, 1890-10-23
IMMENSE GRAIN CROP
The Yield Of the Washing
ton Wheat Fields.
MILLIONS OF BUSHELS GRO WN
The Great Harvest and Its Re-
suits Discussed in an East
ern Paper.


grain yield of Washington
is the all-absorbing topic of converse.
ton at present. Spokaneites are es-
recially pleased. Its bracng effect on
real estate, general business and enter
prises on foot is duly appreciated. Es-
timating on the total number of bushels
and tho amount of cash it will put in
the pockets of the farmers is business
talk and a pastime theme.
Various estimates are made ranging
from 1900, 900 to 30 600 600 bushels in
wheat alone, and $1,000, 900 to 20, coo, 900
in flIaxseed, oats, barley and potatoes.
Seventeen millions have been quoted
for the Palouse country, but II will be
nearer twenty. and the Big Bend, Col
willie and other sections will swell tho
' ield of wheat alone to $4,000, 600. Oats
will run up to 100000 bushels, tlaA
5000, 600, barley 1000, 600 ana potatoes
100000. In dollars and cents 1t means
that the robust ranchers will get in round
figures
TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS
for their years work. This almost fabu.
lous sum will go directly TO farming
population of probably 5000 people.
The estimate Is made ON the basis that
10000 of the $50, 600 inhabitants OF tho
state are in Eastern Washington ana
two.tifths of this population are counted
in the country. The renal ming three.
tfths are in the numerous country vii.
lagos, towns, cities, mining and lumber
camps. What the fruit anu stock raiser
get are not reckoned, So large an
amount OF money set loose among peo-
pie who are building themselves homes
and fortunes from the ground will stlmu-
late the wheels of trade into lively
action.
THE rALousB COUNTRY
embraces an area of grain land Of about
1900 900 acres that does not require irri-
CATION, nor has there been recorded dur
ing the past fourteen years what is re
garded as Il total failure in crops. Last
year, 1889, was bad, and still the grain
yield was fair. Three years ago the crops
were almost as bountiiul as now, but the
population was thinner and the acreage
tIlcd not so large. Every year the total
bushels harvested will increase as the
country is settled, and the day is not far
distant when the Palouso region Will
send 30, 900, 900 bushels OF wheat to the
mills. The price of land varies from So
to S35 per acre. know Of $50 acres un-
broken that was offered for So 900, To-
Gated within n few hours railroad ride
OF Spokane and not over two miles
from u thriving town and railroad sta
tlun. Improved farms, broken, fenced
and having buildings on them, COM
nand $50 to $40 per acre. The Palouse
country is well waterod by springs burst
ing from the rich soil of the hills. Deep
wells have been sunk and an unlimited
supply ut fine drinking water obtained.
The Big Bend derives its name from
l.t. lot A,,. sra, do,
swing of the Columbia river. II is
larger in area than the Palouse, but the
Palouse Is all farming land OF the richest
kind, while the Big Bend Is diversified
with desert, scab grazing and broken
surface. The Northern Pacific runs
over tho sandy section, rs travellers re
gard it, but which produces fine crops
with irrigation. The farmer looking tor
agricultural lands from the car window,
will not see much in all the distance
from Fargo OAK, to Portland, except
ing while passing through Gallatin
country he will have to take the branch
roads The largest half of the area OF
the Big Bend is us productive as the Pa.
louise, and it will soon be sending its
grain IN great quantities, as well us its
stock to market.
NEW TOWNS.
are continually sprinsng into existence,
and tho oldest are growing fast Rosal-
ia, Oaksdale, Pennington, Rockford,
Pullman Palouse city, Dayton anu
Moscow are thriving villages on the
Palousa prairie. Moscow is older than
Spokane and many OF our citizens hail
from Moscow. The Big Bend has EIlens-
burg, place of 1000, Cheney, Sprague
and Davenport and the yearlings VIII
bur. Almira and Watervile which will
some of these days be large and impor.
tant agriCulturaltowns.
From east to west, from Idaho to the
Pacific coast, Washington is about $50
miles in length, and from the British
lino to oregon the width Is $50. The
urea is 10000 square miles. Only half OF
Z the state has been surveyed and the pco-
pie are thankful to congress tor "a LIBERAL
appropriation for surveys. SO that the
settlers can 20 ahead and help to In
crease the population OF the state to
1000, 600 with the expiration OF the nine
icenth century.
sPoKASE FLOUR MILLS
will GRIND /, 500. 600 bushels of grain this
season, and its merchants will get good
share of the millions of dollars paid for
the grain to the farmers. A reasonable
endeaYor has been made to guard
against exaggeration in reporting visible
advances of this "bcoming" country.
At first glance where there is much to
commend, one is quite liable to get in
to the swim and be carried away with
the wings of hope and visionary posi-
bilities. But glance backward at the
staIwart stride made in the past three
years In Eastern Washington the rccol-
lection of the doubt which clouded the
future and caused many men to hcsi-
tate in their unstrung intentions re-
Neals the fact that in prophesying and
In glowing over uncertain prospects, We
We're far from OVERRIDING the act Such
wonderful changes as have taken place
can not be imagined by you of tho East
who have nested SO long. 10 see Spo-
kane as IL is now, ii would be waste of
words TO attempt to impress you with
the
KALEIDOSCOPE TRANSPORTATION
made in tina past nine years, with their
hopes, vexations and discouragements
and failures. Tho Photographic mile
posts of the past lose force in their pic
turing the colony of 100, of nine years
ago, and the thriving town of 1000 busy
people OF three years since, is lost in
oplivion and swallowed upin an ntiiuent
ana powerful city of 5000 people. We
need not travel the earth over for u
chahge, or to see sonnet hing new, for the
changes here are constant, ever interest.
ing and radical. The characteristic
metropolitan dash is borne in the face of
Lao. - IA.