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4 stories matching cantaloup
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- Rotting Melons and Broken Markets
Kennewick strawberry farmers find themselves squeezed by commission men and failing cooperative distribution chains.
- The Cantaloupe Gold Rush
A Walla Walla produce dealer discovers that leasing Indian lands near the Yakima River has created a lucrative new fruit-growing empire.
- Seven Years of Sagebrush
A Highlands farmer transforms raw desert land into a productive bungalow estate.
- A Canal Turns Sagebrush Into a Boomtown
Kennewick bets on 15,000 irrigated acres and a thousand new residents as the Horse Heaven country fills with wheat.
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- Tragedy on the Ahtanum
A drunken altercation during hop-picking leads to a fatal stabbing and a local manhunt.
- One Can of Prunes, Five Carloads of Orders
A journalist-turned-farmer with ten acres of unsellable strawberries builds a canning business in Olympia — and discovers that a pretty label sells middle America on Puget Sound fruit.
- A Cannery Comes Courting Puyallup Valley
Chicago investors scout the valley’s fruit crop, eye the old Pacific Meat Company building, and dangle $1,000 for a bridge at Sumner.
- The Cannery King of the Snohomish
A bold local entrepreneur eyes the river’s abundance, planning to can everything from salmon to berries to fuel the region's growth.
- The Cannery Boom: Salmon, Chinamen, and the Gold Rush of the Columbia
A detailed look at the massive industrial scale of the Pacific Northwest's salmon industry in 1877, revealing the harsh labor conditions and the central role of Chinese workers.
- A Night of Revelry at the Cannery
While anti-Chinese sentiment was rampant in Seattle, workers at the Myers cannery held a joyous, boisterous celebration for their cultural labor holiday.
- A Tolt Farmer Grows Tobacco Good Enough for Eastern Cigar Wrappers
Charles Nelson's tobacco samples from Tolt draw flattering reports from Eastern houses, with buyers calling it the finest wrapper leaf grown in the United States.
- The Foolhardy Expedition to Cannibal Island
An Aberdeen man is organizing a heavily armed, 100-man expedition to invade a remote island in search of gold, despite warnings of violence.