"At night it was so hot that you had to wet sheets to be able to rest because you just couldn't sleep, it was so hot. If there was a breeze and [the sheets] would dry, you d get up and wet them again in order to be able to sleep. During the day you just washed your face off. The coolness of the air or the breeze would make it cooler for you. I don't recall that it was so terrible, but now, looking back, we certainly never could go through it again. "12 Helen Holmes "[Frank Crowe] had an awesome job. and if he wasn't in his office, he was down at the dam. It'd never surprise me to see him down there at two o 'clock in the morning, looking around. He didn't want to listen to what was going on down there. He wanted to see it with his own eyes. "I never saw [Crowe] get excited about anything. If something went wrong, he was there to get an eye on it, to explain what was wrong, fix it. He was there to help you, not to fire you. One thing he knew was men. Everyone has a different temperament, and he knew how to treat you. For instance, he never bawled me out, 'cause he knew I was the wrong kind of guy to bawl out. I'd eat my heart out... He respected his men. He was appreciative. "14 - Saul "Red" Wixson From May through September 1931, deadly heat claimed victims, with temperatures ranging between 110-120 and peaking at 140 in the airless portals of the diversion tunnels. Photographer Ben Glaha's "Workman with Water Bag" became an icon of the entire project the determination of muscular workers to bring water to the thirsty Southwest. (Used with permission.13) Little was known about the cause or prevention of heat exhaustion, and only the water boys and the bags they carried offered any relief at the dam site. Some crews worked in dangerous locations where water boys could not go; and some men believed drinking water only increased their discomfort. Eventually doctors encouraged water consumption and an increased salt intake, and the heat-related deaths dwindled.