Milwaukee Brewers Eye Yakima

On Monday and Tuesday, Mr. Ed Pagenstecher, of Milwaukee, looked over the suburbs of North Yakima with the view of locating a large brewery here. He was induced to come from his Milwaukee work to take up the business of making beer at Pasco, but for some reason he does not regard that point as so favorable as this, and he intends locating here. J. W. O'Keefe and Charles L. Anne, of Pasco, were with him and will join in a company to build extensive works. The site selected is the bench on the Lewis tract, just across the line from the College addition—ten acres. The building will be of brick, with a rock-work cellar, three stories underground and three above ground, to comprise a brewery, ice manufactory and malt house. Mr. Pagenstecher is a graduate from the best breweries and will have nothing to do with any but a large concern, with facilities and capacity for making beer which shall be every whit as good as any that comes from Milwaukee or St. Louis. It is proposed to supply the entire northwest from this point instead of shipping the hops and barley from here. This concern will employ about twenty men and will give a sure market to all the barley that can be produced.