Washington Irrigation Company
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- Jan 1, 1903The Water Monopoly Standing Between Yakima and Its Best OrchardsA fruit grower warns that the Washington Irrigation Company’s control of reservoir sites could block the high-line ditch needed to open Yakima County’s frost-safe uplands to orchards.Yakima, WA
- Nov 17, 1903The Fight for the Valley's WaterNorth Yakima and Ellensburg join forces to block a deal giving a private irrigation company exclusive control over mountain lake water.Yakima, WA
- Jan 1, 1904The Commissioner, the Irrigation Company, and the Water Everyone Else WantedA Yakima editor accuses Washington's state land commissioner of handing a private irrigation company the inside track on the reservoir sites at the head of the river — then lying about it.Yakima, WA
- Feb 15, 1904A Private Canal Scheme Tries to Put a Tollbooth on the Yakima's WaterA state land commissioner warns that a canal company wants to control a lake north of Ellensburg and charge every future Yakima canal for passage.Kittitas Valley, Ellensburg, WA
- May 26, 1905The Sunnyside Canal SaleIrrigation officials discuss selling the Sunnyside Canal system to the U.S. government to secure Yakima Valley land rights.Sunnyside, WA