The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-28


market before the year closes as many
improvements are contemplated that
will enhance the value all over the
valley.
Some idea of the real estate business
can be obtained when the real estate
transfers coming from the county
auditors office. amounting to little
more than $4,000 for the first five
days of this week.
With nearly five miles of paving
passed upon by the city council to
be built this year, with buildings
amounting to $6O,0UO to be construc-
ted at Whitman college, with IS miles
of electric railway line to be built
through the heart of the valley, and
with thousands of dollars worth of
improvements in buildings in the city,
the season of 1909 in Walla Walla
will be the most prosperous in her
history. Never before has the outside
world looked to Walla Walla with
so much interest as this year.
Real estate firms are receiving doz-
ems Of letters in every mail inquiring
about property in this valley while
the publicity department of the Com
mercial club is getting them by the
basketfull. 1t is a well known fact
that outside capital is coming in this
valley to find investments and during
the past month or six weeks, several
hundred thousand dollars have been
left in Walla Walla real estate.
To the man who never stopped in
Walla Walla before, the possibilities
country. This has been the report of
scores of men this season. When the
A-Y.-P. fair opens and the people
have visited the exposition, they will
turn their attentions to finding homes.
1t will be then that real estate in the
| Inland Empire will become the most
active. Home seekers and home
builders from the east will come to
the agricultural belts. ~
The large Blalock fruit ranch which
| will be, when cut up in acre tracts
with its unlimited supply of warm
water for irrigation from flowing wells
the home for several hundred people
| Other large tracts are being cut up
in acre tracts as rapidly as they can
be sold into the hands of the right
people.
This year is only beginner; next
year when the principal fruits of the
work Of the publicity department of
| the Commercial club will have been
realized, the old timer who says
| Property is too high now" will wake
up some morning and find his new
| conner neighbor richer by several
| thousand dollars by having invested
in the real estate that was ''too
Ligh."
Walla Walla is making greater
strides in manufacturing; it is becom-
ing a place of no little activity in
this line. Now and then a new plant
is erected; the latest addition is the
alfalfa feed meal plant which will in
! crease the alfalfa crop not only in
acreage, but will add more to the
wealth of the valley. 1t will be the.
means of cheaper feed to the stock
raiser as well as to the man with
small amount of stock. Not only Is
the present plants are each year in
creasing their capacities which shows
that they are dividend paying invest
ments. AS has been said, "Walla
Walla is not seeking the manufacture
ing plants that will not LAY .divi
dends."
The city park is a source of great
pleasure and pride to the citizens of
Walla Walla. a tract of land contain
ing 40 acres and beautified by expert
landsca ping, it is one of the features
Of the Garden City that goes a great
ways towards increasing city prop
erty.
To think that the amount of paving
will be more than doubled in only one
year, is a thought almost too big for
even the most enthusiastic publicity
man. When West Main street is paved
to the O. r. & n. passenger station,
and when the company parks around
the station with grass, flowers and
shrubbery, as has been promised by
the railroad company, things will look
different in the western part Of the
city. J. P. O'Brien, general manager
Of the 0. r. & N, is expected here in
few days, and it is understood he
will take up the matter of parking
around the station and order the work