Coolidge Dam dedicated...
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March 05, 1930
THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York, NY, March 5, 1930
* Coolidge Dam dedicated
* Gila River - Globe, Arizona
This 48 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that includes: "COOLIDGE DEDICATES GREAT ARIZONA DAM", "Crowd of 15,000 Motors Over Desert to Hear Man Whose Name Big Structure Bears" and more. (see) Other news of the day throughout.
Rag edition in great condition.
wikipedia notes: The Coolidge Dam is a reinforced concrete multiple dome and buttress dam 31 miles (50 km) southeast of Globe, Arizona on the Gila River. Built between 1924 and 1928, the Coolidge Dam was part of the San Carlos Irrigation Project. Coolidge Dam was named after the 30th US President, Calvin Coolidge and was dedicated by President Coolidge on March 4, 1930. The design and construction engineer was Herman Neuffer, who oversaw much of the construction undertaken by the Bureau during the 1920s in Arizona and New Mexico.
Coolidge Dam impounds San Carlos Lake in the San Carlos Indian Reservation. The project irrigates 100,000 acres (400 km²). Coolidge Dam was designed and constructed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), which also owns and operates it. The dam was built between 1924 and 1928. The overall structure used 200,000 cubic yards (150,000 m3) of concrete and consists of three domes, which are supported by massive buttresses on 100-foot (30 m) centers. It rises 249 feet (76 m), with a crest length of 580 feet (180 m). Two uncontrolled ogee crest spillways are concrete lined and located on each abutment.
San Carlos Lake is seldom full except in unusually wet periods. When former President Coolidge dedicated the dam, Cherokee humorist Will Rogers looked at the grass in the lake bed, and said, “If this were my dam, I’d mow it.”
* Coolidge Dam dedicated
* Gila River - Globe, Arizona
This 48 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that includes: "COOLIDGE DEDICATES GREAT ARIZONA DAM", "Crowd of 15,000 Motors Over Desert to Hear Man Whose Name Big Structure Bears" and more. (see) Other news of the day throughout.
Rag edition in great condition.
wikipedia notes: The Coolidge Dam is a reinforced concrete multiple dome and buttress dam 31 miles (50 km) southeast of Globe, Arizona on the Gila River. Built between 1924 and 1928, the Coolidge Dam was part of the San Carlos Irrigation Project. Coolidge Dam was named after the 30th US President, Calvin Coolidge and was dedicated by President Coolidge on March 4, 1930. The design and construction engineer was Herman Neuffer, who oversaw much of the construction undertaken by the Bureau during the 1920s in Arizona and New Mexico.
Coolidge Dam impounds San Carlos Lake in the San Carlos Indian Reservation. The project irrigates 100,000 acres (400 km²). Coolidge Dam was designed and constructed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), which also owns and operates it. The dam was built between 1924 and 1928. The overall structure used 200,000 cubic yards (150,000 m3) of concrete and consists of three domes, which are supported by massive buttresses on 100-foot (30 m) centers. It rises 249 feet (76 m), with a crest length of 580 feet (180 m). Two uncontrolled ogee crest spillways are concrete lined and located on each abutment.
San Carlos Lake is seldom full except in unusually wet periods. When former President Coolidge dedicated the dam, Cherokee humorist Will Rogers looked at the grass in the lake bed, and said, “If this were my dam, I’d mow it.”
Category: The 20th Century
