The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-06-15

ever expect to have and we are not
kicking about letting others look at
and climb to the top of our patron
saint.
Let an Eastern stranger visit Sc
attic, with e view of investing and
the powers that be will unchain
Mount Rainier and lead him up for
the stranger to admire at close range
and will tell how they had adopted
this mountain when both the city and
the mountain We're quite small, and by
giving Mr.. Mountain a daily diet of
snowballs and glaciers with desserts
of icebergs, they had made one of the
incest and largest mountains on the
continent out of him-the credit all
belonging to Seattle, and the stranger
would be given an individual interest
in everything pertaining to said
mountain, but let Mr.. Visitor go over
to Tacoma and put on any familiar
airs about Mt. Rainier and they would
bite his head off, just pop! But we
on this side of the Columbia being
generous hearted people knowing that
all the mountain Pasco has is sand
dune near Ainsworth-and to see that
they must climb to the top of their
new 600-barrel-a-day flour mill Ga
monument to their genius, enterprise
and delusive advertising( and We
freely allow them all to look at our
Mt. as often as they wish, without
charging them one cent for up-keep
or overhead expense for our noun
tain and out of consideration of their
feelings have ever refrained from
building sky scrapers on this side.
But if they have not already dug
down their mountain to build stock
yards on, we say in the language of
the poet: "Woodman, spare that tree"
for the partnership that has so har-
moniously existed ever since time be-
gan, and the Columbia river agreed
to come between Pasco and Kenne-
wick and impartially umpire the game
during the ages that are to come, is
declared off, for there will soon ap-
pear on Pasco's southern horizon
thee solid lines of oil derricks from
Badger Canyon to below the home of
the tin can de-tec-a-tif, and there will
be spouters, gushers, clusters, and all
the thrills that all the oil fields are
heir to, and greater still big Jim Wal
lingford, better konwn as j. Rufus, is
billed to appear at an early date in
the foreground of this oil field, and
when he flashes that two thousand
dollar diamond Pasco-ward, it's aka
ty, bar the door,"
Now we wanted to be nice to Rich
land too and we offered them a little
butte close by for their very own, but
our promoter receives the suggestion
with such a snort of disgust that it
nearly breaks our heart. According
to the talk of the gasologist it has all
the earmarks of being a first class
oil field as we'll as Jump-O Office and
if no oil is there the blam: is not ours.
Benton City and Sunnysidc each
claim Rattlesnake butte. But Benton
City,, in launching the county seat
boom, used up all her steam and has
been floating derelict ever since
with none so poor as to do her rev.
erence. Now, listen:
Latest reports passing the censors
say that while we have been waiting
on various companies to develop this
field, Sunnyside has got busy and
gnawed big hole right thru the vi
tails of Rattlesnake butte and have
got under the incline of the anticline
and are right next to the pop-off valve
of the great oil dome, and by pre-
vious arrangement with the engineer