White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-06-04
S96.33 PER ACRE FOR
PROJECT OF $500 ACRES

Robert Nichols, Alex McConnachie,
F. D. Edwards and E. I. O'Larey, of
the committee representing the Han
ford water right owners, held confer
ence in Ellensburg last Sunday with
their attorney, Carol B. Graves of
Seattle, and Marvin Chase OF Wen
atchee, who had charge of gathering
the engineering data on the cost of
rehabilitating the Hanford irrigation
system. Jay Smith and ]. F B.leakley,
the ether two members of the COM
mittee, were unable to attend. The con-
ference was acalled for the purpose of
considering Mr.. Chase's report. 1t
had been the intention of Mr. Chase
and Judge Graves to come over here
but Mr.. Chase is engaged on the work
Of the new hydro-electric power plant
being installed at Lake Chelan and
it was impossible for him to come
last week, and because of other mat
tiers it. was impossible for Judge
Groves to come this week
Mr.. Chase's report covers project
of $500 acres, 5000 acres of which is
Hanfcrd water right land and 27oo
acres, land that has no water right of
any RiIl1 dC IfliS IlIlle.
The report fixes the total cost of
reccnditioning the main canal and dis
tributing system at SoO7.OOO, or $e6.33
per acre for the $500 acres. This
to:al is made up of the following items !:
additional pumping equipment, $4,000;
main canal, excavating, $4,000 and lin
ing $27o,93c; road crossing S640; con-
Meeting pumps to canal, $5340; dis
tribrting system, excavation $50, ,44O,
lining $3e,7o4, back fill $74oO and pipe
lines $133,186; contingencies and
engineering S55,30o, total $507, 900.
This proposed irrigation system
would be capable of delivering ninety
six acre inches for each acre Of land
in the project for the irrigation season
or three times the present contract
allowance Of thirty-two acre inches.
The main canal would carry a con-
crete lining four inches thick and all
the laterals would be concrete lined
with asphalt coating to make them
impervious, and wherever necessary,
to install inverted syphons with full
creosoted wood stave pipe buried
below the ground. This, Mr.. Chase
says, will bring the transportation
losses down to the minimum. The
lateral system is designed to deliver
an irrigat.ng head of water to the last
farm unit on each lateral.
The reconditioning plan that he had
adopted in his report, Mr.. Chase ex-
claimed to the committee Sunday, was
the very best known and one that
experience had shown to be the most
economical and permanent. He said
that while the plan is complete SO
far as it concerns the project he has
laid out, it is subject to such changes
in the method of conditioning or in
enlarging or reducing the acreage as
tkoses interested deem advisable. In
other words, it can be used as the
basis for working out permanent and
adequate irrigation system for the
valley
Judge Graves expects to hold a con-
ference with Donworth and Todd,
attorneys for the Black Rock Com
pany regarding a settlement and with
Mr.. Chase he expects to come over here
some time in the next two weeks and
while his health is such yet that he
cannot hold public meeting he expects
to stay two or three days and will be
glad to discuss with those interested
any phase of the controversy.
Mr.. Chase's report is too lengthy
to publish but Jay Smith of Hanford
has .lone copy and there is another one
at the Spokesman office at White
Bluffs. Th1se reports are open tc
inspection to any one interested.