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Ted Escobar/The Sun Tribune - Kevin Lyles grows more than 2,000 acres of wheat on a farm his great grandfather, Texan F.M. Lyle, started in 1901. Some is irrigated. Most is not.

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Columbia Basin Development League leader's farm started one year before the Grand Coulee discussion
February 12, 2017 midnight

Columbia Basin Development League leader's farm started one year before the Grand Coulee discussion

OTHELLO — According to historical sources, official discussion of the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project started in 1902, the same year the Bureau of Reclamation was formed.