The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-12-15
Five Thousand Population for eavenwOrh in Less than
Five Years
THIS IS CONSIDERED A CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE
Two Steam RalOadsAn Electric Road CetamFage Saw Mill Planning
Mill and Box OTSeel Plant Under Construction
10000 Acres Irrigated Fruit Land

from five to ten thousand in very few
years is the opinion of men who have
watched her growth and from experience
and observation know just what is
necessary to build city. So that our
readers may know that this is not an If
ridescent dream we will go over, briefly,
some of the reasons why so many men
hold the opinion expressed in the fore
going paragraph.
1t is the general terminal point on
the Great Northern railway, with shops
employing a large number OF men and
monthly payroll of $4,000. 1t is
the initial point of the Wenatchee Val
ley and Northern railway, which is to
be completed to Wenatchee Lake the
coming year. Less than five miles re-
main to be completed. About twenty
miles of the road was in operation last
year. This road runs through the Che
wawa river valley, where the Wenat-
chez Park Land & Irrigation company
began work on an irrigation canal which
will water and make productive five
thousand acres of fine fruit, hay and
dairy land. Work on this project will
be resumed early in the spring. The
Wenatchee lake railroad will furnish
transportation facilities for the produce
and people on approximately ten thous-
and acres OF land. some of which is al
ready under irrigation and in cultivation
and all of which will be in short time.
Statistics show that in bulk and value
the products OF ten thousand acres un-
der irrigation equals the product OF
fully four times that much land not If
rigated.. Not every year, but figured in
periods Of FIVE years.
There is now under construction an
electric line from Wenatchee to Leav-
enworth, which the promoters say will
be completed the coming summer.
The company is under bond to com
plete inside of two years. Traffic ar
arrangements with the electric line
and the Wenatchee Lake line will be
entered into so that trains can~ee run
direct from Wenatchee to the lake,
where large summer hotel and resort
is to be est ablished. The reader vii
note that for transportation facilities
Leavenworth is the best fixed OF any
town in central Washington.
Within three miles Of the town is
approximately ten thousand acres of as
fine land as can be found in the We
natchee valley. About fifteen hundred
acres is planted to fruit trees, mostly
apple, some of which came into bear
ing last summer, as much as five car
loads being sold or shipped from here.
This fact is mentioned to show that
apple growing has long since passed
the experimental stage and is consid-
cred demonstrated fact. Fifty thous-
and trees were set out here last sum-
mer. Peshastin, three and a half miles
farther down the valley, where the fruit
industry has been longer established,
shipped the past fall forty-three cars of
fruit. 1t is conservatively estimated
that inside OF four years from two to
four hundred cars of apples will be
shipped from here. Simply because
our people have not been alive to the
possibilities, and invited emigration,
land in this vicinity is still exceedingly
cheap.
The Lamb Davis Lumber Co., has
one of the largest and best equipped saw
mills, box factories and planning mills
in the state, employing ESQ men, and
when running full blast has a monthly
payroll of SIS, 1000 to 500, 900.
The Washington Steel and Iron Co.,
a picture Of the main buildingof which
is printed on the first page Of this paper,
began the erection Of plant just out
side Of the corporate limits Of the town
the past summer. The installation Of
seventy tons Of heavy machinery is only
waiting on the completion of spur
track, the weight of single pieces range
from six to sixteen tons, and are too