A Spokane Syndicate’s Apple Orchard Dream at Marshall’s Lake

Col. J. E. Lindsay of Spokane is at the head of a syndicate that proposes to establish a large orchard about five miles north of Newport near Marshall’s lake. The syndicate controls considerable property in that locality and also has valuable water rights on the lake front. The land will be irrigated by water secured from the lake. In order to do this it will be necessary to construct a ditch about four miles long. It is proposed to do this work this year and arrangements have already been made with engineers for the preliminary work. To start with 640 acres of apples and other fruit will be planted.

The land lies in the Conquest and Indian creek valleys and is especially adapted to fruit culture. All of the land in the valleys can be irrigated from this ditch. Some very fine specimens of fruit raised in the vicinity of the proposed improvement, without the aid of irrigation, were displayed by the Commercial club last year.

The successful completion of the work started by Col. Lindsay will probably induce many others in this vicinity to increase their orchard acreage.