The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-12-30

ing water for irrigation, but also supply
ing the towns Of Leavenworth, Cash
mere and Wenatchee with water for
domestic purposes and fire protection,
necessities which all the towns men
toned stand in sore need Of, and have
spent considerable money in an effort
to solve a difficult problem. Difficult
because, heretofore, acting independ-
emily, it has always seemed too expen-
sive a proposition for one town to
attempt; but acting together, through
a holding company, the proposition
seems quite feasible. In bringing the
water down from higher to lower
elevation there are possibilities for de-
veloping power in almost unlimited
quantity, which the company will not
overlook.
Then there is the proposition to
water 100000 acres Of what has been
called the Quincy fats with water from
Lake Wenatchee. This scheme con-
templates the building Of dam four
teen miles from Leavenworth, on the
line OF the Wenatchee Valley & North
ern railway, at an expense Of million
and half of dollars and a total outlay
Of thirty million dollars. Behind this
scheme is the Spokane Chamber Of
Commerce and the Quincy Valley
Water Users Association. Ten thou
sand dollars has already been spent in
preliminary surveying, measuring the
water flow of streams for several years
to determine the suficiency, and max
ing maps, plans and estimates. Parties
who are in close touch with this gigantic
irrigation scheme assure US that, while
it is not yet fully matured, it is only
question of time when work will actu-
ally begin. Out of four different meth
DDS OF watering the lands named this
has been proved to be the cheapest
and most practicable.
The Lamb-Davis Lumber Company,
contemplating an increased demand for
fruit boxes the coming year, has en-
larged its box-making plant to twice its
former capacity. A large addition to
the plant was constructed last fall and
winter. During the shutdown a new
battery of boilers, double the capacity
of the former, has been set up and the
engine doubled by the addition OF an
other unit The box-making machinery,
which has also been increased, will be
operated next year entirely by electric
ity. This means that employment will
be given to more men and, conse-
quently, more money will be put into
circulation among our business men.
The editor Of this paper is not a
dreamer of dreams, or visionary indi-
vidual. On the other hand, he has
always been considered too conserva-
tive, and would not now give time or
space by calling attention to the differ
ent enterprises already under way and
others in process. Of development
if the men connected with each and
every one OF them was not considered
hardheaded, safe business men who
have already invested real money in
their promotion. They are not to be
classed with the cheap stock-selHng
schemes Of grafters who have unknown
millions of shares TO sell at five and ten
cents each to finance their projects
before any work can be. done. They
may not all, for sundry good reasons,
develop into working projects during
1911, or, indeed, ever, and yet be
perfectly sound in their contemplation,
but some Of them will grow into
reality during the coming summer, and
the growth OF this town and the sur
rounding country will follow as sure as
night follows day.