The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1908-05-20
Development of This
Great Section

more capital are needed. Values
are here. resources are here ana the
city, district and state are becoming
better known throughout the coun-
try. The mines and forests already
have offered and always Will offer
marvellous opportunity for wealth
getting. but tho farms, the dairy and
poultry ranches and the orchards
and the advance of the cities and
towns mean countless opportunities
for the man with large means. as
well as the man with only a Jew hun
dred dollars.
Realty in city and district is a
means to gain wealth that offers OPP
portunity to all in this country just
now. 1t is cheap. and the man de-
sirous of profiting by it is able 10
find an opportunity that exactly fits
his purse; a good opportunity, too
one that offers exceedingly great
profits on the capital invested. Prac-
tically every real estate man IN tic
country is loading up with property
buying judciously. of course. bit
buying al every opportunity when he
has the money to invest. Likewise
every real estate concern that is in
the building business is putting all
available capital into structures.
principally into business, apar mcnt
and dwelling houses. Some ara also
cases new houses are sold betoro they
are completed, so great is the de-
mand. Thousands Of people are
coming into the country and theT
must be housed.
been opened within easy reach of
towns and cities in the last 70
months and improvements are being
made as rapidly as the material and
workmen can be assembled Pro-
eress is being made in the farming
and horticultural districts, east. vc9t
north and so.:th. In IL counties in
eastern Washington alone more than
100000 acres of land Is devoted
to wheat this year. while III. 600
acres of land in the state is utilized
for commercial orchards, and thods-
ands of trees will be added this yea.
The wheat yield in eastern Washing
ton was a matter of 4O.S50.000 BUSH
els in 1907. while the fruit crop net
ted millions of dollars. The Yakima
valley was in the lead. Thousands
of acres of land are being put under
the ditch, and irrigation plants are
projected in new districts. These
places offer opportunities for loans.
as the security is of the gilt-edgc
variety. Land will never again be as
cheap as it is today
1t is a common thing 10 find dis
tricts where land, which went beg
ging at prices ranging from s. to
SIG an acre a few years ago. is now
worth from $50 to $3.50. and there
are millions of acres of land in east
ern Washington. northern Idaho.
western Montana. southeastern Brit
ish Columbia and northeastern Ore
gon which can be bought for little
money or by exercising homestead
rights. This land can be made as
valuable as any in the irrigated and
dry farming districts in the Inland
Empire.
Many agricultural industries are
yet in the swaddling garments in
this part of the Northwest. Plants
are needed for the reduction of the
raw materials to commercial use. In
the beet sugar and potato starch in
dustries alone. there are opportuni-
ties for the inves tment of millions
of dollars capital Much of the land
in the extreme eastern part of Wash
ington is peculiarly adapted for the
production of sugar beets and pota-
toes and crops are certain with the
highest percentage of saccharine and
starch matter. There are opportun-
tiles for the canning and preserving
industry in the Yakima, Wenatchee.
Prosser. Spokane and Snake River
valleys, where all kinds of fruits. ex-
cept oranges and lemons, can be
grown for less money than in any
other district on the map. and this
is also true of the production of lum-
Der and minerals.
Wonderful opportunities for in
vestment are presented by the dairy
and poultry industries. While thous-
ands of heads of cattle. sheep and
horses are raised annually. more than
$15.000.000 a year is paid by the
people of the Inland Empire for dairy.