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Title page 35
Relation River in Common
Date 2005-01-12 to 2005-02-16
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Description projects in the state were authorized: Minidoka in the Upper Snake Basin (1904) and the Boise Project in the Lower Basin (1906). Managing new storage water rights with existing surface water rights created new complications, and in the 1920s irrigators and federal officials banded together to create a "Committee of Nine" to oversee Upper Basin water management. 69 By the 1930s, 31 large irrigation storage projects were in place. In dry years, all of the Snake's water could be controlled by...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1252

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