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Irrigation officials discuss selling the Sunnyside Canal system to the U.S. government to secure Yakima Valley land rights.
“The further reclamation of lands in the Yakima valley is almost wholly dependant on the construction of storage reservoirs.”
As fruit growers in the Yakima Valley panic and rip out their orchards to plant alfalfa, one local paper warns that the cycle of boom and bust is as predictable as the rising sun.
“These boom and depression periods in the value of all farm products follow each other with the persistence and certainty of night and day.”
A major irrigation project backed by the Northern Pacific Railroad promises to transform 60,000 acres of arid land.
“The first ditch to be constructed will cover between 50,000 and 60,000 acres in the Sunnyside country.”
A rural school district finally completes its long-delayed migration, ending years of hardship for pupils and teachers.
“In the meantime teachers and pupils had to carry their drinking water to school, as there was no supply.”
Residents are firing back at rumors of railroad abandonment, insisting their fertile soil promises a profitable future for the Northern Pacific.
“The statement that President Thomas Cooper turned the project down is an impeachment of his integrity.”
A North Yakima skeptic doubted the valley’s famous hay yields. A local correspondent polled the oldest growers and came back with a table—and a defense of the district’s sales pitch.
““We have always contended that seven tons of hay per acre was a very conservative estimate for the average yield of alfalfa at this place.””
A doctor's Ford car is reduced to ashes in Sunnyside while en route to Kennewick under mysterious circumstances.
“It is not known how the fire started, but it is supposed that someone perhaps was attempting to 'borrow' the car.”
Sunnyside boosters launch a pioneering bid to link the Inland Empire highway to the isolated Priest Rapids district.
“Sunnyside good roads boosters have taken the lead in the matter and say that... no independent road district has been created since the law providing for them was passed.”
Kennewick's high school debaters argued the affirmative for military drill in Washington schools and ran into a Sunnyside team that had all the good evidence — their first loss in three years.
“The young people from Sunnyside had developed the negative very ably and made most of the arguments of experience, authority and futility which lie heavily against the adoption of the system the Kennewick team had to uphold.”
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