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income increased. His first important project was building
a railroad for Hutchinson Lumber Co. at Orotillo, Cal. His
three sons, Warren, Steve and Ken joined him in the
growing business. In 1928, he was elected president of
Associated General Contractors of America, a powerful
lobbying group. In 1931, Dad Bechtel became president
of Six Companies, a consortium formed to build the $49
million Boulder Dam. It was incorporated in Delaware in
Feb. 1931 by H.J. Kaiser Sr. and Jr.; Felix Kahn of
MacDonald and Kahn; Henry W. Morrison of Morrison-
Knudsen; W.A. Bechtel Co.; J.F. Shea of Los Angeles,
which built the Pacific Bridge at Portland, and General
Construction Co., Seattle. MacDonald and Kahn had
built the Mark Hopkins Hotel; Morrison was a trustee of
Stanford and close friend of Herbert Hoover and Leland
Cutler.
Between 1931 and 1936, the consortium built the
Bonneville Dam, the San Francisco Bay Bridge, and
other projects. During the construction of Hoover
(Boulder) Dam, a steel salesman, John McCone, called
on Bechtel. He had been a friend of Steve Bechtel at the
Univ. of California in 1922. Steve was now head of the
firm, due to the mysterious death of Warren Bechtel in
Moscow August 29, 1933. Dad Bechtel, 61, had come to
Russia to inspect the Magnitogorsk Dam, on a 3 day tour
which also included the Dnieperstroy Dam. He had been
instructed by the Soviet authorities to come alone, and
he left his wife in Vienna. While staying at the National
Hotel in Moscow, before leaving on the tour, Dad Bechtel
died suddenly of "an overdose of medicine". There was