The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-05-20
OPENING OF COMMERCIAL CLUB
Visitors Highly PIeaSed-Day One Long to
be embered-PrOnOunced
Success by Everyone

On Wednesday, May Is, Leaven-
worth entertained Halley's comet and
upwards of two hundred visitors from
the commercial clubs Of Wenatchee.
Cashmere and Peshastin. The many
complimentary remarks made by our
visitors were evidently so sincere that
our vanity has been tickled.
The special train bearing the visitors
arrived at 1890 a. m. and the inter
vening time between their arrival and
the time set for departure on the We
natchee Valley & Northern railway to
the end of the track in the Chewawa
river valley was spent in viewing the
big mill, the Tumwater canyon and the
town generally, and getting their noon
day lunch.
Promptly at l o'clock the train
pulled out for a trip over the new rail-
road thru the beautiful Chumstick val
ley to the high divide between the
Chumstick and the Chewawa river val
legs. The trip, made on fiat cars, con-
verted into gondolas, was in every way
most inspiring and delightful. The
beauty and grandeur of the scenery
drew much comment from our visitors,
and especially was the view from the
summit magnificent. On the return
the party was treated to forest fire OF
small dimensions which was not down
on the program. Going up, small
fire was seen in the Big Chumstick
valley, up which spur track some five
miles long, to Adams & Costello's log
ging camp, has been laid. By the
time the train made the return trip the
fire had spread considerably and gotten
into pile Of logs lying alongside the
spur, making it impossible to run the
excursionists past the fire and up the
spur to the logging camp, where it was
purposed to give the visitors view of
the steam log-loader in operation. The
new town of Appleton, where the train
stopped for an hour while the engine
went up the track a few miles after
crew Of twenty-five Japs to help put the
fire out, is located at the junction of
Main and little Chumstick, surrounded
by beautiful valley of some two hun
bred acres OF cleared land, all covered
with green alfalfa, and laid out in acre
age and town lots. The depot is un-
der construction and will soon be com
pleted.
The run back to town was made in
short time and reached by S o'clock.
Between that time and the hour set for
the banquet, 7 o'clock, was employed
in visiting the new home Of the Leav-
enworth Commercial club and in re-
newing acquaintance with old friends
and making new ones. The ride in
the open air had sharpened the appe-
tite of the excursionists, and when the
opera house, in which the one hun
dred and eighty guests, with some
sixty or seventy members Of the local
organization, were to gather, was
reached, they were in mood to enjoy
the three and a half hours spent at
table.
President A. H. Sylvester acted as
postmaster and did so in happy and
felicitous manner. The principal
speakers were DR.. King, president OF
the Wenatchee club; Col. Huston,
president OF the Cashmere club; Lew
Bowman OF the Methow club, Judge
Burke, Judge Chase Of Cashmere, and
H. w. Otis of the Peshastin club. The
responses were able, instructive and in
spring All of them were along the
lines of the value to community OF a
we'll organized, united and enthusiastic
lotof citizens banded together for mutual
and united effort to promote the devel-
opment of our common country. The
importance Of good roads and the valu-
able asset the people of this locality