The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-11-23
HILL RANCHES WILL BE-
COME VALLEYS GARDENS
500 Per Acre Net Profit From Potatoes Planted Four
Miles West at Elevation of $500 Feet-No Irriga-
ton or Observation-Disclosures of Acres Now Gov
cred With Timber Open to Homestead Entry

A hundred dollars net profit per
acre from non-irrigated land located
four and half miles from Wenat-
chee is the return which has been
realized on its potato crop by the Pa
cific Timber Certificates company
This concern is corporation owning
1000 acres of timber land in the
hills to the west of this city.
The plan of the company is to cut
off its timber. erect saw mills and
sell cord wood for immediate reve-
nue.. AS the timber is reduced TO
stumpage the land is cleared and
developed The elevation is about
$500 feet
This spring fifteen acres of this
cleared land was roughly prepared
10 be planted to potatoes entirely by
machinery and teams. 1t was an
experiment Deak Brown estimated
that perhaps ten tons might be
grown. VIII Hayward was more san
guine and thought the crop should
run thirty or forty tons. The actual
harvest was amazing.
When the tubers were all dug and
weighed it was found that the fiji
teen acres had produced 175 tons.
Many of the eighty pound sacks were
completely filled by 33 potatoes. One
OF the 'murphies" made meal for
whole family
The crop was planted by one man
and team at the rate of eight acres
per day No irrigation or cultivation
stimulated the growth. 1t was raw
land and many hill OF potatoes had
a big sagebrush sticking right up in
the middle of it.
The significance of these results
means much to Wenatchee. Thous-
aHds of acres OF similar land await
development between this city and
Ellensburg. Much of this land is
government acreage and Is open tC
homestead entry at this time. Set
tiers at this moment may file on
these homesteads, get immediate rev.
cnue by cutting the timber and haul
ing much needed cord wood to this
city where it sells readily at 500
per cord.
Here is a vast territory at the very
doors of Wcnatchee which can be de-
veloped into agricultural and stock
raising ranches. To this city it would
mean not only Increased supporting
territory. but still more important
A material reduction in the cost OF
vegetables, hay, meat and many OF
the necessities whose present high
prices make the cost of living cX'
horbitant
, Timothy and alfalfa show pnenom
PENAL growth in these hills. Radishes
: acquire tremendous size but retain
extreme tenderness. Strawberries
raised up at the head of the Squill
chuck at an elevation of 5000 feet
were sent to Governor Hay las'
spring and he said they were tht
largest he ever saw. Eight of them
would fill an ordinary box. They
we're as large as peaches almost
Onions get to be as large as saucer;
in circumference.
The building of the Wenatchee
Elensburg road will have much t.
do with the development of this ricf
territory which is to be Wenatchee';
garden in the years to come. This
highway. will serve as trunk line
from which side roads entering ever,
little valley and gulch of the hills
will enable settlers to haul out Their
cord wood and lumber while clear
ing the land Later the whole ter
ritory will be filled with happy and
prosperous homes. The climate il
ideal for comfort and the absolutel!
pure mountain water is life-giving tt
man, beast and vegetation.