The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-01-03

ployed by eastern capitalists have been
an work locating an electric power
plant on the Icicle river, two and
half miles from this place, which
means the employment of another two
GA three hundred men for over a year.
Last fall L. M. Rice and Co. Of Sc
attic contracted with the Lamb-Davis
Lumber Co., to build 25 miles of log
cling road from Leavenworth to Lake
Wenatchee. 1t is primarily logging
road, but will quickly develop a large
freight and passenger traffic, for which
reason it is built on the lines OF a stand
ard guage railroad. This line and its
contemplated 25-mile extension will
open connection with the Red Noun
tain mines. where hundreds of thou
sands are now being spent in develop
ment by the Chelan Consolidated Cop
per Co., the Metal Monarch Co., the
members of the Lamb-Davis Lumber
Co., and others. Another irrigating
canal, four and one-half miles long,
south of the river, has been con-
structed, and several hundred acres
are now on the market in SIN a |
tracts.
With the positive assurance that in
addition to our regular payroll we will
have an additional army OF from 400
to 900 men for the next year and a
half, we feel confident that the BUSH
ness prosperity Of the town rests on a
firm foundation.
Taken all in all, for the prospective
settler, whether he have money for in
vestment, in real estate, in mining, or
in any one of the various channels OF
trade, or whether he be dependent up
on his daily labor for support OF his
family and building them home,
Leavenworth, above all the towns in
the Pacific northwest, offers sures
foundation for stability and permanence
of resource for the years to come. Its
climatic Coz Iitions are excellent, its
salubrity being due in large measure to
the protection of its surroundinghills and
its moderate altitude GIGS #. }. The
disseminating effects of the extremes
of heat and cold are unknown here,
and settlers choosing Leavenworth as a
future location will finds its people
neighborly, companionable and obig-
ing and its business community honor
able, enterprising and obliging to a
marked degree.
AS an earnest of the ultimate fulfill
ment of the towns fattering promise,
the building activity of the past year
should serve in a measure as criterion
to the prospective settler in his selec-
ton of Leavenworth, and its desira-
bility as a place in which to establish
his permanent home. For instance:
Brick buildings erected or compile
ted during the past year:
Public school building, cost $18, 900.
]. G. Fritz, store building, cost
$4,000.
F. A. Losekamp, business block,
brick, cost $4,000.
Emil Frank, business house, cost
$1,000.
]. w. Elliott, store building, cost
$4,000.
Frame buildings completed during
the year:
Tumwater room!ng house, cost $4,000.
Addition to Washington hotel, cost,
$4,000.
Depot Restaurant building, So, 500.
]. A. Miller, business house, 81, 200.
]. B. Adams, residence, $4,000.
]. G. Fritz, residence, $4,000.
Approximately one hundreds resi-
dences, costing from few hundred up
to $4,000.
And there you have it--incomplete,
it's true, but indicative of the future
prosperity and importance of Leaven-
worth. AS straws show the direction
of the wind, just as sure as fate the
improvements of the past year, and
those of the year to come, presage for
Leavenwurth an unbroken era of pros
perity which will result ultimately in
placing Leavenworth where it right
fully belongs, in the forefront Of the
smaller industrial and commercial cit
les of the state.
P. II. Graham, Shoemaker