The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1909-12-17

DIG MEETING HEARS 1AS1eRlY TALKS, ELOQUENT With FACTS
COMMITTEES APPOINTED. MANY HEATERS INSPECTED.


smbled in Kennewick with COM
mon purpose met at the Pavilion
Wednesday afternoon to hear Man
aper E. NJ. Sly report on his Grand
Junction trip and an address by
Commissioner Huntley on the frost
fighting question.
Without delay the meeting organ
lied by electing Fay F. Dean, chair
man and G. NJ. Annis, secretary.
The chairman briefly stated his
faith in the kennewick Valley as a
fruit country and Mr.. Sly was in
troduced. To convince you that
the fruit crop of the kennewick
Valley can be saved by orchard
heating as thoroly as l myself was
convinced of that fact by my visit
to Grand Junction, is my purpose"
said the speaker. The four hun
dred men present leaned forward
with alert attention. Il desire to
do this by a plain statement of facts
without any rhetorical flourish. F."
He spent week in investigating
the situation in the Grand Valley.
He interviewed ranchers, bankers,
business men, hotel men, and men
OF all classes and found there was
unanimous favorable opinion as to
tho success of the frost fighting
effort i'll which all had taken a
hand. The opinion Of one promin-
ent business man. the cashier of the
leading bank with a $4,000 cap
ital and surplus is given in full in
another column.
The Grand Valley is "a miles
long and up to 6 miles wide COM
pairing closely with the Kennewick
valley in every respect except at
higher altitude yet the temperature
ranges about the same because it is
located so much farther south. The
principal town, Grand Junction is
centrally located as is Kennewick
and there are smaller towns located
with reference to it. Richland, Fin
ley and Hover are here. The prin-
cipal crop is apples. but peaches
are grown at Palisades.
This valley has or will ship about
5000 cars Of fruit at this season crop
and the crop will bring about ST.
QUO, 600 1.-TWO Million Dollars. }
During the week Mr.. Sly was there
they shipped $50 cars of apples
and the record day 33 carloads in
one day of that week. Every
where one drove in the country he
met heavily loaded wagons coming
to town with 60 to 12O boxes of
apples to the load. To get an
idea from another point OF view the
Fruit Growers Association shipped
155 carloads of box shocks for this
crop and other parties brought in
enough to bring the total up to 200
carloads of boxes this season. Eight
carloads of fruit paper were used.
Two year old orchards bring $1,000
to $4,000 per acre and fruit and
peach lands $500 to $1,000 per
acre. Raw lands $3.50 to $3.50 per
acre and the lands there produce
returns to justify the price. We
can make ours do it here by saving
our fruit said Mr.. Sly.
Were. there conditions there
that we don't have here or do we
have conditions here they don't
there" is the most frequent question
have been asked since my return.
He went into the temperature
question in detail. He has procured
the government temperature at
Grand Junction and secured the
Kennewick records for twelve years
back from table published in this
newspaper and the monthly weather
record published in the Courier.
From comparison of these figures
he showed that during the danger
period, the last ten days Of March
NIL Of April and the first ten days
OF May the lowest temperature re-