Showing Government Concrete Canal, ca. 1911
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Title
Showing Government Concrete Canal , ca. 1911
Photographer
Matsura , Frank , 1873-1913 .
Description
The U.S . Reclamation Service completed their first hydraulic-fill dam at Conconully , Washington in 1910 . A part of the Okanogan Irrigation Project , the Conconully Dam directed a surplus of water into a series of canals designed to send irrigation to over 10,000 acres of prime farmland in the Okanogan Valley . In order to end the canal's wasteful seepage of water when en route to designated farms , engineers decided to line all of the canals with concrete to retain the water . This photograph appears to be cut out along the edge of the concrete canal's form , which might be an indication that Matsura used this shot either for an artistically designed display of the Okanogan Irrigation Project , or for his personal scrapbook . The portion shown is a part of the two mile long Main Canal , which supplied water from the Dam and Salmon River straight to the Low and High Line canals .
Subject
Canals--Washington (State)--Okanogan ; Irrigation--Washington (State)--Okanogan
Date
1911~
Type
Image
Genre
Photographic prints
Location
North and Central America--United States--Washington (state)--Okanogan county--Okanogan
Identifier
pc035b2f45n10
Source
Is found in PC 35, Frank S. Matsura Collection https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/pc35.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/
Rights Notes
No known copyright. Item went into public domain 70 years after the 1913 death of the author.
Restrictions
For permission to publish please contact Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (509) 335-6691 or the Okanogan Historical Society (509) 422-4272
Format
Original photographic prints were scanned as 300 dpi TIFF files on a Microtek 9600XL scanner. 72 dpi JPEG files were then added to the CONTENT database at the WSU Libraries.
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