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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1908
Page
4
The Market section lists meat prices with cows at 2 ½ to 2 ¾ cents per pound and hogs at six cents. Grain prices show timothy hay at 17.50, wheat around 84 to 85 cents per bushel, oats at 27.50 to 30 per ton, and barley 25 to 22.50 per ton. Vegetables include beans 3 to 4 cents per pound and potatoes at 20 per ton. Also notes coupon offer for Daily World items and local cafe promos including Olympian Cafe and Merchants noon lunch.
Fifty acres already broken, one spring provides house water and irrigation for five acres. Ideal for a small investor to start, with good wheat vegetable or fruit land and pasture. Eight miles from town, one mile from school, total price 3600 dollars with 1500 dollars down and easy terms. J C Carpenter R F D No 3 tf.
80acre land sale near Wenatchee ten miles from town includes 25 acres rich bottom soil 15 to 20 acres timber one acre set to cherry trees half acre berries house and barn in good condition good road water and timber on site suitable for dairy ranch or stock price 4000 includes ranch tools contact A G Holler Entiat Washington or visit premises
Revenue listing describes 12 acres of apples plus 13 acres other fruit now bearing and 7 acres starting next year. Eight acres of alfalfa adaptable to orchard includes a tea room house, barn, chicken house and wood shed. Five work horses are listed with four more facilities.
George O. Brewster of Bankers Reserve Life reports Wenatchee Valley premiums totaling one third of a million dollars, at a rate of a million annually. The firm pledges local investment, with $200,000 in King County bonds and $60,000 in North Yakima courthouse bonds, and claims no state money withdrawal.
Special Correspondence from Seattle notes that U S and Canadian survey teams finished the boundary survey from southeastern Alaska to Mt. St. Elias after more than three years. Monuments mark the line as trees along it were cleared. Maps and photos will be shown at the Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition in Seattle next summer. The remaining section to the Arctic Ocean is expected to be done in about two years.
The Raymond Bell company, well known to Wenatchee theatre-goers, opens a three night engagement at the Wenatchee theatre tonight with the society comedy Dollars and Sense. Audiences may recall its strong earlier run and are promised a large turnout with popular prices of 50c, 35c and 25c.
William Lynn and Lula McNew of Wenatchee have filed for a marriage license, records show. The filing indicates a forthcoming union between the couple in this city location.
Vienna reports a Koenig coal mine blast in Silesia entombs about two hundred workers and likely causes their deaths as the mine remains on fire and rescue efforts are blocked. State Adjutant Ackley of Tacoma will muster in Col. John M Stotzenberg Camp No 12 U S W V at 8 p m Friday. George Mosser, Chicago and Northwest railroad agent, is listed in Wenatebes.
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