The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-07-14
JOSEPH MCABE TELLS A SEAT
TIE NEWSPAPER MAN ABOUT
THE CROPS.
Predicts Eastern Washington Will
Have tn: Largest Crop in Its His
tory-Harvesting Begun.

Wheat harvesting in Eastern Wash
enable railroad men who keep in close
touch with the crop statistics to form
nearly, if not absolutely accurate es-
Inmates of the probable yield for 1905,
says the Press Times.
Joseph McCabe, president and
general manager of the Washington &
Columbia River Railroad Company,
with headquarters in Walla Walla, to
a reporter for the Times today said
that undoubtedly this year would see
the greatest grain crop in the entire
history of the state. Mr.. McCabe be-
lieves the crop will nearly reach 80
900 bushels in Eastern Washing
ton. Estimates for last year, made
by wel-informed observers, placed
the crop at $1,000, 900 bushels in round
figures. Mr.. McCabe, whose position
gives MIN especial opportunities to
make careful and comprehensive esti-
mates, says that there is every reason
for believing that the crop of 1905 will
show gain in yield over last year
from 10 to 1919 per cent.
On this figuring, it is evident that
the state will be richer by between
$4,000, 900 and $20,O0O,OO0 as a result
of the wheat crop for 1905 alone. This
is based on present prices for wheat.
Franklin County.
I'm Franklin county," said Mr.. Nc
Cabe at the Butler today, " the farm
ers are taking off from twenty to
twenty-five bushels per acre from land
which two or three years ago sold for
S. per acre and less and which was
not considered to be valuable as wheat
land. Cultivation has increased the
productiveness of the soil, and every
indication in the country now is that
Franklin county will produce nearly,
if not quite 100000 bushels as against
an estimated yield of $4,000 last year.
THE farmers about Ethiopia pay for
their farms with one years yield.
Conditions throughout the entire
wheat belt of Eastern Washington
and Eastern Oregon were better this
year than ever before. In Franklin
county there were four days of rain
in June-a circumstance without par
alell in recent years. This insured a
tremendous crop. In the Eureka fiat
country and in the Walla Walla VAL
ley there We're plentiful rains in June
and no hot winds to shrink the grain.
The crop is now matured, and har-
vesting, which began July 5, will con-
tinue for three months or more. The
wheat can easily be harvested as late
as December. 1t stands we'll and does
not shatter.
Get Sixty five Bushels per Acre.
In Walla Walla county the yield will
run from thirty-five bushels to the
acre in the Eureka fiat district to six
ty-five bushels per acre in some of
the richest lands in the valley. 1t is
estimated that the yield in Walla Wal
la county will be about 5,25O,OOO bush
els"
The Washington & Columbia River
Railroad traverses the best grain
growing districts of Walla Walla and
Columbia counties in this state and in
Umatilla county, Oregon. 1t is owned
by the Northern Pacific, and wheat
coming over the system finds it's way
eventually to the elevators and flour
mills on Puget Sound.
The wheat crop of Washington
should net the farmers between &c.
100000 and s12,OOO,OOO profit, accord
ing to Mr.. McCabe. Much wheat has
already been contracted for at IS centa
per bushel which means that the state
will be ricner by nearly s2O,OOO,OOO
from this years crop of wheat alone.
The barley crop in Columbia county
is larger than ever before in the his
tory of the county, Mr.. McCabe says
The grain is in fine shape, and based
on last years prices paid by brewers,
will add enormously to the wealth of
the already rich farmers of the coun.
y.
RAILROADS FACE SUITS.
Aft.r Several Years Violations of 28-