The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-11-22
WATER USERS.
OF HIGH LINE
$26, 900, 900 Project Being Put in
Shape to Lay Before
Capitalists
= (Staff correspondence

! (Staff Correspondence
SocSnPPENISH. Nov 2O.-For the
10; <F ee since the passage of
thelSUt :, hill by congress last Feb
ruary ,a1sJ Valleys of the Yakima
Water Use1. association in position
to go ahead and talk to capital con-
fidingly. That bill provides for the
sale by the government of stored wa
tiers to private corporations. The
above information was brought out
forcibly today at the annual meeting
of the association held here in the
Commercial club rooms, commencing
at 10 o'clock this forenoon. There
was fair attendance of the members
and great interest was shown.
From the report of Secretary F. A.
| Virgins it is learned that the asso-
citation has spent more than $4,000 in
the preliminary work of getting the
proposition in shape where it can be
shown to the moneyed men who will
be called upon finance it.
| viii GO II Alone
1t is probable that the Kittitas pro-
ject and the Yakima one will be dis
associated. There are several reasons
|
is much smaller than the one here
and water can be obtained therefor in
sufficient quantities by taking out a
canal west of where the waters from
Lake Gle Elum flow into the Yakima
river. Not so, however, with the
Yakima project. This is planned to
reclaim and irrigate more than 100000
acres of land, for which an ammense
supply of water must be available The
| Kittitas people want to go ahead
at once and utilize the waters that are
stored in Lakes Kaches and Keeche-
lus, the dams for which have already
| been constructed. 1t will take more
time to build the dam at Lake Gle
| Elum.
Fishers Action Appreciated
The action of Secretary of the In
terror Walter L. Fisher in granting
this association further time to interest
capital is appreciated. 1t is believed
that it will now be possible to present
the matter in such light at the proper
sources of money supply that the deal
can be made A word of warning here
may save trouble. Both President Lee
A. Johnson and Secretary F. A. Wig
gins cautioned against specializing in
lands on the supposition that they
would come under the High Line canal
as it is called
Only Preliminary Survey
Mr.. Virgins said that cases had
come to knowledge where real estate
dealers had made sales based on the
fact that the lands sold were under
the ditch. 1t is true that they may be
under the preliminary survey of the
line of the ditch. but that is not final.
Therefore, prospective purchasers
should compel the real estate dealers
to produce maps and substantiate all
claims of that kind, in regard to lands
being under the ditch as it will be
finally located.
There is at present a corps of en-
gineers in the field in Kittitas county
working out some data for the use of
the government The fact that this is
being done, and further, that the Unit
ed States reclamation service officials
seem to look with favor on this big
undertaking, and are anxious to see
work commenced thereupon, have had
a tendency to inspire the local mem
bers of the association to renewed eff
forts.
The Sunnyside government cana
comes through Union gap at an eleva-
! ton of 900 feet, while the canal of the
: Valleys of the Yakima Water Users
association will be at an elevation OF
1900 feet. In addition to the land tina
can be irrigated under the ditch it i!
believed to be feasible that all lant
below an elevation of 1000 feet car
be irrigated from these waters. Thu
extra lift of 800 feet will be made b,
raising the water from the canal b!
means of power that has been gener
ated by the water flowing in the canal
and by taking said power by wire t.
where it can be used for pumping.
\ Plan Is Proposed
] The annual election of trustees re
suited as follows: F. A Virgins, Top
= penish; H Is. Scudder and NJ. r. Gal
2 loway. North Yakima; Lee A. johnson
I and d. G. Hansen, Sunnyside; Waite
= Price, Outlook; j. NJ Hoagland
. Grandview. Right after the adjourn
= ment of the stockholders, the trus
2 tees met and perfected organization
S as follows Lee A. Johnson, president
t II. b. Scudder, vice president; F. a
Virgins. secretary. These officer
. were all reelected l.. j. Goodrich
= cashier of the First National bank
= was reelected treasurer
The next move will be to outlin
: definite plan to put before interest
. ed financial parties as to the bonding
Y of the lands as security for the none.
r advanced, work having already beer
- begun along that line The fact tina
= all the time necessary has been grant
{ ed is inyalua BILE. When capital wa
!, approached before, under Fishers so
r day limit to raise $2G,000,000, tn
capitalists sidestepped or refused t.