, 1889-07-18
WONDERFUL wEsAToHnn.
One or the Most Prosperous and
Promising Towns IL, Washington.


WESATCuEE, July o, Correspondence.
-Wenatchea still continues To boom.
Michael Koran, late of Roslyn, Is put.
ting up a fine two-story building for a
meat market and intends to have II com.
plotted by the 10Th of July.
DIR. q. l.. Hord has moved here from
Seattle and says he intends to stay aud
grow up with the city. We tried TO per.
suadc him to pull up stakes that he had
struck the wrong climate, and that the
people here never die from natural
causes. lie stated that he had been In
communities where he had to wait three
months or more for his first patient;
amer that they commenced To get sick
and die oil like flies aitera heavy frost.
We. offered to wager 500 that his first
patient would he some person from the
East who had only half lung left,
who had seyon.oighths of his life spent
and came here as the last resort 10 bnthe
in the tabled fountains of the
beautiful Wenatchee and mighty Column
bia rivers and be made whole again. He
stated that he came here also on account
OF his health, and intended to stay If he
never made cent,
Hord 4 Groves intend to commence
work at once and put up a fine large
building Ia he used for u drug store.
Culbreth n Middleton intend to COM
mence work Immediately on their new
building. and II will be used as carpen-
ter and cabinet shop.
Another building, to he used for "a sa-
loon, will soon be- erected by parties
nom Cheney, and parties from Ellens-
burg say they intend To build ON their
lot inside Of month and use IL for sa-
loon purposes. Another blacksmith shop
II also going up in the near future.
The new bakery opened its doors on
the Fourth and had rush Of custom
ors all day.
The new livery stable Is about COM
pleted: We have received fifteen letters
from different newspaper men inquiring
ABOUT the chances for starting news
paper in our young and hourishing
towh. We have answered all tho letters
and gave them the real facts. j. Lyons,
an old and experienced newspaper man,
spent a week IN Wenatchee, and left with
Tie intention OF returning Immediately
with his press and starting a paper here.
We wish him success.
There is a good opening for a harness
shop and gents furnishing goods
house, and we need another sawmill to
be erected on the Wen atchee river. There
Is az present only 100, ,OoO feet of lumber
on hand.
MIR. ,shotwcll, the gentleman who has
rented Philip Miller's fruit ranch, in
forms us that he was compelled TO pick
and knock of more than 1000 bushels of
peaches from 800 peach trees, for the
trees were too lOaded with peaches they
were breaking the limbs. The pears,
Prunes, peaches, plums, apricots, mul-
berries, ohestnuts, walnuts and grapes
look fine, and Wenatchee will harvest
the largest fruit and vegetable crop I'm
her history. He also stated that lie in
tended to have fruit stands at Water
vi,le, Ruby City and Ellcnsburg.
niles Mr; brow9l0w' soN,h who lives five
has commenced to omen omen
md develop his coal mine and Is backed
by Spokane capitalists. They are now
In about ~ feet and have i four-foot
vein that keeps getting thicker and
better as they advance. We visited the
mine ana were shown some tine pros.
poets.
Mr.. Charles Burch, who lives hore and
is an expert prospector and old miner
auu assayist stated that he knew where
there was line vein of anthracite coal
close To Wenatchee and he intended 10
commences TO develop the same Just as
soon AS he could make Arrangements
with certain capitalists.
we called at r. T.. Madigan & Co.'S
real estate office and asked Nj, Msdirap
there had been any real estate trans.
iers during the day. He stated that
real estate was just booming, and that
saturday was the best real estate day in
the history of Wenatchee.
why, have just footed up my
Ieh estate account for to-
made out deeds and gave bonds
ior deeds that amounted In cash alone
70 *Ro, taking no note of the credit at
nil. Every one of those transfers were
ior n. i9ts valued at from $40 to 500 except
-, .Y9u .3y have had an expert miner and