The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-12-22


tie Brewing G Mailing company. cold
storage, $4,50r, .. p. Fuller. one
story brick, 38x1O0. $500; D. A.
Beall, two-story brick, 25x120, S4,-
500; John Durieux, two-story brick,
25xS0, $500; l.. O. Bardin, two
story brick, 50x75, $500; Mrs
Parsons, Columbia hotel. $4,000;
J. NJ. Duffy, Olympia building, ST.
200; w. M. Cross, Olympia cafe,
$500; Captain Alexander Griggs,
two frame buildings, $500; Morse
& Wheeler, feed store and barn,
$1,000; Eagle livery, addition to
barn, $3.50; S. D. Cox, store build
ing, $3.50; J. w. Allison, Owl club,
1880; Fritz & Padoshek, frame
addition, 1900; total. $4,000.
During this progressive year three
new steamers were built in the We
natchee shipyard; the North Star at
a cost of $1,000; the GerOme, So
900, and the Chelan. 5000, MAX
ing a total outlay of $4,000 in ship
building for the year. Fifty thou
sand dollars would be low esti-
mate for improvements in the valley
natchee.
The fruit shipments by express
from Wenatchee for the year ending
November 81, 1902, were as fol-
lows: Total number of boxes. 1871,
743; total weight, 4,615,467 pounds,
or an amount equal to 1872 car loads
hi &c
year before was about IS per cent
The shipments by freight for the
same period aggregated $4,000
boxes; running the total up to 267.
! 743 boxes. or 225 car loads Much
of this fruit was from orchards only
in partial bearing.
The Wenatchee Commercial club,
one of the most prosperous business
organizations in the northwest, was
organized Monday evening, April 90,
1903. The original officers were as
follows: John A. Gellatly. presi-
dent; A. z. Wells, vice president
Arthur Gum, treasurer; H. c. Lit
tleield. secretary; trustees, C. E.
V. Wells and Ira D. Edwards.
1890 In 1908.
November %, 1903, the popula-
ton Of Wenatchee had increased 10
1880. Thursday, November 10. a
special census was completed by w.
A. Sanders. Wenatchee then became
a city of the third class, having $50
in excess of the required number of
inhabitants. 800. The year 1908
witnessed a remarkable growth in
population as we'll as many subStan-
tial improvements. During the year
over one hundred and twenty build
ings were erected within the city
limits, the total cost Of which
amounted to fully 100000. Some
of the principal items of this amount
We're the Wenatchee Milling COM
pany's grist mill and warehouse,
$4,000: Wenatchee Box factory,
building and warehouse, $4,000;
high school building. $4,000; Baptist
church building, $4,000; Electric
Light & Power company's buildings
and machinery, $4,000; Griggs
block, under construction, S13,
Olympia Cold Storage and Wenat-
chez BOttling works, building, So
600; and 15,400 lineal feet (nearly
three miles) of sidewalk, 100.
Outside of the town proper and
within radius of two miles of We
natchee. over fifty resi- 1ences, in ad-
dition to barns, were erected at a
total cost of not less than 5000.
The great Wenatchee (highline)
canal was also completed during this
year at a cost of s250,000. The
Home Water company expended
about $4,000 on the water propO-
sition, and the expenditure of the
Farmers Telephone company amount
ed to at least $4,000. These i'm
provements, added to those within
the city limits brought the total up
to fully half a million dollars for
the town of Wenatchee and its i'm
| mediate vicinity.
! In addition to being the center of
| Washington fairest and richest val
ley. yet in its infancy, the town of
| Wenatchee has been benefited ever
since its inception by its advanta-
geous situation.
! Its advantages are many and have
been materially heightened and null
tipyied since the construction of the
Great Northern railway through the
valley, and these advantages must
have the effect in the near future of
placing Wenatchee in the forefront
of the states inland cities. Primar-
lily must be taken into consideration
its geographical position, and in this
respect the town is superior TO any
center in the state of Washington
Tributary to it is the entire terri
tory of Chelan and Okanogan coun-
ties. and the eastern half of Doug
las county. This is not due to rail-
road facilities, but to its natural po-
sition, ana Wenatchee is by nature