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| Year | Stories |
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| 1861 | 4 |
| 1862 | 1 |
| 1865 | 1 |
| 1872 | 6 |
| 1876 | 27 |
| 1877 | 20 |
| 1878 | 24 |
| 1879 | 1 |
| 1880 | 5 |
| 1882 | 7 |
| 1883 | 28 |
| 1884 | 17 |
| 1885 | 19 |
| 1886 | 13 |
| 1887 | 17 |
| 1888 | 25 |
| 1889 | 56 |
| 1890 | 7 |
| 1891 | 54 |
| 1892 | 90 |
| 1893 | 95 |
| 1894 | 97 |
| 1895 | 132 |
| 1896 | 1 |
| 1897 | 4 |
| 1898 | 12 |
| 1899 | 19 |
| 1900 | 3 |
| 1902 | 4 |
| 1903 | 65 |
| 1904 | 52 |
| 1905 | 3 |
| 1907 | 1 |
| 1908 | 29 |
| 1909 | 65 |
| 1910 | 16 |
| 1911 | 4 |
| 1912 | 5 |
| 1914 | 5 |
| 1915 | 5 |
| 1916 | 27 |
| 1917 | 16 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 7 |
| 1924 | 1 |
| 1925 | 2 |
| 1928 | 3 |
| 1929 | 2 |
12 stories matching deal
- The Republic Mine Option
A potential three-million-dollar mining deal in Republic, Washington, sparks major industry rumors.
- The Tacoma Oil Rush
A secret discovery in the heart of the city sparks a high-stakes land deal.
- The Biggest Land Deal in Adams County
An Iowa speculator secures twenty sections of railroad land near Ritzville for a massive stock farm.
- The Legacy of Walter A. Bull
A railroad pioneer and former large-scale rancher who helped shape Ellensburg's early development passes away in Okanogan County.
- The Wheat Arrived Faster Than the Trains Could Carry It
A bumper Whitman County wheat crop threatened to overwhelm Palouse storage again, reviving memories of last year's losses and the Guy warehouse that buckled under its own grain.
- The Poison That Was Too Weak to Hurt a Child
Yakima County's fruit inspector found orchards sprayed and Paris green so adulterated that a child who ate it showed no serious symptoms.
- Twenty Days to Spray: Yakima's Orchard Inspectors Take On the San Jose Scale
Yakima County's fruit inspectors are the busiest in Washington, ordering every infested orchard sprayed on twenty days' notice — while eastern growers scoff that the scale panic is just a racket for would-be inspectors.
- The Wheat Broker Who Vanished With the Proceeds
A Spokane County farmer shipped wheat to a Seattle commission firm and got nothing back. The office was empty, the operator was in San Francisco, and the paper called it deliberate fraud.
- The Water Belongs to the People—Not the Syndicates
A.M. Stevens of Ellensburg warns that handing arid lands to the states is the first step toward private control—and argues the federal government must build the reservoirs.
- When Every Eastern Market Was Swamped: The 1897 Fruit Glut That Broke Northwest Growers
A Northwest agricultural writer tallies the wreckage of a boom season — glutted markets, freight and icing bills nobody could pay, and a blunt prescription for growers: dry your prunes and hold for a price.
- The Dairy That Started With 20 Rented Cows and Ended Up With 2,560 Acres
Two Spokane entrepreneurs built Hazelwood Dairy on a promise that milk would be exactly as advertised—at a time when watered milk was the norm.
- A Fruit Grower's Pitch: Stop Sending Cash East — Feed Alaska Instead
Before the Northwest Fruitgrower's Association, S. L. Moore argued that Washington farmers should diversify beyond wheat and prunes, supply Alaska and Western markets, and let the Northern Pacific's traveling fruit exhibit lure settlers west.