Columbia Basin Development League Records 1965-1976

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Columbia Basin Development League Records 1965-1976

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv02737

Newspaper clippings and news releases, photographs, some correspondence and minutes, and other papers of a non-profit corporation organized to encourage and promote the completion of the Columbia Basin Project, an irrigation effort in Central Washington.

3 containers.; 1.5 linear feet of shelf space.; 1700 items.

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Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6364321

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Johnson, Neil. waps

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Columbia Basin Project (U.S.)

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Columbia Basin Development League

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The Columbia Basin Development League was organized in March, 1963 as the Basin Development Committee in an attempt to promote more orderly development of the Columbia Basic Project. There was a real fear that the project was dying for lack of federal interest. Statistics revealed that the annual appropriations for the project declined markedly from the early 1950s to the early 1960s. In addition there was a radical decline in water service to additional lands after 1955. The first ...