The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-10-19
GEO. F. RICHARDSON WRITES OF
THE VALLEY AND FRUITS
The President of the Commercial Club Tells Whv
the Kennewick Valley Suits Him.

Tho success of irrigation in the Ken
,ow,ck valley is fully established.
Three wears Of trial have proven the
,orv.lous productiveness Of the soil
vhensupplled with sufficient m DISTURB.
The abundance of water for a bounti-
fuI supply was demonstrated in the
.,mmer of 1905, when all streams ran
tho minimum of water in the history
ofcivilzatiun in the state. Climate,
anil water and transportation are
among the great advantages of this
Garden of Eden, in the rough. With
water iudiciously distributed upon this
soil of volcanic formation, it's produc-
tiveuess is beyond the power of de-
serIption. 1t must be seen to be IN.
derstood. Trees sending forth growth
Of twelve feet in one season; grape
vines forty feet; alfalfa producing ten
tons Of hay per acre. is u glimpse Of
what you may expect to see here. "a
desert made to bloom Us the rose;;" u
Alag station grown to metropolitan
center ct 1900 happy, contented peo-
pie, and all in three short years-the
result of irrigation.
You may travel from ocean to ocean
--frum north IL solth- and you will
not find another place combining so
msuy ot the comforts aud 80 few of
the discomforts of life AS in this di-
vinely favored Kennewick valley.
Here vegetation attains its highest
perfection, ard fruits common TO this
latitude are produced. Here nature
will provide you with the neccessaries
ofliie and ma'y of the Iuxuries. And
why?
Snow and rain, with all their attend.
ant ,nconveniences, are almost un-
known here 1, is Il land of continual
sunshine. Stock il wintered without
any kind of shelter. La'ge flocks of
sheep are brought mere to winter Oh
account of the mIldness of the climate.
Hsidy vegetables, such as onions,
turhlps, cabbage, ETC., grow and are
gathered during all the winter months.
1fhe summer days IRE wa,m, but the
heat is not oppressive. The nights are
always cool. The atmosphere, set in
motion and tempered by the great Col
umbla river, As it wends its way from
The mountains Of perpetual snow to the
oeaan, is refre> hihg and assures rest
ful nights repose.
Taree years Of competitive trial have
essab!ished beyond argument that the
Kennewick valley is from eight days
TO three weeks earlier on the MAJ ket
with It's products than any section of
Washington. Oregon or Idaho. assuring
anarkeI. all its own, and securing the
ishcy prizes which every buyer knows
Exists for the "first in the market I"
This valley is justly styled: "The Land
o' the First Ripe Strawberries.
The Columbia Co o1lmission Co. offer
eo prize Off S25 for the first crate of
hpe Cerries produced in the state by a
ahsls grower. The prize was cap
'ured by Mr.. Sclimb, living six miles
below Kennewick. Kennewick berries
we're on the market eight days before
sny other point began to ship. The
afst ripe berries were discovered
april %. The first boxes arrived in
sown April 80 and sold ut 81 I.ox, and
.ne nrst crate was shipt May 2.
ine market started at So q crate, and
may ~. when the crop was practically
.ntn, they were in great demand at
"per crate. The yield is from eighty
!" one hundred and fifty crates per
Scfs' 1t can easily be seen the enor-
"ous profit there is in a straw berry