The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-06-02
INDICATIONS POINT
TO GOOD YEAR
COMPREHENSIVE REPORT ON
TRADE AND CROP CONOi-
TIoNs ISSUED.
Wheat Yield Promises to Be oo rer
Cent Greater Than in 191o-Oats
and Hay Crop also Large, BUT Yield
of Fruit Will Not Be Heavy.

What is considered by officers OF the
bank as the most comprehensive crop,
trade, industrial and financial report
ever prepared on conditions in wash.
ington, Oregon, Idaho and western
Montana will be issued next week by
the Seattle National Bank. The report
is similar in many respects to reports
published from time to time by the
largest banks in the leading eastern
cities. This is the first time that such
information has been collected and
| published by Northwest bank. Off.
Gals of the bank plan to publish SIM
liar reports from time to time IN Or
der to keep thoroughly posted on con-
ditions in the Northwest.
The report says in part:
Replies from a majority of zoo cor
respondents show conditions to be
quite satisfactory in nearly all cases.
The wheat crop is especially promis-
ing and the last reports received after
the rains of early Nav are enthusiast
| tic.
PaIouse Country Good.
1.-THE report from the Palouse coun-
try especially mentions the largest
known acreage ever had there. A note
of warning is sounded from many Sec
lions as to the hot winds which some
times do great damage in June and
early July, yet, barring these winds,
and with a little late rain, perfect
yield will be the result in all direc-
lions.
"The area sown in wheat is about 10
per cent greater than 1910 and the
yield expected is about SO per cent
more than in 1910.
"The oat crop promises to be more
than 10 per cent greater than in 1910
on an equal acreage with last year.
Crop Of 1910 Marketed.
"A very small percentage of the
wheat crop of 1910 is left in the farm
ers' hands, the amount having dwin-
died rapidly in the past several
months, and it seems to be an almost
unanimous opinion that the crop OF
1911 will be more quickly marketed
than has been the case for the last
several years. This Is a very satisfac.
tory report from bankers stand
point, as it insures a rapid liquidation
of loans and an increasing quick cir.
culation of cash throughout the coun.
try.
Hay Crop Large.
"The hay crop for 1911 promises to
be about equal to that of 1910 and with
the exception of Skagit county. where
there appears to be about 10000 tons
of the old crop left, the 1910 crop is
nearly all liquidated.
"The fruit crop is the greatest ex
ception to the general outlook for
1911, as it esems doubtful from the re
ports if the yield as an entirety
through this territory will aggregate
Is per cent of the 1910 yield. Yakima
valley promises a falling of Of about
80 per cent from 1910, Walla Walla
about 20 per cent, and the Hood River
about 25 per cent
Comparison Is General
In making requests for reports the
Seattle National bank did not ask SO
much for accurate statistics as for the
general comparison of the present year
with the past and the relative condi.
tons as they have bearing on the bust
ness situation generally.
Information was also asked upon the
lumber outlook. poultry, live stock
dairy products and the small crops and
with the few exceptions the returns
show uniform increase expected for
1911 in nearly all lines. The report
continues:
THE lumber outlook for 1911 is not
so bad as might be expected from gen
eral reports from other sources and q
general uniform improvement is pre-
dicted for the current year to the ex
tent of about an average Of Is pei
cent.
Dairy Outlook Good.
"The dairy products are almost ali
expected to show betterment for 1911
the outlook being especially fine in the
Skagit valley, where an increase Of Sc
per cent is predicted. and in the Nook
sack valley of so per cent. Tillamool
cheese does not promise so well for
1911, though the sum Of 100000 IL
expected to be realized from this well
known product this year."
A number of questions were directed
ron general conditions. Among these
was as to the amount and character
Of building going on throughout this
section. The average answer to this
reveals a very great deal going on
throughout the country sections gen
orally on the farms and In the towns
mostly frame houses, though consid
cradle amount Of public buildings i
noted and the farmers generally seem