The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-01-01
1909.

The Ranch has turned over new leaf in its
progress. The first entry thereon is Volume
XVI, No. l.
The year so auspiciously begun promises to
be one of the most eventful and important in
the calendar of the Pacific Northwest. The
adaptation and capabilities of it's agriculture have
been thoroughly tested and afford a broad field
for profitable development. To this important
work a vast amount of capital and energy will
be earnestly devoted. The wide range of prof
liable production and the close proximity to
market demands are nowhere surpassed
A considerable amount of unoccupied public
lands and reservations will be opened this year
to settlement. large amount of range and
ranch lands will be cut into smaller tracts for
more intensive forms of agriculture and for If
rigation methods. New lines OF transportation
will be opened, and new towns will be estab-
lished and older towns and cities are entering
on a period of rapid development. Manufacturing
and commercial enterprises of great Importance
will be established that will become important
industrial factors and be of continuous benefit.
The browning special feature of the year will
be the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition at Seattle.
1t will demonstrate the potentialities OF the Pa
cific Northwest as no other public demonstration
has done. To it's exhibition halls will come the
choicest products of field and farm, Of forest and
field of orchard and dairy of hillside and stream,
of island and inland of home and foreign land.
Many of these have been selected at the local
and general exhibitions OF the year now gone
by and will meet others in friendly contest for
excellence and neighborly rivalry for beauty and
richness of display They will join in teach
ing lessons of importance and value to multi
tudes of visitors.
Around this central attraction grouped a
multitude of meetings of varied character, OF
local and national Importance, that will bring
a large number of visitors to and learn of
the attractions and capabilities of the Pacific
Northwest. These people will return to their
homes with a better knowledge of this part of
our country and with broader and loftier con-
ception of it's attainments and it's prospects.
They will thus be better able to comprehend its
needs, to understand it's claims and to realize
it's future destiny, thereby becoming better able
to concede it's demands and unite with us in en-
abling it to secure broader and higher plans and
means for ensuring future progress and develop
ment.
The Ranch regards these lines of work for
the present year as of vast Importance. They
portend a new era when the Pacific Northwest
will stand forth the equal of any other portion
of this great Republic, when it shall no longer
be required to take a back seat and wait till
others are served, while putting up with crumbs
of comfort or discarded bones from their fore
stalled tables Of plenty. The Ranch will devote
it's energies to aid in the progress of the orchard
and dairy, the grain field and pasture, the home
and garden the associations and business en-
terprises of those who occupy the ranches and
homesites of the beautiful hills and valleys OF
the Pacific Northwest. The WatchWord OF the
wear 1909 is go forward"