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| Year | Stories |
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| 1883 | 1 |
| 1885 | 2 |
| 1892 | 5 |
| 1893 | 1 |
| 1898 | 1 |
| 1903 | 2 |
| 1909 | 1 |
| 1910 | 1 |
| 1914 | 1 |
| 1915 | 1 |
| 1916 | 38 |
| 1917 | 1 |
| 1923 | 3 |
| 1924 | 4 |
| 1925 | 3 |
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- A $100 Million Power City Planned at Priest Rapids
A grand, hundred-million-dollar vision for an industrial city rises on the Columbia—though for now, it exists only on paper.
- The Great Chinook Flood of 1925
A rapid thaw across the Yakima Valley triggered widespread flooding, inundating low-lying roads and Crab Creek in the highest water event in over a decade.
- The Desert to Bloom: Federal Engineers Back Massive Irrigation Plan
A definitive federal study deems the Columbia Basin project physically and economically sound, signaling a potential turn in the state’s agricultural future.