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Title page 13
Relation Power and the Pacific Northwest
Date 2005-04-20 to 2005-05-09
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
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Description dam scoffed at the plan. A midwestern paper said, "The Grand Coulee Dam will be no more self-liquidating than the Great Pyramid it so humbles in size." And, an Eastern Congressman declared, "Grand Coulee is a vast area of gloomy tablelands interspersed with deep gullies . . . there is no one in the region to sell power to except rattlesnakes, coyotes, and rabbits. Everyone knows that. There is no market for power in the Northwest ... absolutely no market for the power in this section and will...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1938

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