The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-12-18

to the outlying communities. Their
development means her growth,
their prosperity her wealth.
"Wenatchee is in the right geo.
graphical position to become a gen
eral commercial and distributing
point for. vast section of the uD-
per country. She is now and is in
position to remain, the metropolis,
and the educational and social, as
well as the shipping and trading
and manufacturing center, of Cen
trail and Northern Washington.
Portland, Oregon, became great
through building up her vast terri
tories surrounding her. Even were
they but remotely tributary Portland
did not consider them too far away,
in those earlier days. to be given
attention. Spokane, on a somewhat
lesser scale, has promoted the dis
tricts in any way tributary to her
in Idaho, British Columbia and
Washington. Each of these towns
have been ready to spend money and
to direct immigration into remote
places whether there was chance
for realizing any immediate return
or not.
"Wenatchee's situation is analo
gous. 1t remains. however, for the
people to be more alive to it. When
homeseekers come here and find, for
instance. as they sometimes do, that
they have not the capital to secure
just what they would like in the way
of bearing orchard. or even that
raw land near town is beyond their
means the next thing to be done,
if they cannot be settled here. is to
locate them in the upper country in
stead of allowing them, for lack of
proper advice, as so very often hap
pens, to go west of the mountains.
Cases of this kind frequently come
to my notice. Every such instance
means that Wenatche has not only
lost the benefit of an actual acqui-
sition to her immediate or tributary
population through money already
spent in advertising in order to Sc
cure the visit of such prospective
settler, but that he has gone from
her into an entirely different section
Of country, there to be the means OF
keeping many other possible settlers
from coming hither. | caution and
exhort every real estate dealer and
every citizen of Wenatchee not to
let any visiting stranger who has
been seeking land go away without
advising him to first visit the upper
country. Every addition made to the
population there, every dollar eX-
pended and every new acre brought
under cultivation rebounds to the ad-
vantage and benefit of Wenatchee.
"But our interest in the upper
country and our relation to it does
not stop merely with encouraging
it's settlement. There are already
large and thrifty communities there.
These have a present relation and
Importance to the commercial inter-
ests of Wenatchee.
would you guess that already
without any apparent effort-local
business houses are shipping large
amounts of goods to upriver points?
1t has not been unusual to go among
the cargoes on the steamboats, this
fall and find that . large percentage
Of the upriver merchandise ship
msnts originated in Wenatchee.
There have been times when the
freight originating here amounted to
half the cargo. Yet there Is little
notice taken OF this. The dealers
doing the business apparently have
not, as Just remarked, put forth an,
special effort to encourage the
trade. The business has come in the
natural order Of things. Perhaps
that@is Why II II thought,so little Of
and It's Significance ignored.
what It means Is that this is a
trade which belongs nov and in fu-
ture to- Wenatchee, or that. it is
within reach and control OF Wenat-
chez, providing our merchants choose
to develop and hold it. This busi-
ness should be encouraged. The
goodwill of the people should be en-
couraged The development of the
country should be promoted. We
natchee ought to be the jobbing cen
ter for all the upper Columbia river
and Okanogan countries. The soon
er the merchants, or the sooner you.
as spokesman, advocate press agent