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- The Legal Trap of Unsurveyed Land
A legal clarification reveals that heirs of homesteaders on unsurveyed land in Washington may lose their claims entirely upon the settler's death.
- The Commissioner, the Irrigation Company, and the Water Everyone Else Wanted
A Yakima editor accuses Washington's state land commissioner of handing a private irrigation company the inside track on the reservoir sites at the head of the river — then lying about it.
- The End of the Wool-Loading Perk
Railroads are ending the practice of loading wool for shippers, a move that threatens to lower prices for regional wool growers.
- Seattle's Farm Paper Says No to Paying for Portland's World's Fair
As The Oregonian promised a $100,000 state appropriation for the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial, a Seattle agricultural journal argued the money would be better spent on roads and irrigation — and doubted the crowds would ever show up.
- The $2,000 Apple Lesson: A Walk Down Seattle's Produce Row
A farm columnist tours Seattle's commission houses on Western Avenue, where a single packing mistake cost one grower a season's profit — and offers a cautionary tale for every farmer shipping to the city.
- The Cream That Wasn't: A Milk War Lands in Seattle
An Illinois condensery mails Seattle a warning that a Washington company is skimming the butter fat out of its milk. The Seattle Times demands a prosecution; the local trade paper calls the charge a stunt — then quietly admits the 'Carnation Cream' label is a lie.
- Samuel Hill Warns Seattle Would 'Die Like Rats in a Trap' Without Highways
As Congress weighs the Latimer and Brownlow road-funding bills, the Seattle utility magnate and son-in-law of James J. Hill makes the case that paved highways out of the city are a matter of survival, not comfort.
- The Farmer Who Said the Colleges Were Failing Rural Washington
Addressing the state dairymen, farmer Wm. F. Izett argues that the land-grant colleges move too slowly and cost too much to save the farm — and pitches a cheaper, faster kind of agricultural school as the 'machine gun' the countryside needs.