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Increasing use is being made of agricultural waste products in the subdivision. Vinegar, pectin, and fruit juices as well as other items are byproducts of the fruit industry. A plant to produce starch and glucose from cull wheat was established at...
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SCALE OF EMPLOYEE S
CENTRAL WASHINGTON
PRINCIPAL MINES
BY NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
1940
metropolitan centers of the Pacific Northwest. Pasco, Wash., at the extreme southern margin is the present head of navigation on the Columbia River. From...
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Image captions: Wheat elevator and warehouses near Ritzville, Wash. Branding calf near Ephrata, Wash.
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As in other subdivisions, persons engaged in retail trade (13,392) outnumber those of any other group. Construction in progress at Grand Coulee Dam in 1940 helped account for an unusually large proportion of workers in that group. The percentages...
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irrigated orchard 60 miles into the wooded mountains, which rise precipitously about 7,000 feet above its head.
Several developed sites are available to winter sports enthusiasts. One, nationally known for its high ski jump, is at Leavenworth in...
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PALMER LAKE RES. SITE CHELAN
KETTLE RIVER PROJECT
SANPOIL RIVER PROJECTS
OKANOGAN RIVER
PROJECTS FOSTER CR PROJECTS.
FOSTER CR. POWER SITE
CHELAN RIVER
PROJECTS
ENTIAT RIV. PROJ
WENATCHEE LAKE RES. SITE
GRAND COULEE POWER SITE...
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non River, and Pataha Creek by the Works Progress Administration, county, and local agencies for protection of property in the towns of Pullman, Colfax, and Pomeroy. On the Yakima River, operation of reservoirs constructed for irrigation purposes...
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The acreages under existing developments served from the main stem of the Columbia are shown, by counties, in the following tabulation:
Land irrigable under existing works—Main stem of
Columbia River
Acres
Location
Total
Irrigated...
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ture proposed primarily for power production on the Columbia below Coulee Dam. About 13,600 acres of the land lie in the lower reaches of the Okanogan Valley. The plan to serve that area involves a canal leading from the Foster Creek Dam several...
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which the water would pass would probably lead to long-term cyclic storage in the final development.
Okanogan River Basin Present Development
In the part of the Okanogan River Basin within the United States, nearly full economic utilization of...
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the Washington Water Power Co. should exercise its full decreed right to 250 second-feet, development of a storage right in Palmer Lake would probably be necessary.
Methow River Basin Present Development
The principal development of water...
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of transporting ore from mines near its head to the town of Chelan at the outlet.
Lake Chelan is the outstanding feature of the Chelan River watershed. It is fed by streams rising high in the Cascade Mountains. Glaciers, in part, supply the...
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Land irrigable under existing works-
-Wenatchee River Basin
Acres
Irrigation development
Irrigated (1943)
Additional irrigable
Total
Wenatchee reclamation district 11, 206 1, 000 12, 206
Pioneer Water Users Association 1, 054 0 1,...
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developments have been established. The irrigation enterprises of the Yakima Valley embrace more than 80 percent of the total irrigated acreage in central Washington.
Irrigation.—The areas in the Yakima Basin now served by irrigation works...
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Work on the Roza division was begun in 1936 and is still in progress. The ultimate acreage to be irrigated in this division is 72,000 acres, 47,000 acres of which will be served by gravity and 25,000 acres by pumping. In 1943, 9,050 acres of the...
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tate the development of irrigated areas and power production.
lrrigation.-The total area of new lands in prospect for irrigation in the Yakima Valley is about 131,000 acres. Its addition to the present irrigated area would bring the total land...
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Image captions: Dairy farm near Ellensburg, Wash., Yakima project.
Harvesting oats near Ellensburg, Wash., Yakima project.
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Power.—Plans for development of hydroelectric power with waters of the Yakima River are incorporated in the canal system for the Roza division of the Yakima project. Under ultimate development, a plant with 12,000-kilowatt capacity will be...
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considerable amount of flood irrigation is practiced in the early spring. With some subirrigation, the flooding produces excellent crops of grain. Crab Creek flows through Moses Lake, although the principal source of supply for this body of water...
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Flat area would total 366,000 acre-feet. The total annual energy requirement for pumping would be approximately 305,467,000 kilowatt-hours.
Low-lying areas scattered along the Snake River in 34 separate tracts, with a total area of 11,800 acres,...
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Summary of potential developments
IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE (ACRES)
Gravity
Unit
New land
PumpingSupplemental
water
Total benefited
Columbia River, main stem:
Columbia Basin project 0 1, 029, 000 0 1, 029, 000
Franklin D....
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DAMS AND POWER PLANTS
Name
Installed capacity
(kilowatts)
Annual production (million kilowatt-hours)
Firm
Secondary
Columbia River:
Grand Coulee 1 2 1, 156, 000 3 3, 460 3, 440
Foster Creek 1,024,000 4,950 1,054
Chelan 475, 000...
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Middle
Columbia
"Fuller use of water resources of the middle basin will entail a very large extension in the acreage of irrigated farm land, a great increase in power development, and further improvement of the Columbia for navigation....
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MIDDLE COLUMBIA
LOCATION MAP
B E N T O N
Goldendale
WALLA WALLA
UMATILLA
Pilot Rock
Indian Res.
MadrasArlington
SHERMAN
GILLIAM
MORROW
Heppner
Condon
WHEELER
Granite
Tygh Valle
Prairie City
DayviIIe
Canyon...
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Chapter VIII
MIDDLE COLUMBIA GENERAL DESCRIPTION The middle Columbia Basin is the plateau and mountain country drained by the Columbia River between its junction with the Snake near Pasco, Wash., and the head of tidewater at Bonneville... |
