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its projects cover nearly a million acres. The largest of 

 these in Washington is the Sunnyside Project, in the 

 Yakima Valley, 90,000 acres, to be completed at an es- 

 timated cost of $1,600,000. Others are the Tieton, in 

 the Yakima Valley, 30,000 acres, cost $1,500,000; the 



snake and Coal Creek districts, and 10,000 acres in the 

 valley of the Okanogan. 



The Government's projects in southern Idaho are 

 the Minedoka, with an area of 160,000 acres, to be com- 

 pleted at an estimated cost of $4,000,000, and the Pay- 



Ranch House in Colville Valley, Washington. 



Wapato, 120,000 acres, cost $1,500,000, and the Okano- 

 gan, 8,000 acres, cost $500,000. 



In addition to these, the United States Reclama- 

 tion Service has authorized the Kittitas and Benton 

 projects in Washington. The Indian and Reclamation 

 Service estimate that $25 or less will cover the cost for 

 water right on the reservation. This is about half the 

 cost of the watering land under other canals in the 

 Yakima Valley. 



ette-Boise, 200,000 acres, costing $3,000,000, while Ore- 

 gon has the Umatilla Project, 18,000 acres, costing 

 $1,100,000, and the Klamath, part of which extends 

 into California, 120,000 acres, cost $3,600,000. The 

 projects in Montana are the Huntley, 30,000 acres, cost 

 $900,000; the Milk River, including Saint Mary, 30,- 

 000 acres, cost $1,200,000, and the Sun River, 16,000 

 acres, costing $500,000. The Lower Yellowstone Project 

 in Montana and North Dakota takes in 66,000 acres and 



Spokane After the Fire in 1889. 



It is likely that in time more than $50,000,000 will 

 be expended by the Reclamation Service in the state of 

 Washington in reclaiming 1,500,000 acres of land now 

 entirely or partly waste. Of this, 50,000 acres will be 

 in the Ellensburg district, 200,000 acres in the Rattle- 



will cost $2,700,000. 



Two hundred private projects are in operation in 

 the Inland Empire. The most important of these is at 

 Wenatchee, Chelan county, Wash., which district car- 

 ried off the first honors at the National Apple Show in 



