Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1918 — Revolutionizing Salmon Industry. [ARTICLE]

Revolutionizing Salmon Industry.

~ Construction of power plants that will cost $6,000,000 and that will revolutionize the salmon packing industry in the whole Columbia river basin, are forecasted by application of McGowan (Wash.) packers for power development sites on the Deschutes river in Oregon. Applications for 8,000 cubic feet of water rights in all have been filed, and plans have been prepared for two gigantic dams, one 118 feet high, 300 feet long at the bottom and 800 feet long at the top, and the other 236 feet high, 90 feet long at the bottom and 420 feet at the top. Power generated by the water impounded behind these dams will be used to run salmon canneries and tinplate plants in which the cans will be made.