Skunk Traditional Cache
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Located on old irrigation canal draw. To cross draws, a wooden pipe was used. Elevation is 1070
Asotin County's growth was assured in 1896 by the construction of an 18-mile-long irrigation canal running from Asotin Creek above Asotin to Jawbone Flat, an area of potentially fertile -- but at that time barren -- land along the Snake River in and to the west of present-day (2006) Clarkston. On July 18, 1896, the canal began providing water to Jawbone Flat, and the effect it had on the area was remarkable: Population of the area that would soon become Clarkston boomed from perhaps 15 people in 1896 to approximately 2,200 in the Clarkston-Vineland area in 1903. Vineland, a community just west of Clarkston, merged with Clarkston shortly after 1903.
Cassius C Van Arsdol was a survey engineer for the NPRR who lived at 15th and Chestnut in 1896. The RR work was done so he organized a company to design and build an irrigation system from Asotin Creek to Jawbone flat.
He hired 275, mostly Italians, to work and sold sagebrush tracts for $1000 an acre to investors from Concord MA. Clarkston was briefly named Concord in their honor.
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