The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-01
FAIR
WHAT WALLA. WALLA is DOING.

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WHAT WALLA. wALLA IS DOING
"The world is too much with us late
and soon. Spending and getting we
lay waste our powers" Is it not well
that we heed the warning here ex-
pressed and take an occasional re-
spite from the busy whirl of business
cares. Let us cast out a sounding line
to determine whether the ship of our
fortunes is stemming the breakers or
drifting with the tide. Let's get our
bearings right and then go ahead. In
the intoXicatiOn of our successes or the
miseries of our defeats, in the vain
or fruitful endeavors to accomplish the
things that should be, in the exhaust
ing race after power, wealth, fame or
what not we are apt to forget the
things behind us or the things with US.
Are We as a county as a city, as in
dividuals abreast of the times and
ahead of the chariot of progress or
being whipped along in the dust of
some ones else making.
Walla Walla as a county, Walla
Walla as a city Walla Walla as a
composite body of individuals has ac
complished great things in the recent
past, is accomplishing greater things
now and will accomplish still greater
things in the future. 1t requires but
cursory recapitulation of the year
books of our achievements to CLEAN
the fact that big things have been
done in a big way. Eighty thousand
dollars have been raised to build and
equip a Y. NJ c. A. that is second to
none in the northwest; a $4,000 city
hall has been erected; $250,000 have
been pledged to a Greater Whitman
college an admirably constructed and
equipped high school has sprung up,
handsome city park has been plated,
cultivated and beautified, miles of
streets have been paved and other
miles have been graded and improved;
$4,000 have been subscribed to a
publicity fund to advertise our re-
sources and exploit our possibilities,
quarter million dollars have been
spent in piping the waters of Mill
creek into the city, five million BUSH
els of wheat and 500 cars of fruit have
been marketed annually.
Are We faltering in our pride, is our
interest tagging. are we running the
race we have begun? The answer is
easy. The weather vane of our activ
tiles is pointing unwaveringly straight
in the teeth of stagnation toward the
goal of progress. Contracts are being
let and dirt is being turned for five
miles of new pavement which will
mean a quarter of million dollars well
expended. For the month of March,
Walla Walla with a total of $74,035
was fourth among the cities of Wash
ington in building activities, and since
the fisrt of the year permits aggregat-
ing more than a quarter million dollars
have been issued, the month just
closed was a record breaker in realty
transfers. with a total consideration
of $45O,000. new additions are being
plated daily. farms are being subdi-
vided. irrigation projects are being
financed and vast areas transformed:
lee, 200 young fruit trees are flourish
ing: shacks are being torn down, bust
ness houses are going up. homes are
being erected. factories are building
and the saw and hammer are new
er still in business district or resi-
dent section, and finally the world is
beginning to know what we have al
ways known. that Walla Walla the
town has been supplanted by Walla
Walla the city and that she is GER
tain winner in the race for supremacy
of a vast and rich inland empire