The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-08-07
TO VOTE ON
PLAN TO FINISH
PROJECT SURVEY
Reclamation Service Runs out of
Money to Complete Survey .
of Local Project
SPECIAL ELECTION is CALLED
II Is Proposed that Kennewick Irriga-
tion District Raise Money to
Keep Work Going


In order that the Kennewick Irri-
cation project may be in line for inn
mediate action under any reclamation
plan that may be adopted by con-
oress, the directors of Kennewick Ir-
ripation District have called special
election for the purpose of authorizing
4 special assessment of $4,000.
If the assessment is authorized by
the land owners of the district the
money will be used for completing the
survey and other details that must be
disposed Of before work can be start
ed. The call for the special election
is the result of a conference held in
Yakima last week between r. X. Tiff
fany, manager of the Yakima Recla-
nation project, Engineer Crownover
and j. J. Rudlzin, M. N. Hudnall and
G. N. Hughes, directors, and M. M.
Moulton, secretary of the irrigation
district.
Manager Tiffany told the directors
that the reclamation service had now
definitely decided upon plan for the
irrigation Of the Kennewick lands. The
water is to be taken partly out of
the Yakima at Prosser and partly out
of the Sunnyside canal. The canal
will follow the line of the old Ledbet-
tor ditch and will cross the Yakima
near Chandler. This plan will irri-
gate practically the same acreage as
proposed under the Sunnyside extern
sion. The survey for this system has
been in progress for some time under
the direction of Mr.. Crownover. Now,
however, all funds for continuing the
work have been exhausted and insofar
as the government is concerned it
must be dropped until another appro-
priation is made.
This means that in the event that
some such legislation as has been pro-
posed by Mr.. Jones is put thru actual
construction work would have to be
delayed until the survey is completed.
To obviate this delay Manager Tiffany
suggested that the district raise the
money and enter into a contract with
the government for the completion of
the survey. 1t is estimated that it
will require between $4,000 and s14,-
600 to complete the work. This will
include both field and office work to
the last detail, definitely locating the
canal and compiling such other data
+. as may be necessary for actual con-
struction to begin. 49,
By way of explaining the PROPOSE
ton that is to be submitted, to the
voters, Mr.. Moulton says: "The plan
means simply this: It is no longer a
question of getting the water, but a
question of when we get it. When
ever the government does undertake
the project the cost of the survey will
oe Inquired as part of the construction
cost In other words the money which
we propose to pay now will have to
oe paid to the government by the dis
trlct later on. We are merely advanc-
ing $4,000 or $4,000 on the contract
winch We must make with the gov
efnment at some later date. By maks
0Ua, II
ing this advance we are putting our
selves IN Line for quicker action when
s completion of existing projects is
aalnorlzed by congress-. IF we are
nU ready when the money is ready it
.ouid be an easy thing for US to be
slderacked to await the construction
VI some other project that is ready.
= IS our purpose to be the 'readiest'
project in the United States when any
noney for construction work becomes
available. The surveying crews are
si ready in the field, the work is now
. progress. If we let it stop it may
quire lot of work to get it started
sean. If / do not mistake the senti-
len OF the landowners, they feel that
sey nave carried this proposition to
point where they are not going to
..p now. AS / see it, the project is
sung to be built. If the government
soes not do 1t, the district will. In that
sns the money we propose to spend
Nv would not be wasted as the SUR
snng data would be available for our
- NO matter when or by whom the