Jan. 26, 1950
President Truman’s estimated budget for the fiscal year includes a requested appropriation of $200,000 for planning of Green Peter Dam, one of three proposed in this area that were submitted for congressional approval by the Corps of Engineers in 1949. The dams were submitted as substitutes for the Quartz Creek dam, authorized in 1938, which would have been located in the area where Sweet Home stands now, but population growth made…