The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-04-18
FARMING ON UPPER
BENCHES
UPLAND MEADOWS CONTAINING
MORE LAND THAN THE VAL
LEY HAS-SOME FARMS TO
PROVE THE VALUES.

Hundreds of valuable ranches with
in a few miles of this city are hard
iy known. The lands are high above
the irrigation belt, but the value OF
them is already proved by the splen-
did places scattered over the upper
wonderland, where daring and far
seeing settlers won fortunes in places
others feared to try.
Some of these fortune ranches can
be found above the town of Monitor,
and five miles from this city by the
present winding road.
Easy Grade From Railroad.
BY the present route the lands can
not be reached by auto easily, but a
road has been surveyed from Mont
tor that reaches the upper regions
with a per cent grade three miles
long. That will be an auto road and
it is to be done within the next two
months.
Advantages of Altitude.
Apple growers of the highlands
state that they would not trade their
places for ranches in the valley equi-
distant from Wenatchee. One mans
place contains II springs. He does
not have to think of irrigation. He
has the same results the lowland
growers have, and less expense. 1t is
a we'll known fact in all the Cascade
world that frost strikes the Lowest
country first.
Always Room at the Top.
No more striking phase of the
ancient adage can be found than its
application to the benches over Moni-
tor. Plenty of room at. the top;
room for the orchards and houses
and room in the upper reaches fol
horses and dairy stock. The high
land ranchers keep their cows just
as their down east parents did, anj
the familiar red-labeled can is moi
seen above the irrigation belt.
Climb to the Climate.
"Climb to the climate" say the
jewellers in the upper realms, "wher
Wenatchee swelters in the heat, climb
to the upper benches" Three mile:
of climbing up per cent grade
| is all that is necessary.
Unequalled Scenery.
Alpine scenery is merely grand. 1
| has no shelving benches scattered OF
the mountain sides yielding fortunes
every year. There is a tiny vale.
in the Alps where apples grow ant
every apple sells in London for
gulden Gao cents). But in Wenat
chee's highlands there are man!
thousand acres of the finest apple
land. The orchards are there tt
prove the statement. Only a few a
present but the results from them
| the scenery, the climate, the opeI
range for dairy herds, and lowe
valuations of the land, will continue
drawing interest in the upland worlt
until the place is famous.
Some Settlers.
| From the railroad to the highes
reaches the orchards of pioneers do
the landscape. The country is too
large to drive over in day, and thu
| World man was able to see only ;
few of the apple growers. He talked
with H. S. Barnhill, who owns sec
| ton of highland meadow. Mr.. Barn
hill took a chance five years ago, be
| for the land was proved, and settled
with his family He had no none.
then and what he has today, devel
oped land, houses, orchards, section
| fenced. etc., goes to show what on,
| man can do there in five years time
Mr.. Barnhill's orchard is only fou
years old, but the occasional apples
that it bore last year shows what hi
land will do. He has Wagners, Wine
saps, Grimes Golden, Spitzenberg
Rome Beauties and Jonathans. Thu
Winesaps may not be adapted to hi
altitude, he says, but he has faitl
/ - +bo o+bor voriofioc
Other ranches in the uplands arr
known as the Acker place, wher'
prize winning Winter Bananas were
produced last year; the G. L. Mabi'
AMI J. A. Kerins place, old Parrish
place, and H. S. Bills ranch. Thu
Gellatly tracts are on the lowest o
the highlands and are irrigated b.
water pumped from the high linz
ditch. High above all the other
there is a tract of 1000 acres owned
by a Seattle firm known as the Pa
cific Timber Certificate company
The company is not listing the lane
for sale but is doing a tremendou
amount of development work.
The upper meadows are scarcel.
known except by old timers VIII,
used to ride the range but the wortl
of these extensive fruit lands so clos
to the city is becoming felt as tn,
valley grows more crowded.