The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-10-07
GROWTH OF
CITY Of kRUPP
Especial Correspondence to the
,Advance.)

Northern Railway, and in the very
heart of what is now considered one
tions of the Big Bend country, is
located the little town of Krupp.
1t is like boy in its teens as COM
pared with the older towns along
the line, for it was only in 1900,
eight years after the road was built,
that F. A. Wingate drifted down
from Wilbur and erected the first
store building. The vast territory
of which Krupp is the distributing
centre was, prior to this time, en-
tirely given over to stock raising,
and it was thought by all the old
settlers that it would alweys be
given over to this-at that time 4
profitable occupation. For in those
early days Butte City had to come
this way for its beef supplies, par
ticularly early grass fed beeves
Stockmen made their headquarters
along the valley of Crabb Greek,
where there are extensive areas of
meadow land the hay of which was
used for feeding the younger por-
tons of the herds. But the old or
der has passed away! Whereas in
those days it was the country of
cattle kings. now the wheat king
reigns supreme. Fabulous fortunes 4.
have been made in land, which has
advanced in six years from 81 to
$25 and $50 per acre. Few people
realized in those early days that any
land that will grow the native bunch
grass would grow wheat The Seat
tie Grain company was the first to
erect a grain warehouse, from which
it shipped in 1900 $1,000 bushels
of wheat. The shipments have inf
creased since then every year. Conf
sentative estimates place the total
wheat shipments for this year at one
million bushels, which will place it
as the second largest initial ship
ping point on the Great Northern
Railway. South of Krupp there are
at least four townships from which
il draws wheat, and all the land
available for wheat is not yet by
any means under cultivation, while
the area on the north side of the
town, though not so extensive on
account of tapping the territory of
another railway, has the big advan-
tage OF a down hill haul to the rail-
way. The great bulk of the wheat
this year will grade No. 1 and is in
great demand for milling purposes
on account of it's large per centage
of gluten.
1t is unfortunate and it is a mat
ter that greatly retards the growth
OF the country that none of those
vast tracts cannot be seen from The
town, or by passengers on the rail-
way trains. He that would see the
country for himself must of ncces-
sity travel by team a distance OF
about three miles to get in sigh.
of this vast stretch of territory.
why? Because the beautiful VALLEY
OF Crab reek, with its bluffs ana
breaks. through which the RAILWAY
traverses in order to get its essen
tial water grade" would fain hid.
those vast agricultural tracts in or
der to show the travelling public It's
own distinctive beauties; for along
this valley are numerous extensive
meadows that are unique and ur-
equaled as to prOductiveness. These
extensive meadows provide feed for
thousands of cattle and sheep dur
ing the short winter months. Tim
here grown to profusion. In the inn
mediate vicinity of Krupp there i,
large tract of sagebrush land, SINH
lar to that of the Yakima valley.
with water system, and it is under
stood will be sold in acreage tracts.
The town of Krupp, which geogra-,
phically, is very close to the Lin .Olh
and Douglas line, but located in the
latter, has the perpetual stream Of
Grab Creek running through it, and
impervious to the heaviest kind OF
traffic on account Of the gravel ma
cadam OF which it is naturally con-
posed. Krupp is justly proud of its
two banks and other enterprises.
and believes there is ample room
for other business ventures. China
TIC conditions are good. The win
tiers are usually short and mild. As
an instance of the marked difference
even in one county, the following in
cident may be cited: A jury was SUBJ
poenaed to meet in Davenport, the
county seat of Lincoln county. the
latter pare of February. One jury