Bragging rights

ID: 4735 ~ Source: Music: Vess L. Ossman, "Hill and Dale."
This file appears in: How the West was Watered

From a 1908 special edition of the Valley Tribune, O. A. Atwood sings the praises of local farmland.

This file appears in: How the West was Watered

By Charlie Byers
The landscape that lies under Lake Roosevelt today is part of a series of “benchlands,” flat regions separated by steep drops. The soil is fertile, and the nearby Columbia River provided drainage, but without a way to bring more water uphill to…