Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1910-10-14
TRACTS GO ON MARKET
Tracts i'm New Project ON Snake Riv-
er viii lie offered for Sale
Next Wednesday.

the Riviera tracts, on Snake river.
These tracts will so on the market
next Wednesday, Jones & Sanger of
this city having the agency. Presi-
dent Bryan of the State College Is
manager of the project.
The tracts are sold on the install
ment plan--one-ffth cash at the
| time of purchase and one-dfth each
year till paid, interest on the defer
red pawn ents being Z per cent. The
price is $500 per acre, or if the
company prepares the land for irri-
cation, furnishes the trees standard
kinds and dimensions). plants, tills.
lprunes and irrigates them for four
years, $500 per acre. The annual
maintenance charge is $3.50 per
acre. At the end of five years the
Riviera company will turn over to
the association of water users the
pumping plants and the entire irri-
eating system, to be owned and OPP
Grated by them at pro rata cost
Six miles east of Riparia, Wash,
in Columbia county, on one of the
finest and richest bars" Of the
Snake river canyon, lies Riviera"
Its owners have plated it into tracts
of approximately five acres each, laid
out streets and avenues, plated
civic CENTER" established a pump
ing plant, to be operated by electric
power, for supplying water from a
never failing source-the Snake
river.
The soil is a river silt and volcanic
ash, rich in all the elements of plant
food admirably adapted to the pro-
duction of the choicest fruits under
irrigation. 1t is a rich, deep, warm,
moist SOIL which even without irri-
cation produces crops, and with a
water supply produces phenomenal
yields. 1t covers the river gravel
deeply and has splendid natural
water drainage and air drainage.
There is no better soil anywhere for
fruit production under irrigation.
The Riviera is $50 feet above sea
level, 1900 to 1000 feet below the
adjacent Palouse country and the
Spokane district, with a clear, dry,
crisp air, fine winters, early springs.
warm summers-the kind that stores
the sugar in the fruit juices 1t is
lower and earlier than Wenatchee,
North Yakima or Walla Walla. The
Snake river canyon is less liable to
frosts than other fruit regions of the
state, often having a full crop of the
soft" fruits when all other regions
fail In 1909 the lower Snake river
Canyon produced more peaches than
all the rest of the state put together.
1t is early-ahead of the ordinary
market-and thus most profitable
for fruit culture.
The "Camas Prairie line" is right
across the river from the Riviera
quarter of mile away. A ferry
will connect the orchards with the
railway station. This railway line is
operated jointly by the o. r. & N
and the n. p, either line furnishing
cars on demand, and thus, wherever
the Hill or Hartman systems reach,
car shipments may be made direct.
Besides this the N. p. owns a right
of-way through the entire length of
the Riviera, and should the present
agreem ent between it and the o. r.
& n cease, it would build on the
south side of the river through the
tract and the two lines would still
be at the door yard. Then, there
is steamboat landing and two lines
of boats operating a portion of the
year.
The peach, the grape, the apricot
nectarine, sweet cherry, pear, prune
and plum grow to perfection in quail
ity, size and yield and are ready for
the earliest market-each of it's
kind. The lands for such fruits are
rare in the northwest and the earli-
ness of the season puts these lands
beyond competition. But the apple
too, the king of fruits, in those
choicest, high priced, universally
loved varieties. such as the Winesap,
the Spitzenberg, Newtowns and
Grimes Golden, will flourish here and
show size color and quality to ex-
cite universal praise. Early vege-
tables, cantaloupes, watermelons and
such like flourish. Here on this very
bar was grown, without irrigation,
the prize watermelon of the Lewis
and Clark fair. Strawberries and
other small fruits can be produced
for the earliest markets. The OPP
portunity for making a profit from
cultivation of such crops between
the rows" while the orchard is com
ing on" is of the utmost Importance