The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-09-23

1AS dtlOlhCy BChSie'i VI 'AS S'e''N AA'''
an opinion to the county at
torney of Kitsap county, to the effect
that the commissioners have no right
to authorize the payment of bills from
road funds in district which is already
in debt and the tax levy Of which is
already exhausted.
Klaw & Erlanger will at once begin
on the construction OF modern met
ropolitan theater in Seattle.
A new system Of packing apples for
export trade has been adopted in Ida
no. Each apple is carefully wrapped
and placed in pasteboard compart-
ment with double sides, somewhat re-
sembling the tiers used in packing
eggs, except that with the apples there
is absolutely no chance Of bruise.
The compartments vary in size to ac-
commodate the apples. 1t is hoped by
this means to get Idaho apples to Eu-
rope without bruise.
The apple yield of Washington this
year is estimated at 100000 to g.
100000 boxes, as against 2,414,261
boxes in 1909, when the average
wholesale price was $1.40 box. Or
egon is second with more than 2,O00,-
900 boxes, gain of 100000 boxes
over last year. Idaho will have about
100000 boxes, an increase of more
than 100 per cent over last year, while
Montana should harvest 100000 box
es, a gain OF 10000 over last year.
The people of Oregon are interested
in the experiment tried recently at
Chehalis, under the direction of the
Citizens club, when the char pit meth
cd of burning out stumps on logged
off lands was demonstrated by experts.
It was found that fir stumps, from two
to four feet in diameter, could be re-
moved completely by burning and the
land left in good condition for cultivat-
ing, at an expense Of not over so cents
per stump.
This method is said to have the adj
vantage over the expensive plan of dy-
namiting the stumps, for that requires
expensive labor and the hardpan I'M
derneath the surface soil is broken up
and mixed with it to the detriment OIL
the lands productive qualities. The
expense of operating a donkey engine
in clearing the land is done away with
by the char pit plan, and it seems the
least costly method yet devised. Fur
ther experiments will be made, and the
results embodied in a bulletin to be is
sued by the department OF agriculture.
Secretary Merrill, of the Chehalis Citi-
zens' club, is directing the work.
Cattlemen of California are looking
to the Grays Harbor country for cattle
ranges. Inquiries have been made in
regard to the extensive tracts of logged
off lands there, and it is said to be the
intention to buy all the stump lands
available for the purpose of pasturing
beef cattle. The highest grade Of wool
is grown in the Grays Harbor district,
and flocks of sheep, too, will be pas
tured there. This is one of the best
uses to which the logged-off lands can
be put. The northwest needs more
livestock, and cattle thrive on the rich
native grasses that grow SO luxuriantly
thruout western Washington and Ore
gon.
More hogs are very much wanted by
the three states OF the Pacific north
west. To devise ways and means to
stimulate hog production, the heads of
the agricultural colleges of Washing
ton, Oregon and Idaho have arranged
for a meeting to be held in Spokane
October a, when the subject will be
taken up and some plan outlined to
stimulate interest in hog raising. The
interest has been sadly neglected, it is
charged, in the Pacific northwest, and
trainloads Of pork are brought here an
nually from the middle west. The at
tempt will be made to change all this,
and produce the required number OF
hogs here at home.