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- Coulee backers hit dismissal of O'Sullivan
- 1937
- Coulee backers hit dismissal of O'Sullivan. - Proposing that James O'Sullivan, for four years executive secretary of the Columbia Basin Commission, be employed in the large irrigation district now being formed, or in the State Department of...
- State history. Columbia Basin. Columbia Basin Commission. 1937-08-12
- Wording of basin bill under fire
- 1926
- Wording of basin bill under fire. - Senator Jones may rewrite $25,000 provision for U. S. help on unsolved problems. - To allay suspicions. - Cramton's attitude makes summers try to work out some sort of compromise. - Senator Jones, asked today if...
- State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation districts. 1926-03-17
- Basin project makes progress at Washington.
- 1928
- Basin project makes progress at Washington. - Approval of the Columbia basin project by the senate irrigation committee, by a recorded vote of 8 to 2, is more emphatic than those figures imply, for five absentee members had expressed themselves in...
- State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation districts. 1928-02-20
- Lind basin meet to be important
- 1931
- Lind basin meet to be important. - With Roy R. Gill returning from California for the meeting of Columbia basin area farmers at Lind at 1 o'clock Saturday and with Senators Jones and Dill and Congressmen Summers, Hill and Horr in attendance, there...
- State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation League. 1931-06-23
- Will send big caravan to Lind
- 1931
- Will send big caravan to Lind. - Spokane delegates to go in autos to attend Columbia basin farmer's meeting. - One hundred Spokane citizens, it is estimated, will start for Lind at 9 a. m. Saturday by automobile to attend a meeting of Columbia...
- State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation League. 1931-06-27
- Urges marriage of river, land
- 1931
- Urges marriage of river, land. - Louis B. Schwellenbach, Seattle, attorney, and prospective democratic candidate for governor, is as enthusiastic for the Columbia basin project and reclamation generally as are other aspirants to the office of...
- State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation League. 1931-07-11
- Mead here in morning
- 1931
- Mead here in morning. - To discuss congressional bill with basin league men. - Dr. Elwood Mead, United States commissioner of reclamation, will arrive here at 7:30 a. m. tomorrow on the Great Northern from Wenatchee. He will be met by a delegation...
- State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation League. 1931-07-21
- U. S. reclamation chief says basin project is advancing
- 1931
- U. S. reclamation chief says basin project is advancing. - The Columbia basin reclamation project is in better position before the public and congress than ever before, said Dr. Elwood Mead, United States commissioner of reclamation, who arrived...
- State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation League. 1931-07-23
- Making deserts bloom is their trade
- 1931
- Making deserts bloom is their trade. - These men are leaders in the fight to tame the desert lands of the Columbia basin area. As trustees of the Columbia Basin Irrigation league, they are serving to unite the people of the arid districts behind...
- State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation League. 1931-08-04
- Delegate Commissioner Fabian.
- 1931
- Delegate Commissioner Fabian. - Commissioner A. J. Fabian will represent the city at the annual meeting of the Columbia Basin Irrigation league at Pasco September 17. He was delegated yesterday by the city council.
- State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation League. 1931-08-28
- 1000 expected at basin meet
- 1931
- 1000 expected at basin meet. - Pasco session to draw from Washington, Idaho, Montana and Oregon. - Called September 17. - The program for the 10th annual convention of the Columbia Basin Irrigation league at Pasco, September 17, was announced...
- State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation League. 1931-09-06
- Too shy about basin meeting
- 1931
- Too shy about basin meeting. - Pasco session will draw 2500 instead of 1000, say men from dry belt. - Fred A. Adams, chairman of the Spokane Chamber of Commerce, will be asked this morning to raise his estimated 1000 attendance when forecasting the...
- State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation League. 1931-09-07
- This is the year for the basin
- 1931
- This is the year for the basin. - Build the Columbia basin project now.
  This basic idea will be borne home by accredited delegates who attend the annual Columbia Basin Irrigation league conference in Pasco next Thursday. It should be carried on...
- State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation League. 1931-09-11
- Basin will have large assembly
- 1929
- Basin will have large assembly. - Irrigation league here Saturday to elect--Hull proposes Gill. - An attendance of not less than 500 business leaders and officials was predicted today for the annual conference of the Columbia basin irrigation...
- State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation League. 1929-10-23
- Basin will have large assembly
- 1929
- Basin will have large assembly. - Irrigation league here Saturday to elect--Hull proposes Gill. - An attendance of not less than 500 business leaders and officials was predicted today for the annual conference of the Columbia basin irrigation...
- State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation League. 1929-10-23
- Record meeting of basin league
- 1929
- Record meeting of basin league. - Convention which opens Saturday expected to be greatest ever held. - Arrangements were completed today for what promises to be the greatest convention in the history of the Columbia Basin Irrigation league at the...
- State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation League. 1929-10-24
- Plan new group for basin fight
- 1929
- Plan new group for basin fight. - Irrigation league session tomorrow will see work get under way. - Formation of a new irrigation body to get military behind plans for pressing completion of all federal reclamation projects, will be undertaken here...
- State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation League. 1929-10-25
- Put forth for basin league head
- 1929
- Put forth for basin league head. - Roy R. Gill, Spokane's chairman of the executive committee of the Columbia Basin Irrigation league (left) and Frank W. Hull, Seattle, league president, were both prominently mentioned as possibilities for the...
- State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation League. 1929-10-26
- Land projects not too large
- 1930
- Land projects not too large. - Western Reclamation limited to comparatively small areas, commission told. - Basin work certain. - J. A. Swalwell says pacific states would consume all of products from project. - Believing that it will hasten...
- State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation League. 1930-05-10
- Basin means great riches
- 1929
- Basin means great riches. - The Columbia Basin Irrigation league estimates that there are 2,000,000 acres available in the Columbia basin which will accommodate over 50,000 new farm homes. The yield in crops from these irrigated tracts, it is...
- State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation League. 1930-05-30