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- Speculation bill may determine fate of Coulee dam.
- 1937
- Speculation bill may determine fate of Coulee dam. - Quick action is essential. - Otherwise additional appropriation required may be hard to secure. / by Art Henderson.
  The bill to prevent land speculation in the Coulee dam area, being discussed...
- State history. Columbia Basin. Land speculation. 1937-04-22
- Use pit to determine cofferdam pressure
- 1934
- Use pit to determine cofferdam pressure. - In order to determine the pressure of the earth of the giant cofferdams for the Grand Coulee dam and powerhouse, workmen for the MWAK are engaged in excavating a pit for experimental purposes.
- State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Cofferdams. 1934-10-17
- Use pit to determine cofferdam pressure:
- 1934
- Use pit to determine cofferdam pressure: - In order to determine the pressure of the earth of the giant cofferdams for the Grand Coulee dam and powerhouse, workmen for the MWAK are engaged in excavating a pit for experimental purposes.
- State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Cofferdams. 1934-10-17
- Cost survey up - Orofino project to determine best white pine sizes - complete work in June - financial gain or loss from handling various types of trees to come from forest experiment
- 1936
- Cost survey up - Orofino project to determine best white pine sizes - complete work in June - financial gain or loss from handling various types of trees to come from forest experiment - During June the final step will be taken in a study which...
- Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Surveys. 1936-05-21
- Placer digging on large scale - planned by Libby gold on long area of Consolidated claims in near-by Montana - also explore veins - large body along 30-mile dike being opened to determine value, says engineer
- 1932
- Placer digging on large scale - planned by Libby gold on long area of Consolidated claims in near-by Montana - also explore veins - large body along 30-mile dike being opened to determine value, says engineer - An outstanding campaign of...
- Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1932-07-24
- Grand Coulee project "Tops"
- 1937
- Grand Coulee project "Tops". - Committee learns some startling facts about magnitude of power plant / by Harry J. Brown
  During the hearing on Grand Coulee witness brought new and startling facts to the attention of the committee that was to...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Publicity. 1937-05-16
- Ask information on Basin project .
- 1931
- Ask information on Basin project. - Idaho to start field studies on Pend Oreille Lake when facts are given. - To determine damages - Amount of storage desired and detailed topographic data must be presented.
- Northwest history. Irrigation & reclamation. Projects. 1931-04-06
- Request aid for Indians
- 1930
- Request aid for Indians. - Many reservations can't support their populations, senate hears. - Investigation by the secretary of interior to determine the number of homeless and indigent Indians and to ascertain means for their relief was requested...
- State history. Native Americans. Relief. 1930-06-18
- Midwest Indians will not starve
- 1931
- Midwest Indians will not starve. - A family-to-family survey of Indian reservations in the two Dakotas and Montana is being conducted by the Indian service to determine what must be done to prevent privation during the coming winter in areas where...
- State history. Native Americans. Relief. 1931-08-13
- Users declare they were promised flat $2.50 rate.
- 1936
- Users declare they were promised flat $2.50 rate. - A public hearing by the state department of public service to determine if the rates charged for light and water in the Grand Coulee area are too high, is to be held in the city hall, August 25.
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Public utilities. 1936-08-12
- Miniature dam to guide MWAK
- 1934
- Miniature dam to guide MWAK. - Model cofferdam to provide data on river pressure and strains. - Bridge half finished. - New postoffice opened--First of ready cut houses reach Grand Coulee dam site. - As on all mammoth projects, models of the...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Models. 1934-10-17
- Soil survey planned in Grand Coulee area
- 1935
- Soil survey planned in Grand Coulee area. - Dr. Elwood Mead, United States commissioner of reclamation, said here that a soils survey to determine how much good land there is within the Columbia Basin area, and how much land will have to be thrown...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Surveys. 1935-09-09
- Suspect poison in lake water.
- 1929
- Suspect poison in lake water. - The water of Thompson lake is being tested at the University of Idaho to determine whether it is being polluted with the tailings being dumped into Coeur d'Alene river.
- Northwest history. Irrigation & reclamation. Pollution. 1929-12-07
- Rich will be given story of irrigation
- 1937
- Rich will be given story of irrigation. - Referred to as reclamation's most outspoken critic, Congressman Robert Rich, republican of Pennsylvania, is coming here the latter part of the month to determine for himself whether large expenditures for...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Visitors. Government officials. 1937-09-11
- Tide of travel flows to west
- 1936
- Tide of travel flows to west. - Tourist officials say most visitors told of project to eastward. - Spokane seemingly has done an excellent job of selling tourists on the Grand Coulee dam, from a survey recently completed by tourist officials, to...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Visitors. Tourists. 1936-08-18
- Will plan high dam procedure.
- 1934
- Will plan high dam procedure. - The entire Washington state congressional delegation will meet with the Columbia basin commission in Seattle, probably next week, to determine the course to be followed in the battle for a high dam at Grand Coulee,...
- State history. Columbia Basin. Columbia Basin Commission. 1934-11-10
- Study "samples" of basin lands
- 1926
- Study "samples" of basin lands. - Reclamation official heads group to make survey of Columbia project. - To report to congress. - Use three 10,000-acre tracts to determine conditions--Consider various problems. - George C. Kreutzer, director of...
- State history. Columbia Basin. General. 1926-08-29
- New basin bill yields same end
- 1928
- New basin bill yields same end. - Project is not held up by amended measure. - To the Editor of the Spokesman-Review:
  Mr. Gill, chairman of the Columbia Basin league, says that your newspaper today reports that Senator Jones and myself have...
- State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation League. 1928-04-21
- To coordinate basin plan
- 1931
- To coordinate basin plan. - Meet called for November 16 to iron out any differences. - Samuel H. Hedges, president of the state chamber of commerce, in a letter today to railroads, civic bodies and clubs interested in state development, asked them...
- State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation League. 1931-11-08
- Land gambling probe ordered
- 1937
- Land gambling probe ordered. - The Columbia basin committee of the Ephrata Chamber of Commerce was instructed to conduct an investigation of county records in an efforts to determine the extent, if any, of land speculation in this area when the...
- State history. Columbia Basin. Land speculation. 1937-03-25