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Show MAY BUY COULEE. Government Negotiating for Raser-vcir Raser-vcir for Palouso Irrigation Project. SPOKANE. Wash.. Dec. 26. T. A Noble, No-ble, tho resident engineer of the I'nlicU Stales Geological survey, who has prepared pre-pared the plans for tbe Palouso Irrigation Irriga-tion project, has been called to Washington, Wash-ington, D C.'. to bo-present nt the negotiations nego-tiations between tho Government and tho Oregon Railroad & Navigation company The railroad has submitted a proposition proposi-tion to the i im "t urnout to surrender ps-srsMnii ps-srsMnii of Washtucna Coulee for approximated approx-imated 1300.000 so that It can be used ap a reservoir fr Irrigation of about 75.-usi 75.-usi acres The building 1. f the proposed Irrigation system Is part of tlv work design, d by tiie reclamation act nnd the Secretary of the Interior has already set aside $1 000 -ism for the scheme. A the scheme whs outlined the Coulee was the key to the Situation for the storage of water. The Oregon Railroad & Navigation CCmpanj had a track down the Coulee 1 C( ntiell ten years ago and cense, i t., ,n-enile ,n-enile It for several years. Early last spring the company reconstructed the t r.i . k into Council |