The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-11-25
Secretary Work Outlines
Plan for Reclamation
Development
KENNEWICK UNIT
is THIRD ON LIST
Finish KittitaS and Start
Storage First-No New
= Projects Considered

Under a 10-year reclamation
construction program which Sec
retary Work has proposed to con-
gress, the government would ex-
pend $25, $685. 900 on irrigation de-
velopment in the state of Wash
ington during the next decade, ir-
respective of anything that may
be appropriated during that per-
iod for the Columbia basin pro-
ject. His program calls also for
the expenditure of $14,757, 900 in
Idaho and 22,66O,O0O in Oregon
in the same period, says special
dispatch to a Spokane paper, from
Washington, DC. .'.s
Secretary Work, after confer
ence with Reclamation Commits
sioner Mead, found the reclama-
tion fund gradually dwindling,
due to declining land and oil re-
ceipts, while the demand for new
projects has been constantly in
creasing. He concluded it would
be the part of wisdom for congress
or the department to map out a
comprehensive program, looking
ahead and taking into considera-
tion the amount of money that
will be available for reclamation
work.
Last March the secretary sug-
gested to Senator McNary, chair
man of the irrigation committee,
that he would like to have western
senators and congressman sit
down with him and map out pro-
gram for the coming 10 years, but
Senator McNary frowned on the
proposal and said there should be
no division of responsibility and
that the secretary himself should
continue to recommend new con-
struction, as he alone had all the
facts on which to determine the
feasibility of contemplated work.
On that assurance the secretary
and DR.. Mead have mapped out a
10-year program which they have
sent to congress embodying their
idea as to how best the probable
receipts of the next 10. years can
be applied. The secretary deems
it of first Importance to carry thru
the Kittitas division of the Yak
ina project to early completion,
and to that end suggests an ap-
preparation of $2,000,O00 for next
year, $1,500,O00 for each of the
two following years, and $1,700,-
600 as final appropriation to
complete this unit in 1881. 81
The following year, 1892, he
would begin the building of Gle
Elum reservoir, which is to cost
$5,500,00Q sfor 1855 and 81,
leaving the remaining $3,185, 900
to be provided after the 10-year
program works out. -a...%
The Kennewick division Of the
Yakima project, which is estimat-
ed to cost s4,6s3, 900, the secretary
would also start in 1884 with an
initial appropriation of $5O0,0OO
to be followed by appropriations
of million year for the next
three years, the remainder of the
cost $1,1S3,00O to be taken care
of after the 10-year period has
expired. . ,........: ........ ....
On the Okanogan project, the
secretary suggests the appropria-
tion of 100000 for a pumping
plant and $4,000 for lining later
ais, these appropriations to be
made a year hence. -
The secretary's program as to
Idaho contemplates, in the next
10 years, spending $6,334,0O0 on
the Boise project and $S,423,0 900
on the Minidoka, or extensions
thereof. On the Boise project, the
secretary proposes to spend $780,
600 this year, and $4,000 next on
betterments of the main canal and
would spend $4,000 year for
the next three years on Arrowrock
drainage.