Under floodwater last week lay large parts of the Colorado River valley around Austin, Tex. Mightily displeased were scores of washed-out farmers who turned up at the capital, demanded to know what had happened to the Lower Colorado River Authority's four-dam flood control and power project, engineered by the Federal Bureau of Reclamation with $15,000,000 of PWTA funds. Mightily pleased, on the other hand, was Price Campbell, publicity-wise president of West Texas Utilities Co. which stands to lose a 200-mile circle of its power customers to the Authority. President Campbell thought he had found...
POWER: Full Bucket
Subscriber content preview.
or
Log-In
To continue reading:
or
Log-In