The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-21
AROUND THE HOTELS.
A Washington Man Tells About the
Fruit Crop.


Arthur Gum, of Washington, was
seen at the Metropolitan yesterday and
had the following to say about the
situation out on the Pacific coast:
''Klondike? Yes everything is Klondike
nowadays. Seattle is full of Klandike. Every
hotel has opened an annex, some of them
larger than the original, and all rooms full.
Many will have to wait until next year before
they get off, In the spring there will be a
great rush with better facilities for reaching
for miners in Washington; the same noun
tains run right up to Alaska. A diamond
drill went through, ledge of gold-bearing
rock 600 feet thick in the mountains, not an
hours walk from my house.
Crops? Yes. our farmers are having a
little Klondike of their own this year. Wash
ington is harvesting right now over 4O. OOO-
OCO bushels of wheat along with lot of other
grain. Wheat on the seaboard, at Seattle
or Tacoma was at last reports a fraction of
cent higher than in Chicago. An acquain-
year over $50, 000 from 5000 acre farm, and
the smaller farmers are making money in
proportion.
AT Wenatchee where live, we don't raise
wheat but fruit. The wheat country is across
the Columbia, east of us, known as the Big
bend. Wenatchee fruit is getting a fine
reputation from Chicago and Puget sound.
Our main market is in the mining districts,
Spokane, Rossland, Helena, Anaconda, Butte,
etc., and the fruit farmers, too, are making
money
struck U.S. year ago men were begging
for jobs, now we can scarcely get them at
all. They go to the mines and harvest fields,
where they get from 81 to 81 day."
Senator Knute Nelson registered at the
Merchants last evening his way from
Alexandria to Madison, Wis. He says that
politics is never mentioned I'D in his part
of the state these days; the farmers are too
busy harvesting their big grain crop In
speaking of the subcommittee of the COM
merce commission appointed to investigate
the fowage of the Mississippi and Missouri
rivers, the senator said that the .committee
would meet in st. Paul next month and start
out on trip OF six weeks, going UP the
down to the intersection of those rivers
The special object is to devise some means
to obviate the floods on the rivers and it is
possible that plan will be formulated to
use the surplus water on the Missouri for
1rrigating the large arid tracts near it.
F. Klepetko and family Mrs Ellen O'Grady
and Miss O'Grady, of Great Falls Mont, are
stopping at the Merchants.
j. l.. Camp, of Brainerd, is registered at
the Merchants.
Merchants guest yesterday was George
w. Young, of Window.
A. Wells, of Litchfeld, is at the Mer-
chants.
John E. King, editor of the Adrian Demo-
crat, is Windsor guest.
Mr. and Mrs. George Otto, of St. Cloud,
are stopping at the Windsor.
H. H. Dunn, Of Paramount is registered
at the Windsor.
A. D. O'Brien, of GraceviIle. wrote his
name on the Windsor register yesterday
o. S. Humer, Of Fargo, is a Clarendon
guest
w. J. Mitchell, of Jordan, is at the Claren-
don.
A Clarendon guest yesterday was W. P.
Finnegan, of Melrose.
B. Wright wrote Fargo, N. D., after his
name on the Ryan register yesterday.
James W. Orr, of Atchison, Kan, is at the
Ryan.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Casson, Of Madison,
Wis, are registered at the Ryan.
S. T. Harrison, of Duluth is stopping at
the Ryan.
Mr.: and Mrs L. Lamport, of Mankato, are
at the Ryan.
]. H. Shropshire and wife, OF Lexington.
KY, are at the Metropolitan.
D. c. Bradley and wife, of Centerville. To-.
registered at the Metropolitan.