The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1911-05-06

There are many prospective settlers IN various
parts of the United States who are under the i'm
preston that there is no land available in this dis
trict Some Of the cut-over timber land can be
bought as low as $40 acre, payable in ten yearly
instalments. Forty acres cleared and cultivated
will make living for any family. Of course
there is a lot Of hard work to do in getting the
land in shape for crops it is job for full-blooded
men, who are not afraid to take few knocks.
This is not a land agents scheme in any sense
of the term, but campaign to provide cheap lands
for people in the congested centers of population.
In many instances the state owns the land, the
rest being held by timber companies, who have
agreed to sell it at less than the original cost.
Plans will be made to guard against spectators
gaining control and it is likely that the land will
be sold only to bona fde settlers and farmers.
Seventy-five million tons of pure silica is declared
by experts to be contained in deposit near Buck
eye, Is miles north of Spokane, discovered by
George H. Savage, M. E., of Chicago, who is or
ganzing corporation of capitalists to establish
glass manufacturing plant, employing 300 skilled
workmen, in the outskirts of Spokane.
Mr. Savage and his associates have acquired own
ership of II acres of land which embrace the mine
following investigation and laboratory tests by
John Pierce Of Ottawa, ILL.,, and other experts who
say in reports the silica is the highest grade they
have yet examined and that the deposit probably
is the largest and most wonderful on the American
continent.
A sample Of the progressive values of Stevens
county fruit land is seen in the recent transfer of
the Gem fruit farm mile and half south of Ket-
tie Falls. F. G. Carlisle the owner has sold the 13
acres well improved, to Edwin P. Borden of Mont
gomery, Ala, for $4,000. When Carlisle bought
this place six years ago, the land was worth $50
an acre.
Included in the deal was the 10 room modern
home and the personal property valued at about
SIS, 0OO which leaves the 13 at price of $77O
an acre. This land is planted to orchard 1 to
years old. The ranch fronts on the Columbia and
is perhaps one of the best improved places in the
county. Certainly no equal price has hitherto
been received for Stevens county fruit land.
Compared with the prices being received for
Wenatchee and Yakima lands, this sale shows
what in few more years may be expected from
large portion of the Columbia river valley.
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The mining situation in the Orient district of
Stevens county never rlooked brighter Opening up
of new prospects is planned and old development
workings are showing up better as development
word coming in of new strike or better ore being
encountered in some of the properties This ap-
plies not to Orient Camp alone but throughout the
entire length of the Kettle river valley
It is generally conceded that the Orient district is
marked to pass through year Of unprecedented
prosperity and the fall will surely see two or more
additional shipping mines in action. Orient is
breaking into wave of prosperity that is going to
make her the most prosperous camp in the state
Improvement and development not only lies in
the mining district but in industrial operations.
The Walsh Lumber company at Rock Cut pur-
chased a large quantity of timber this spring and
is negotiating with the Great Northern Railway for
an extention of side track facilities in contempla-
ton of shipping logs to the mill from Orient and
Dulwich by way of the Great Northern Railroad.
One of the greatest legal battles in the history
of the state, with Will G. Graves of Spokane and
Harold Preston of Seattle as leaders on opposing
sides, will occur next fall when the constitutional
ity of the new employers liability law will be test
ed in the state supreme court.
Former State Senator Graves, who led the fight
against the bill at Olympia, in interview forecasts
the coming conflict and states the Spokane & In
land will insist on genuine test case. This is
taken to mean that Graves will be in the forefront
of the laws assailants. Lumbermen on the coast
are already planning to make test case.
Carry Nation, accompanied by her hatchet, is
scheduled to arrive in Spokane May Is, and while
the new Spokane commissioners deny having sent
for her. it is evident that she purposes carving out
some of the new plans now being worked upon by
the commissioners
The newspapers have had Carry dead several