The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-06-02

land is considered worth 500 per
acre more after the trees are set,
and increases in value 500 per year
for each acre after they are set. A
man at Wenatchee since the boom in
prices from the great Spokane apple
show, where hundreds of boxes sold
for $40 box, sold seven acres With
trees set Is years, for $4,000.
Another man sold 20 acres with trees
set five years for $4,000. Another
man a few days ago was offered
$4,000 per acre for five-acre tract
and he refused to take it. Why should
he take it when the income from the
cent per year on that amount and
a heavy crop of apples is certain
every year, and the income will pay
good rate of interest on valuation
of $4,000 per acre, after the trees
are IL to Is years old.
There is a company putting in
100000 electric light and power
plant a few miles up the Entiat, so
all that want it can have heat, light
and power, which will be a great lux
ury.
We are not out of civilization as
some may think, but have schools
and churches; nice meeting of
Friends, organized here, that would
gladly welcome any Friends who
would like to make their home here
and raise big red apples and the most
lucious peaches.
All kinds of fruits grow to perfec-
ton here, excepting the tropical
fruits of course, with the finest of
melons and European grapes as fine
as in California, but apples are king
as they pay best of all.
We never fear a drouth, for when
we need water we turn it on, and just
when the fruit is filling out in size
is when they need water most, and so
under irrigation we give them water
at this opportune time and this is
what makes such wonderfully fine
fruit in our irrigated sections. Our
valley lands, without water are not
worth a cent, but wherever we can
get the water to 1t it Is the best of
fruit land.
Along with the finest of fruit we
have one of the finest and healthiest
of climates, with no billiards., storms
or cyclones, no sudden changes and
cold winds to give colds, la grippe
and lung fever; we hardly ever hear
of a person being sick; there isn't
a doctor within Is miles of us. 1t
would be poor place for one to
come; he would starve to death if he
depended on his practice; he would
have to have some apple trees to help
him out. ePople coming here in III
health from whatever cause, general
ly get we'll and hearty. We have
sleighing generally all winter; the
snow keeps melting and settling till
it does not get much over foot
deep. though we have had near three
when it fell, but not enough wind to
make any sign of drift anywhere.
It is Just wonderful how softly and
gently the snow falls, or seems to
sift down, out here; the temperature
generally runs down of morning a
few degrees below freezing to half
way to zero AMI a few mornings to
zero or little below, which without
the cold winds makes the winters
quite enjoyable. But this winter we
had an exception to this rule. with
more than a week Of zero weather,
the coolest ever known. A few
mornings as cold as IL to IA degrees
below zero, but without the bowling,
raging billiards. we did not mind 1t.
During spring, summer and fall we
have nice refreshing breezes that
make it pleasant and nice without the
sultryness you have back east.
close. asking you all to come to the
exposition at Seattle this year, and
to stop off at Wenatchee and come up
and see me. A. H. BARKER.
Entiat, Wash.