FROM THE FILES

One hundred years ago

The Ritzville

Journal-Times

April 8, 1920

Organize for the Project

We people who live in the country which is most to be benefitted by the development of the Columbia Basin project have been

somewhat indifferent to its possibilities. Spokane has taken the lead and we have been content to stand by with mild approval if not with concealed suspicion of the practicability of the colossal enterprise. As the results of the survey have been announced, this doubt has yielded to greater hopefulness, and there is coming a more sanguine belief that the project is not only practicabl...