Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-07-17
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Walla Walla Onion. !


Situated in the center Of the vhea,
oeit OF Eastern Washington, with age
experience, capital and population
Waiia waiia Possesses the elements oi
prosperity, growth and greatness. While
making the assessment Of Walla Walls
county last spring the Assessor and his
Deputies, using blanks prepared for the
purpose, ascertained the total area in
grain 70 be 65,6l2 acres. or this amour,
5S,a0 acres were seeded TO wheat, 50 Del
cent. being fall or winter seeding; TO-.
SI acres we're sown with barley and
ZJ6O acres With oats. Besides this there
are many thousands of acres of summer
fallow, very large area CT breaking
and thousands Of acres in hay, corn
beans, garden and orchards. Allowing
Tor the acreage Of wheat converted into
hay. the comparatively dry season,
which has materially decreased the
probable yield OF spring grain, and not
increased the yield of fall grain, We be-
lieve it will prove below, rather than
above the reality to estimate the
average yield OF good merchantable
wheat at 22x bushels per acre, or a
total of |. .200, ,08S bushels. II one qsar-
ter Of this amount, which ia a very lib
eral allowance. is allowed for home
consumption and seed. there will be a
surplus for export, of n 500 tons. The
barley crop is estimated at 10 bushels
per acre or a total of 4O6 80 bushels, a
large proportion Of which, say 5000 tons,
will be for export. The yield of oats Is
estimated at 45 bushels per acre, or a
total of 92,700 bushels, nearly all OF
which will be required for home con-
o.v,ftns. uAnno hovA 1o~-
estimate, 80, $50 tons of grain as the ex-
port product of WalIa Walla county fol-
the harvest year of 1888.
Walla Walla on the south, and which is
export, at least 1900 tons of grain
Columbia and Garfield counties, ad-
joining Walls Walla on the east, and
of tillable land, will have, for export
fully $1,000 tons of grain. We believe
that our estimate of 900 tons oi
four counties of Walla Waila. Columbia
Garfield and Umatilla will prove below
the reality. 70 this must be added the
Whitman, Spokane, in Washington, and
WobCOs In OfcROis duu WulCu III Oui
Judgment will raise the total for expor,
TO 600 tons, every ton Of which, save
what is shipped at points below Una
tilla, will pay ~ psr ton to the trans
portatiOn companies, or a grand tota
Of $l,750OO0.
Walla Walla merchants and capital
lists have branches in various parts oi
Umatilla, Columbia, Garfield aud Whit
man counties, and it is not exaggeratior
to say that Walla Wallians will handle
the major portion of the grain raised
in their limits. These facts make Walls
Walla place of such financial and bus
iness importance that NO railroad com
pany can afford to leave it out of it,
plans. The report of the Oregon Shor'
Line engineers that a broad gage road
can be built down the bank Of Snake
river, from Burnt river to Lewiston, fol
less than so, 600 per mile, or less thar
one-half the cost of the U. X. Il N. Co..
line over the Blue mountains, makes il
almost certain that it will be construct
ed during the next two years. If bull
that far it will be extended down Snake
river and oyer to Puget Sound, tapping
Walla Walla on the way. We shall b.
disappointed il the Oregon SLort Line
does not tap Walla Walla before th,
close Of 1886.