Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1910 — HERE FROM WASHINGTON [ARTICLE]

HERE FROM WASHINGTON

C. F. Tillett of Gillam tp., and his son, J. C. Tillett, of Wenatchee, Wash., who with his wife has been visiting the former for the past month, were in town Saturday. The son is located only about three miles from the town of Wenatchee, which now has a population of 4,000 to 5,000 people, and is in a great fruit producing section,, apples being the principal fruit grown there. Mr. Tillett himself is engaged in the wheat growing business and owns 480 acres of land there which cost him but little when he went there nine years ago but is now worth in the neighborhood of $20,000, and is constantly increasing in value. Orchard lands sell from $2,000 per acre up, and the apple growers are making lots of money. We never see a good apple here, M*r. Tillett says, that is, compared with the sort grown there, where every apple—especially those shipped out—‘must be absolutely perfect. Quite a good deal of the fruit is exported to Austra- ■; lia, where there is a great demand for it. Mr. Tillett thinks that part of Washington is a great country, and he would not return to, Indiana again for anything. He expects to start back to his western home next week.