The Orchards of Lyle: A Fruit Boom Waiting to Happen
A correspondent tours the young orchards above the Columbia at Lyle, where ex-ironworkers and a Portland streetcar conductor are betting their futures on prunes and apples.
“When the young orchards that are out come into bearing in the next three years at most, the shipments will be simply immense. There is yet room for more fruit men at and near Lyle.”