Columbia Basin, Yakima, and Tidewater Railway Company records, 1929 Feb.-Mar.

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Columbia Basin, Yakima, and Tidewater Railway Company records, 1929 Feb.-Mar.

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Correspondence, reports of the chief engineer C.C. Van Arsdol, maps, line profiles, cost and income projections, statistics, and newspaper clippings.

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Van Arsdol, C. C. 1851-1941.

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Columbia Basin, Yakima, and Tidewater Railway Company

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Incorporated in 1928 to construct a railway from tidewater on the Columbia at Vancouver through Clark, Cowlitz, Kickitat, Skamania, and Yakima counties to Yakima and eventually to the area of the project Columbia Basin Project. It sought to tap the expanding agricultural production of irrigated districts of Yakima County and, eventually, the Columbia Basin Project as well as gaining access to the rail and dock facilities in Portland. The railway was never constructed. From the descri...