The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-07-13
=. Than Five Million Dol
Ss Or Have Already Been
Expended
.ncr,s TESTIMONY
n''1 IS A REVELATION
\. Project Will Justify
~ Two Railroads Down
the River
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(COntluuS
,t company several years ago
r !, tss Chicago sh Milwaukee 8 St St,
ra ' III sl5O,Ooo.oo to raise the
I' .... '' y the Hanford branch several
1' ! : d thew would not be overflowed
!, 81 in s. Of the dam. i
,.-r,tt & Chambers, foundation en-
'.s # New York City, made an
r .'t.ssivs examination Of the fo pun
, a.ans Of the proposed dam site dur
q 4. low water period of the past
n :. - and at a cost of about slOo,-
s a'a on behalf of the company. The
,.rnd.tions were found to De entire
, y satisfactory, the engineering plans
=, The hydro-electric plant are Delng
' !, and arrangements have ben
~, for financing the project. Inc
-. .,J Il construction will be begun
!. s .oou as contracts can be made for
-. ! Of sufficient of the power which
IN be produced to justify the de-
,.looment. One large sale OF power
n, already been made and Others are
h,;ne negotiated. The cost of the n.y.
dro.electric plant will be about s4o,-
oooOO and the industrial plants to
!. heated at Priest Rapids to use
the power will probably cost as much
more. This, together with the cost
II building the town which will grow
nm around the industrial plants and
the money which will be expended in
connection with agricultural develop
ments in the locality, will undoubted-
" mean the expenditure Of fully $780,
OOO,OOOOO in the Priest Rapids por-
ton Of the Columbia river valley with
in the next six to eight years.
Expect Town Of $4,000
1t is expected that town of from
10000 to 5O,OOO people will be es-
,ablished at Priest Rapids. The ma
terial required for the building of the
hydro-electric plant, the industrial
plants, the town and in connection
with agricultural development in the
locality, will necessitate the move
ment to Priest Rapids of enormous
amounts of freight which will come
to it over all four of the transcon-
tnental lines with which it would
have direct connection were the Wen
atchee Southern railroad to be built.
The four roads referred to are the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul, Id
miles to the north of Priest Rapids,
tne Great Northern railroad, CT miles,
north, and the Union Pacific system,
Tue Northern Pacific railroad and the
spokane, Portland & Seattle railroad
located "a miles to the south. The
passenger traffic in and out of Priest
Aaplds over the Wenatchee Southern
railroad during the above named pc
''od Will be very considerable.
It's estimated that when the Priest
nplds hydro-electric plant and the
INDUSTRIAL plants which will use it's
p..er are completed, that the amount
y lfelght going to Priest Rapids for
: Oy the industrial plants which will
: located there will be from 100000
! i'uOo,0OO tons per annum, and that
- freight moving out will be fully
"uVo tons. The freight to Priest
y 'Apas will consist among other ma
' s''a's Of limestone, phosphate rock,
~ IRON, copper, lead zinc and other
1. -, Inc freight out of Priest Rap
Wv Will consist of finished goods. of
aanlnum and copper ingots and other
''avy material. anu 0Aei
p,,;s- pans connected with the Priest
-. PROJECT as carried out. means
,on,t que building of the Wenatchee
s,. ;,sfn railroad is an absolute ne
,maD sy and will create an enormous
'' Of freight traffic for all of