Boulder City-Government Town Problem

Abstract

credible productivity. As by-products of its large multipurpose projects, the Bureau has quietly given birth to a unique family of problem children, the government towns. Each of these towns poses problems of local particularity. This article is concerned primarily with Boulder City, Nevada, the eldest of the family, where a direct attack on parental problems is being made. Boulder City is neither the beginning nor the end of the government town problem of the Bureau. It is hopefully anticipated, however, that experiments under way there will provide techniques for general use. That the Bureau of Reclamation has no