The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-12-15

contract for a seventy-five foot stack
will be let the coming week and work
on it will begin at once. Mr.. Rothert
the general manager, says he hopes to
have the plant completed and ready
for operation by the opening of spring.
The building OF steel plant at this
place and its successful operation de-
ponds on the discovery OF process OF
making steel of the highest grade from
magnetic iron ore, large and high
grade body OF which is located in this
vicinity. This ore is at present used
in making iron and steel at but one
place in the world, Sweden. Mr.
Rothert, the discoverer of the process,
has made the steel in experimental
quantities and submitted it to govern
ment ordnance and armor plate ex-
perts, who have pronounced it superior
to anything now in use. Iron and
steel experts all over the United States
have had samples Of the steel and used
it in a variety OF ways and pronounce it
Of most excellent and superior quality.
The writer of this story would not thus
strongly express himself if he had not
seen and read the correspondence re-
ferred to. The company is composed
OF men OF the highest character. All
their actions and conduct since coming
here has inspired confidence in the en-
terprise. There is nothing of the hot
air, film fam stock-jobbing about their
methods of doing business. Since be-
ginning operations last spring the com
pany has spent between thirty and
forty thousand dollars for land, build
ings, etc.. and every obligation has
been promptly met. When in opera
ton the steel plant will give employ
ment from sixty to seventy-fve men,
many of them highly paid workmen.
II business conditions warrant the cap
acity of the plant will be doubled at
once. With the assurance of the
ordnance department of the govern
ment that the Rothert steel is superior
to nickel steel in its power of resistance
to impact the company is considering
the erection OF an armor plate mill.
Two months ago Denver capitalists
formed company to erect a steel
mill and use the Rothert process. Mr..
Rothert has also received numerous
propositions from eastern manufacture
ers engaged in making high grade steel
tools, some of which he says he has
hopes of inducing to locate plants here,
so that it seems quite probable that
quite a manufacturing industry may
spring up in Leavenworth.
Irrigation Enterprises
The Icicle Canal Company com
pleted some eight miles of their irriga-
ton system last fall and will resume
operations again next spring, finally de-
livering water twilve miles down the
valley, in the vicinity of Monitor.
The Snow Creek Water company
spent some forty thousand dollars on
its irrigation system before winter set
in and will also resume operations with
the opening of spring. They have
some four miles OF the bed for their
conduit line, the heaviest and most ex-
pensive part of their work, completed.
They also have a saw mill and have
more than million feet of iume
lumber sawed out. The line Of the
Snow Creek Water company is the
highest in the upper Wenatchee valley
and will water all the lands above other
ditch lines as we'll as below other ditch
lines, where they have made contracts
for the delivery of water.
The Wenatchee Park Land and Irri-
CATION company, composed of Wen
atchee parties, commenced work last
fall on a ditch in the Chewawa river
valley which will water and make pro-
ductive from four to six thousand acres
OF valuable land
Gold, Quicksilver. Copper and As
bestOs Mines
The oldest gold mine in the state OIL
Washington is located at Blewett, six