Map outlining Gravity Plan

Files

WSU477.jpg

Title

Map outlining Gravity Plan

Subject

Irrigation -- Washington (State) -- Columbia River Valley.

Description

This map taken from a 1925 brochure illustrates the series of tunnels and dams designed to channel water from the Pend Oreille River to the Columbia Basin. By maintaining a path that moved water downhill, the Gravity Plan proposed to irrigate the Columbia Basin without the use of pumps. This brochure was created by the Columbia Basin Irrigation League, who championed this plan throughout the 1920s.

Creator

Columbia Basin Irrigation League

Source

Cage 563, J. Orin Oliphant Papers

Publisher

Spokane: Dyer Printing Company

Date

1925

Rights

Copyright may apply

Format

jpeg

Language

English

Type

map

Identifier

WSU477

Collection

Citation

Columbia Basin Irrigation League, “Map outlining Gravity Plan,” Digital Exhibits, accessed March 28, 2024, http://digitalexhibits.wsulibs.wsu.edu/items/show/4631.