Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-07-22
THE MANY PROJECTS In The
INLAND EMPIRE BOUND TO
BE GREAT BENEFIT.
Railroad, Manufacturing Irrigation and
Private Enterprises to be Realized
During Next Year or Two Will
Amount to SIS, 900, ooo-Horse Heaven
Project Largest Single Item.

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in eastern War Washington, under
actual construction or so far advanced
in plans as to place them in the list of
certainties, are conservatively esti-
mated to reach a total expenditure of
about $35,OOO,OOO.
The largest single item on the list is
the reclamation by irrigation of 100000
acres of land on the Horse Heaven
plateau, in south central Washington.
The cost of this project is placed at
from $12,0O0,0OO to SIS, 100000, and will
require three years work. Walter l..
Fisher, secretary of the interior, has
granted the application of a canal right
of-way to the Klickitat Irrigation and
Power company, and E. d. Mineah,
president of the Land Owners associa
ton, announces that the entire acre
age, which is owned by farmers and
ranchers, has been pledged on basis
of not more than 500 an acre for water
rights.
Seven million dollars will be ex-
pended in retaining semi-humid lands
in other parts of eastern Washington
during the next few years. The total
acreage reported in 1910 was S17 1882,
an increase of 4s2,645 acres over 1909.
Nearly 1000 independent plants are in
operation on 1900 farms, and the total
expenditure is placed at $15,014.06, an
increase of 771.7 per cent in IL years.
The area irrigated by the United States
reclamation service equals $1,000 acres.
The acreage is devoted to fruit and field
crops, but not a single acre of wheat
land is under the ditch.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget
Sound Railroad company, the Oregon
Washington Railroad & Navigation
company and the Northern Pacific Rail
way company have plans to expend
about $10,000,0O0 in and near Spokane.
This includes 100000 for a union
and the grade separation work contem-
plated by the last mentioned. The Mil
waukee will expend between $2,000,000
and 100000 additional in construct
ing its road into Spokane. The Harri-
man company now has 1000 men at
work between Spokane and the Snake
river, and expects to complete the grade
early in March, 1912. The great North
ern and the Northern Pacific lines also
have plans for extensive improvements
in and near Spokane.
Preliminary work is under way on
shops and yards at Hillyard, suburb
of Spokane, for the Great Northern
Railway company. One hundred thou
sand dollars or more will be expended
on the work. The company will also
build an Independent stockyard. 1t also
has awarded a contract for 25 miles of
line down the San Poll valley from Re
public, Wash.
Wilbur S. Yearsley, president of the
Inland Paper company, reports that the
100000 plant at Wildwood, seven miles
east of Spokane, will be in operation
the middle of August. The daily output
at the beginning will be 20 tons of
paper, giving employment to 100 men.
The production will be increased to 35
tons daily in 1912. The plant covers
four acres. The International Portland
Cement company, headed by Rudolph
; Forget of Montreal, will begin work on
1000 barrel mill in the same district
in August. D. P. McKinnon, manager,
announces the plant will cost 81, 100000.
The Western Pottery company also will
establish a large plant at Wildwood this
year.
-Four million dollars is being expended
by the Washington Water Power com
pany on a power plant at Long Lake,
% miles north of Spokane. David L.
Huntington, president, says the -four
; turbines to be installed will develop
10000 horsepower. The company also
is building % miles of standard gauge
steam railroad to the plant Seventeen
million dollars already has been in
vested in operating plants and electric
E. railways in and near Spokane.
Work is being pushed on the Western
Lead Paint company's chemical reduc
tion plant near Dishman, Wash, where
> the only factory of its kind in the world
> is being erected at a cost of 100000
of which $4,000 is for machinery. The
: concrete building covers 100 by III
feet. The process, discovered by George
. Kingsley, concentrates the ore proper
ties with the use of chemicals, accom-
j.. plishing in five hours what requires
weeks by the present method. Opera
tion will begin in September with a
skilled workmen, the daily output Of
= che plant being so tons of white Lead
and chromes.
The city of Spokane has plans foi
n municipal work for this year estimated
to cost more than $4,5OO,O0O, of which
contracts calling for 100000 have
. been awarded.