The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-10-05
DEVELOP ING TRACT
At BEVERLY
Big Tract to Be Reclaimed
by Investment of
Chicago Capital.

NlIQ1n the next 81 Gays COIl-
pany of Chicago capitalists, associat-
ed with whom are several well
known Yakima men, will begin the
colonization and development of
large body of fruit land on the Col
umbia river, along the line of the
Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul rail-
way. Beverly, the point at which
this road crosses the river on a mill
lion dollar steel bridge, will be the
center of operations. Several thou
sand acres of valuable dry lands,
hitherto untouched by water and la
tent with possibilities such as Yak
imans can best appreciate, will be
irrigated. Plans have been ma
tured for the expenditure of several
hundred thousand dollars and the
work has so far progressed that a
portion of this land will be watered
in time to plant crops next spring.
The Beverly Investment company
with a paid up capital of 100000,
has been incorporated and articles
were filed at Olympia July /.
The main offices of the company
will be situated at Beverly and
branch sales offices will be estab-
lished in Chicago, Seattle and North
Yakima
Water will be taken from the Col
umbia at Beverly by means of one
of the latest designed pumping
plants in the northwest, the ma
chinery for which has been ordered.
Work on the concrete foundations
has already been commenced and it
is expected that the station will be
completed by the first of the year,
ready for operation in the spring.
The project will be served with
water, under pressure, through a
pipe system from Columbia river.
Close to 5000 acres of these rich
bench lands are to be watered by
the Beverly Investment company,
most all of which lie just north of
the townsite of Beverly, extending
along the river front distance OF
five miles. This project is one of
the most important yet undertaken
on the Columbia; not because of its
size but because of it's important To-
cation and the wide influence it will
exert upon that section of the state.
/ Because of this unique position, it
will receive a two-fold advantage at
once; the concentrated impetus and
support of this powerful transcOnti-
mental railroad, and the advantages
offered by new markets along the
new line.
Several miles of this piping will
be necessary for the main and sub
laterals alone in addition to which
the water will be carried in smaller
sized pipe lines TO the high point on
each small tract. The first unit,
l 400 acres, will receive water April
next, coming under what is known
as the 70-foot lift and lying in a
long, almost level, bench. 1t has
been plated according to contours
so that each tract will irrigate one
way and front on the wide road
ways that have been laid out.
With much the same capital be-
hind it, the Beverly company has
also been organized for the develop
ment and promotion of the townsite
of Beverly. Nothing will be left un-
done in making this a model bust
ness and residence center. Streets
will be improved at once, electric
lighting and water system installed
telephone line built and other i'm
provements made. Already there is
a new two-stOry hotel which would
be credit to much larger place
a large general store. lumber yard
and other minor business houses
and Beverly is the trading and ship.
ping point of that whole section OF
country without possible cOmpeti
ton. The Milwaukee has large Goa
bunkers, fine station and extensive
lsidetracks here 1t is naturally a di
vision point and even now with extra