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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? forward Table of Contents <> Photo Archive Oral History Archive <> Documents Archive <> Bibliography To Top of Moses Lake Exhibit