The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1922-12-29

ducing revenue to local merchants
of about $4,000 from the sheep own
ers as well as that portion of herders
and packers checks that are left
here.
Development of Mining.
The Leavenworth Mining district
has been but barely touched by pros
pectors and is due for great develop
ment. The most worked of any part
is that al Blewett where about So
100000 in gold has been taken out:
at present cyanide plant is in op-
Grafton. In the other end of the dis
ulct, near Red Mountain, about forty
miles north of Leavenworth. the
Royal Development Company have
bought a large number of claims and
have opened vast supply of copper
ore. At present they are building re-
duction plants. drilling a seven-mile
tunnel and preparing to operate with
large crew another year They
plan ultimately to have their own
smelter at or near the mine and are
spending a lot of money preparing
the ground, building power houses
and digging the tunnel, a crew of
about ten men being at work now
with supplies sufficient for all win
ters work. This all goes through
Leavenworth and their shipping
point when producing will be this
city. Other claims and prospects are
being opened up and the future as a
mining center is promising.
HOmeseekers and Tourists.
In order to stimulate the influx of
people the Leavenworth Commercial
1,,h
of particular interest to tourists and
sportsmen. The past year has seen
a large number of this class summer
ing in this district and the annual
revenue from this source has been
close to $4,000 A few ouf our set
tiers can be attributed to this source
and we find more homeseekers mix
ing with the tourists each year. As
to the revenue derived from tourists,
this is sure to increase greatly in the
next year and thereafter as soon as
the Stevens Pass highway is opened
it is now nearly completed. This
highway cuts off about 35 miles in
the distance from Spokane to Seattle,
is the most scenic route yet found.
passe through a lot of undeveloped,
tillable country adjacent to Leaven-
worth and is decidedly the least dan
gerous. 1t also affords to the resi-
dents of the Sound country very
pleasant weekend trip over Stevens
Pass to Leavenwo1th and back by.
way of Bewett and Snoqualmie
Passes.
Settling Logged OFF Lands.
About twelve miles north of Leav-
enworth, the Wenatchee- Chiwawa
Land company has opened to settlers
some six sections of logged off lands
and provided for sufficient irrigation
to care for much more than they have
put on the market Already a large
part of this land has been sold and it
is but question of time until thriv-
ing community of settlers will be
loading at Leavenworth from this
land many carloads of general farm
produce, meats, butter and eggs.
Further north in the Chiwawa River
and White River and Wenatchee Riv-
er valleys are many sections of land
open to settlement, where now but
few producing farms are in opera
tion.
The Railroad Situation.
AS to the railroad situation, about
which there has been so much discus
sion, while Leavenworth is no longer
a division point. there are at present
nine freight engine crews, five pass
enger engine crews and three work
train crews working out of this point.
with the attendant crews of repair
| men for minor repairs, so that Leav-
enworth has quite a large railroad
payroll As TO the exact effect on
business in general, this is hard to
foretell, but bank balances, local
money, are about the same as last
year. Most of the merchants report
a slight increase in total sales this
year against last year and this at
time when general retail prices are
lower than before.
Leavenworth 4 Fine Home City.
As a home place this city is quite
modern, being well supplied with the
| finest drinking water, electric lights
and telephone service. Catholic
Lutheran and Methodist denomina-
tions have pleasant places Of worship
and the school plant, consisting of
three two-story brick buildings with
a common steam heating plant, pro-
vides an excellent place for the edu-
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