Whether or not it is ever built to dam water, the proposed 675-ft. Federal power and irrigation dam in the Boulder Canyon of the Colorado River has already backed up an enormous supply of attention, ...

Work on Boulder Dam, world’s highest (727 ft.), was ready to start last week. Congress had appropriated $10,660,000 to get the $165,000,000 project under way. Secretary of the Interior Wilbur approved ...

On July 7, 1930, construction began on Boulder Dam. Today it is known as Hoover Dam. The dam, which is responsible for the creation of Lake Mead, is the best known and largest of the dams on the ...

On the Nevada–Arizona border near Boulder City, Hoover Dam curves across Black Canyon in a vast sweep of concrete above the ...