Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1910 — E. L. Hurley Writes About Crops in State of, Washington. [ARTICLE]

E. L. Hurley Writes About Crops in State of, Washington.

In renewing his subscription to the Republican E. J. Hurley writes interestingly from Spokane, Wash. He says: “We had a fine fall here. Our first snow came today, Nov. 27th, about 3 inches. The crops here were fairly good this year, although it was very dry. Fruit 'was fine. No doubt some of the Rensselaer people will attend the apple show in Chicago and see some of the Washington apples. The show opens Nov. 28th and the same apples will be on exhibit there that were shown here. We attended the show here and found it a very interesting exhibit, and I am sure that any one that can conveniently attend the Chicago exhibit will be amply repaid for doing it. Apples are not the only fruit grown successfully here, but peaches, pears, prunes and, it fact, all kinds of fruit are grown successfully on irrigated and unirrigated land and I think the fruit industry will be a great industry in this state in the near future as there are several companies formed now in Spokane and they are planting Thousands of acres of orchards of various kinds throughout the state. Grain farming has been successful here, but fruit farming pays much better.