The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-09-26
BIC VINEYARD
ON HIGHLANDS
Beavers Co., Recently Incorporated
Will Plant 100 Acres to Do
mesic Varieties

Articles of incorporation were filed
this week for the largest vineyard
in the stare of Washington, to be
planted on the Highlands near KEN
newick. The corporation will be
known as the Beavers Concord Vine
yard Co., of Kennewick, and is
capitalized at sixty thousand dollars.
At the present time there is not
single vineyard in the state of
Washington larger than twenty
acres. The Beavers Concord COM
pany will own and operate a vine
yard of one hundred acres, growing
domestic grapes exclusively.
The object of the company will be
to plant and maintain commercial
vineyard for the growing and mar
keting of the American varieties of
grapes. 1t is proposed to plant,
cultivate and market one hundred
acres. By operating on an extern
sive scale the company will be en-
bled to contract the sale of it's
product in carload lots.
The company at the present time
owns the hundred acres on the High
lands, which will be used for the
furtherance of their plans. While
at the present time there are only
twenty acres planted to grapes the
work of putting in the remaining
eighty acres will be rushed with all
possible haste.
That this locality is ideally suited
to the raising of grapes is voiced by
experts in the line. l.. w. Hill,
president of the Great Northern
Railway, who stopped off in Ken
new!ck year or so ago to look over
the country remarked: THE Col
umbia River should be more i'm
portant as a grape raising district
than the Rhine, and it is only a
matter of time until it will be So"
Paul Welsh, one of the Welsh's
Grape Juice Co., has visited this
territory and pronounced it superb
for the production Of Concord
grapes.
With the new grape juice factory
opened at Kennewick this fall, no
particular difficulty is expected from
the marketing end of the game.
The results obtained from the
twenty acres that came into bearing
this year presages wonderful success
for the new company. The growing
of grapes requires the least amount
of labor and expense of any product
on the farm.
The company that has recently
boen incorporated is not in any sense
a visionary scheme, like SO many
that have been sprung in the west.
Mr.. Beavers, president Of the
company, has already expended
over twenty-five thousand dollars
in the improvement of the property.
The company has its own irrigation
plant. The plant consists OF a
twelve and one half inch bored we'll,
with sub-artesian and inexaustable
supply of water. The pump has
double acting cylinders and is
capable of lifting four hundred gal
Ions of water minute. The power
is supplied from a forty-horse Oil
engine. Fuel for the engine is pur-
chased in Seattle for ninety cents
per barrel and the engine consumes
three gallons per hour, making the
cost for fuel about six cents per
hour. This is the cheapest power
obtainable and reduces the cost of
irrigation to the minimum.
Mr.. Beavers is tine president and
treasurer of the new company, and
E. M. Thomasson is the general
agent. The directors are Chas. Ell.
Collins, who is also vice-president,
Ida Beavers, w. NJ. Whitney and
81. B. Bartho, the latter two being
Seattle men.