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Priest Rapids Irrigation District
Records, 1909-1954
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Priest Rapids Irrigation District
Records, 1909-1954
The records of the Priest Rapids Irrigation District were donated to Washington State University by Mrs, Fred M. Harris of Yakima, Washington, in 1958 and processed by Lawrence R. Stark, September, 1972. Further records were donated by Mary Harris in early 1973 and processed by Lawrence R. Stark, April, 1973.
The Priest Rapids Irrigation District, White Bluffs and Hanford, Washington, a quasi-municipal corporation, was first organized by the Benton County Commissioners in 1920, but remained inactive until the early 1930's when it acquired the properties of two bankrupt firms, the Black Rock Power and Irrigation Company and Consumers Ditch Company. From 1931 to 1943 the district operated as a governmental business dealing in irrigation, electrical power and real estate development and known as the Hanford Irrigation Project. In early 1943, the district's properties were taken over by the federal government and were placed under the Manhattan District of the United States Army for use as an atomic energy facility. Because of the confusion caused by the swiftness of the government seizure, the district was not dissolved, nor its assets fully liquidated, until 1951.
DESCRIPTION AND ARRANGEMENT
The records consist primarily of correspondence of the secretary of the district, deeds, contracts and similar legal papers relating to the operation of the district, financial records which were maintained by the Benton County Treasurer, and papers concerning the lawsuits over the dissolution of the district. Records emanating from district operations between 1920 and 1943 are arranged in one alphabetical series. Following this is a short sequence of material concerning the dissolution of the district. The additional material donated by Mary Harris is in Containers 15-17, filed separately after the original donation.
CONTAINER LIST
| Container | Description |
| 1 | Acquisition of properties |
| Address list | |
| Agreements - Miscellaneous | |
| Allis-Chalmers Company | |
| American Blueprint Company | |
| Annual reports -- Priest Rapids Irrigation District | |
| Arrowsmith Iron Works | |
| Assessment receipts | |
| Auditor's Report -- Washington State | |
| Ballots for bond election, October, 1938. | |
| Bank deposits and withdrawals | |
| Bank statements | |
| Banks, Frank A | |
| 2 | Barge, C. E. |
| Beeuwkes, R. (Milwaukee Railroad) engineering reports | |
| Benton County Treasurer's receipts, 1941. | |
| Benton County Utility District | |
| Bids on Priest Rapids Irrigation District junk | |
| Bills and old invoices | |
| Bills of sale | |
| Blueprints | |
| Board meeting | |
| Boie, H. H. | |
| Bond application $175,000 | |
| Bond election and issue of bonds, June, 1940. | |
| Bond payments | |
| Bond report data | |
| Bonneville Power Administration | |
| 3 | Brown, A.J. |
| Brown Brothers, Priest Rapids | |
| Budgets | |
| Calzo, Pete | |
| Certificates of redemption | |
| Cheney and Hutchinson | |
| Circular letters | |
| Claims, 1943 | |
| Claims to be submitted to Board of Directors | |
| Miscellaneous collections | |
| Collens, Leonard | |
| Department of Conservation and Development -- Washington State | |
| Contracts | |
| 4 | Correspondence, miscellaneous |
| Correspondence with Marvin Chase, receiver, Black Rock Company | |
| County auditor | |
| County treasurer | |
| Cox, Omar | |
| Cross-section paper | |
| Cunningham, Fred J. | |
| 5 | Deeds to Irrigation District |
| Delinquent lists by county treasurer | |
| Directors | |
| Dishon, Charles | |
| Dunning notices | |
| Employer's papers | |
| Estimates, miscellaneous | |
| Exclusions | |
| Federal Emergency Administration | |
| Federal Land Bank | |
| Federal Pipe and Tank Company | |
| Federal Power Commission | |
| Federal Public Works | |
| Federation of Yakima Valley Irrigation Districts | |
| Financial statements | |
| Fonda, Mary E. | |
| Fosseen's Incorporated, Yakima | |
| 6 | Garsi, S. |
| Gas reports | |
| General Electric Company | |
| General Petroleum Company | |
| Generator bids and deposits | |
| Geological survey | |
| Graybar Electric Company | |
| Grazing leases | |
| Hall, G.D. | |
| Hanford contracts | |
| Haynes, Manley B. | |
| Department of Hydraulics | |
| Insurance policies | |
| Inquiries on 1935 tolls and assessments | |
| Kennedy, E.D., et al v. Marvin Chase, receiver | |
| 7 | Department of Labor and Industries |
| Land contracts | |
| Land sales | |
| Land settlement | |
| Leases | |
| Legal opinions | |
| Legislative matters | |
| Department of Licenses | |
| Lowman-Hanford Company | |
| McLean and Company re: bonds | |
| Machine shops and supplies | |
| Manufacturers -- miscellaneous | |
| Maps and photographs | |
| 8 | Meter readings |
| Miller and Adams | |
| Milwaukee Railroad Company officials | |
| Minutes and resolutions | |
| Miscellaneous | |
| 9 | Moulton and Powell, attornies |
| Division of Municipal Corporations | |
| Newspaper clippings | |
| Notes and mortgages | |
| O'Brien, M.F. | |
| O'Brien, K. Wagner | |
| Oils and greases | |
| Old business | |
| Pacific Power and Light Company | |
| Partlow, Lon | |
| Pashen, H.F. | |
| Payrolls | |
| Petitions | |
| Picatti Brothers | |
| Pipeline construction -- lateral "H" | |
| Plans and specifications | |
| Plats | |
| Poll book for bond election, October, 1938. | |
| Power dope | |
| Power statements, 1940. | |
| 10 | Priest Rapids Development Company |
| Priest Rapids Irrigation District | |
| Priority rating and correspondence | |
| Private and district lands | |
| Prosicuting [sic] Attorney, Benton County | |
| Prosser | |
| Department of Public Lands | |
| Public Works Administration | |
| Pump information, Consolidated Builders, Inc. [Grand Coulee Dam] | |
| Receipts, miscellaneous | |
| Reconstruction Finance Corporation | |
| 11 | Redemption receipts, 1940-1942. |
| Refunding bond issue | |
| Reports, federal and state | |
| Roberts pumping plant estimates | |
| Salvini, B. [John Bert] | |
| Salvina, James P. | |
| Sanford, Charles M. | |
| Secretary's manual | |
| Standard Oil Company | |
| State and governmental departments | |
| State auditor | |
| State tax commission | |
| State treasurer | |
| Statements [of predecessor companies] | |
| Supply firms | |
| 12 | Tax schedule |
| Victory tax and withholding tax | |
| Technical data | |
| Tinling and Powell, attornies | |
| Toll receipts, 1952 | |
| Transfers [of contracts], 1936 | |
| Treasurer's receipts, 1943 | |
| Unemployment compensation | |
| Union Oil Company | |
| Yakima Valley Iron Works | |
| Letters in which warrants were sent | |
| Washington Rural Rehabilitation Corporation | |
| Water charges | |
| Water contracts | |
| Water deliveries | |
| Water information | |
| 13 | Water statements |
| Water users | |
| Webber, Leo | |
| Westinghouse Electric Company | |
| Woodward Governor Company | |
| C.F. Wooten case | |
| Works Progress Administration | |
| XYZ [Miscellaneous] | |
| Yakima County | |
| Yakima Hardware Company | |
| Yearly totals, 1936. | |
| 14 | Condemnation and dissolution of the Priest Rapids Irrigation District, 1943-1951. |
| 15 | Priest Rapids Irrigation District Files |
| Minutes and resolutions, 1938-1944 | |
| Copies of PRID deeds | |
| Land Remittance Ration: Priest Rapids Land Development Company | |
| United States Army | |
| War Department | |
| Description of Bonds issued in 1940 | |
| Application to Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1933 | |
| White Bluffs--Hanford Project as proposed by Citizens Committee, 1919 | |
| 16 | Condemnation and liquidation: Correspondence, briefs, depositions and related papers, mostly dealing with legal matters. 1943-1954. |
| 17 | Appraisals of PRID properties (Including photographs, some ca. 1908-09) |
| Transcripts and reports of trials before federal courts, 1947-1952. |