The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1911-08-25

hours they keep is mute testimony
of their respect for the farmer and
their desire 10 crafty his needs.
Through the harvest the hardware
and general merchandise stores are
open from five in the morning until
nine at night and all day Sunday.
The number of big steam thresh-
ing rigs which pull out of the town
has dropped from a dozen TO six.
Small gasoline rigs are taking their
place and 26 of these can bescOunted
within short radius.
About 100000 bushels of wheat
were shipped out of Endicott last
year and this years crop will over
run those figures by $4,000 bushels.
The three grain companies, Kerr
Clifford, Interior and Pacific Coast,
have warehouse capacity for 400,-
600 bushels. Early this week about
1000 sacks a Gay was being taken in
and this amount will steadily in
crease until the rush is on next week
and then the receipts will be about
10000 sacks a day. Owing to the
large number of threshing machines
now running the hauling season will
be shorter than formerly.
Usually the yield in the semi-dry
belt in the vicinity of Endicott is
very even, but this year there is a
wide range. The best yield report
eo SO far is by A K. Finley, who
had 200 acres of hybrid which went
AZ bushels TO the acre. George g..
Kleweno threshed 1900 sacks from
80 acres. Fall wheat is running all
the way from 80 up to A. bushels
and spring wheat is going from IS
to 35 bushels, with a conservative
average around %. The hot weather
did considerable damage to the late
grain.
Very little grain aside from wheat
is grown in the surrounding terri
tory. About % carloads of stock,
MOSTLY hogs, are shipped in the
of apples are also put on the market
and some years a large amount of
cabbage is grown.
The Bank of EndicOtt is a family
affair, but no effort is spared to ac-
cOmOdate the customers. The officers
are, NJ. A. Sherman, ST, president;
A. B. Sherman, vice president; NJ.
A. Sherman, Jr., cashier; H. S. Sher-
man, assistant cashier. The capital
stock of the institution is $25, 900
with a surplus of $500, with de-
posits running over $4,000. Care
full management and good business
methods were indicated by the last
statement which showed no over
drof Of
wheat money has gone through the
bank.
Every kind of business is repre-
sented in town and they all seem to
be having good trade. The hard
ware and implement store is said to
be one of the largest, if not the larg-
est, in the county. There are three
general merchandise houses, drug
store, furniture store, art store, gro
Gerry, two harness stores, meat mar
ket, newspaper office, bakery and
confectionery store, two lum Der
yards, blacksmith shops, livery and
feed barns, hotel, restaurant and
barbershOp. r. r. Hutchinson, who
runs the art store, is a photographer
of ability and has the distinction of
DCIuS VI JAS 1S"
in the state who use an automobile
in their work. For two months dur
| ing the harvest season he spends a
good part of his time riding through
the country taking pictures of har-
vest scenes.
If automobiles are an indication
of prosperity, there is something do
ing around Endicott. Not less than
| 20 machines are owned in the town
and immediate vicinity.
T. H. LogsdOn is serving his 18th
year as postmaster. he having been
appointed in 1894 by President
| Cleveland when there was no Demo
crat in the town who could qualify.
| The appointment was made during
the hard times and no one in Endi-
colt could swear that he had enough
unencumbered property to be elegi-
BILE to sign bond. Mr.. Logsdon had
to come to ColfaX to get his sureties.
One rural delivery route traverses
the surrounding country for 2S miles
and supplies the farmers with Uncle
Sans mail. Mrs. Rose Andrew is
! the carrier.
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