The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-04-03
Ranchers of Yakima and Colum-
bia Valleys Are Following
Modern Methods
PACIFIC COMPANY SELLS
FOR INCREASED ACREAGE
Records Show That Manner in
Which Ranches Are Taking
Hold Indicates Prosperity and
Right Development

Electric juice aggregating 659
horsepower for the irrigation of 1925
acres Is being supplied by the Pacific
Power & Light company for the diff
ferent districts served by the COM
panys lines extended this spring. To
2 take care OF this business, according
TO George Arrowsmith. who has rep
resented the company in its business
with the ranchers, there has been ex-
pended some 100000 in equipment
and the land owner has purchased
$4,000 worth of electric pumping
machinery, besides expanding a total
Of shout $4,000 more in wells, pip
ing, bitches, etc, but not taking into
account the money spent in building
homes, putting in crops and in such
preparations for farm life.
Healthy Financial Condition
The foregoing figures, in the opin-
ion of Mr.. Arrowsmith, and anybody
else must see it in the same way, go
to show the really healthy financial
condition of the country, especially
in the Yakima and Columbia river
valleys and also to show that electric
power for irrigation has come to stay
and also to grow to become a factor
of prime Importance in the develop
ment to it's highest possibility Of the
country.
In addition to the amount of power
supplied new this year. the company
was already supplying $500 horse
power to irrigate land in different
districts adjacent to Yakima. amongst
which are the lands OF the Northern
,.,.r Of
newick, the Pasco reclamation pro-
tect at Pasco, the Kiona- Benton
Highlands company, the Central
Washington company and others, the
aggregate of these making some
$4,000 acres prior to this year.
What Electricity Means
The supplying of electric power to
farmers is working a revolution in
that it places the farmer on the same
basis as the man in town, enabling
him to supply domestic water all the
year round and to have modern
plumbing and other cQnveniences in
the home 1t is also putting under
cultivation large numbers Of acres
that cannot be reached conveniently
by canals having gravity flow. But
more lHdn llldl, II Is SupcTCeOllS tile
canal for irrigation. as it cuts out the
high initial cost of construction, the
interest on which alone WILL under
reasonable lifts, pay several times
the power hill each season.
naz-
Modern Farm Methods
1t is perhaps unnecessary to call at
tention to what it means in this So
called wild western country to have
electric power available and actually
in use to an extent not dreamed of in
the much better developed east.
Stated briefly, however, it means that
the rancher who moves west from the
old eastern home travels not away
from, but toward conveniences and
facilities which makeN for greater
comfort and higher efficiency. Here
with is given a list of the new patrons
in the various districts of the COM
pany and the power they are using
and the acreage to which it Is APP
piled. The general extent of the
added acreage of this season will be
q surprise to those who think they
have been watching the development
Of this country.