The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1907-05-01
SOIL UNDER TETON PROJECT
No More Projects to BE Placed Under
Way i'm Washington for
Many Years.

For the Tieton. Sunnyside and
Wapato projects, which are all in
Guided in what is known as the Yaki
ma valley scheme, the reclamation
service believes 1t will be unnecessary
20 construct very large storage res
ervoirs AZ present Until some OF
Il y larger sub-projects OF the Yaki.
: %Iheme are carried to completion
!emt ,,rary storage only will be car
-ied 10 completion, crib dams being
used at Lakes Keechelus and Gle
alum for that purpose. These dams
will be about fourteen feet high and
their combined storage capacity will
be about 10000 acre feet, according
TO the annual report of the recla-
nation service which has just been
issued for 1906.
Soil in the Teton.
The annual report offers these re-
marks on the soil included in the
Teton project: "The soil of the
Tieton project is in great part a
sandy loan of basaltic origin and
ranges in depth from few inches
to many feet. The rainfall is in
sufficient for more than partial
crops and the number of days of
sunshine is especially favorable to
the stimulation of plant growth. The
lands are specially qualified for or
chards and for growing hops, vines,
grain, alfalfa, timothy, root and tu-
Der crops. Even though the district
be adapted to fruit growing, a di-
versity of products will always be
raised, and it is difficult to indicate
the probable ratio of staple crops.
The peculiar climate and soil condl
tons of the locality might make the
raising of potatoes for the manufac-
ture of alcohol an industry that
would far eclipse the growing of
fruit" Up to the end of the fiscal
year the expenditures on account of
the Teton project had amounted to
only S2G.167, out of the total allot-
ted OF s1,250,000; but the work Of
constructing the irrigation works
had, Of course. hardly begun. The
detailed statement of expenditures
follows Portion of Yakima storage,
s4,035; farm unit subdivision and
soil examination, s763; examination
Of project as whole, s13,S34; ad-
ministration OF project as a whole,
s6,613; building, 1922.
sunnyside Project.
The Sunnyside project, which is
about twice as large as the Teton,
since it is proposed TO irrigate about
1900 acres in addition TO the 49,
600 already irrigated within the
boundaries of the project, has con-
tinued to present unusual Difficult
ties, the report of the reclamation
service says. At the time the report
was written, the water users associa-
ton had succeeded in bringing il
only about 50 per cent of the acre
age, and the matter was aggravated
by the rather unusual circumstance
that some of the owners lived outside
the state The whole allotment for
the Sunnyside project is 100000.
for 100000 was added last year
through the efforts Of Representative
Jones
The expenditures on the Sunny
side scheme up to the end of the ifs
cal year are presented as follows,
Portion OF Yakima storage, s4.035,
farm unit subdivision and examina-
ton, s57S; examination of project
as a wholes10,60S administration
Of project as a whole, s4,96S; build
ing. 1922. Expenditures under
head of Services" were as follows:
Examination, s2,s66; survey, So
94s; design, 1924 subdivision,
s2ss; rights and property, s607; ad-
ministration, s3.392. Travelling exx
penses. including those of the survey
parties and all others, were s2,261;
subsistence amounted to s2,125;
equipment footed up s1.042; mate~-
ials cost sS1; supplies amounted to
s1,4S4, and forage TO s605.
No New Projects.
"No new projects in Washington
for many years. is the dictum of the
federal reclamation service regard
Ing the future of irrigation work in
the state. This announcement is in
cidental 10 some remarks on the
Priest river. Palouse, Benton an1
Kittitas schemes. The fact is, the
reclamation service is in some dan
ger of being cramped for funds; this
at least. IS possibility in case thu
expenditures of various projects con