The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1935-10-03
WEST AROUSED
TCANARD IN 1
I,ASTCOLLIERS
Com m e rcial Organizations
Object to Article Ridiculing
Coulee Dam Project and
Pass Resolution

chez. was reused to high pitch
nv a story appearing in Golfers
Magazine of current date. The fol-
lowing resolution was passed by that
organization yesterday with only
one dissenting vote:
Resolution
WHEREAS-Under date of Sep
TENDER 81, 1885, there was printed
in golfers" an article entitled
aPower in the Wilderness" and
WHEREAS-This article contains
statements relative to the Grand
Coulee dam now being constructed
by the United States Bureau of Rec
lamation in the Columbia river, and
relative to the Columbia Basin r.
rigation project, such as: 4. y
miles of canals will meander
southwark like watery tentacles ex-
ploring and cropping, aimed at the
redemption of a million and a quar-
ter acres of dead land bitter with al
kali" (
that the million acres into
which the water will carry revival
will continue to be just a million
acres that nature reserved for her
own, unfit for man and barren Of
wealth"
whether they shall be a part
of Or national destiny or merely
monuments to an administrations
prodigality and egotism."
And other statements intended to
mislead the reading public relative
to the development of and demand
for hydro-electric power in the
Northwest and which said state
ments are false and nbelous of the
owners not only Of the said lands,
but of the people of the State of
Washington generally, and reflect
also on the integrity of the Bureau
Of Reclamation.
We charge that these statements
are dwelling and blatant mis-
statement of facts.
Instead of "a million and a
quarter acres of dead land bitter
with alkali," we have the records of
most dependable studies for years
showing this soil to be really the
most productive in the entire Unit
ed States when given water.
WHEREAS Data published by
the United States Geological Sur
Vey, the reports of the engineering
corps of the United States Army,
data gathered by the Agricultural
and Engineering department of the
State College of Washington at Pull
man and the Engineering Experi-
mental station at the University of
washington at Seattle; together
with data published by the Column
bla Basin Commission of the State
OF Washington at Spokane, certain
ncontrovertible data that the lands
included within the Columbia Basin
project are among the most fertile
and highly productive of the unde-
veloped areas of the West; and the
development of hydro electric DOW
er at Grand Coulee dam will be of
nestimable value to the State of
Washington and to the Northwest
ingeneral.
WHEREAS. Any person has a le-
ultimate right to ask when and
where power is to be sold or used.
That is legitimate discussion. But
no publication has right to spread
Vrulent falsehoods such as appear
m this publication. If the writer of
this article did not wish to be mall
eVolent and vicious he could have
easily ascertained the following
facts: u :. :.
That this is state building pro-
gram looking into the future Is
and SO years.
mat 1t has been studied for years
Dy the most competent engineers in
the United States.
That irrigated countries demand
ana require vast quantities of cheap
power.
mat for every family who locates
on tne land another family locates
n tne project towns and cities and a
'i,.ro In the metropolitan centers.
mat this power from Grand Cou-
nee VIII be the cheapest in the Unit
ed States. N'
mat this project is tied to irriea-
''on unit by unit only as needed.
mat with cheap power domest-
&c uses increase 700 percent.
mat electric power demands to-
uay now equal pre-depression
eN and are steadily increasing
iecora not equalled by any other
major industry.
mat even residence heatine
cooking and hotwater heating is -
IN success at Mason Citv
anu indicate a similar plan for tho
Northwest. A LUZ 'iie
+,,an nat THIS Grand Coulee dam vir-
power. pal Ae' lor
>--,IN "t no other such remarkable
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