Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-11-20
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Spokesman. of Wednesday. November
18th.
PULLMAN, Nov. l0.-lt is hardly necessary to-
say that Pullman is pleased over the news from
Olympia, that the supreme court has decided il
her favor in the agricultural college suit Every
body is shaking hands with his neighbor and
smiling, and the crowds in the stores seem
larger than usual though it has been raining and
the streets banks of mud. But then who
Hinds mud in the Palouse valeyH Not the
Palousers certainly. They pride themselves OF
their soil and they look with pride on every
grain of fertile dust that has made their country
slch wonderful agricultural section
For wonder there appears to be no croakers.
Everybody is pleased because everybody is busy
and making money. The farmers are paving
OF their debts and have started bank accounts;
the storekeepers are selling goods for cash and
collecting old debts, and the real estate dealers
are raising on the price of their lots, and fgur-
ing on the results of the BOOM The evidences
OF prosperity that are to be seen on all sides are
simply astonishing There is not town in
which new buildinns are not going up or have
just been completed. Not one or two. but
dozens. Here in Pullman, for instance. they
have built 100 buildings this year. and the
location of the big fire is marked. as it is in
Spokane, only by brick blocks and handsome
stores.
Every town is grading its streets and macad-
amizing them, which at present adds to the
mud, but which will when completed add i'm
Nv 10 fho
bryo cities. One thing struck me particularly:
They are putting down cement sidewalks all
through the business sections, and both here and
in Palouse City was able to walk for blocks on
as good pavemsnts as can be found in Paris or
Washington. Electric lights illuminate the
streets and add to the attractiveness of the
stores after dark. Then every location has its
industrial establishments. such as sawniIls and
fosr mills, and here in Pullman they have
oottling factory, where they put up Ghalybeate
water that already has sale as far as California
dropped in there yesterday and found the build
ing surrounded by glass bottles several rows deep.
There were six men bottling, as fast as they
could work, the water which flows from one of
the famous artesian wells that have made this
town thriving little city. They bottle l.000
bottles day, but this does not begin to keep up
with their orders, and company is being or
ganized with capital of S25, 900 to increase the
business ten fold. This means sixty men con
stantly employed and pay roll of nearly $1,000
week. One Spokane wholesale house has Just
placed an order often carloads of the water with
them, which shows what business they are do
ing.
The bottles used by this concern all come
from Salt Lake, The proprietors tell me thev
hope that Washington bottle factory will start
up soon, and if Spokane will start an enterprise
Of this kind it can find a good customer right
here the moment it gets to work
BY the way, it is very gratifying to see the
good feeling that exists towards Spokone through
this country. They all want to make Spokane
the wholesale depot and to get rid of the Port
land incubus. At Colfa&, Palouse, Garfield and
Pullman + did not find merchant who did not
express himself favorable to Spokane, and
when the freight rate question is once adjusted
there will be no trouble in securing this immense
trade for the metropolis of eastern Washington.
The agricultural college is going to be an i'm
menss thing for this burg. The location select
cd is a commanding hill east of the town, over
looking it and the vast wheat fields for miles
around. The design for the building, which
will take five or six years to build, shows very
handsome edifce, four stories high, with a tall
clock tower in front. 1t will be 416 foot 'front.'
and the material to be used is brick with granite
trimmings. 1t will be great building, and if
properly conducted as l have no doubt it will be-
great college.
Pullman is to haYe new three story brick
hotel, and $25, 900 school house is going up on
the hill west of the town. There is also frame
hotel in progress of erection and several brick
blocks. What the town needs most is an oper,
house town hall, but probably the citizens
will build one before another year rolls around.
Pullman has quite a military air. Her
military college has over sixty pupils, and as
they wear the blue uniform of the regular army
they add to the attractiveness of the crowds Oh
the streets.
Writing of the prosperity that marks this sec
ton of the state reminds me that the farmers
have through their alliance helped themselve,
from their grain. Their elevators have beer
very successful senator mcOFOShey SAYS thai
the elevators owned by the farmers have made
an average advance of cents bushel in tn,
value of wheat this year. He says. too. by thu
way, that he has bought no barley this season
but that owing to the Mckinley bill the crop O.
barley was enormously increased this year
which has kept down prices, but he believes
that if the farmers hold their barley they vii
get good prices for it eventually.
In Pullman last Saturday the farmers allianc,
or syndicate of farmers sold 80, 900 bushels O.
wheat to the Pacific Coast Elevator company a
so cents bushel. This is the largest deal O
the kind ever made in this country and was q
course q cash transaction.
At Oakesdale last week syndicate of farmer
sold 49, 900 bushels of wheat for 76 cents
bushel which was several cents above the marke
price, and the same result is reported from Pal
ouse City. At every station the farmers bav
their elevators, and it is notable fact that viii
the other elevators appear to have shipped thei
grain, the farmers alliance appears to be holdin
on to theirs with the result of receiving higbe
prices from their rival buyers. The members o
the alliance who own stock in the elevators hay
their wheat stored at SO cents a ton, while non