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

for those who desire to develop the
inexhaustible resources in the agri-
cultural. dairying, live stock. min
ing and timber industries and those
wealth by their own efforts, there is
wide avenue for investors. The
opportunities are practically limit
less. Eastern Washington affords
opportunities that are unexcelled
anywhere for the investment Of CAPT.
tai, and this illustrates, in way,
the possibilities offered in other parts
of the Inland Empire, and, in fact,
throughout the Northwest. This is
especially true of farm loans and
capital required for development pur-
poses. 1t applies also to residence
loans in cities and towns in the dis
trict, where the solidity is so well
proved as to come within the rigid
limitations of eastern insurance and
trust concerns.
There Is plenty of capital in the
Northwest and particularly in the
Inland Empire, in which the wealth
production, exclusive of manufactures
and imports. reached total value
of 1913 5000 in 1907, and. it
may be added, there is every surface
indication that it will be we'll over the
100000 900 mark in 1908. What
this means is best illustrated by the
statement that the crop of 1907 gave
a wealth production of $267 per cap
tia of population of 100000, or
5000 for the average family.
While the Northwest no longer re-
lies upon eastern or middle western
financial centers to supply the capt.
tai necessary for its development, it
is true that probably this country
would be more rapidly developed if
the thousands of acres of land avail
able could be brought under imme-
date cultivation. Enterprise and ac-
tivity have made these lands valuable
and they will continue to advance as
the various districts are opened to
communication with the markets.
This development would include more
extensive land holdings, more and
better machinery TO harvest the crops
on. the wheat and grain ranches.
l.. . 4 iAtt hnt
and barns and more farming and Or
charding.
The Inland Empire is the natural
home of the optimist. There are
tangible reasons for this It would
require more than Wall street fin
ancial storm to unsettle things or
even upset the equanimity of the peo-
pie. The statistics quoted in the fore
going paragraph show why this part
Of the Northwest refused to enter in
to the spirit of the thing that Gre
ated such havoc in eastern money
centers. They also give the basis
for the continuous growth and steady
gains in the cities and towns and the
prosperity of the district back Of
them.
Land reclamation by the govern
ment and private concerns has made
many things possible in the Inland
Empire. and dry farming has helped
some; but the insurance which counts
on truck farm. berry field or orchard
is that which guarantees profit to
every cultivated acre. This is found
in climate and soil of the district. and
the intelligent practice of irrigation
When one reflects that this vast
empire Is yet in the infancy of its DE-
velopment and has no equal on the
continent in point of productiveness.
it must become apparent that the
golden harvest will never wholly fail.
Thus it is that the Spokane country
is favored and virtually fortified
against "hard times" Crop failures.
the bane OF eastern and southern agri-
cultural states. are unknown here.
There was time when this broad
expanse of territory now yielding
millions OF dollars worth of the pro-
duets Of the earth was a waste OF rank
sage brush and forest wilderness.
These things have passed away, and
today, the Inland Empire. with It's
population of 500. 900. is credit to
its makers and the wonder of the
world where 1t is known. With such
magnificent resources as are at its
front door and back yard and all
around it. the record 1t has estab-
hshed for doing things and the mo-
mentum it has gained, one can not
think of anything else but progress.
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In the agricultural districts there
was no depression during the dis
.urbance in 1907, and the cities and