The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-03-29
HAS 100000 AP-
PIE TREES
F. e. GOODALL TELLS OF WASH.
INGTON'S GREAT RESOURCES
EAST WITH CARLOAD OF
WENATCHEE APPLES.

Boston, March 29.-F. e. GoOdall,
for the past eight years president of
the Chamber of Commerce of Spo-
kane, Washington, is stopping at the
Adams House. Mr.. Goodall has been
exhibiting the apples of the Spokane
country in Philadelphia, New York
and Boston since the first of the year,
and it has been his displays that have
attracted so much attention and
stirred up the enthusiasm of the
eastern fruit growers and their
friends. Mr.. Goodall is a native of
Littleton, New Hampshire, and has
an extensive acquaintance in Boston
and vicinity.
cit is hard for a Boston man to
realize what is being done in the de-
velopment Of the natural resources of
the great Spokane country" said Mr..
Goodall yesterday, 'but while the
country owes much to Boston capital,
which has been put into the rail-
roads. the manufacturing establish
ments and the big retail houses, still
there are only a limited number Of
people at all familiar with the great
territory about Spokane.
Spokane is today a city of 1877
900 population, and it is not unlike
Boston. Our city has more eastern
air about it than any other in the
west. There is a very large proper
ton of New Englanders engaged in
business in this city and thousands,
in the outlying fruit and grain terri
tory. The banks of Spokane one year
ago had deposits of about 5,000,-
| 900, and this year they exceed $32,-
100000. No longer do the farmers
of the northwest require crop loans
from New York bankers; the shoe is
on the other foot, and it will never
be removed.
''The products of the Inland En-
pire raised in 1909 exceeded $110,-
100000 in value and were the main
factor in making the state of Wash
ington rank the third in production
of the states of the Union. Our min
eral wealth is marvellous; the Spo-
kane country is producing annually
upwards of $25,O00,000 of silver,
lead, copper and other minerals. The
coal deposits are enormous. Our tim
| Der ranks third in the value of the
states products. Notwithstanding
the talk about conservation. it has
been estimated by expert lumber men
that there is upwards of 350,000,-
| 100000 feet of standing timber in
the northwest, and that it will re-
quire 275 years to cut 1t at the
present rate at which lumber is
turned out.
Greatest for Fruit.
''It is in fruit growing, however,
that the greatest progress is being
made. Irrigation has made the
desert bloom. The Spokane fruit is
grown in a country as far north as
New England, where we have suf-
ficient weather to bring forth a
juicy, we'll favored apple. This has
| been the finding of the expert horti-
culturists of the United States.
1--WE are improving our fruit in
quality, in flavor, in color. and in
size, through the heartiest of CO.
operation, a unity of action, as it
were, throughout our entire coun-
| try.
"Our laws are very strict and they
are most rigidly enforced. They re-
quire the spraying of all orchards at
least three times a year. They re-
quire the keeping of the orchards in
scientific manner. They place the
responsibility of their enforcement
| upon the state horticulturist, who
has district inspectors in every val
ley where the fruit is grown. These
men are empowered to cut down the
burn an entire orchard or any num-
| Der of orchards where the owner or
owners fail to comply with the re-
quirements of the law.
1--WE ship in boxes of so pounds
net weight, and SIS pounds gross, be-
cause of the advantage in handling.
Our apples are brought by railroad
5000 miles, and oftentimes they go
across the water another 5000 miles
and then are carried thousands OF
miles farther on the continent by
railroad. 1t has been found that
apples handled in the box such long
distances arrive in perfect condition.
We inspect them most carefully be-
| fore they are packed.
1--WE have planted to fruit in the
state of Washington more than 200,-
900 acres, according to the last re-
ports, and of this about 10000
acres is apple orchards. This shows
what I mean by the wonderful de-
| velopment in fruit-growing, because
it was only IL to Is years ago that
I Rre% ornhordS uoro Sot in the