The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-08-13
BIG MOVEMENTS IN
METHOW
Double Field for Investment
in the Up-River
Country.
GUY WARING TALKS
Points Out Some Interesting
Facts Relative to Met
how and Okanogan.
GUY WARING TALKS

Guy Waring, president of the Met
how Trading Company and one of
the oldest settlers in the Methow
Valley, was in the city yesterday on
his way to Spokane. While in the
city Mr.. Waring was the guest of
the Daily World and in discussing
the relations of Wenatchee to the
upper country pointed out some
very interesting facts. Primarily
among these was that Wenatchee re-
ceives double benefit from invest
ments made in the upper country
| Firstly-Investmen are sure.
Secondly-The development of the
up-river country means a develop
ment of Wenatchee.
Discussing the situation Mr.. War
ing said:
THE people of Wenatchee are
now going to have an opportunity to
make a most legitimate use of their
sales of fruit, so that they may pro-
fit themselves and at the same time
strengthen their home town by in
vesting in the lands that lie tribu-
tary to Wenatchee, and running up
the Columbia river, the Methow and
the Okanogan. In those districts,
where the conditions for raising
winter apples are as good as any
where, and some people think bet
ter, there is still great deal of
land to be bought at very moderate
figures, owing to the fact that 1t is
off the line of the regular transport
tation People come west seeking
apple lands or land for various pur-
poses and balk at going so far away
from the railroad.
people who look at this in this
practicable way if they have money
to invest can pick out these lands
where full irrigated land of the best
quality can be bought in bulk for
$3.50 per acre-land which can raise
as good fruit as Wenatchee and at
Wenatchee would be worth $500.
These lands, if planted into apple
trees will net the owners a cOnsid-
cradle sum by the time the transport
tation reaches them, and it must be
borne in mind all the time that the
transportation will be there without
a doubt by the time apple orchards
set out now are in bearing. 1t is
hard to conceive of any way of in
vesting money so we'll as investing
in these places in the neighborhood
of Wenatchee That is something
that can be said of very few invest
ments that promise as much.
"a secondary reason for Wenat-
chez people to invest their money in
this way is that thereby they will
be improving a country which will
be directly tributary to Wenatchee
in a business sense and which will
have to deal with Wenatchee as
jobbing center 1t behOOves all the
business people of Wenatchee toI
adopt this cry as a slogan and work
unanimously to persuade people
who have money to invest, whether
they be local people or newcomers
to invest and improve these lands on
the Entiat, Lake Chelan, Methow
and Okanogan. On the Okanogan
river, lands have sold very readily
and at fairly high prices along the
we'll known irrigation bitches, but
there are many other pieces of land
Just as good lying a little bit to one
side of the main travelled road, that
can be had for half or one-fourth
of the money that should be sought
out by the knowing ones of Wenat-
chez.
Irrigation on the MethOw.
In the Methow valley there is at
present a great deal of activity In
the construction of irrigation ditch |
that will irrigate 500 acres are in
course of construction and being
rapidly pushed to completion. Sew
eral bitches will cover each 10000
to 5000 acres. These may be found
at intervals up the valley, a dis
lance of As miles and it will be
surprise to the people who have not
visited the upper Methow to find
what a wonderfully well watered
country it is. Several of the mem
bers of the Wenatchee Commercial
Club, who visited Winthrop last
month, asked in crossing over the
irrigation ditch that runs through
town, how much land it was sup
posed to irrigate. Upon being told
220 acres, they said: why, that Is
perfectly wonderful. We thought 1t
would be at least 500 acres. You
certainly have the water to spare If
yo,, CON uco thot IN 900 acres +"