The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-03-09

al figures when he drafted what is
known as the Administrative Code
a code to place the administrative
business of the state in the class with
great industrial corporations for eco.
nomy, efficiency and results obtained
at a minimum expense. Aside from
this his outline of the possibilities
of his state should interest everyone
who still feels the thrill in the words
Young man, go west"
$50 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
is both. Washington might well be
west" for within it's confines have
been found in large quantities of al
most every known resource, except
oil, and prospects are good for that.
ranked near the top as a wheat pro-
Queer and the fame of it's fruit has
gone far afield. 1t contains within
its boundaries the highest mountains
and plains land; a dry climate on the
east side where irrigation is necessary
and a rainy climate on the west of the
mountain slopes where there is scarce
ment of the state of Washington can.
not be said to be bound up in any one
particular %endeavor.
Comparatively speaking, Washing.
ton is a new state, having been ad.
mitted to the union III 1889, ard her
main industries to date have been
numbering, mining, fishing and agricul.
ture. Natural in time dis.
appear and the state government fully
realizes the absolute necessity of
protecting the great forest areas that
are yet uncut, and the replenishing
of the salmon that spawn in the rivers
emptying into the Pacific ocean and
Puget Sound.
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
forests have gone the way Of the
forests of the eastern states, are now
taking and have taken a foremost
place in the problems hat confront
the state.
With enormous resources, many of
which, though of almost inestimable
value, were scores of miles from trans
portation lines, the state has before
it a great problem in the matter of
roads, but one which is rapidly being
brought to a place where it 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 com
pleted, and when consideration is
given to the varied scenery which
the state has to offer, the value of
these great roads, outside of the in
dustrial development, may readily
be e 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 it finally
assumed the proportions hat are nee
essary for the upbuilding of the agri
cultural territories. Evidence of the
development that follows the building
of good roads is noted in the manner
in which farms of small agricultural
communities spring up along the line
of the paving.
Great acreages Of waste land, sage
brush that lay hot, dry and barren
is being reclaimed by the efforts OF
individual communities and state aid
through the department of cOnserva
ton and reclamation. In this depart
ment, the demonstration and protec
ton of the standing timber from fire
has played a great part in the preser
walton of the fir, cedar, spruce and
hemlock with which the western
slopes of the Cascades are covered.
The state Of Washington carries or
an extensive propagation Of salmon
and game fish, and even now Is max
ing a determined effort for the replen
ishing of the sockeye salmon in the
waters of Puget Sound. These fish
have nearly become extinct because Of
unrestrained fishing. In the matter Of
the propagation and replenishing Of
streams with fish, the state of Wash
ington has taken the lead, and lone
after other states find that their lakes
and rivers have been fished out, the
gamy trout will be found respond