal Today
America
Bert Lahr
Charlotte Greenwood
T el Portal
Pansy Potts
Lahr
Hi Portal
First Aid Depot Moves Near the River in Boulder City
The Six Companies moved the First Aid Depot from the river camp to a site between the low level mixing plant and main diver tunnel entrances on the Nevada side. The facility reopens for today. pedestrians hear Spencer and Belcher headline the Pen cil Pusher indoor team, with Elmer Baker as manager. L. M. Raney must visit the Boulder City office for a free ticket.
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Black Canyon
Temporaily
Nevada
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