 |
Synopsis: Documenting how rivers played a major role in the drama of national expansion westward and how the federal water projects of the early 1900's led to the birth of agriculture and industry in the arid west. Various scenes of water flowing in streams and rivers, mountains, plains, and the western desert. Pioneer family in covered wagon. Temple Square in Immigration Canyon in Utah. Primitive irrigation water wheel. Early passenger train traveling across the plains. Scenes of the aftermath of drought and dust bowl conditions that struck the plains where wheat had been planted.
Shows cutting of trees and saw mill, miners, processing gold ore. Signing of the National Reclamation Act in 1902. Shows work on the Truckee-Carson irrigation project in Nevada. Various scenes of water reclamation and irrigation systems. Farming on irrigated land. Shows Roosevelt Dam in Arizona on the Salt River Project, Elephant Butte Dam in New Mexico, and Pathfinder Dam in Wyoming. Various scenes of electrical power produced by hydro-power. Various scenes of industry and cities as the west grew.
Scenes of the construction and dedication of Hoover Dam. Shows construction of a network of dams, power plants, canals, and electrical transmission lines in the Missouri River Basin. Dams, Canals, electrical sub-stations, electrical transmission lines, irrigation furnished by the Central Valley Project in California. |
|
|
Information: 1965 BW 26 min |
|
