The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-04-21

Dear Old Courier anu '''e ''e'' VI
the Bunch
vo,,r editor having kindly invited
write one more squib for you,
.A.r a lapse of several years, l have
100 '..ented with a sort of composite
,.sl;ne-partly of pleasant remem-
lace. and some of the other kind.
be Courier was really an impor-
Lion. and a transmogrification,
.h,teyer that is. In the spring of
,oO). when l first made up my
mind to put a college into existence
! Milton, Oregon, one OF the first
limos I did as promotion auxil-
;,rv. was to start monthly paper
Abbed the Columbia Courier. This
rss issued regularly till my segre-
,.t;on from the college in the fail
1891, when l moved to the Gar
don City, and still continued its
oablication, on somewhat different
lines, In the spring of 1902, hear
ing Of the new N. P. Irrigation
scheme in the Kennewick valley,
and having an ambition for some
thing more than a mere existence,
Ivent over to the future "Califor-
MIA Of the Northwest one March
day-the 14th.
I literally blew in" Walking
from Pasco across the old n. P.
bridge, just as I was well in sight Of
Kennewick' 8 prospects( in my mind }
one Of those March winds, for which
that country was then (and doubt
less now isl famous, came tearing
along the valley. 1t was a dry
spring, and the sands were eager
for their first spring frolic. They
had it. What a day. But I was
wild and woody, not at all a tender
foot, and was not damned by any
thing of that kind.
Having no strings on me (but an
apron string) and being several
miles away from home, | saw the
town." In embryo. Yes, some
what embryotic.
The town was there ahead of me.
1t had been left over from the for
mer boom of the early 90's. There
we're several houses, most of them
long vacant; but three or four were
occupied by people who were des-
tined to play quite a part in the de-
velopment of the new Kennewick.
. Mr.. Beach was there with his esti-
mable family. In the old Beach
hotel, not used for hotel purposes
for several years, a man by the name
Of Moore, W. J.. you all know him,
was sleeping nights. In the day
time he sat in the little store of
Johnson Il Fullerton close by, and
as he replied when | asked him,
was looking straight up When
left that country he had already
looked mp several things. The lit
Tie old \. P, depot was there, and
Tor the first time in years it had a
resident agent, one Of the finest of
The kind, whom | learned to know
we'll, but whose name has slipped
away from me. The postoffice had
never been discontinued, and Mrs.
Moran was the official representa-
tive of the government in that capa-
city.
On that first visit | walked over
'Ae sands, and thru the acres OF
'agebrush, dreaming of the great
metropolis there to be, and of the
@lloence that one day would roll
around me if got in on the ground
moor and started the first paper.
Having satisfied myself as to these
ana many more questions of the
future, | fastened brck to Walla
""ila' and thence to Milton, where
had stored two or three wheel bar
10" loads of old type, and an old
'pordon jobber 1Ox15. This plant
shipped at once, and within a
week | was literally on the ground
noor' for there was not a place to
"e mad for a print shop. Most OF
'ne old buildings were owned by
people living at a distance, some SO
'iley did not learn for weeks
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