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A grand, hundred-million-dollar vision for an industrial city rises on the Columbia—though for now, it exists only on paper.
“Construction will start soon on the $100,000,000 power project and industrial city at the Priest Rapids.”
Fishing interests argue that a proposed 90-foot dam at Priest Rapids would slash their $10 million industry in half.
“They testified that their business was worth $10,000,000 annually and that the building of a 90 foot dam at Priest Rapids would cut their industry in half.”
A century ago, corporate giants promised a $100 million industrial empire at Priest Rapids, envisioning a city of 40,000 where only sagebrush grew.
“A teeming industrial city of perhaps 40,000 persons at Priest rapids.”
Boosterism meets industrial ambition as White Bluffs looks toward the construction of a massive hydroelectric dam.
“The dream of the scientists is to harness this water to the industry of the country.”
A Seattle attorney challenges a major dam project to secure the water rights of the Hanford-White Bluffs community.
“Under the water code the rights so acquired by actual use are superior to any rights thereafter sought through permit from your office.”
A local farmer narrowly survives a frightening accident after his team of colts went rogue.
“A team of young colts he was holding by the heads became suddenly frightened and jumped on top of him.”
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