The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-06-03
STATE AND COUNTY NEWS

The railroads have decided to give
Spokane reduced rate effective June
10Th.
The Waverly beet sugar refining
plant is to be increased to Eve hundred
ton daily capacity.
The bicycle commissioner of Walla
Walla has received car load of ce-
met which he will use this summer in
making bicycle paths in and around the
town.
Spokane claims to have about fifty
automobiles and talks about organizing
an auto club and having races. The
undertakers will no doubt encourage
racing. It's good for thier business.
r. w, Harding, Spokane man, last
week bought three sections of land near
Ephrata, Wash, paying therefor ten
thousand dollars. He bought The land
for an investment and expects to double
his money in three years.
The farmers in this part of the coun-
try are shaking hands with themselves
over the prospects of big crop Of
grain this season. The winter SHOWS
aided by the rains this spring are bring
ing the grain and fruit on rapidly
Quincy Quill
The farmers ali over Eastern Wash
ington are expecting to harvest one of
the largest crops, both in acreage and
yield, that has ever been raised in this
fertile section. The Big Bend farmers
are enthusiastic over the prospects OF
wheat. The heavy snow fall and a few
good rains this spring has put the
grain crop in excellent condition.
Last Friday T. S. Ingraham, first
grand engineer of the International
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
which body has been in session in Los
Angeles, Gala, for the past two weeks
dropped dead at his desk while the
Brotherhood was in session. He had
been member since 1865. Apoplexy
was the cause of his death. He was SO
years of age and was elected to the Of
flee of first grand engineer in 1878.
Seventeen carloads of range borses,
numbering 400 head, were shipped out
of Connell, Wash, one day last week to
Dickenson, N. D. The horses were
owned by Walt Lemmons, William
Floyd and George Borden, and were
sold to Mr.. Mccarthy of Dickenson, N.
D., for SO per head straight. Mr.. Nc
Carthy purchased 500 head from the
same persons some time ago, but only
500 were secured on the first roundup.
Several riders have star ed out to the
range near the WaterviIle country and
will secure about 800 head more to be
shipped about June 90
While in Spokane last week, j. T..
Sullivan, who is at the head OF the
proposition to build the electric line
from Bridgeport, on the Columbia river
to Waterville and some point on the
Great Northern, said: The money for
its construction will be subscribed prin-
cipally by the owners of the land ada
cent to the line, many Of whom are sub
scribing $500 per quarter section. Inc
proposed line will pass through fertile
farming country and will be approXi-
mately 100 miles in length. Power for
operating it will be generated from the
Chelan river. Just where the line will
tap the Great Northern has not been
determined
Messrs. Babcocl; & Benson, employ a
steam plow on their large ranch and
farm near Trinidad. Last week, in
conversation with the Quincy Quill
man Mr. Benson said; "We have been
turning over sixty acres of land each
dav. The burrows are five miles long
and the pillow stops one time for coal
and water in that distance. The plow
runs at speed little faster than a
horse can walk. 1t takes four men and
two teams to keep the plow going one
team is used to haul water and the
other to haul coal. People who have
seen the work are surprised at the good
lob done. We are turning over several
hundred acres"
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