Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15
TELLS ADVANTAGES
Of WASHINGTON
Professor Lewis H. Clark
Writes from Hanford,
His New Home.
HAS A LARGE ORCHARD
The Members OF the Clark
Family Are Doing Well,
He Says.
HAS A LARGE ORCHARD

Lewis HI. Clark, fruit grower OF
Hanford, Washington, has written an
interesting letter TO Mrs. Ernest San
derson. nee Doppler, and portion of
the letter follows. Professor Clark
was formerly superintendent of schools
at Baraboo and Mrs. Sanderson gradu-
ated at River Falls where Professor
Clark has been member of the facul-
tyfor number of years.-.eAs stated in
his letter he went to the west on a
leave of absence and has probably re-
turned to River Falls by this time to
take up his work in the normal. The
interesting part of Professor Clark's
letter runs as follows:
A year ago the board of regents
granted me years leave of absence
and came here to take care of a fruit
ranch [ had been having developed
for me. [ have built me nice cottage
in the little village of Hanford on the
Columbia. My ranch Of liz acres is
only of mile away. Hanford is
due east from North Yakima and is on
the west b ank of the Columbia river.
You can find it's exact location by
finding North Yakima in South Cen
trail Washington just east of the Cas-
cade mountains. We are in the arid
region of the state where the annual
rainfall does not exceed seven or eight
inches. 1t is a saeebrnsh desert al
about us where it isn't irrigated.
Nothing can be grown here except by
irrigation.
An irrigation company here deve!-
OBS electricity at Priest Rapids, about
35 miles up the river from HanfOrd,
transmits it Is miles down the river to
Coyote Rapids where the pumping
plant is. Here water is pumped from
the Columbia river and transmitted by
canals to us Is miles away. My or
chard of IL acres is now three years'o'd
and there is none finer in the valley.
T have about 900 pc CHI trees, 500 apple
trees, $50 pear trees, $50 grapevines
and some cherry, apricot and plum
trees.
My family, my wife and Manley,
are here. Alice is teaching in Tacoma,
Warren is completing his long course
in agriculture at Madison university;
W. in March last year to become snp'
of 200 acre fruit farm in
Michigan. The company is now pay
ing him his full salary while he i'm
ishes his course at the university. He
W as married last September to Miss
Edwards of Milwaukee. He was 70
wears old last November. l expect to
return to River Falls soon.
NV orchard is not old enough to be
profitable so l return to
teaching until it will support US COM
fortably. Of course, it is expensive TO
hire it cared for. Mrs. CIark's brother
owns an adjoining ranch and will care
for mine or see that it is cared for, so
I am safe in returning. Mrs. Clark
and Manly will remain here perhaps
until August. Her father and sister
live next door.
The climate here is superb. There
are so many perfect days, when the
air is still and the sky is clear. These
days are like those you dream of in
and so seldom experience.
We had only two weeks of very hot
weather in July last summer. Au-
gust, September and October were
ideal months of almost perfect wealth
er. With the exception of week or
10 DAYS of rather cold, windy weather
in early November the rest OF the
weather has been very fine. ate
off my vines up to Nov. 10.