1935-xx-p0-aj-turner-to-direct-columbia-basin-project
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Builder of Long Lake Dam Will Direct Survey of Big Project.
A. J. Turner, one of the most widely known construction engineers in the Pacific northwest, Friday was named engineer of the Columbia basin commission. Mr. Turner arrived evening and was in conference with the commissioners last evening and Friday. His election was not announced until Friday.
Mr. Turner will be in full charge of the engineering features of the preliminary survey which the Columbia basin commission is about to launch upon. He will make a hurried trip to Seattle to close up his business affairs before returning to Spokane about April 1 to assume charge of the field work of the survey.
Turner made his home in Spokane for 10 years, being associated with the Washington Water Power Company as engineer in charge of the construction of the Long Lake and Little Falls dams and power plants. In 1916 he moved to Seattle, where was associated with the engineering department of the city of Seattle until 1917 when he entered the service of the government in the personnel department of the army. Mr. Turner was in charge of the classification of enlisted men at a number of western camps, including Camp Lewis.
Pleased Over Selection.
"We feel especially gratified in securing the services of Mr. Turner," said Marvin Chase, state hydraulic engineer and chairman of the commission. "Mr. Turner is on of the ablest engineers in the entire west, and we are might lucky to have been able to get him to serve as engineer for the commission. He feels that the possibilities are so great for serving the state that he joins most heartily with us in giving his time in the investigation and preliminary survey which we all hope will lead to the development of one of the greatest reclamation projects in the world."
