Big ranch transfers shake winter land market near Yakima
Two large deals closed as Pat Mullins sold an acre near Yakima City to William Wade and J. A. Wikstrom of Yankton Oregon bought 141 acres near Granger. Total considers $40,000 with Wade’s property near the city and Granger’s riverfront tracts including Sunnyside canal water rights valued at $25,000 for the 56.6 and 4.3 acre parcels.
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Pat Mullins
Yakima City
William Wade
Walter N. Granger
Granger
J. A. Wikstrom
Yankton
Oregon
Northern Pacific
North Coast Railroad
Yakima Fruit Makes a Hit in Flint Michigan Exhibit
North Yakima resident Fritz R. Miller showcases Yakima valley fruit in a Flint shop drawing crowds. A Missouri-bound shopper offered a dollar for a Spitzenberg but was given a specimen instead. Miller’s display, despite California competition, drew strong interest for a potential Yakima carload.
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Flint
Michigan
Fritz R. Miller
North Yakima
Miller
Missouri
California
Yakima
Milwaukee survey crews to begin work on Columbia river branch
Persistent rumors about a Milwaukee Road branch from Beverly to White Bluffs gain support as three civil engineer teams prepare to report Monday under resident engineer W S Gamble. Surveying aims to chart a feasible route ahead of potential spring construction, with equipment storage and land-line checks fueling speculation.
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Milwaukee Railroad
Columbia River
Beverly
White Bluffs
Paries of
W. S. Gamble
The
Milwaukee
Elisburg
Ellensburg
Kennewick
Land Office
Fear Sells Dairy Property to North Coast Railroad
Fear sells dairy property on Second avenue north comprising lots 15 and 16, block 210, to North Coast railroad for 1900. Deed reserves four months use of buildings and allows removal of all but the dairy structure. Site forms part of future passenger depot bounded by Yakima avenue Second avenue north and West A street. deed filed with Frank H. Clerf named as grantee.
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Inest D. Fear
Second Avenue
North Coast Railroad
Fear
North Coast
Yakima Avenue
Frank H. Clerf
Taft and Moffitt Lots Change Hands in West Side Deals
The Taft and Moffitt parcels at the northwest corner of West Yaki Myna avenue and Second Avenue North were sold for 15268.93 and 15526.90 respectively, totaling 24223.83. Including Fear and Bert Fletcher transfers, west side properties last week total an aggregate value of 50000 to 60000 dollars.
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Taft
Pleasant Valley Irrigation Co Plans Reservoir Expansion
O B Young vice president announces doubling reservoir capacity to irrigate 2000 more acres. Existing 1200 acres under irrigation will grow after spring construction, with reservoir level raised about 40 feet to create a lake three miles long and half a mile wide. Three 10 acre tracts remain unsold.
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Pleasant Valley Irrigation Co
O. B. Young
Post Office Plans Local Postal Instruction For North Yakima Students
Postmaster Lemon introduces a program to teach practical post office methods to North Yakima schoolchildren. Five divisions will conduct short sessions at the post office, with prior school talks and examinations in coordination with the postal department and board of education.
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North Yakima
Lemon
Central School
Postal Department
Washington
Post Office
Board of Education
Deal in Chickens Leads to Arrest for False Pretenses
Edmund Young, previously living with his mother in a west side home destroyed by fire, was arrested Saturday night on a warrant charging him with obtaining money under false pretenses. Deputies Webber and Kauffman say he posed as a buying agent for a local meat market and collected payments for chickens from Thornton in Fruitvale and A. Chandler in School Section, then failed to deliver funds or confirm payment. He is jailed awaiting a Monday justice court hearing.
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Edmund Young
Webber and
Kauffman
Sheriff's Office
Young
Justice Court
Thornton
Fruitvale
A. Chandler
Chandler
Fulton
Northwest land buyers visit North Yakima forInvestigation
Six men contemplating land purchases in the northwest spend days in North Yakima registered at the Hotel Washington. They include M H Manuel F E Watson of St Paul R W Manuel S Benson of Minneapolis J G Morrison of Litchfield Minn and F W Kunze of Omaha Neb. They tour Nob Hill and Fruitvale and expect to make deals before returning east. Pineules advertised for back and joint pain available from C W Camp West Side Druggist.
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Northwest
Minnesota
North
Yakima
Hotel
Washington
M. H. Manuel
F. E. Watson
St. Paul
R. W. Manuel
S. Benson
Minneapolis
J. G. Morrison
Litchfield, Minn
F. W. Kunze
Omaha
Neb
Nob Hill
Fruitvale
North Yakima
C. W. Camp
West Side Druggist
Ack enhausen Buys Section of Wenas Valley Land Near Naches
Fred Ack enhausen and Joseph P. Kertsing as Ackenhausen & Co. bought land from Kelso Bros Co. three miles northeast of Naches City. Some land is irrigable, others suitable for dry farming. County transfers surge with January activity and expected filings rise. Yakima Commercial Co. buys 10 acre tract near Selah Moxee canal under artesian belt from G L Hixson and wife. price not disclosed.
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Fred Ackenhausen
Joseph P. Kertsing
Ackenhausen & Co
Kelso Bros. Co
Wenas Valley
Naches City
Yakima Commercial Co
G. L. Hixson
Moxee Valley
Selah-Moxee Canal
Artesian Well
Special Agents File Liquor Law Informations in Yakima Valley
Special Agents Matulys and Come filed informations against nine men for liquor law violations in the lower Yakima valley. Targets include Yakima City figures William Hawkins Lee Shaw Charles Wilfong T J McDaniels William Butler and others in Wapato Granger and on Sundays in Yakima City. Warrants were issued and deputies served them following a month of evidence collection prompted by Interior Department complaints.
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Matulys
Come
United States
Yakima Valley
William Hawkins
Lee Shaw
Charles Wilfong
Yakima City
T. J. McDaniels
William Butler
Jesse Harkness
Lee mecDaniels
Wapato
Ed, Nokes
J. M. Dooly
Granger
Matulus
Department of the Interior
North Coast Buys Two More Lots
The North Coast railroad closed another right of way deal on Monday with F B Shardlow and wife selling two Second avenue south parcels near Walnut street for 106000. Deed filed with the county auditor as North Coast agents push yardage plans in North Yakima with over a dozen deals closed in two weeks, many from eight thousand dollars upward.
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North Coast Railroad
F. B. Shardlow
Second Avenue South
Walnut Street
North Coast
North Yakima
West Side
Yakima Avenue Frontage Affects Condemnation Plans
Condemnation proceedings advance on significant portions of Yakima avenue frontage between First and Second avenues on the south side, delaying development and nailing down property actions.
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First
Second Avenues
Yakima Avenue
Merchants Promote Yakima at Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
North Yakima merchants flood envelopes for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition by printing thousands of envelopes from the Yakima Commercial club with a Washington map and border slogans. The design highlights Seattle and Yakima with a large red apple and appeals to prospects to see Yakima fortunes in fruit.
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North Yakima
Yakima Valley
Yakima
Washington
Sunnyside Produce Growers Association Formed
The Sunnyside Produce Growers association is formed to market crops with H E Nicholas Charles G Davis A H Searle J E Woodin and F G Kasselbaum named as first directors. Sunnyside Townsite Co incorporates with 35000 capital. Walter N Granger Walter Oakes Charles W Richie named as directors. Granger a Yakima development figure leads Sunnyside canal operations and irrigation plans.
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Sunnyside Valley
Sunnyside
Sunnyside Townsite Co
Washington
Yakima Valley
Walter N. Granger
Walter Oakes
Charles W. Richie
Granger
Northern Pacific
Grandview
United States Reclamation Service
Sunnyside Canal
Okanogan County
Masons plan 10 build soon in Yakima
At a Monday meeting of the Masonic Temple association in Yakima the board considered erecting a new temple at North Fourth street and Eret Yakima avenue with work likely this year. James A. Louden deeded the lots to the association. Three trustees were elected: J J L Hughes B F McCurdy and W M Watt. A special stockholders meeting to raise capital from 469000 to 80000 will be held in eight weeks. Stock limited to Masons. bylaws to be amended accordingly. President W L Steinweg to preside and later elect officers.
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Masonic Temple Association
Fred Parker
Masonic Temple
North Fourth Street
Eret Yakima Avenue
James A. Louden
J. J L. Hughes
B. F. McCurdy
W. M. Watt
Board of Trustees
W. L. Steinweg
Advice to aid small creameries against centralizers
Hoards Dairyman cites a USDA report showing co operative and local creameries pay farmers more for butterfat than centralizers who hold monopoly. In Kansas and Nebraska farmers earned 17–18 cents a pound, while Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin Illinois paid 25–26 cents. The piece urges farmers to unite and protect local creameries and warns against oleomargarine interests eroding industry and liberty.
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Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
Kansas and
Missouri
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea Claim Line
Rich red blood restful sleep and tissue building health claims for Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea or Tablets priced at 35 cents sold at Case's drug store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollister
Rocky Mountain
Case
Local creamery faces collapse in tense farm game
In a tense contest described as a deep game, farmers rally to support the gamesters as the last defense, the local creamery, faces destruction. The scene centers on community action amid uncertainty.
Best Heating Plant in State Declared Superior
Tacoma expert C A Richardson praises North Yakima high school heating and ventilating system as the best in Washington. School board confirms verdict after testing the Yakima Valley Heating and Ventilating Co installed Johnson system. Secretary Kumler to pay $16 200 contract and issue warrants.
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Tacoma
North Yakima
State of Washington
C. A. Richardson
Yakima
City of Millionaires to Rival Pittsburg in a Few Years
Spokane expects rapid wealth growth as a local compilation shows 30 residents with 1 000 000 or more, 45 in the 500 000 class, 100 000 plus earners over 300, with mining forests and wheat belts in northern Idaho eastern Washington and southeastern British Columbia fueling fortunes. The era of rich gains comes from Coeur d Alenes mining, timber lands, irrigation belts and smart land purchases.
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Spokane
Pittsburg
Idaho
Washington
British Columbia
Coeur d'Alenes
Reservations to Open for Settlement in 1909Read
Interior announces Spokane Yakima and Coeur d Alene reservations in Washington and Idaho will open this year to settlement with Lemhi and Colville lands possibly added to 1909 drawings Other openings include Blackfoot Flathead Cheyenne River Standing Rock Fort Peck and Kiowa Comanche Apache reserves in 1909 in various states
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Lemhi
Idaho
Colville
Washington
Blackfoot
Montana
Flathead Reserve
Cheyenne River
Standing Rock
North
South Dakota
Fort Pek
Oklahoma
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Pleasant Valley Irrigation Company
Minnapolis
Litchfield
Ackenhausen
Wenas
U. 3. Special Agents
Lower Valley
Produce Dealers New Organization
Sunnyside Growers United
Sunnyside Townsite Company
Masons
Hoard's Dairyman
Hoard
Dairy Division
United States Department of Agriculture
IS Hope
AIM OF
of Interior
Spokane, Wash
Fred
Dennett
General Land Office
Spokane Reservation
Yakima Reservation
Coeur d'Alene
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