Report on Control and Utilization of the Lower Colorado River including the Construction of a Dam at Boulder Canyon.

(HOOVER DAM) J.H. Levering, Elwood Mead; R M Priest. Report on Control and Utilization of the Lower Colorado River including the Construction of a Dam at Boulder Canyon. Privately printed in Washington D.C. 1928. 11x 8.5, 28pp plus 6pp appendix, plus 9 plates (8 photos), plus two folding plates (including one map). Printed wrapper, cloth-covered spine. VG condition. Provenance: Library of Congress (noting, in pencil on the back of the title page that this was a "gift by the author" to the LC), with their tiny 6mm LC perforated stamp on the bottom of the cover and their LC rubber stamp on rear cover. WorldCat locates only ONE copy (Arizona State Library). [++] "The Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. Originally known as Boulder Dam from 1933, it was officially renamed Hoover Dam for President Herbert Hoover by a joint resolution of Congress in 1947."--Wikipedia.…