The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-06-17
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OF course, where such large prof.
It's are realized, the rise in the price
of land is rapid and in the old irri-
gated central districts of the state
| irrigated land has already attained
a valuation of from $3.50 to over
| $4,000 per acre. This has greatly
stimulated new irrigation enterprises
which are placing their lands upon
| the market at prices OF from $50 tC
, $500 per acre, thus enabling those
who invest in them to in turn realize
the great profits which are inevitable
as they in turn are settled upon and
developed
One irrigation enterprise in the
south central portion of the state
on the Columbia river has added
80 900 acres to the irrigating areas
of the state. This alone will quickly
support thriving population of
| 900 people, and have a powerful
effect in stimulating the growth OF
| Spokane, Tacoma, Seattle, North
Yakima and other cities of the state.
New York and London.
Specific instances of unusual sue
cess in fruit raising in the irrigated
! districts Of the state are shown by
| the experience of one man who real
lied net profit of S719 an acre in
| 1906 from his apples. These apples
all went to New \ DIRK and London.
| Another irrigation farmer has rs
winesap apple trees from which he
sold 436 boxes Of apples from the
crop of 1905 at 81 a box, thus secur-
ing an income from these IS trees,
| on less than one-fourth OF an acre, of
$69S, or an average Of $2493 per
| tree. This orchard, at the rate of
! 100 trees to the acre, would have
produced s3SS0 of fruit per acre.
Only few years ago this same
land was purchased for $50 an acre.
| Six years ago a farmer bought %
acres of land for $40 an acre. Ten
acres of this land a short time ago
was sold to a citizen OF Seattle for
$1,000.
Another fruit grower realized
$3.50 from six acres OF apples.
These are but samples of dozens
of instances of large returns realized
| by fruitgrowers Of this state. Five
acres in the proper kind of apples,
pears, cherries, peaches, apricots
grapes or other fruits can be made
to average from $500 to $1,000 per
acre every year. A profit of from
500 to $3.50 per acre is an immense
| increase, let alone the greater re-
turns which can easily be realized
with the proper attention and by the
cultivation of the proper varieties Of
fruit.
| No Danger of Overproduction.
There need never be fear of an
| overproduction of the kind of fruit
that is bringing these immense
prices. The area which has a proper
soil and climate to produce them is
extremely limited Excellent fruit
can be grown generally in the states
of the Pacific northweit as it is
| grown in the middle west and New
England states, but the fancy, high
priced fruit of exceptional bloom,
color and attractiveness can be
grown only in limited area; there
fore the market can never be glutted,
for this fruit is of a class and quail
ity which does not come into compe-
tition with the ordinary excellent
fruit raised throughout the northern
part of the United States. 1t is in a
class by itself, and no matter what
prices are for ordinary fruit, these
fancy Washington, Oregon and Ida
no products have a market all their
own, influenced by the prevailing
prices for the ordinary classes of
| good frnitS