the Heart of Spokane 



an estimated cost of $4,000,000, and the 

 Payette-Boise, 200,000 acres, costing 

 $3,000,000; while Oregon has the Uma- 

 tilla project, 20,000 acres, costing $i,- 

 200,000 ; and the Klamath, part of 

 \vliich extends into California, 165,000 

 acres, costing $5,950,000. 



The projects in Montana are the 

 lluntley, 33,000 acres, cost $840,000; 

 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 will cost $2,- 

 700,000 when completed. 



Two hundred private projects are in 

 operation in the Inland Empire. Nu- 

 merous irrigation canals have been con- 

 structed in Chelan County, which has 

 the Wenatchee, Chelan, and Entiat val- 

 leys. There are also important works 

 along the Columbia River in eastern 

 Oregon and in the Spokane, Kettle 



Falls, Bitter Root, and Snake River and 

 Clearwater valleys. One hundred thou- 

 sand acres of land in the Spokane Valley 

 is capable of irrigation. The Spokane 

 River, near-by lakes, and an under- 

 ground stream, flowing through the 

 valley, are used by these plants, one of 

 which raises the water by means of 

 electric pumps from wells, ninety-seven 

 to 140 feet in depth. 



The extent of operations on irrigated 

 lands in the Northwest will be better 

 understood when it is known that the 

 value of the apple and other fruit crops 

 in the Inland Empire amounted to $14,- 

 O30.000 in 1908. It will be $60,000,000 

 m 1912, by which time several million 

 trees, stt out in the last two years, will 

 come into bearing, and others planted 

 between 1903 and 1906 will have 

 reached maturity. 



This is only the beginning of the fruit 

 industry in the Northwest, where mil- 



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