The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-03-17
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TWO COMPANIES FIGURING ON
WATERING LARGE TRACT -
PROSPEROUS SETTLEMENT BE-
ING FORMED AT THAT PLACE

extensive area has the making Of
the finest orchard tracts in the state.
Some of the land has been used for
raising grain and where water could
be secured orchards have been pro-
fitable. This valley or coulee is
lined on both sides with high wall,
$50 feet high, affording a splendid
protection from the weather and
fierce winds. So successfully can
fruit be raised in this section that
the cold weather of last winter had
no effect on the peach crop. Mr..
| Gilbert, who has an orchard close
to the south wall Of the coulee, raised
quite an abundance of peaches last
year.
This tract will make an ideal
pumping or gravity system. The
pumping system will be compare
lively easy. Three hundred or four
hundred acres of land at Columbia
River, just below the railway track,
can be watered without much trou-
BILE, the highest elevation being about
sixty feet. The pumping plant for
this section will be located on a
rock projection out in the river just
below the ferry. The land sloping
on the east can be watered very
easy. The next lift will be to raise
the water up to the first bench. 1t
will require a raise of 100 to $50
feet and will irrigate about 1000
acres of the finest land that lays
outdoors. The land has gradual
raise from the brow of the first hill,
tho highest point being not over 800
feet. There is a possibility of water
ing 5000 to 5000 more acres of
land. The soil is strictly volcanic
ash and what has been done is
sufficient proof that this irrigation
project will prove very profitable to
the owners.
The company who has the option
is figuring on the gravity system,
using the many springs and creeks,
and building a large reservoir. The
pumping system will not be so ex-
pensive to build, but one or the 9TH
er will be installed inside of a years
time. Water will be placed on the
land at the mouth of Moses Coulee.
The young people of Columbia
River are preparing to give a grand
ball Saturday evening in the Roth
hall. The music will be furnished
| by the local band.
A little husky boy with good
strong lungs was born on March IA,
| to Mr. and Mrs. William Sheehan,
of Sheehan's Flats, and is the young
est nephew of Mr.. and Mrs. j. M.
Roth, of Columbia River. Both
mother and son are doing fine.
The new depot at Columbia River
which was completed the first of
March, is a credit to the community
The building is large and roomy, oc-
cupying a space about 30x60. 1t
contains two waiting rooms that are
large and comfortable, Office, freight
and express room, a warm room for
perishable goods. Two operators and
an agent are employed. The depot
is open day and night.
| Columbia River is picking up
quite lot of business from the sur
rounding country. The two stores,
j. M. Roth e Sons and the Thomas
| Supply store, and the hotel are
keeping abreast with the times. Ten
new families have moved in on a
tract called Dillville and are putting
out trees. Six or seven new settlers
have moved in at the mouth of Moses
Coulee. George Wine of Wenatchee
will put out fifty acres of trees on
his ranch up the Colockum creek.
He will prepare 70 acres to be set
out next spring. His ranch was for
merly the Dawson property and will
be known as the Coulee View ranch.
Columbia River has lost most of her
floating population and has settled
down to a substantial business.
Rev. C. w. Bolen, formerly OF
Odessa, has gang of surveyors at
work on his ranch below Malaga, or
what is known as Foweldeil, for the
purpose of getting more perfect
survey of his 100 acres. Eighty
acres lying south of his place has
been sold to outside parties. Also
the 25 acres in front OF the ranch.
He will put in 80 acres of trees this
Ispring. Rev. Bolen spends the sum-
mers on his ranch and the winters
in Odessa. He is pastor of the NJ
E. church of this city. They have
just finished erecting a $1,000 church
and it is considered one of the fin
est churches in the Columbia valley
district The church is homelike
and comfortable with all modern
Iconveniences.