The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-12-18

The people who are SO fortunate a.
to live in the Wenatchee valley have h;
just reason to be proud of the fact
The apples grown in the Wenatchee
valley took every first prize of any i'm.
portance at the First National Apple
Show at Spokane last week in competi-
ton with apples, not only from every
other section of this state, but in COM
petition with every apple growing state
in the Union.
Does this not lend force to the state
ment made short time ago by far
seeing citizen that the time would
come when bearing apple orchards in
the Wenatchee valley would sell for
ten thousand dollars per acre?
The importance of this event to the
whole state of Washington cannot be
overestimated. The news was flashed
around the world last Friday that We
natchee valley apples are superior to
any grown in the United States. II
you are so fortunate as to own a piece
of land in this valley hold on to it. Set
it out in winter apples and your fortune
is made.
That the immediate vicinity of Leav-
enworth did not share in the honors
with the balance of the apple growers
in the Wenatchee valley is due solely
to Indifference. Just before the ex-
hibition was opened there was offered
for sale in the window of one of our
shopkeepers apples grown one and a
half miles east of Leavenworth that
would have taken the first prize in their
variety over anything exhibited at Spo-
kane last week. And they were grown,
too, without irrigation.
Two or three years from this time,
when some two hundred thousand ap-
pie trees set out three years ago in this
immediate vicinity, come into bearing,
the apples grown here will do just
what the apples grown in the lower
valley did at Spokane last week. The
higher up the valley you go the bigger
and redder the apples grow, is no vain
boast, as time will surely demonstrate.
Following is an incomplete list Of
the names Of the prize winners:
Grand Prize-Carload exhibit, $50
boxes. Mike Koran, $500 in cash;
800 boxes sold out of the exhibit to
]. J. Hill, of the Great Northern rail-
way, for $4,000. Second prize, H. M.
Gilbert, of North Yakima; $500 cash.
District Prize-Apples of all varie-
lies. Silver cup given by Seattle and
$500 in cash. Won by the Wenatchee
Commercial Club.
Wenatchee valley won first, second
and third prize on Arkansas Blacks. "
Ellsworth France, T. ]. Black and ]. r.
Atkinson being the winners respec-
lively. The first prize carries with it
five acres of irrigated land at Spokane
Orchards, the second prize 500 and
medal, and the third medal.
Tedford Bros. won the first prize on
the best IS boxes of Spitzenberg ap-
pies. The prize is five acres of land in
the Spokane valley, given by D. {.
Corbin; also a medal and 500 Spleen
berg trees from the Milton Nursery
Company.
The Wenatchee valley secured first,
second and third prizes on Winesaps.
The respective winners were Tedford
Bros, D. w. Roderick and ]. R. Alike
son. The winner of the first prize Sc
cures five acres in Otis Orchards, with
perpetual water right from the Spokane
Canal Co., and sufficient trees to sci
this from the Van Holderbeke Nursery
A cash prize of 500 goes to the sec
ond winner and a medal to the third.
Geo. Farwell took first money or
Rhode Island Greetings. This carries
with it five acres irrigated land in Val
ley Ford and 200 apple trees.
First and second prizes for the bes
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