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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 7 |
| 1858 | 6 |
| 1859 | 8 |
| 1860 | 2 |
| 1861 | 16 |
| 1862 | 13 |
| 1863 | 5 |
| 1864 | 3 |
| 1865 | 1 |
| 1871 | 1 |
| 1872 | 30 |
| 1876 | 135 |
| 1877 | 101 |
| 1878 | 78 |
| 1879 | 8 |
| 1880 | 19 |
| 1882 | 11 |
| 1883 | 134 |
| 1884 | 91 |
| 1885 | 116 |
| 1886 | 52 |
| 1887 | 59 |
| 1888 | 64 |
| 1889 | 198 |
| 1890 | 31 |
| 1891 | 193 |
| 1892 | 324 |
| 1893 | 280 |
| 1894 | 345 |
| 1895 | 478 |
| 1896 | 2 |
| 1897 | 9 |
| 1898 | 37 |
| 1899 | 96 |
| 1900 | 10 |
| 1902 | 6 |
| 1903 | 146 |
| 1904 | 136 |
| 1905 | 18 |
| 1907 | 16 |
| 1908 | 91 |
| 1909 | 223 |
| 1910 | 48 |
| 1911 | 22 |
| 1912 | 9 |
| 1914 | 31 |
| 1915 | 18 |
| 1916 | 70 |
| 1917 | 28 |
| 1918 | 6 |
| 1919 | 1 |
| 1922 | 3 |
| 1923 | 16 |
| 1924 | 10 |
| 1925 | 1 |
| 1928 | 7 |
| 1929 | 3 |
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- Spokane Had Mining Fever, and the Men Selling the Stock Had the Only Sure Thing
A Yakima correspondent visits Spokane and finds a city where hotel clerks, newsboys and waiter girls are all buying mining shares — and where even Ezra Meeker has traded hops for a stock prospectus.
- Yakima Sheepmen Stand Together Against Railroad's Strings-Attached Lease
Two dozen Yakima-area sheepmen signed a pact to reject Northern Pacific's demand that all their wool and sheep ride its rails—only to hear the company might hand their range to outsiders.
- The Wheat Was Ready. The Threshers Weren't.
After several lean years, farmers in the big wheat district around Spokane finally got the crop they had been praying for — and then two weeks of rain and snow arrived before the machines could get to it.
- Stanwood Farmers Turned $300 and a Second-Hand Plant Into a Creamery of Their Own
A cooperative creamery at Stanwood reports a strong October, rising milk deliveries, and a plant now valued at $4,000—only two years after farmers pooled about $300 to buy used equipment.
- Wenatchee Growers Told a Railroad: Give Us Water and We'll Fill Your Freight Cars
A delegation of Wenatchee Valley orchardists met Great Northern officials at Seattle's Hotel Butler to argue that irrigation—not mines or timber—would turn eastern Washington into a freight-producing countryside.
- A Thousand Dogs for the Klondike
A Seattle syndicate imported stray dogs by the carload from Chicago, trained them to haul gold-rush supplies, and kenneled the pack in an abandoned brickyard.
- The Cattle Boom That Was Selling Off Its Own Future
A Northern Pacific land examiner warns that Nebraska buyers are sweeping up Washington breeding stock, prices are surging in Yakima County, and an Adams County artesian well could open a new grazing frontier.
- The Fumigation Didn't Take: Live Scale Found on Japanese Oranges
A King County fruit-growers' committee inspects a shipment of imported oranges that the state's own commissioner had fumigated, finds the mealy bug and scale still alive, and demands stricter enforcement before the fruit goes on sale.
- The Book-Keeper and the Plumber Who Milked Twenty-Six Cows Before Breakfast
Two Spokane office men built a dairy on the Spokane River without quitting their day jobs — and sent Hoard's Dairyman the receipts, down to the price of bran.