The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-06-13
FoREsEE BIG CROP INCREASE

FORESEE BIG CROP INCREASE
Survey of Northwest Spells Pros
perity for Everyone.
Seattle. Wash. Reports from near
~ zoo bankers in Washington, Ore
con. Idaho and Montana insure an era
Of great prosperity for. the Pacific
Northwest, according to information
in the Trade and Crop Bulletin OF the
Seattle National Bank.
The bank has issued review of this
kind every summer for some years,
and the publications have been accept
ed universally as standard and author
itative.
The most important reports con-
tanned in the review, as affecting con-
ditions in Washington, are summar-
lied as follows:
FORWARD again is the ringing note
in the reports just gathered from the
Pacific Northwest. We have received
from nearly 500 banks reports cover
ing every county in the states OF Mon
tana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon,
a territory running over 1000 miles
east and west, and 700 miles north
and south. The products of this great
domain cover almost everything which
is grown in the temperate zone, and,
with few exceptions, the reports indi-
cate great increase in productiveness
throughout.
SIN the analysis of replies lumber
leads with regard to the proportion of
increase, as compared with decreases
indicated. There are Is predictions
for increase to every prediction for de-
crease. In logs there are 20 predic-
lions of increase to one of decrease.
In hay, Is to L; livestock, 10 to l.;
dairying, to 1; oats, 5 to l; wheat,
8 to l; small fruit and vegetables, 8
to l, and fruit II to /. In the case of
wool, the percentage of increase pre-
dicted is slightly in excess of the per-
centage of decreases predicted.
"From Northwestern Washington
logs and lumber production are pre-
dicted to be rs per cent higher; from
Skagit county, Is per cent; from
Lewis county, 40 per cent; from King
county, predictions ranging from 20
per cent to SO per cent; from Stevens
county, Is per cent on lumber.
ebay production is predicted to be
in Okanogan county Is per cent great
er; King county, Is per cent; Benton
county, Is per cent; Cowlitz county,
Is per cent; Lewis county, Is per
cent; Yakima county, 10 per cent;
Whitman county, 10 per cent.
GAS to livestock, Cowlitz county
predicts Is per cent increase; Yakima
county, Is per cent; Lincoln county,
10 per cent; one section of Benton
county, 100 per cent; Stevens county,
SO per cent; Spokane county, 10 per
cent.
eve have abundant evidence of the
fact that the raising of livestock is on
the increase, this being part of the
tendency to diversity farm products.
"From Lincoln county: The pros
poets for a large crop Of wheat and
other small grains in the Big Bend
country to this date, May 20, are the
most promising they have been for the
last ten years; the average of winter
wheat is fully so per cent greater than
was ever sown before in this section
of the country
From report from highly val
ued source, which has covered the en-
tire Palouse country, we have the fol-
lowing:
{" The condition of winter wheat in
the Palouse country, district COM
prising the greater part of Whitman
county, Washington, and Latah coun-
ty, Idaho, as whole is reported as
average, ranging from per cent
above in western part to per cent
below in the eastern. The acreage is
slightly increased.
"Spring wheat on about Is per cent
of the usual acreage is nicely up and
of healthy growth, except in the east
ern part of the Palouse, where seeding
and growth have been retarded by late
rains. There is material increase in
the barley acreage.
Goats occupy about half the acre
age of former years. Timothy, alfal-
ia and clover show rank growth on an
increased acreage.
"Oregon reports by counties indi-
cate big increase in dairying, in hog
and cattle raising. In the wheat-rais-
ing counties of that state the gain in
grain yield this year is estimated in
some quarters as high as SO per cent.
Idaho reports indicate prosperity
in both wheat and fruit raising. The
Snake river country seems to be espe-
cially prosperous, due to big yields of
wool, grain, hay and fruits
Demand for Children Big.
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