The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1922-02-03
6. n. TO MAKE
IMPROVEMENTS AT
COUNTY SEAT
WENA"CHEE WORLD SAYS A
HALF MILLION TO BE EN-
PENDED. WORK TO BEGIN
WITHIN THIRTY DAYS.

Company is ready to go ahead
with vast Improvements around
the city of Wenatchee that have
been contemplated for years and
a crew of engineers will be here
tomorrow morning to lay out the
work. The purchase of fifty
acres south of town at the mouth
of the Squillchuck, announcement
Of which was made in the Daily
World last week was fraught
with deeper meaning than the
mere transfer of land. The entire
fifty acres will be covered with
new improvements and railroad
facilities The present small
round-house in Wenatchee will be
removed and enlarged.
These are the facts as confirm
ed by Major A. NJ. Anderson,
right-of-way agent for the Great
Northern who is here today. He
says that the actual construction
work will begin within thirty
days OF sooner if the weather per
mits and the big work will be
completed in time to handle this
years business The value of the
immediate improvements will ap-
proXimate 100000.
Immediately following the COM
pletion of these improvements,
the principal division point on
the road between Spokane and
tidewater will be at this point.
That the Great Northern has had
ii in mind to establish this city
as center for its activities has
been generally talked for years,
but that time is now here, and the
big work starts at once, accord
ing to the information given the
Daily World by Major Anderson
today.
The completion of the work laid
out for the next few months
means an additional 100 families
to this immediate community.
This would have meant a much
bigger thing proportionately ten
years ago than it does today.
But even today it will undoubted-
ly cause a little furry in local
real estate
The above news story appeared in
The Wenatchee Daily World of Feb
|. and has been the cause of more
han little speculation locally as 70
the Sword of Damocles, sus-
pended over Leavenworth heads from
time immemorial is about to fall ami
lecapitate us. or whether the World
S merely indulging in its periodic
of making Wenatchee
the principal division point on the
DAD between Spokane and tide
LeayenWorth people are interested
r any improvements contemplated BY
he Great Northern, here or at Wei
ltchee, and the World "story-' o.
has been the topic of :.
great deal of discussion during tn
oast twenty-four hours.
We query ourselves and our
1eighbors about as follows: 3D.
he contemplated improvements at
Wenatchee, when completed, mean TIE
removal Of the roundhouse ana
division point to the county seat?"
1t is moot question, and so fa''
The Echo has found no one who is
willing to state definitely that sucn
viii be the case.
On the other hand, there are many
who feel confident that the imp owe
ments which the Great Northern viii
make at Wenatchee have been needed
for many years to properly handle
the business out of that city, ard 5
far as the division point is concerned
L will not be affected.
1t is the opinion of the writer. tina
Leayenworth folks should not become
lnduly alarmed over prospect OF
division removal until such time as
announcement comes from more au-
source than the Wenalchee
World or Major Anderson. subor.
dinate
Division removal may be summed
up, briefly. in this way: If Great
Northern officials feel that Wenatchea
is the logical place for the division
point, to Wenatchee il will go--anG
no power on earth can stop it from
going there. We will then have to
face the issue and worry along with
out it.
The predominating impression of
citizens of Leavenworth, 50 far a. the
Echo has been able to ascertain. i
that the Improvements which will be
made at Wenatchee do not contem-
plate division removal to that city, de
spite the little furry" in county seat
real estate it will undoubtedly
cause"
The suggestion is offered thai ous
Commercial club secretary. or a com.
mittee, wait personally upon G. \
railroad officials who are in the know
and learn what disposition is TO b
made Of the Leayenworth terminal
thus ending once and for all the feel.