The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-11-23
FROM EDITORIAL COLUMNS


eva Vital to Northwest
'The Inauguration of the Columbia Valley authority will
bring about the ndusalzaon of the Northwest 20 year
faster than if left to the present pecemea method state
the Hon. Charles r. Savage from the third dis
rict Washington He member of the irrigation and reca
nation and the public lands committees and has made
serious study Of eva result.
His the first of that will be supplied
by Northwest in emphasizing the immediate
need of a Columbia Valley authority.
contemplated Columbia River authority embodied
Senate Bill 400 introduced by Senator Hugh Mitchell of
ngon, is vital to both the conservation and development Of
the far west he states Although the
region nations timber half the minerals
half the fish, has only cent Of the total manufacturing
capacity This compels people West
nomcaly the exploitation and reduction of natural
1T has always been nv contention that Americas last great
frontier Pacific Northwest whose boundess posi-
biie have barely been tapped Only through the full de-
veopment of the Columbia river producing for huge
manufacturing plants in Western Washington and irrigation
million of rich farm land in the Eastern part of
state the residents of Northwest find their
manifest destiny.
he key to the riddle power development cheap
power against which other region compete will force
industry and capital to to the Northwest They
do not want to and have found in congress hidden
conspiracy development they do not have to
mOve but the tide Western movement cannot be stayed
by such 1t inevitable the only question being how
soon?
Prompt IndustriaIization Needed
81 firmly believe that Inauguration of the Columbia
Valley authority bring about the industrazaton of
20 years faster than leave that development to
the pece-mea methods being used Therefore is
tany of interest to all of us to bend our every effort to It's
successful conclusion.
eve do not opponents Every of the pr
vae power companies they not lacking in
the destruction of this dream have They will
spare effort to sabotage the Columbia Valley
thorty program for it is their death knell.
'"The geographic combination of heavy and high
mountains the Columbia unexcelled of
Drought sackens its force On its 1490mile
nearly 1000 feet Great rangesthe Rockies
the Cascades Btterroo the Sekrkspay tribute in
melting glaciers Figures tell the Grand Couee has
capacity klowatts This equals the whole IVA
ecpses the Dnepersory project in Rus
STA 1t Niagara Falls In fact housewives in the Pa
cfc Northwest 70 cent electricity than the ma
tional average.
Irrigation Is Essential Phase
production of only phase of devel
opment Columbia river Grand Couee DAM greatest
single source electricity earth primarily power
project at all purpose irrigation of 100000 acres
of dry the of Washington. This land
sagebrus With it will raise peaches alfalfa, celery
and The $4,000 farms thus created
will be available returning from battle The
Public Lands committee of which member, has just
completed BILL which subsequently passed the house. giving
preference proes in obtaining land in this area
Senator bill would tie together all these diverse
such power irrigation navigation and flood
control.
would he sad transfer operations to the region with
1u bureaucratic domination 1t also would provide means
or the development and maintenance of overall unified
oan development of the water land and mineral
sources of the Columbia basin
"Who can disagree with these aims? Only small but
oudy majority bent their financial aggrandze
nent people want itand the people will prevail =
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