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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1909
Page
2
Public notice lists second class mail handling in Wenatchee Washington with pricing options for one year and six months in advance by mail and weekly carrier delivery rates.
News from Washington highlights rising land values driven by eastward immigration and intensified railroad construction. Subdivisions in irrigated fruit districts expand holdings into small tracts, signaling wealth growth and a major state appropriation's relative.
A Spokane Press report notes that in Fort Madison Iowa 75 percent of wives of convicts remain faithful during their husbands sentences and rejoin them after release. The piece uses a bishop’s quip to urge readers to consult penitentiary records for truth about wifely love beyond cynicism.
Frederick S. Dellenbaugh recounts river dangers and canyon perils from his early Powell expedition days. He notes missing explorers, drowned victims, and the canyon's ghostly depths where lives are claimed by whirlpools, swift currents, and famine.
Entiat residents report visitors from Spokane Wenatchee and Vancouver B C. The Entiat school welcomes Miss Skinner New Oklahoma. Five Roaring Creek lawbreakers fined for game law violations in Justice Cowan court. Kemp attended. Leroy Crum reappears after retreat to his mine ore at tunnel mouth. Frank Johnson smiles due to his girlfriend returning home.
W T Clark, recipient of Wenatchee Canal Company presidency, told Wenatchee conference delegates how irrigation spurred rapid land-value growth in Yakima Wenatchee Chelan and upper Columbia basin areas. He recalled being mocked for predicting $200 to $300 per acre values, then noting gains far surpassing those forecasts as the region proved exceptionally fertile.
Travel offer highlights affordable fares from eastern origins through Union Pacific and Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company. The deal lasts until April 30 with full details available from William McMurray general passenger agent in Portland Oregon or J R Nagel passenger agent at 608 First Avenue Seattle Washington.
The article notes radical changes are needed in North American apple culture or the U S will import apples instead of exporting. It cites Pacific and northwestern crop largesse offsetting poor yields in the east and midwest, pest damage, neglected orchards, and a 1908 national crop of about 25 million barrels. It argues high quality stock will always be in demand and cites imports from England, Germany, France, Denmark, Australia and the Orient.
A Spokane woman writes Wants to Know About Land about a land scam on a high bluff southwest of Malaga. She purchased ten acres from a swindler whose victims number about six, with more likely to surface as reports say an entire quarter section was subdivided into five and ten acre tracts and sold as worthless property.
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