The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-02-02
Observation-Disclosures
HINTERLAND &-....
(John A. Kellogg, Mayor
Bellingham)

THE State of Washington faces
i the broad Pacific which, well
informed and far-visioned men a
gree, will besthe scene of the
worlds next and greatest CONNER
cial activity. Our ports handle an
enormous fishing industry which
extends into Alaska. This business
exceeds that of all New England
and the fishing business east OF the
British Isles combined.
ish Isles combined.
Fifty-six varieties of food fish
are found along our coasts, and
the business of catching, handling,
preserving and shipping them, is
one of the states great industries.
We have both native and imported
clusters, and the famous Olympia
oyster has brot. more fame to that
city than it's new capital building
or its many political news stories,
and we also have CLAIMS and crabs
in great abundance.
More than $4,000 square miles
of our states area is covered by
the finest timber on earth. This is
more than one-seventh of the
standing timber of the u. S. We
have more than one thousand lum-
Der and single mills in our state
and our single mills cut more
than four-fifths of the nations
output of shingles, notwithstand-
ing an unfriendly tariff condition.
The payrolls of our loggers and
lumbermen run from sixty to sew
enty million dollars annually.
Our pulp and paper industry is
just in its infancy, altho all signs
would indicate that it is soon to
become one of our leading indus
tries. Not only is the eastern sup
ply of raw material being rapidly
exhausted, but in raw material,
power and water, all vital to it's
growth and development, we have
an almost unlimited supply.
We have more than twelve and
a half million acres of farm lands,
and in 1925 these lands produced
crops of the cash value of more
than one hundred and fifty million
dollars, and was not a banner year
at that.
The value of our poultry pro-
ducts is increasing more rapidly
proportionately than probably any
other industry. This has resulted
undoubtedly from the fact that
these products are marketed large
ly by cooperative associations that
grade closely and with great care,
thus assuring to the consumer the
quality of the product. Washing
ton eggs are shipped in carload
lots to the New York markets,
where they sell for three cents per
dozen more than those locally pro-
duced, thus demonstrating the val
ue to the producer of instilling
confidence in the consumer by the
honesty and reliability of the
goods sold.
Our climatic and other condi-
tiens combine to put us in the van
guard in this industry, facts which
have only been known in very re-
cent years, and of which we are
just beginning to take advantage.
This is also true of our fruits,
vegetables, berries, and numerous
other products. Our soil and eli
mate, combined with mans indus
try will produce quality and vari-
ETY. second to none and we are lust
beginning to learn this ourselves,
much less to tell it to the world.
Our yield of wheat per acre is
Az bushels greater than the aver
age for the United States; harley,
9 bushels greater; oats, Ia bushels
greater; potatoes 81 bushels great
er and many other crops in pro-
portion. --
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