The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-01-03
AS0TIN.

Crackers about hard times are unknown
81 Asotin county, which IS the southeast
ern county Of the state- In fact, the
year Isss was IN many respects the best
We have ever had. IN February the
Lewiston Water and Power Company
began the construction OF canal.
which now carries nearly eighty cubic
feet Of water per second from Asot.n
creek onto n body or land In the Snake
river valley. known now as VinelaDd. This
land has been laid of in two, five, ten
and twenty acre tracts, which Is offered
a. a reasonable figure and on easy terms.
The company has also plated townsite
and dedicated Il as Lewiston. Wash,
which 10 healthy infant, and promises
70 be q lively competitor 20 the county
seat and metropolis. the beautiful town OF
Asotin. The L. W. g.. p. Co.'S enterprise
has already involved an expenditure Of
over 10000.
The Anatons Irrigation ard Power Com
pany also exhibited faith IN the success of
Irrigation In Asoun county by the con-
struetion last year OF ditch which
conveys the waters OF NH creek, a dis
lance OF fifteen miles onto a beautiful 2.oso-
acre tract on the lower end or Asotin fiat
The reason why the companies above re-
fsrred 70 have Incorporated the word
power in their title r. that both bitches
ran high up on the hills the former 20 and
the latter over ! COO feet above the valley
aTardinE a water power sufficient 10 turn
the wheels OF mary mills and factories.
Now that the 'fce has been broken"
much progress IL expected the ensuing
year. Already a company has been or
Ranixed for the purpose Of putting water
on 21e9 acres OF land IN the Forks OF
Asotiu which, With the continuance Of de-
velonmeats already began. viii make 1881
a lively year for AsotIn county.
These enterprises have encouraged every
one Of Asotin's 200 people and filed them
with the assurance Of coming prosperity
Farming stock-raising. fruit-growing
mining and numbering have each received
announcement. TIE land ia rich and fer
lie near the timber belt or the Blue
mountains which border the county on
the south. and large crops OF wheat, bar
ley. oats and hay are grown here every
year The lower lands. which are too dry
as nature left them. for successful farm
ing. are irrigated and put Ia fruit: and
every kind from the peach 20 the harder
varieties IS grown here successfully. Aso-
Tin county pears took first premium al the
Spokane Fruit Fair this year.
on the hills which are too steep for con-
Venient culture bunch grass the king OF
grasses, grows very rroAfc. thus sffording
range for thousands OF stock. We have
no waste land Several small dairy plants
81 tha county prove very renunerstive:
the abundance of bunch grass and our
mild climate reader feeding practically
unnecessary.
THE bars along the Snake ana the Grand
Ean8e rivers are rich with gold From
e. ~ e per dav IS easily u1ade with no bat
ter PROCESS than the rockers Where
water 81 convenient The s}ulcs box Is more
profitable
Although there IS - present bat one saw
Tain sa ire county. aS5 that wtth a capae-
sly &c less fhan $500 feet per day. lumber
iaw w3il some d8v he prominent among
our Industries. for there - within the
county rot less than = 90 acres OF heau-
tisui WHITE rine Few counties IN the
state have mere natural resources than
Asotiu Culy canital wss needed g de-
velop them. and thts Is now corning our
way. ELMER WALDRTP