The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1915-01-28
KENNEWICK OR PASCO?

NECESSARY gentlemen to suggest to you
ldockage facilities established recognized well
rail transportation possibilities will compel Pasco
be acknowledged the transportation center of the Inland En-
pre? We know these things nothing been
compished by twiddling thumbs"
The foregoing quotation an extract from letter written
Capt W. P Gray to the Pasco city council urging that body
take immediate steps for the of the dock facilities
The captain of mature judgment and experience
water transportation realizes that natural advantages count
little they utilized
when established in well defined channels difficult divert
channels undoubtedly that Pasco compel
recognition the transportation center of the Inland Empire it
will always enjoy that distinction
We believe that in his prediction that Pasco be such
center Captain Gray not far the center isn't at
Pasco will be at Kennewck The question of which will
the CENTER question of which the active and
alert making the most of its natural advantages There
why Kennewck should be winner in this
for supremacy advantage being
the shipping unhampered
by Winds swift currents floating drift wood It has the
acquired advantage of much better dock than there
From the standpoint of distribution also the
edge its rival that has the OW R. N railroad and
such the logical point
along which be reached
any direct line of communication.
cargo-assembling point Kennewck also has decided
advantage the natural outlet for the entire Yakima valley
acknowledged by shippers and that in
large part of the Yakima apple tonnage will be
In recognition Kennewics location
outlet only for this water tonnage but the rail tonnage
WE'LL the Yakima Valley Frutgrowers' association laying
plans the erection here of the largest fruit cold and
preceding plant the Mississippi When this Ken
will given the advantage of being only
the logical but the actual vrng routing point for the bulk
carload shipments of the Yakima valley Kennewic
likewise gateway for the bulk of the stock shipments
the Yakima valley For has been the winten mbng
shearng place for many focks of the upper valley
present time nearly all of the settlement along the
Coumba above here is this side of the rvr This will
doubed be true for matter of fact it
will always be true BY Of this teritoys being the
side of the river and the county, the business nat
uray gravtates Keewick and will continue gravitate
here unless the natural balance of things is upset
Then there tons of freight business originating
where there and around
Pasco
In short Kenneck has every advantage Pasco has and
lot and beaten in the will be because
found sleeping the job We have started the right track
in the proposed organization Kenneck District
The step it through and thereby place
unity in position make the most of our natural advantages
THE CROUCH
m HE GREAT CREATOR in His wisdom many of
minds and emperaments knowing that if the of
alike wishes and desires would lead to unendng
strife
He created WE'LL for man is the nobest work of God But
way there crep the world God did
createa thing sefmade be it male female self pted and
abnormaly self-loved.
created the chronic crouch that walks
and there town and community searching for
pneshat he may destroy it. Flowers and children because
beauty and he desets He reads
that liars and all but creatures of evil
In summer he reviles the bright sunshine the
green hills reves cleansing and the pur
flying frost The bitterness of gall and NORWOOD within his
heart
Children him and his wife be cassed among the
martyrs Men shun him and the early
walks this earth spreading unhappness and unbeef
maker of evil and dscord
Let us throw the Xray of self-examnaon our own
the little mcrobe that tendency
multiply produce time, the hated Crouch There
and sunshine in this old world of spoil it with
the canker of sefishness
Officer! Dishwashing
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