The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-02-23
WASHINGTON TO BECOME
LEADER SAYS GOVERNOR
Coast State to Rival Sister
Commonwealth in East
in Production
Natural Resources Have Scarce
Been Touched; Unlimited .
Wealth at Hand
By GOVERNOR LOUIS F. HART,
of Washington


Hart of Washington became a nation.
al figure when he drafted what i,
known as the administrative Code u
a code that is non a lam and has done
much TO place the administrative bus.
mess of the state in the class with
great industrial corporations for &c,
oHomy, efficiency and results obtain
ed at minimum of expense. Aside
from this his outline of the poSsibH-
tiles of his state should interest ep-
e,yone who still feels the thrill in
the words Young man, go wed."
So diversified are the interests OF
the state of Washington that it would
be impossible to write Of its possibili-
ties and accomplishments and separ.
ate its civic, industrial and agricul-
tural activities. Washington is not
alone an agricultural state, nor YET
is it an industrial commonwealth, 1T
is both. Washington might we'll be
termed the Pennsylvania of the
West" for within its confines have
been found in large quantities al
most every known resource, except
oil, and prospects are good for that.
As an agricultural state it has long
ranked near the top as a wheat pro-
ducer and the fame Of its fruit has
gone far afeld. 1t contains within
its boundaries the highest mountains
and yet millions of acres of prairies
and plains land; dry climate on
the east side where irrigation is nec-
essary, and a rainy climate on the
west of the mountain slopes where
there is scarcely any winter. There
fore the development Of the state OF
Washington cannot be said to be
bound up in any one particular en-
deavor.
Comparatively speaking, Washing
ton is a new state, having been ad-
mitted to the Union in 1889, and her
main industries to date have been
numbering, mining, fishing and agri-
culture. Natural resources in time
disappear and the state government
fully realizes the absolute necessity
of protecting the great forest areas
that are yet uncut, and the replenish-
ing of the salmon and spawn in the
rivers emptying into the Pacific ocean
and Puget Sound.
To PROTECT RESOURCES.
The protection of these resources,
the rehabilitation of cut-over lands in
order that agriculture might replace
the lumber industry in the far dis
tant future when the Washington for
ests have gone the way of the forests
of eastern states, are now taking and
have taken a foremost place in the
problems that confront the state.
With enormous resources, many OF
which, though of almost inestimable
value, were scores Of miles from
transportation lines, the state has
before it a great problem in the mat
er of roads, but one which is rapidly
being brought to place where ii
should be. Washington is building
through the State Highway Offices a
system of paved roadways that will
be second to none in the United
States when completed, ard when
consideration is given to the varied
scenery which the state has to offer,
the value of these great roads, out
side of the industrial development,
may readily be seen. The highway
system Of the state of Washington
has become of vital importance and
only through an aggressive building
program on the part of the state has
il finally assumed the proportions
that are necessary for the upbuildine
Of the agricultural territories. Evi.
dence Of the development that fol-
lows, the building of good roads is
noted in the manner in which farms
of small agricultural communities
spring up along the line of the paw
ing.
Great acreages Of waste land, sage
brush that lay hot, dry and barrer
is being reclaimed by the efforts o.
individual communities and state aic
through the department of conserva
ton and reclamation, In this depart
ment, the reforeStation and protec
ton of the standing timber from fir
has played a great part in the preser
walton Of the fir, cedar, spruce, ant
hemlock with which the western
slopes of the Cascades are covered.
SALMON DEPICTED.
The state of Washington carries OF
an extensive propagation of salmon
and game fish, and even now is max
ing a determined effort for the re
plenishing of the sockeye salmon ii
the waters of Puget Sound. Thes
fish have nearly become extinct be
cause of unrestrained fishing, In tn
matter of the propagation and re
plenishing of streams with fish, tn
state of Washington has taken tn
lead, and long after other states fin
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