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C-SPAN Cities Tour – Bend: William Laidlaw and the Tumalo Dam – W/Evaluation Form

C-SPAN Cities Tour – Bend: William Laidlaw and the Tumalo Dam

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Travel to the failed Tumalo Reservoir with Deschutes County Surveyor Mike Berry. In the early 20th century William Laidlaw promised hundreds of settlers in Deschutes County that he could irrigate the land around Bend using funds from the Federal Carey Act. Laidlaw failed to uphold his promise and left the area with today’s equivalent of a few million dollars. The state then stepped in and tried to build a reservoir to help irrigate the land in what is now known as Tumalo. The state was never able to successfully irrigate the land promised by Laidlaw, leaving hundreds of settlers without farmable land.

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Written by Alexandra Jones

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