Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Volume VI, Number 3, 18 Mei 1933 — COURSE OF MIGHTY COLORADO RIVER IS CHANGED [ARTICLE]
COURSE OF MIGHTY COLORADO RIVER IS CHANGED
LiJ:e the booming of siege &uhs, the blast of dynamite echoed at noon recently through the Golorado river valley near Boulder City, Nev. The blast ended an epie battle between and nature—the tumiQg of the great river from its ehannei clear the way for building Hoover dam. After months spent in drivtag four 50-foot tunnels, eaeh nearly a mile long, through solid rock cliffs around the slte, the finish was swift and spectacular. ' H
Explosions blew away tem*porary barriers at two of the tunnel mouths. 51ve thousand shots of dyriamite choked the river ehannei with debris from the cliffs. Dump trucks in relays hurled io»d after load intn the stubbojm river to barrler. k At three in the nu>rning with tneir 10-hour fight — but- they had'won.
Two tunnel§ were held in reserve to parxy thje voiume of water expected ' with the springr floods.—P.SM.