Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1922-04-21

/ for use in retaining arid lands in
the West. but this is not large
/ enough to undertake a project of
this size. Excellent results have
been accomplished by this fund and
+ it should be left for the use for
which it was intended.
i Though located in the state of
Washington, the benefits from the
project will not be confined thereto
but will extend to all parts of the
United States. Through it pace will
be kept with the ever increasing de-
mand for food stuffs of all kinds
which will furnish increased bust
ness for all transportation facilities.
1t was stated, concerning Wenatchee
valley, that for every carload of
fruit shipped out of the irrigated
district carload of manufactured
goods is shipped in. The same will
be true of the Columbia Basin.
Towns will spring up throughout the
area. The demand for manufactured
| products-necessiti and Injuries
will necessitate an increase of pro-
duction in the various industrial sec
tions of the country. 1t required
vision to conceive the project; far
less imagination was needed to pic
ture the benefits that will accrue to
the entire country through its re-
alizatiOn.
THE federal government is the
only agency that can financially car
ry the project to completion, the
only one that can absorb the interest
charges and give to the farmer the
+ time necessary to repay the capital
the cost of construction. That the
United States will be fully repaid
indirectly, for the interest charges
cannot be questioned by any one who
! gives the matter any thought or who
will consider the returns already ac-
crued from the Yakima valley prof.
ect. The Columbia Basin is merely
an enlarged Yakima valley"
The Goethals report is elaborate,
containing IS pages of typewriter
matter, more than half of which is
/ devoted to tables summarizing en-
cheering studies and cost estimates
prepared by General Goethals and
his staff
Summary
/. OF over 100000 acres of
land embraced within the Columbia
Basin, lying between the Columbia
and Snake rivers, 1853, 900 are ir-
rigable by the Pend O'Reille gravity
project and l ,403, 600 by the Column
bia river pumping project.
2. The gravity project provides
water by gravity flow from the Pend
OReilly river and it's tributaries
abve Newport, Washington.
3. The pumping project provides
water from the Columbia river. A
pool is formed by a dam, varying
/ from 200 to 285 feet in height, with
respective effective heads of 1913 to
/ 211 feet, across the gorge of the
Columbia at the head of the Grand
/ Coulee, from which water is pumped
by hydro-electric units, each lifting
1 1000 second feet approximately 4S2
/ feet, or by direct connected units of
equal capacity lifting approximately
$50 feet, to an artificial lake.
whence the water is carried to the
land by gravity.
A. The estimated cost of the
gravity project is $254,170,351, or
$145,56 per acre.
The construction is feasible and
offers no unusual difficulties.
6. The cost of operation and
maintenance for the gravity project
is estimated at $841,45O or As cents
per acre per annum.
7. The lowest estimated cost for
the pumping project is $223,096,-
943, or $159.01 per acre. The diff
/ ficulties attending the construction
are unusual and the pumps proposed
nave never been built.
8. The cost of operation and
maintenance for the pumping prof.
ect is estimated from $2,61O,275 to
$2,192,605 per annum, or from $1.S6
to $1.51 per acre, depending upon
the height of dam adopted.
g. The gravity project is recon-
mended for adoption
10. 1t is recommended that the
entire project be undertaken with
a view to completing it in its en-
ttrety rather than attempting it
piecemeal or adopting temporary
construction.
II. The estimated time for com
pletion is six years.
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