Go to the Source:

• Remina Jorgensen describes challenges of irrigated farming
• 1935 Rivers and Harbors Act - authorizing construction of Grand Coulee Dam
• 1936 Rural Electrification Act - providing electricity in rural communities
• 1937 Anti-Speculation Act - preventing land speculation at Grand Coulee Dam
• Reclamation Project Act of 1939 - guidelines for the "Planned Promised Land."
• Don Goodwin discusses the closure of the U & I Sugar Refinery

Questions to Consider:

• How did the Columbia Basin Project affect the development of Moses Lake?
• What factors interfered with Columbia Basin Project dreams of small farm self-sufficiency?
• What was the importance to Moses Lake of the Utah & Idaho Sugar Company?
• How has the Columbia Basin Project affected communities in eastern Washington?

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