The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-01-05
BEGIN SURVEY
IMMEDIATELY
WILL USE GOVERNMENT ENGINet RS
BaIlinger Said to Favor Project and
People Believe Canal Is q Co
To Begin Survey.

With all prospects bright, all hopes
and aspirations easy of realization If
the ambition of the members has
anything to do with it's consum-
nation, the executive committee
of the Valleys Of the Yakima
High Line Ditch association met at
Toppenish Monday.
Plans were discussed, and letters
read which went to demonstrate the
fact that the government was ready
to take hold Of any feasible propo-
sition put up to it by the land owners
of this county and a committee was
appointed by the executive board at
the meeting of the board Monday to
engage an engineer and push the
work of the temporary survey with
all possible speed. The committee
consists of President Lee A. Johnson
OF the association, R. ]. Logan of the
Rose Land company and Treasurer
Virgins of the association of Top
penish.
To people interested this looks good
and appears as though the matter
was to be pushed with all possible
speed. The next regular meeting of
the association proper will be held in
Prosser.
Government VIII Aid.
People in touch with the depart
nent at Washington and, also inter-
ested in the contamination of the pro-
posed ditch are of the opinion that
the mater will easily pass the heads
Of the department as a continuation
nf hp
thus come under the congressional
appropriation Of the last congress.
Secretary Ballinger is quoted as say
ing that this will be the masterpiece
Of all irrigation projects and it is
thus demonstrated that the powers
are in favor of the proposition.
No one seems to be in a position
to even estimate the good which
would obtain in North Yakima if the
ditch became a reality. Thousands
OF acres Of hay land would then be
available for the market at this
place to say nothing of the fruit lands
which would bring people to this
point
The realization of such a ditch
would easily place North Yakima in
the cities of the first class.
What 1t Means.
The nighttime ditch will add some
thing like 100000 acres to the irr-
gable land of this valley and it is
figured that every acre means a new
inhabitant in the valley. This is fig
sred by putting down a family of
Ave to every ten acres and a family
Of similar size in the cities to every
Secretary Ballinger has informed
a number of people that the high
line ditch is to be the backbone to
all the irrigation projects in the Yak
ina valley. 1t will be the main pros
pect and the others will be subsidiary
features or minor undertakings as
compared to it. Therefore it is that
the nighttime ditch is proving of
great interest to people of the entire
valley. Real estate is becoming
more active owing to the assured ac-
complishment of the nighttime ditch,
and it seems that people are buying
before the land raises in price
People have faith in the matter and
believe that at the right moment the
project will be taken up by the de-
partment Of the interior in the right
manner. Much is at stake and 4
great deal is being hoped for and
with the interest aroused and the
work now being done by the various
local committees of the valley towns
it seems almost impossible that any
thing but the brightest of prospects
will be realized for this section be-
fore very long