(AP Photo)
On the eve of the opening of the post office of Boulder City, the new town springing up as work starts on the gigantic Hoover Dam of the Boulder Canyon Project, Reclamation Bureau officials called to extend best wishes to Postmaster J.L. Finney on April 15, 1931. Featured in the photo are, from left, W.R. Armstrong, general superintendent of the United Pacific; R.F. Walter, chief engineer of the Reclamation Bureau; a carpenter for the Six Company Inc.; Postmaster Finney, Dr. Elwood Mead, commissioner of Reclamation, and P.W. Dent, assistant to Mead.