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Mohave County is the second largest county in Arizona. Its 13,390 square miles stretch from Nevada and Utah to Yuma County, from California to Coconino and Yavapai Counties, filling the northwestern corner of the state with an abundance of rugged landscape, colorfully arrayed.

The County of Mohave is larger than Connecticut and Massachusetts put together. It is also larger than such countries and places as Belgium, French Somaliland, the Republic of Haiti, the Republic of El Salvador, Holland and just a little smaller than Japan's island of the teeming millions, Formosa. That may give you some idea of the size of Mohave.

As a travel center Mohave County is chiefly noted for Boulder Dam and Lake Mead, today one of the most important travel centers in Western America. As an indication of its popularity for travelers we can quote big figures: between the dates of Oct. 1, 1940, and May 31, 1941, a total of 420,879 people in 155,574 vehicles from every state in the Union, five territories and several foreign countries visited the Boulder Dam Recreational Area, and not included are statospheric figures of summer travel.

Boulder Dam-a monument to American engineering ability-is one of the great educational, inspirational and scenic highlights of a journey through the West. Lake Mead, formed by the Dam and the Colorado River, is 119 miles long, covers 149,700 acres and now holds in storage 30,000,000 acre feet of water. As this is written the lake is nearing a point where it will overflow its spillways. Spring floods on the Colorado-160 to 1,060 percent normal-are effectively swallowed by the lake and the dam, aptly demonstrating their effectiveness in river regulation. Fishing, boating and other recreational possibilities are boundless.

Lake Havasu, behind Parker Dam, is backed for fifty miles against Mohave County. As this is written the projected Bullshead Dam, 30 miles due west of Kingman, will soon come into being.. This dam, to be known as Davis Dam after one of the great exponents of reclamation in the U. S. A., will add another scenic jewel to wonders along the Colorado.

The terrain of Mohave County varies from desert to thick forest on the Hualpai Range. The Joshua Forest, northwest of Kingman, is worthy of a short side trip for any traveler following the highroads of the West. Pipe Springs National Monument in the northeastern part of the county has great historical significance. A large part of the Hualpai Indian Reservation, that of the most secluded tribe in Arizona, is in Mohave County. Back in the reservation is thick forests and the beauty of the Grand Canyon, on whose South Rim the Hualpai live. Mountains and plateaus, cliffs and canyon, mines and miners, ranchers, prospectors, sandy trails up a dry wash, great highways unrolled through miles of, swiftly changing terrain, Lake Mead and Grand Canyon-all of these are part of Mohave County. You can find many things more when you happen that way. R. C.

Edited by the Department of the Interior through the National Park Service. A major portion of this area is in Mohave County, and the ever-increasing development of the lake as a recreational center adds to the increasing importance of Mohave in the travel firmament.

Boulder Dam itself ranks with Grand Canyon as something to see and something to remember. The world's highest dam, it is 727 feet high, 1,282 feet long at the crest and 45 feet thick. Essentially a power development, the maximum rated output of the power plant at the dam is 1,835,000 horse power and 4,330,000,000 kilowatt hours of power annually. Visitors to Boulder are taken on guided tours through the interior of the dam by means of elevators which travel a distance equal to the height of a 44-story building.

Back of the dam is Lake Mead, whose size is incomprehensible to the person who doesn't take the boat ride from Boulder to the Canyon. When you realize that the combined fleets of all the navies in the world could float at one time on the lake you get some idea of its size. Experts rate Lake Mead the finest bass fishing center in the world. It is ideal for boating and the boat trip on the lake up Grand Canyon for 25 miles or more is doubtlessly the high point in your travel adventures through the West.

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