"There were things happening every second of every day down there. All the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle that had to he in place for this industrial construction to go on is just simply amazing. "56 - Blaine Hamann "[President Hoover] wired my father and mother to meet him, so they went to Boulder City. President Hoover had been taken to the dam .... I believe, and he came back to the Administration Building steps and made a little speech. Then we met him, and he asked us to ride back on the train with him. "The only recollection I have particularly is how tired he looked. I never in my life saw a man look so worn out and so completely defeated. Of course it was a result of all the trials and tribulations of the depression and the campaign and the smearing he'd gotten, which he didn't really deserve,"57 - Florence Boyer (Daughter of Charles P. Squires, dam advocate and newpaper publisher.) In mid-October Six Companies crews prepared to wrestle the Colorado from its bed and into the diversion tunnels. Trucks began dumping fill along the Nevada side of the river to create a temporary dike in the shape of a "C" to narrow the river's flow and seal off work areas downstream. President Herbert Hoover visited his beloved project on his way back to Washington D. C. from California. Beleaguered by the Depression, Hoover (at center) had badly lost the election to Franklin D. Roosevelt. At far left is Walker Young; at far right is Frank Crowe, with Edmund 0. Wattis next to him.