Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1901-11-14
RAPID GROW TIL
STATE OF WASHINGTON SHOWS
AMAZING PROGRESS.
Emigration Agent Mott. Of the Northern Pa.
cifc. Tells What Has Been Accomplished
Within the Year The State an Empirs
Within Itself.

Milwaukee. Wis Nov. 5.-Col. Chas.
w. Mott, general emigration agent of the
Northern Pacific, in All interview, said :.
"Washington has made rapid strides
forward. The Northern Pacific has
landed about 10000 people in Northern
Idaho and Washington in the past year.
Every county has increased its acreage
about so per cent. in the last two years.
In 1898 only 338, 600 bushels of wheat
were shipped from Adams county, which
lies IS miles west of Spokane. This year
it will ship 1000, 600 bushels. In Yaki-
ma county, 100 miles further west, an
extremely large mileage of irrigation
bitches has been added. The result is
the land has been taken up rapidly since
1898. One of the irrigation bitches,
known as the Sunnyside, is Is miles long,
90 feet wide and II feet deep. 1t is one
of the largest in the United States. l
have placed 1000 people on this ditch
this year. The transfers of land aggre-
gated 5000 acres, largely in 10 or 2O-acre
pieces. A man with 20 acres there can
RELY on more revenue than farmer i'll
the East with GAO acres.
IL met gentleman who took up 20
acres of these lands seven years ago.
apples, pears, prunes and apricots, but
mostly winter apples. About an acre
was covered with farm buildings and
residence, and the other seven of the
tract were devoted to the raising of
alfalfa. Last year he wanted to retire
and offered his farm for $4,000, but as
there was 5000 difference between him
and the would-be purchaser the trade
fell through. He feels well satisfied that
he failed to sell, for he has sold this year
$4,000 worth of fruit, and "a tons of
alfalfa at $3.50 ton. l can't tell his
total revenue, as he sold considerab bic
honey. 1t is one of the best bee districts
know of, as the alfalfa blooms previous
to each cutting and is cut four times in
the summer. This gives the bees four
times as much nourishment as they
would have where plants blossomed only
once. l met another man who bought
ten acres OF land last spring under new
ditch for $50 an acre. He has been able
to pay for it with one crop of potatoes,
$1,000 from 10 acres, and put 81 800 in
the bank. The crop ran from $50 to 500
bushels per acre. More lumber has been
shipped East than ever before, and the
numbering interests are proportionately
large. Last week l saw the transport
Dix sail from Seattle with load of
10000 tons of alfalfa and oats for the
Manila army. The boat had hardly left
the dock when another large transport
arrived at the dock to load 1000 tons.
Washington an Empire.
"Washington is an empire. General
Jackson said no country should exist that
could not feed and clothe itself. Wash
ington can do both. 1t has large forests,
iron, copper and coal, wheat and grazing
lands, and fruit lands. Spokane will UNI
doubleday be one of the large manufac-
turing cities of the West, on account of
the unlimited water power furnished by
a drop of l25 feet in mile. Seattle and
Tacoma will be great shipping points.
Washington and Idaho have virtually fed
our army in the Philippines and China.
That is what makes the good prices and
the brisk market. Vast amounts of grain
and meat products are sent to Nome and
other Alaska points. Two vessels from
Alaska arrived while l was at Seattle,
with 700 passengers and 81, SOC, 900 gold
dust.
"The Pacific trade has advanced two
thirds in volume in five years. The Amer
lean imports of the products OF Asia,
China and Japan increased SO per cent
since 1894, while American exports to the
markets OF those countries have grown
1876 per cent in that period. We are TAX
ing $40 900, 600 worth of goods year to
the East Indies, as compared with $685.
O0O, 900 in 1894
"Our Pacific exports of -four have
risen from practically nothing eight
years ago to approximately $4,000, 600
per year, shipped from Puget Sound
ports. Our sales of cotton and cotton
goods have risen from 81, OOO, 900 in 1894
to $4,000 900 last year. These figures
are facts that show the future OF the
Northwestern states. They are in the
true world pathway"