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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10
3HOMES WRECKED
BYDYNAM|TE BOMB
Occupants Of South Randolph
Street Dwellings Escape Unin-
jured--one Suspect Seen
MAN SHOOTS OWN FINGER

Three houses were badly damaged and
score of persons narrowly escaped
death as the result of dynimate bomb
explosion late last night
The dwellings damaged were those
Of:
Frank Laterzo. iii South Randolph
street.
Antonio Sassino, 1113 South Ran
dolph street.
John Brown, 1115 South Randolph
street.
The explosion rocked the neighbor-
hood and could be heard several blocks.
A moment after the explosion man
was seen running down Randolph street.
ft Is believed that he threw the bomb.
The damage will total several thousa nd
dollars.
The stranger was pursued by Paul
Laterzo, son of Frank Laterzo. but es-
capped. Laterzo fired several shots after
the man. He was in such nervous
state that he accidentally shot off one
of his own fingers.
Every window in the LaterzO home
was broken, the steps were blown away.
and furniture and pictures were shat
tered in all parts of the house.
None of the family was injured. La
terzo and his wife occupied second
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story front room. Three Of his chill
dren were sleeping in the rear Of the
house.
Occupants Of the other homes also
escaped injury. These dwellings were
also badly damaged.
Laterzo was at loss to account for
the attack. He said he had no enc.
mics and never received any threaten
ing letters.
Lieutenant Kerns, of the Seventh
and Carpenter streets station, is max
ing an investigation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10
"JoHN HENRY" IDENTIFIED
Boy Who Puzzled Shore Police a
Philadelphia Runaway

Following the identification of the
mysterious John Henry" twelve year,
old, who puzzled the Atlantic City po-
lice, as Carl Miller, Of S77 North Perth
street, arrangements are being made to
day to bring the boy back to philadel
phia. He disappeared on August %
after his mother Mrs. Emily Miller, hac
given him $50 with which to pay thC
rent.
The boy was found wandering in
Atlantic City week ago. When asked
to tell his name he said; Call me John
Henry" His mother read the story OF
the mysterious boy and 1t was through
her inquiries that Carl was Identified.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10
Observe Golden Wedding

A reception was held last night at
the home of r.. Il. Lewis, SOC South
Fifty seventh street, in honor of Mr..
and Mrs. Theodore Rooms. of l.infield,
Montgomery county. who celebrated
their fiftieth wedding anniversary yes
terday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10

Forty fourth street near Poplar, was
held In $1,000 bail for further hearing
by Magistrate Stevenson today on q
charge of suspicion of being implicated
in the theft Of $1,000 worth of silk
hosiery from box car at Thirty fourth
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10

refused, and the men finally obtained a
team.
AT Forty eighth street and Lancaster
avenue Patrolmen Hnnnigan and De-
vinney became suspicious Of the team
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10

and tried to stop It for an investigation.
The men whipped up the horses and
fed. After an interchange of shots,
the thieves .dismounted from the wagon
and escaped.
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and Thompson streets December 3.
On that date. It is charged, four men,
one said to be Rhodes, tried to engngc
n taxicnb driver to use his machine In
taking off the stolen hosiery. The driver
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-24
PAGE FIVE

net from five dollars to ten dollars
per tree.
While waiting for their trees to be-
gin bearing, many farmers derive
fine revenue from their lands by rails
ing melons and berries.
A feature which should not be over
looked by prospective buyers of fruit
lands is that of transportation. Some
parts of the United States where crops
of fruit might be otherwise profitable,
suffer materially from exhorbitant
prices for refrigerator and icing ser
vice. This is not true of the Wenat-
chez valley. Shipping rates are rea-
sonable and facilities for the market
ing of the products of the valley arc
unsurpassed.
We have the whole world as a mar
ket for our fruit. The expectation of
apples for the foreign markets has
assumed tremendous proportions in
the past few years.
With continually increasing acreage
and correspondingly expanding mar
kets, the apple business promises in
the next few years to become of even
greater commercial Importance, not
only to the Pacific northwest, but to
the nation itself.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-24

Broken by hills and mountains, with
many fertile tributary valleys of vary
ing size, the Upper Wenatchee Valley
is beginning to take its place as one OF
the favored garden spots of the world
The growth of this section has not
been forced. 1t may be truly said that
that there has never been "boom"
here. Such development as has al
ready been carried on has been be-
cause of the advantages of fertility,
natural location and an exceedingly
healthy and invigorating climate.
The invasion of the desert lands in
and near the lower end of the valley
by a process of irrigation has resulted
in wonders, but this story has been
recounted so often, spiced with all the
interest and glammor of a romance,
that it has attracted to those former
desolate spots if anything more than
its quota of small investors.
Years before the possibilities of the
arid tracts in the lower valleys for
fruit raising were suspected, sturdy
pioneers in the Upper Wenatchee Val
ley had planted fruit trees, not in
spots suitable for irrigation or even
possible to irrigate, but on hill sides,
vaguely arguing that the seepage from
the surrounding mountains would nour-
ish the trees. And this has been a
fact. Today the trees planted fifteen
or twenty years ago are thriving.
The soil of the valleys is a deep
volcanic ash and decomposed lava,
which is unsurpassed for richness and
productivity. No section in the world
is more favored with the return of I'M
failing crops of the highest quality.
Here crop failures, recently so COM
mon in the east and middle west as a
result of frost, are almost unknown,
and the fruit grower is reasonable
certain of his returns.
One of the attractive features of the
country is the climate. The winters
are mild, the thermometer rarely get
ting down as low as zero. 1t usually
ranges from 20 to 40 degrees above
zero during the winter months. Snow
covers the ground like blanket for
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-24
FIRST ORCHARD IN THE UPPER
WENATCHEE VALLEY

In the year 1883 was planted the
first orchard in the Upper Wenatchee
Valley. The historic event occurred
on what is today known as the Sui
Ivan ranch in Nahahum canyon, near
Cashmere, and D. S. Farrer was the
planter. The crop from these first
apple trees was packed on horses over
the mountains to Ellensburg. 1t was
ten years before the building of the
Great Northern Railway thru this
country. Those apple trees are liv-
ing today, and in their thirty-sixth
year bear enormous crops.
Where stands today the Cashmere
warehouse of the Wenatchee Valley
Fruit Growers Association, in those
early days stood the store of the first
apple buyer in this district. (His
tribe has increased to legion since.
His name was J. F. Woodring, and the
capacity of his warehouse was some
thing like $50 boxes.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-24

Emerson once said a man might go
to the mountain top and make mouse
traps and if he made them little
better than his neighbor the world
would build road to him, which is
just as true today as at the time the
philosopher was giving to the world
the divine truths; and it applies to
the producer of good products just the
same as it does to the maker of mouse
traps. The grower of delicious
peaches and big red apples who pro-
duces just little better fruit than
his neighbors will have the markets
of the world open to him.
This is the day and age of special
lists. In this way the efficient man
wins out over his less capable brother.
There is always a demand at a good
price for the efficient laborer and for
the best quality of any product.
In the Wenatchee Valley the spe-
cialty is fruit growing. Efficient spe-
cialists are making it their exclusive
business to grow fruit of the variety
particularly adapted to the favored
spot. Tho there are many other mi
nor industries in the country tribu-
tary to the City of Leavenworth-
mining, numbering and stock raising
the one great product that can be pro-
duced in quality and quantity little
better than anything else is fruit.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-24
SMALL ORCHARDS PAY BEST

To the farmer of the middle west
who has struggled along with a farm
of 100 acres or more it does not seem
possible that here five acre orchard
will make him a better home and an
easier living. But it is fact. Many
instances may be cited where the in
come from a small orchard of from
two to five acres equals that from
one hundred to two hundred acres in
the thickly settled portions of the
United States.
Six and seven hundred boxes of APP
pies from an acre of apple trees is
not an uncommon thing in the Wenat-
chez valley, and there are many places
thruout the valley where the yield
runs up to 1000 boxes per acre. All
that is necessary to bring an orchard
up to the 1000 boxes an acre mark
is care and scientific management.
Even at 500 boxes per acre one does
not need pencil and paper to figure
the enormous returns that can be got
ten from five acre orchard.
With the present prices growers es-
innate that it costs rs cents to pro
duce box of apples. This year hun
dreds and hundreds of growers sold
their entire crop at $3.50 a box or
chard run. Even figuring the cost of
box of apples at 81 box this would
leave profit of $3.50 on every box
of apples, or $3.50 net for every acre
of land.
A five acre orchard can be cared for
by one family with plenty of time
left over for recreation. 1t is pleas
ant and heaIthful occupation and pays
well.
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highly productive. 1t may also be
said in this connection that in addition
to his own irrigation system Mr..
Deering has spring water piped into
his own home.
Mr.. Deering is not a stranger to
the state of Washington, having
settled on the Coast in Snohomish
county in 1874, where he has resided
up to the time of coming to Leaven-
worth. He served his home county
for two terms as sheriff after which
he decided to retire to a less siren
uous life.
He says he has travelled more or
less about the state but could not find
district more to his liking than the
Upper Wenatchee Valley. Several
times he has been approached by buy
ers and could have sold out at a
handsome profit, but he can see moth
ing to be gained by selling, and hav-
ing developed a mighty fine place
which brings him a good income--why
should he. What Mr.. Deering has
accomplished however, has been the
result of hard work. But after all
is said and done, it requires hard work
to make a success of any undertaking.
His income will increase now from
year to year and it may be said that
his worry is over.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-24
THIS IS LAND OF SPECIALISTS

The valley of the Wenatchee has re-
markable advantages for the growing
of a superior quality of fruit. And
what is more, the yield is big and
never fails. At an elevation of 600
to 100 feet above the level of the sea,
the valley is surrounded by noun
tains and is protected from high
winds. The air drainage is ideal. In
winter the snow falls from one to
three feet deep and does not drift, but
lies at even depth like one great
white blanket over the land. The
change in temperature is gradual and
the snow does not go off with rush
and a flood in the spring, but gradu-
ally melts and percolates into the soil,
carrying the fertilizing elements
gathered by the falling snow to the
roots of the trees. The snow may
stay in the valley little longer and
spring may come little later than
in the other fruit sections of the state,
which explains why the fruit crops
are seldom damaged here by the late
frosts, while in other places the loss
is ruinous. The close proximity to
the mountains and deep snow evens
the early spring temperature so that
trees do not prematurely bud the first
warm days that in some localities
come before the winter is over, only
to be followed by late spring frost
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-24
EVERETT BUSINESS MAN IS
THE OWNER OF FINE ORCHARD
Walter F. Swallwell Will Harvest a Large Crop of
Apples This Season and Believes in the
Future of the Industry

AS fine an orchard as there is in
the Upper Wenatchee Valley is the
one owned by Walter F. Swalwell
about a mile north of Leavenworth.
Mr.. Swalwell came to this district
some ten years ago when the Wenat-
chez valley first began to attract the
attention of the world thru it's apples.
After a trip thru the lower valley he
arrived in Leavenworth convinced that
the possibilities of the apple industry
was yet in its infancy. Having
friends who had already bought land
in the upper valley he was induced to
become interested in this section. The
Leavenworth Land Co. was plotting
its first addition to Leavenworth and
he was among the first purchasers,
taking fifteen acre tract.
He was already busy man, having
large holdings in Everett, where he
was conducting a realty and insurance
business, but found time, or rather
took it, to develop his orchard. The
first summer was spent in familiariz-
ing himself with the industry and con-
ditions and planting his orchard. In
the selection of the varieties to plant
he exercised great care, as was deter
mined by later years.
Each summer thereafter he spent
as much time as possible on his or
chard. Even neglecting his other
business that he might spend his time
on the ranch. But his efforts and the
time spent with his trees have not
been wasted. 1t has been a side line
with him, and most profitable one.
This year he will harvest between
5000 and 10000 boxes from his fiji
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-24
NICE INCOME FROM
HAY AS WELL AS APPLES
George Deering Does Not Depend Upon Apples Alone
--Apple Trees, However, Will Soon Re-
place the Alfalfa

bought the King ranch of 60 acres his
present place. The past year he took
over the Morgan place of 40 acres
adjoining, giving him one hundred
acres in all. Twenty acres is set to
young orchard which is just coming
into bearing and from which he will
receive from five to six thousand
boxes of apple this year. Thirty four
acres is planted to alfalfa from which
he this year sold 80 tons of hay at
$25 ton, so it may readily be seen
that already the Deering place is yield
ing nice income. Nearly all of the
100 acres owned by Mr.. Deering is
tillable and will be under cultivation
at not far distant date. The land
lays fine, is easily irrigated and with
an abundance of water which comes
from a nearby spring will become
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teen acres of the best commercial va
rieties, such as Jonathans, King Dav-
ids, Winesaps and Spitz. As or
chards are selling today he could in all
probability dispose of it for 100000.
But it is question whether he could
find another investment that would
yield such good returns. Mr. Swal-
well has witnessed the development
of the industry in the valley during
the past ten years and can see moth
ing but prosperityahead for those who
engage in this line.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-24
Made Stake in Apples

Among the men of whom it may
be said, "He has made his stake in
Wenatchee Valley Orchard land" is
B. L. Ryan, who a few months ago
acquired one of the finest residences
in Leavenworth and settled down to a
life of ease. Mr.. Ryan sold his 10
acre apple orchard early this spring
for $25, 900 cash, and with his accumu-
lation of the last few years means
to retire.
Mr.. Ryan is one of the pioneers in
the apple game. Some ten years ago
he settled in the Peshastin district,
bought tract of land and set it out
to orchard. BY engaging in diversi-
fled lines he managed to lay by lit
tie each year and after his orchard
had passed the fifth milestone he be-
gan to get an income from his trees.
The yield increased each year, and
last seasons crop Melted him a sub
stantial sum.
He is firm believer in the future
of the Upper Wenatchee Valley, but,
he says he needs rest. J. Fl. Morn
ingway, who bought his orchard, ex-
poets crop of $4,000 boxes of apples
this year, and at the present prices of
apples he will net enough in one sea-
son to pay for his place.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-24

with fungicide, such as lime-sulphur
solution, which prevents the germina-
ton of the spores.
Similarly, the codling moth may not
be poisoned after it has burrowed into
the fruit, but if the poison has been
put into the calyx cavities before the
calyx lobes have closed and has been
sprayed on the foliage and fruit be-
fore the latter is entered by the lar
vac, the destruction of the latter in
large numbers is insured. Successful
spraying, therefore, must be based on
a knowledge of the diseases and in
sects to be controlled.
With all of the affections here CON
sidered the work should be done in
advance of their expected appearance
in the orchard. There are two prin-
cipal reasons why spraying in the
hands of some is unsatisfactory, name
ly, failure to make the applications at
the proper time and failure to thor
oughly coat the trees and fruit with
the mixture.
In order to overcome the former
difficulty the orchardist must be in
formed as to the nature of the mall
ady or insect to be treated, and the
latter may be overcome by maintain
ing proper equipment and by giving
the necessary attention to thorough
ness in spraying.
In the operation of spraying the
liquid should be broken into very fine
mist. The nozzles should be so manip-
ulated that every part of the foliage
and fruit shall be uniformly covered
with fine dots of the spray. 1t is not
necessary that the foliage and fruit
should be actually coated with the
spray, but every portion should be
thickly peppered with it.
The higher and inner portions of the
tree are commonly insufficiently
sprayed, and while the liquid may
actually be dripping from the lower
branches the upper parts of the tree
may show little of the spray.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-24

George b. Deering is Of the type of
man who succeeds. He is worker,
if he was not, the 100 acre ranch
which he, owns, one mile north of
Leavenworth would not have reached
the high state of cultivation that it
has in the past four years.
Farming was not new venture to
Mr.. Deering, but apple growing was
up to the time he came to the Upper
Wenatchee Valley about eight years
ago. He has owned several tracts of
land in this vicinity but four years
ago disposed of his holdings and
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-24
UPPER WENATCHEE VALLEY

three months in the year and the
sleighing is fine.
The summers are warm, with two
months of hot weather, which puts
the blush upon the peach and makes
the big apples red. The nights are
cool. Thunder, lightning, hail storms
and tornadoes are unknown.
Spring and fall are delightful. The
climate is tempered by remarkably
balmy Chinook, coming from over the
mountains from the great Japan cur
rent of the Pacific. This accounts
for the mildness of the climate.
With the progress already made in
the development of the fruit raising
industry here it is assured that no or
chard lands in the United States pay
as do the lands of the Upper Wenat-
chez Valley. The growers already
established here are intelligently 60
ing about their work favored by every
natural advantage. A number of
these men have land for sale. It is
not to be taken that these men want
to dispose of their holdings here en-
tirely. The invariable reason they
have for selling is they have more
land than they can properly develop.
1t is a fact, as has repeatedly been
stated, that farm of from five to
ten acres here is equivalent to farm
in the middle west of from 100 to 200
acres, and an apple orchard here of
20 acres is all that man of ordinary
ability is possibly able to handle.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-24
Markets and Transportation

of exquisite boquet; berries large and
lucious; apricots, pears, plums, prunes,
nectarines and nuts of delicious flavor,
all add to the reputation of the valley
and contribute to the health and profit
Of the growers.
Not infrequently the profit from
peaches and pears reaches upwards of
two thousand dollars per acre for a
single crop. Berries net the growers
from 5000 to $500 per acre. Grapes
met the grower about 5000 per acre.
Cherries at full bearing net the grow
Ter from one thousand to four thousand
dollars per acre. Plums and prunes
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-24

While the Wenatchee valley is just
ly famous for it's "Big Red Apples"
it's reputation is not dependent alone
upon that distinction. Nature is some
times prodigal, and her prodigality
is nowhere more manifest than in her
endowment of the Wenatchee for fruit
growing. In the Wenatchee fruit dis
trict all except citrus fruits attain a
marvellous approach to perfection.
Peaches large in size, perfect in APP
pearance, and favored for the most
Epicurean of tastes; grapes rivaling
those of California in appearance and
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-24
SPRAYS ARE PREVENTATIVE
IN NATURE, NOT CURATIVE
Should be Applied by the Orchardist
Before Injury is Done

Sprays are preventative and not
curative, and must therefore be APP
piled before the injury becomes appar-
ent. After a fungus has gained en-
trance to the foliage or fruit it can
not be reached and the diseased parts
made sound again, but the infection
may be prevented by coating the parts
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-24

The Echo takes orders for anything
in the Rubber Stamp line. Careful
attention and prompt delivery. ma1tf'
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