The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-04-13
From the Correspondents
Items of Interest Concerning Our Neghbors Hereabous

While handling horse he slipped and
fell and the horse stepped on his knee
and dislocated it. He was confined to
his bed for a few days but is now
hobbling around on crutches. We re-
commend that everyone holding a
grudge against him take this oppor-
tunity to tell him what they think
about him.
Before his accident Frank Lyons
was circulating a subscription list to
help the ball team buy the necessary
paraphernalia. Now that he is laid up
the list will be small and everyone
wishing to help out the team is asked
to leave his mite with Ed. Angel or
to hand it to one of the players.
Everyone is excited over the an
nouncement that Kennewick is to have
big stock yard. Frank Emigh says
hay will always be worth $500 now,
but N. c. Bowles says this is only a
pipe dream that it won't help the
price more than couple of dollars.
1t may help the price little and UNI
questionably will furnish steady
market, but if the hay supply in this
county was so very limit e d
that a stock yard would boost
the price $40 per ton, we could feel
assured that Kennewick would never
be selected as a site for feeding
plant. However, such plant will be
of inestimable value to the community.
Besides furnishing steady market
for our hay it will give employment
to many men, bring lots of travel and
traffic this way, but best of all all fur
nish good market for our stock and
our hides-something that we sadly
lack at present. Rather than welcome
those who are coming to invest their
money here, with the news that we
expect to make them pay $1S for their
hay, it strikes us for more appropri-
ate to welcome them with the news
that we can all of us now see money
in the dairy and stock business with
market at our door.
We've often heard the remark that
Socialists are not business men, but
anyone seeing the horse trade that
John Storland put thru last week
would have proof aplenty that there
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Prosperity may not have hit this
valley very hard yet, but it is surely
coming. The farmers are not going
to wait for a boom but are steadily
preparing for prosperity of the home
grown variety. This winter there has
been more pipe line laid than ever be-
fore, for the farmers are beginning to
realize that alfalfa is q money maker
and that it takes water to grow it.
1t is safe to say that the saving in Ia
Dor and the saving in water pay for
the average pipe line in one season.
If properly leveled, properly seeded
and properly piped, an acre of ground
will easily yield six tons Of alfalfa
each year and the net returns on this
will pay ten per cent on a valuation
of between $3.50 and $400 per acre.
These figures are not idle dreams, but
are the result Of experience of many
of our farmers. However, it is sad
fact that very few are obtaining these
results. Fully seventy-five per cent
of the alfalfa ranches will not water
at all or will not water without an
enormous waste of water and labor.
The only remedy for such field is to
pillow it out and relevel. Almost as
large per cent Of the ranches are not
equipped to distribute the water eco
nomically and excellent progress made
this year in installing pipe lines au-