Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-02-20
THE COMMERCIAL TIDE.

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them are seeking new homes in a new
land and opportunities OF investment
denied them in the older states.
Cheap lands, a salubrious climate
and wider opportunities are the mag
nets drawing this immigration to the
Pacific northwest.
onward rolls the commercial tide
TO the land OF tbe setting sun.
With the farm and factory side by side
The race for empires won.
Westward, from the beautiful valleys
OF the Euphrates and the Nile and
from the shores of the Egean sea,
one-fourth of Il century of centuries
ago, civilization began the race for
empire, which, though often won, is
never DER. History tells of the Phmni-
clan and Carthagenian traders whose
merchant vessels, in primitive ages,
sailed the waters OF the purpled Orient
and beat out new paths across the
boundless unknown seas in the inter-
ests OF commerce.
Through the ages of the past civili-
cation was never in state OF content
ment. Like the chambered nautilus,
"He lett the past years dwelling for the new,
stole with soft step its shining archway
through,
Built up its idle door.
stretched in his last:found home, and knew
the old no more"
He is ever reaching forward to plant
the seeds Of commercial industry in
the fertile soil of new world; to
develop the hidden resources of Il
heaven-favored cline, where, amid
the busy hum of unceasing toll, the
crowning gem of prosperity, with
alarming rapidity, he transforms the
wilderness OF his new-found home into
the growing fields, beautiful cities and
magnificent industries of an enter
prising people.
How true to this tn cory has been
the development of eastern Washing
ton, evidenced by its history and the
testimony OF those pioneers whom the
scythe of time has left standing in the
fields OF life. The student OF today
gathers from the magazines and peri
odicals OF the time, glowing accounts
OF the wonderful scenery, the hidden
treasures and the magnificent resour-
ces OF the golden west.
The immigrant OF today gazes with
rapture upon the fields OF waving
grain, the fruitful orchards and beau
tiful homes, and the cities and towns
rife with commercial activity. While
the poet Of today, impressed with the
beauty and grandeur of the scene, is
wont to chant
"Where the mountains turn to The glowing
west
And slope to the sunset sea,
Goa planted garden OF loneliness,
garden OF destiny"
Far and wide have spread the It'd
ings OF the wondrous growth, magnifi-
cent resources and rapid develop
ment OF the Inland Empire, and the
tide OF immigration rushes onward
from the east with renewed activity,
eager to gather the golden apples
from the garden of Hesperides.
1t is probable that no section in
eastern Washington or elsewhere Of
fers greater inducements to the pros
pective settler than Adams county.
While possessing Il mild and salu-
brious climate and fertile soil, it has
another very important advantage in
that a large amount of fertile land
can be obtained at very low figures.
In the busy, rustling, wide-a-awake
western country there is no town of
its size to compare favorably with
Ritzville. 1t is the county seat and
first town of importance in the county
In the last few years it has grown
wonderfully and now numbers 1000
people within its limits. With such
conditions, is it to be wondered at
that those who have cast their lot
here should have unbounded faith in
its future growth and stability?