The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-14

PauPS school for girls, FISCHER IHuSi-
cal institute, Carnegie library high
school and gymnasium, Washington
school, Green Parks s'ho'l. new
brick quarters for men a. Fort Wa!.a
Walla, new administration, buildings,
hospital and wings a. the penitenti-
airy.
The advent Of the graproof. rem
forced concrete building.
The improved Walla ,valla cDllege,
the new College p ace school. the
Berney public scroo the new Q. r &c
N. depot at foot Of Main street, the
new power and traction company's
building at Main and Sixth, the en-
larged and improved Dacres hotel, the
Greater Whitman college" and its
Memorial college building: Billings
hall, Reynolds hall, gymnasium, acad-
ex1y of music.
The race track and exposition build
ings ana stables.
New shops and warehouses for Gill
bert Hunt Co, Holt Manufacturing
company, Best Manufacturing Co.,
Washington Weeder works, Brown &
Lewis Iron works, Walla Walla Iron
works, Electric planning mill, White
house Crawford Co., Walla Walla
Lumber Co., Walla Walla creamery,
Walla Walla Produce Co., Interior Gro
Gerry Co., new Betz brewery. new addi-
ton to the Stahl brewery, j. L. Elam's
bank, Third National bank, Oregon
Lumber Co., Potlatch Lumber Co.,
Wind River Lumber Co., Cation &
Buffum Grocery Co., Blalock Fruit Co.,
Tausick's Ice factory, Walla Walla
Meat & Cold Storage plant, Western
Meat Co.'S plant, the power plant OF
the N. W. G. & E. Co., and it's new gas
tanks and central power station.
The new mill for grinding alfalfa
meal, w. w. Alfalfa Meal & Feed Co..
Garden City Milling Co., and other i'm
portant business adjuncts that are too
numerous to mention.
mercial business Establishments in Wal
la Walla
This same decade has also brought
us:
The electric street car service, the
interurban system between Walla Wal
Ia, Milton and F'reewater.
The projected traction lines from
Dayton, via Walla Walla, to the CO.
lumbia river at Wallula, the motor
car on the o. r. & N lines; automo-
biles; plate glass windows, modern
store fronts; the combined harvester
and thresher; steam and gasoline en-
gines for blowing lands; the rotary
rock cfusher and concrete cement
mixer; the chemical engine and au-
tofobile fire engine; monographs, pi-
anolas, electric pianos; the dime"
theater and modern vaudeville theater,
the city park and children's play
ground the Whitman monument, the
Philippines Veterans monument; arte-
sian wells; the movement to supdI-
vide large farms into small tracts; the
whole development of our great irri-
gationgation industry; the boom in
fruit culture and for diversified FART
ing
The great extension of the city's
boundaries
Almost the whole development of
the famous Blalock orchards and their
late subdivision into acre tracts
The extension of traction lines to
East Walla Wa1la, WATERFOWL and
Prospect Heighths, and the consequent
growth of these localities.
Gas stoves and electric heaters.
New business methods, resulting III
up to- date stores, with artistic dis"
play windows.
Modern daily newspaper service, and
revolution in the form and matter OF
business advertisements.
| An up to- the Times home maya :
zine.
| A Commercial club, of live business
men, actuated by enlightened business
enthusiasm.
| City ticket offices for the, conven-
fence of the travelling public.
Differential freight rates under
which Walla Walla may become q
wholesaling center for a large trading
district
Rural free delivery of malls.
City fire alarm system.
The conviction that an "open river
is a commercial necessity, and organ
ization working intelligently to ac-
complish it.