The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-10-28
Two Years-What Of the Future?

VXTIITH this issue of The Echo the present pub
wv fishers complete two years of business life
in LeavenwOrth. The time has passed
quickly which is indication that we have not been
idle Our business has been fairly good and our
dealings with the people of the community generally
satisfactory to us. We have endeavored to be of
some use to the community and to give full meas
in return for every thing of value received and
now as we are about to enter upon third year we
feel that 1t IS not out of place to turn eyes to the
front and give some expression as to what the fu-
ture ought to hold in store for this community
Each community is just what the people of the
community make it. No one else exercises much if
any, influence upon it in matters of production,
business and social accomplishments. If the people
of LeavenWorth are wide awake energetic and har-
monious, this can be one of the grandest commune
ties in the west. There are several lines along
which we may work. but the chief one and the most
important is the development to the full limit of our
agricultural possibilities Along with that will
come an expansion of social and business activity
There are still thousands of acres of fertile land
each one capable of supporting family that can be
added to our resources. With our mild climate and
irrigation have of the most favored spots on
earth for our field of endeavor The IeavenWorth
community is capable Of producing and shipping
hundreds of carloads of fruit berries grapes grain
hay and root crops where at present are loaded
out with the exception of apples and few Of soft
fruit The favored spots are fast reaching the linn
it OF their productivity while this community has
been practically at standstil for many years With
the coming of normal conditions we ought to expert
ence great boom and will if every agency at the
command of our people is employed to its full ca
pacity.
Look about you. See the idle land the hisidos
and ravnes, the upland tracts. Many acre can be
made to produce just by clearing and planting
Other tracts will need water Ought we be interest
ed in the expansion of irrigation? Such Indifference
as was recently shown this subject does not speak
we'll for our community. Every mothers son of us
ought to welcome an opportunity to show an interest
in opening more land growing more crops Man
kind was endowed with special faculties, not given
other creatures, because man was expected to de-
sign and create-and not merely to fatten himself
for the killing: not to seal himself ND within his
shell; not to hibernate like common bear and come
out perennially and roar his dissatisfaction.
The Echo suggests that our commercial club
take the lead and show some real life. We do not
mean that any particular person take the lead and
go out beating the tom toms; but that every one Of
us awaken and go to work with will planning and
executing, making stir, starting zonotling, talk
ing something, doing something.
Let us get hundred new families into this sec
ton and thousand or more additional acres under
cultivation. Set that as a mark to work to- Then
keep going.