The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-02-25
Coast State Expected to
Rival Sisters of the
East as Producers
GOVERNOR ENTHUSED
Natural Resources Have Only
Been Touched; Unlimited
Wealth Is Available
BY GOV. LOUIS i. HART,
of NyaShip gt on

EditOT's NOte--GON. LOUIS II. hart
NJ Washington became a national
Hgure when he drafted what Is
Lnown as the Administrative
code" = code that is now n law and
mas done much to place the admin
lstratlye business of the state in the
lass with great Industrial corpora
,ons foT economy, efficiency and
,esults obtained at a minimum OF
srpense. Aside from this his out
lne OF the possibilities of his state
should interest everyone who still
feels the thrill IN the words Young
4 man, 90 west"
so diversified are the interests OF
the state OF Washington that 1t
would be impossible to write of Its
possibilities and accomplishment
and separate its civic, industrial and
agriculture activities. Washington
ls not alone an agricultural state.
nor yet is it an industrial common
wealth,--it Is both. Washington
might well be termed the "Pennsyl-
yanla of the west" for within its
confines have been found in large
quantities a most every known
resource, except oil, and prospects
are good for that. As an 'agricul-
tural state 1t has long ranked near
the ton as a wheat producer and the
fame Of It's fruit has gone far afield.
Il 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 necessary, and a rainy
n climate on the west OF the mountain
4 slopes where there is scarcely any
l...H. II.
% the state of Washington cannot
ne said 10 be bound up in any one
particular endeavor.
N Comparatively speaking. Washing
ton Is a new state. having been ad-
mtted to the union in 1889. and her
main Industries to date have been
4 lumbering, mining, fishing and ag-
nculture Natural resources in time
disappear and the state government
n fully realizes the absolute necessity
ot protecting the great forest areas
that are yet uncut, and the replen-
ishing of the salmon that 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 re-
place the lumber industry in the far
distant 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 that confront
the state.
With enormous resources, many of
which, though of almost inestima-
bic value. were scores OF miles from
transportation lines, the state has
before 1t a great problem in the
natter OF roads, but one which is
apdly 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. and
when consideration Is given TO the
varied scenery which the state has
10 offer, the value of these great
roads, outside of the industrial de-
yelopment, may readily be seen
The highway system of the state OF
Washington has become of vital I'M
II portance and only through an ag'
Sressive building program on the
part of the state has 1t finally as
~ sumed the proportions that ar,
necessary for the upbuildlng Of tn,
agricutural territories. Evidence o
ne development that follows the
building OF good roads is noted IL
me manner in which farms OF small
agricultural communities spring III
along the line of the paving.
Great acreages of waste land, sag,
crush that lay hot. dry and barren
being reclaimed by the efforts o
n individual communities and stat,
IA hd through the department of con
svation and reclamation. In thi
apartment, the reforestation ant
III protection Of the standing timbe
rom fire has played a great part Il
lhe preservation of the fir, cedar
spruce and hemlock with which tn
western slopes of the Cascades ar
covered.
Salmon Depleted
The state of Washington carries o.
an extensive propagation of salmoi
~ ana game fish, and even now
NJ making determined effort for tn
Iepienshing of the sockeye salmo
N the waters OF Puget sound. Thes
81 nsh have nearly become extinct be
.ause OF unrestrained fishing.
me matter of the propagation an
sepenishing of streams with fisf
me state of Washington has take