The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1911-09-01

each, of Rome Beauties, Kings, SpitZ-
enbergs and Yellow Newtowns. Last
year he received $2100 for his apples
and the buyer did the packing. c.
c. Simmons has five acres of York
Imperials from which he picked his
first crop last year. They netted him
over 500 an acre. n. w. Belshaw
has FIVE acres of Kings which netted
him over 500 an acre last year, their
third season in bearing.
The fruit business seems to be the
coming industry for the Pennington
country, although nearly ever kind of
grass and grain does we'll. j. F.
Brown is getting together display
to take to the Interstate fair that
will be an eye-opener. Dry land al
falfa five feet four inches in length
was taken from field which is pro-
ducing alfalfa for its nineteenth con-
secutive year. Timothy is one of the
moneymakers and the samples are of
excellent quality. 1t seeems TO be
natural blue grass country and little
orchard grass also makes fine pas
ture. Wheat is an important crop,
though by no means the life of the
country as in many parts of eastern
Washington. California Glory and
Red Russian are the leading varieties
of wheat grown in the Pennington
country.
Land near the town is selling from
500 to 1925 an acre. An offer of
$3.50 an acre has been made for one
large farm adjoining the town but
the owner refuses to SELL Last week
deal was put through whereby the
Cameron farm will be subdivided in
to five acre tracts. The farm con-
tains 120 acres with an 80-acre orch
ard in the center. The subdividing
will be made in such way that each
five-acre tract will have two or three
acres of bearing orchard and two or
three acres of wheat land suitable for
| orchard purposes. Arranged in this
way the tracts will be money pro-
ducers from the start and will afford
opportunity for the small investor to
get fOothold without waiting five
years for his orchard TO begin to
bear. The land Will be placed on the
market at from $500 to $500 an
acre. Owners have refused to sell
their land near Pennington, know
ing that they have a good thing, but
this new tract will now give outside
parties an opportunity to join the
prosperous community In the past
there have been many more would-be
buyers than sellers.
vinegar factory was started last
year by Seattle man as an expert
ment. Two carloads of vinegar were
shipped and the experiment proved
SO sccessful that large building has
been purchased and machinery in
stalled for handling a large business
From $4,000 to $4,000 has been in
vested in the plant which will manu-
facture vinegar, cider and jelly out
of the culls from the neighboring
orchards.
Small growers are we'll pleased
with their market facilities. A local
buyer takes all their good fruit and
the vinegar factory takes all the culls
so there is no waste.
AS home town Pennington is all
that could be desired. A good twelve
grade school is maintained. The
streets are well lighted with electric
ity. chemical fire engine has paid
Tor itself many times over in the
amount of property it has saved from
the flames. Artesian water is ac-
cessable at little cost Two new doc
tors have arrived and taken offices in
the hospital building, which is being
refurniShed for their use DR.. w. II.
Warner has for four years been sur
geon in the Walla Walla sanitarium
and since his arrival in Pennington
two weeks ago, has been busy. DR..
}. M. Barnett is recent arrival from
toronto and is just getting started in
practice. The territory which they
have is large, reaching over onto the
south part of the Occur d Alene In
dian reservation, where $50 families
have settled in the past year.
One of the old timers is J. Blick-
enderfer who came to the town the
same year as the railroad. For the
last 13 years he has served the peo-
pie and Uncle Sam in the capacity of
postmaster. He is one of the four
Civil war veterans who are postmast-
ers in Whitman county. At the be-
ginning of the war he enlisted from
Pennsylvania and after the war set
tied in North Carolina, where he
served as postmaster before coming
to Washington.
Paddock & Co. and Hayfield & Son
carry large stock of general mer-
chandise and William Sell has
smaller stock of general merchan-
disc. Thompson & Davis have a neat
drug store and do a good business.
Joseph Schnurr has been cutting
meat at the same stand for twenty
odd years. @W. c. Renfrew is cashier
of the Bank of Pennington.
City affairs are looked after by E.
E. Paddock, mayor; Joe Nixon, NJ.
H. Torpey, j. E. Brown, w. o. Wal
ters and W. D. Haynes, councilmen:
G. R. Patterson, clerk; Claude Rem
frew, treasurer; F. F. Sheridan,
marshal and Dr. Rosenkrantz.
health officer. Due to the activity of
the city marshal the town is very free
from hobo intrusion. Marshal Sheri-
dan refuses TO let the hobos make
fires in or near the city and when
they do so contrary to his instruc-
tions, they find their "Hooligan" cans
shot fall of holes. The 'bos have
learned to take him seriously.
Engine Men Flee.
The first accident to be recorded
among the many gasoline engines in
use in the vicinity of Colfax was re-