The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-04-13
MOSCOW CHAMBER
SUPPORTS PROJECT
HEARTILY ENDORSE COLUMBIA
BASIN MOVEMENT OF SPOKANE
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
At one of the largest meetings ever
held the Moscow chamber of com
merce by a unanimous vote endorsed
Thursday noon the Columbia rivel
basin project as presented by the dele.
cation from the Spokane chamber oil
commerce. The motion as introduced
by Guy Wolfe and seconded by J.
Keane, provided for hearty cooper
alton of the Columbia river basin
project and the movement of the Spo-
kane chamber of commerce"
"The time is not far distant when
the great waters of the Rocky noun
tains, brought to the desert in east
ern Washington, will make that desert
blossom as the rose," said f. E. Pope
who with T. S. Lane and Charles E.
Frederick were the spokesmen of the
: Spokane delegation in presenting the
Columbia river basin project to the
Moscow chamber of commerce. T. S.
Lane was the principal Spokane
speaker at the luncheon and outlined
the work done and to be done toward
the development of the project of
1,753 900 acres Dean e. j. Iddings
made a short address in behalf of
irrigation and Senator M. E. Lewis
further developed the problem of the
development Of the big project
Big Spokane Delegation
Seeking the cooperation freely Civ
en- the movement by the Moscow
chamber of commerce the Spokane
chamber of commerce delegation ar
rived in Moscow from Lewiston
Thursday morning. Members of the
party, who left for Spokane Thursday
afternoon were: T. S. Lane, vice presi-
dent of the Spokane chamber of COM
merce; Fred A. Adams, supervisor OF
the Columbia basin project; e. S. Re
deker. manager Of the MarshallWells
Hardware company; C. E. McBroom,
president Of the Exchange National
bank; w. H. Ude, general agent of the
Northern Pacific railway; w. T. Day,
of the Day and Hansen Security COM
pany: Victor E. Piollet, vice president
Of the Washington Brick, Lime and
Sewer Pipe company; F. e. Pope, OF
the Elendorf and Pope Real Estate
company; C. H. Jones of Jones and
Dillingham;; B. L. Jenkins, assistant
cashier of the Old National bank; G.
C. Otto, vice president of the Fidelity
National bank; G. E. Frederick, sec
retarv-treasurer of the Palace De-
partment store; J.. L. Paine, manager
Of the Crescent store; E, D. Thomp-
son, ecretary-treasurer of the Holley-
Mason Hardware company; Richard
Hamilton, reporter of the Spokesman
Review.
President Chris Hagan welcomed
fhn Sn0kane delegation to Moscow and
called upon c. E. Frederick, chairman
of the Spokane party, who introduced
the visitors. The mission of the Spo-
kane men was described by Mr.
Frederick as a mission of national
Importance but one in which the
northwest is especially interested
Lane Tells of Project
T. S. Lane, the first speaker of the
visiting party in telling of the Colum-
bia basin project, said in part:
"In the year 1850 the estimate of
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace is
that the population of the country will
be 15O,0OO,OO0 people. He has also
pointed out that agricultural areas
are decreasing in per capita popula-
tfon. Northern Idaho and eastern
Washington have actually fewer peo-
ple at the present time than 10 years
ago
eve Of the northwest have been
asIeep on the Job" he continued after
telling Of the Colorado basin project
and the tide of immigration into the
southwest MOSCOW and spokane
have reached the limit of their de-
velopment unless the producing pom
ulation on the outside can be 1eve'-
oped. Lying outside is the Columbia I
river basin, our greatest potentlal
asset, the greatest asset of the Pa
cific northwest in the enlargement of 7
our producing poDulation
Plenty of Water for land
seThe state of Washington or the
past three years. has been making a
detailed investigation of the proiect
from the standpoint of feasibility ard
the economic standpoint. A careful
study of the soil of the basin has been
made with view to determining its +
adaptabjlity to use. It appears tfat
1 ,753 900 acres may be included III
tho project and that there are $4,000
square miles in Montana from which
water may be drawn.
"The projects nearest point of con-
tact with Spokane is 70 miles end
Moscow Is slightly nearer 70 the TO
feet than is Spokane. # we expect TO
accomplish anything in the way of
national recognition we must get our
minds set upon cooperation. We must
find ways and means to attract rat
ional support.
sThe project means borrowing from
the government s250,000,000. The
projects development means an IN
flux of 100000 people with buylng
power of s20O,0OO.00o and an addition
to our national wealth for purposes
of taxation of $450,000, 900.
Engineering Problems Simple
There are no serious engineering
difficulties. The problems are big
but simple. General Goethals IN his
report Of the project said that it's de-
yelopment was of greater Importance
10 the nation than the Panama canal
and the Alaskan development You
have particular interest in this de-
You have a great edu-
cational institution here, the Univer-
sity of Idaho, and number Of your
students are from the college OF ag-
riculture We owe something to the
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