Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1916-10-13

ois Oh wheat $4,000 of oats and 10
Voo OF barley is marketed
rankin county lies west of Whit
man county and west of the s,oJo
RIVER and Columbia. having tboso
streams as its full southern bound.
airy. The nearest point is "a rfos
Assessed value is $10.64S.O61. 80
per cent; contains 771.S4O acres of
"hlch about 100000 acres are i'm
able About 100000 bushels Of
wheat are raised, also fruit stock
and dairying industries are carried
on to some extent.
A large amount of this country i
susceptible of irrigation and whom
that Is accomplished this will he one
OF the foremost sections of the state
as the soil and climate are ideal for
irrigation. With cheap electric cur
rent many pumping plants along
the rivers would change the re-
sources OF this county quickly.
Pasco, the county seat. population
$500; SO miles. Ethiopia and Mesa.
towns of about 200 on the n p.
at which point much wheat and
many hogs are shipped. Kahlotus.
another wheat shipping point. is on
the 5. P. & S, and O-W. R. & n.
lines; population $50. Other cen
ters are Page, Ringold and Snake
River; population 1913.
Walla Walia county: Population
38,931; 40 miles nearest point. as
sessed valuation $31,73S.197: AIS
per cent; S09,6OO acres of land in
the county, of which 100000 acres
arc in the hands of private owners;
tillable lands estimated at 100000
acres. balance pasture; forest re-
serve in Blue mountains, in eastern
part. Resources wheat, 100000
bushels; barley, 100000; oats, So
geo, and 5000 tons of alfalfa.
Distance to points in Idaho: Lew
iston, q. miles; Moscow, % miles;
Genesee q miles; Potlatch, 80
miles: Kendrick, Sc miles; Julia
eta, 35 miles.
In giving this report the detail
of large mount of the resources
of this region is not given as it
would make it too lengthy and irk-
some for a report of this nature
Suffice it to say that all of this re-
sion is we'll adapted ITO dairying,
fruit and stock Industries.
To illustrate, from Pullman sta
ton last year 1875 cars of stock were
shipped, consisting of hogs, cattle
and sheep, but hogs predominated.
From Walla Walla were shipped
S2,220 boxes of apples, 5040 boxes
of pears and 1920 boxes of peaches.
Lewiston and all points along the
Snake and Clearwater rivers are es-
pecially adapted to the raising Of
peaches, grapes, apricots, melons and
tomatoes, which are almost as early
as California grown of the same va
rieties and are raised in large guam
titles.
If I am correctly informed one
orchard alone at Wawawai, owned
| by Congressman VIM, L. LaFollette
at that time, shipped rs cars in one
| season.
There are places. such as Dead
man Hollow. in Garfield county, the
Union Flat in Whitman County, and
possibly many others where electric
lines could be profitably constructed
for feeders to connect with naviga-
ton and railroads and trading cen
tiers.
Pullman offers a splendid open
ing for such a line, as the State Col
lege is located here, having a large
number of students to be accommo-
dated and large and excellent grain
country lies to the southwest that is
very much in need of such facilities
TO handle it's grain and other pro-
ducts. The amount of cooperation
that could be assured in the way OF
money for an i'm provement on Snake
river is an unknown quantity. There
has been no outline or an effort
made for any improvement OF any
special work or scheme on any OF the
inland waterways by private capital.
The fact is that the Northwest Is IN
an undeveloped state in the way Oh
manufactures and the field is open
for development, and cheap or rea-
sonably priced power is the main
factor for such development.
Practically all of the wheat oats
and barley, and large part OF the
stock is shipped down Snake river
that is raised in the north and east
mart of Garfield county and all OF
Asotin county in Washington, ana
that part of Idaho east of the Snake
river and Washington to the sum
NIT of the Bitterroot mountains
which includes all Of the Clearwater