The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-09-26

Uafy OF the interior OF tne IOliOWlnS pro-
jects, with authorized allotments and
acreage for each as indicated below:
Okanogan Project ....$ 100000 $3.50
Yakima Project
Tieton Unit ..... l,250,000 10000
Sunnyside Unit ..... 100000 $4,000
Yakima Indian Reser-
walton (tentative) :. 100000 5000
Umatilla Project ...... 100000 10000
$3,050,OOO 1860
Before proceeding with more de-
tailed description of these projects, it
may be we'll to mention the general
features which are common to all and
which may be inferred from the fore
going explanation of general physical
conditions.
All these projects are dependent upon
streams, the summer flow of which has
been fully appropriated and used by
private irrigators, and require the con-
sctruction of storage reservoirs to hold
back the spring floods.
And all projects require the consent
of practically all the owners of the pri-
vate lands to be irrigated, insuring their
compliance with the requirements of the
reclamation act, which consent has to
date been obtained satisfactorily in all
cases except under the Sunnyside and
the Yakima Indian reservation projects.
Okanogan Project-The Great North
ern railroad crosses the Columbia river
at Wenatchee. A days journey up the
river by steamer takes the traveller to
Brewster, situated just down stream
from the mouth of the Okanogan river.
Another days journey by steamer up
the Okanogan river or by stage, when
water is too low for navigation, brings
him to the small town of Alma, where
the Salmon river discharges into the
Okanogan river.
Immediately tothe north of Alma lies
fine body of land $4,000 acres in ex-
tent, which although within forty five
miles of the British Columbia boundary
has an elevation of less than 1900 feet
above the ocean. Nearly two thousand
acres of this land have been irrigated fol-
many years from the Salmon river, the
summer flow of which had been com
pletely appropriated and small storage
reservoir containing two thousand acre
| feet situated sixteen miles from the Sal
mon river in the vicinity of Conconully
the county seat of Okanogan county, had
been built by raising the waters of Sal
mon lake.
| This reservoir has been donated by its
owners to the government, and the nu
merous claimants to waters from the
Salmon river have by agreement defined
their claims. Thus the field was made
clear for government action.
An additional large reservoir to con
tain sixteen thousand acre feet will be
built by throwing a dam across the Sal
mon river few miles below Conconully
/
whence the water will be liberated to
flow down stream and to be diverted
from Salmon river at point three miles
above Alma. from there to be spread
over some $500 acres of land at pres
ent dry. Construction work on the
canals has been authorized by the sec
rotary of the interior and will be com
menced this fall and the 81 foot eartl
dam forming the reservoir will be con
structed next year between two flooC
seasons.
The quality of the irrigable lands ii
indicated by the highly successful irri
CATION which has been carried on in the
past, producing deciduous fruits, garden
truck, corn, grain and alfalfa. The en-
tire area will be subdivided into forty
acre tracts, each of which is deemed am
ply sufficient for the support of family
transportation facilities, as above in