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40 stories matching calispel
- The Battle for the Calispel Valley
Landowners face a major legal fight as the Calispel diking district moves to reclaim thousands of acres of submerged land.
- A Civil Engineer's $200,000 Plan to Drain the Calispel Valley
A Newport civil engineer proposes canals, dikes and lock gates to reclaim a lake bed, irrigate the gravel slopes and stop the Pend Oreille from swallowing the valley's farms.
- A Lake, Not a Farm: Homesteaders Fought Over Calispell’s Swampy Shore
A Spokane sportsman’s club contests Calispell Lake homestead claims, arguing the land is water, not farmland—and more claims may follow.
- The Valley the Kalispel Never Ceded
A federal allotting agent explains how the Kalispel Valley was divided into individual parcels—after much of it had already been treated as public domain and claimed by white homesteaders.
- Calispel Valley Ranchers Move to Dike Out the Pend Oreille
A petition for a new diking district would protect 11,000 acres from annual floods—and add thousands to Stevens County's tax rolls.
- Duck Club Loses Fight Over Calispel Lake Homesteads
A Spokane land office ruling sided with settlers who argued that marshy ground at the upper end of Calispel Lake could be drained and farmed.
- A $32,000 Dike Bet Pays Off in the Calispel Valley
Twenty teams race a June deadline to reclaim 6,500 acres, backed by ranchers who saved a crop last year and proved the dike would pay.
- Flooded Out, Then Taxed: Assessor Asks Relief for the Calispel Farmers
High water wiped out the grain fields of the Calispel valley this spring. The county assessor says the survivors should not have to pay for land that gave them nothing.
- A Valley Votes to Hold Back the Water
Property owners in the proposed Calispel Diking District No. 1 unanimously back a 5,250-acre flood-control district and elect three commissioners.
- A Jury Settles the Water for Calispell
Landowners in the Calispell bottoms are awarded damages, clearing the way for a diking district to reclaim about 100 acres from the annual overflow.
- Two Neighbors Decide to Build Their Own Road to Town
Farmers of the Calispel valley and two men along the route plan a new road that skips the Bobier hill grade and shaves two miles off the haul to Newport — if the town will chip in.
- A Valley Drowns Every Spring—and One Farmer Wants a Better Dike
A correspondent warns that the Pend Oreille freshet has wrecked $50,000 worth of Calispel Valley crops—and argues the proposed diking districts are too piecemeal to save the basin.
- A Dangerous Fall at the Calispel Spur
A railroad inspector suffers a broken collarbone after stepping off a train in the dark and falling twenty feet into the river bank.
- The Kalispel Were Told to Pick Their Own Lands—While Settlers Hoped They'd Leave
A federal allotment agent was expected in the Calispel Valley, where the Kalispel were to select individual plots from land they already held.
- Two Telephone Companies Race to Wire the Pend Oreille Valley
Newport expected telephone connection to Metaline and the Calispel country in 1908, with two companies promising to build the line.
- Calispel Votes Again to Hold Back the Water
Property owners back a diking district 31 to 2, setting up a court survey and a railroad partnership to protect lowland farms from overflow.
- A Hundred Ranchers Tried to Steer the Railroad Down Their Side of the River
Property owners from the Calispel valley packed a Cusick meeting to lobby the Idaho Washington Northern for a west-side route—offering cheap right-of-way and a pile of guaranteed tonnage.
- Newport's Road Race for the Calispel Valley Trade
As rival towns lobbied for a $30,000 state road, Newport banked on a new railroad and steamboats to secure the rich valley's business.
- A Snowbound Road That Would End at Newport's Doorstep
State Road No. 2 — a $25,000 legislative appropriation — is about to go to bid, but contractors must first wait for the Calispel Mountains to thaw before they can walk the line.
- The Road to Prosperity Is Still a Sea of Mud
A Calispel Valley correspondent presses Newport to fix the Bobier Hill grade, widen the wagon roads, and treat farmers as more than an afterthought.
- The River Took the Whole Calispel Crop. Now the Farmers Want a Dike.
After backwater from the Pend Oreille drowned nearly every acre in the Calispel valley — a loss of $50,000 to $75,000 — landowners meet, hire a Spokane lawyer and move to organize a diking district under state law.
- Railway Contractors Bet Big on Usk as Milwaukee Line Speculation Swirls
A 480-acre ranch sells for $15,500, then the Usk townsite itself changes hands, fueling talk that the new railroad will remake the Calispel Valley.
- A Late-June Flood Chases Newport’s Riverfront
The Pend Oreille kept rising after mid-June, drowning grain in the Calispel Valley and tearing planks from the Lumbermen’s Transportation docks.
- Twenty Thousand Acres vs. the River: Calispel Valley Takes Its Case to Congress
Farmers around Usk and Cusick organize a diking district and send a committee to Spokane to beg a rivers-and-harbors congressman for a dredge, a dike, and a federal appropriation.
- Farmers Take On the Pend Oreille With a Dike — and No Bonds
A railroad contracting firm agrees to build Calispel Diking District No. 1 for warrants instead of cash, giving 6,500 acres of bottomland one season to prove it can beat the high water.