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Show NEW IRRIGATION PROJECT Government Engineers Start Work Below Priest Rapids. SEATTLE, Wash.. Jan 8-1 nltcd States reclamation engineers have entered the Priest Rapida Country, on the Columbia river Friday ten engineers, with full camp equipment crossed the river belon Priest rulVcN und another corps ot ten men Is due to arrive In the district todav It Is reported ihnt the engineers have b ' Instructed to Immediately begin work surveying for an Irrigation ichemt to water between (0,000 and 60,000 acres bj gravitv and power ditches, the power to in elcctrlcallj developed from the ratlds This is ink' n as Lin abandonment for the time being, at leant of the Teton and Yakima schemes The iirtloti of the (Jov-crnnu-tit will block two private enterprises on the rapids, one of which Is the Hanford Irrigation and Power company Of Seattle |