TOURISTS FLOCK
i TO BOULDER DAM
Visited by More Than 250,000
in Year, Declares Kesi-
dent Engineer.
FREE SHOW BEST WAY
the model village built by the government about 20 miles east of here to
care for the 5000 or so dam workers,
are slender, so most of the tourist
horde pours in on Las Vegas.
Las Vegas meets the demand with
a cluster of clean and not too expensive tourist camps, and a few modern
Perhaps one of the reasons for the
tourist popularity of Boulder dam is
that it is free.
Admission Charge a Lemon.
"For a few days we tried charging
tourists 25 cents apiece," said John C.
Page, office engineer at the dam. "It
didn't last. We had to abandon it
because they demanded too much.
They acted as if the
titled them t
the dam."
stand tourists need
at the office that
ce into the govern-
that encloses the
They are then permitted to wander
through Boulder City, with its tidy
barracks, attractive permanent residences, used now by the technicians
and destined later for the full-time
staff that must watch over the dam,,
and green lawns, in sharp contrast to
the desert browns and yellows.
LAS VEGAS, Nev., Feb. 24. C4>)—
the public at large interested in hug I
engineering and construction achieve
ments? The answer appears i
given in the registration of more than
250,000 persons at Boulder dam with
in the last 12 months.
This boisterous, sun-scorched t
has become one ' of the new tourist
Meccas of the west, all because Uncle
Sam elected to build near by the
largest dam in the history of mankind
As the lake which Boulder dam
creates fills up, residents ask them
selves the question whether comple
tion of the project n
boom days for this booming deser
city. Most are agreed that it doe
not; that the immensity of the fin
ished job will of itself supply enough
tourist trade to assure permanence t<
Las Vegas; that the closeness to th
man-made lake and the proximity to
hundreds will alway
