constructed a number of southern railways and took up professional engineering under James B. Eads, engaged at that time in constructing the jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi river, following up this important work by a survey for the projected ship railway across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Mr. Corthell makes his headquarters in New York. He is one of the men whose ceaseless and skillful industry have conferred great benefits upon his fellowmen. James Gilbert White AMES G. WHITE, the man who is building the Philippine steam railways, who built the Manila electric railways, who erected the first great steel building in London, the Hotel Ritz in Paris, the Cotton Exchange in Liverpool, the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, and who has installed steam and electric railways, water and power plants, gas and electric lighting plants, electric power transmission stations, irrigating dams, harbor works in at dozen states and as many foreign countries, is a constructor in the broadest sense of the word. Mr. White began to engage in engineering projects when a lad of seventeen and while still a student at the Pennsylvania State College. After graduation he went to work in the Cambria Iron Works, studied and practiced mining engineering, became a professor at Cornell and later at the Uni versity of Nebraska, and at twenty-six years of age organized the Western Engineering Company and built numerous electrical railroads and plants throughout the West. The Edison United Manufacturing Company made overtures to him and he sold out to them and returned East, to take charge of the installation department. At the formation of the General Electric Company he resigned and organized the firm of J. G. White & Company, and rapidly extended the business to Great Britain, Australia and South America. It is peculiar of Mr. White that he has devoted his largest attention to foreign trade, and his contracts in South America alone are said to exceed $25,000,000. He built the United States naval station at Subig Bay, P. I., and other important government works in our insular possessions. Mr. White is a believer in young men. But forty-six years of age, he is in his prime. He is of English-Dutch stock. Pennsylvania is his birth-place. The World's Judgment. A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that's never read, To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead. This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. -THOMAS DEKKER. The Wenatchee valley is an isolated tract of land lying up in the mountains of central Washington. A few years ago it was a desolate, uninhabited stretch of sage brush. Water from the melting snow on the surrounding mountain tops was gathered into great conduits and brought down through miles of tunnels and over great bridges to the valley. Today the Wenatchee valley is one of the most prosperous agricultural communities in the world and raises apples and other fruits which are famous in every great city. cisco, Portland and Los Angeles, and as he also views from the car windows the thriving towns and farms along the Pacific he is greatly impressed with the variety and richness of this coast territory, but unless he has spent weeks, even months, surd to the Illinois farmer, whose land has increased from a few dollars an acre, until it is now worth in some places $250, that there can be any higher notch. He may reconcile the difference, however, with the fact that whereas he raises corn and wheat, the Californian grows oranges, lemons, figs, almonds, Malaga and Tokay grapes, pomegranates and other tropical fruits, the growing area of which is extremely limited in the United States. Yet there are farm and orchard lands in the far Northwest which are fully as highly developed and produce as abundant a flow of gold from peaches, apples, berries and other common fruits as has ever resulted from raisingrape or orange growing. But this article is not the story of Oregon or Washington, the latter as large as Illinois, Massachusetts and Connecticut combined; it is the fable of Wenatchee, -the story of a tiny irrigated community in the exact center of Washington, where the soil is fertile, the climate perfect, the scenery superb and the people socialists-natural socialists, for there are no socialist clubs. And out of Wenatchee comes a stream of the perishable products of the earth that finds its way to the greatest and farthest marts of the United States. THE PIPE LINE THAT MAKES A GARDEN OF WENATCHEE VALLEY. in visiting the interior of the coast states, he can have but little idea of the greatness of the present production and the almost unlimited possibilities of this region the other side of the "Stony Mountains" of Daniel Webster. The country The country of vineyards and orange orchards of the Great Southwest has been portrayed as the place in the United States where agricultural land reaches its highest cultural development and most astounding values -land in Southern California is held at $1,000 and $1,500 an acre. It seems ab Those who named Washington the Evergreen State had in mind the magnificent country lying between the Pacific Ocean and the Cascade Mountains and the noble forests that clothe their slopes. They little realized that the day was coming when hundreds of thousands and even millions of acres of the vast expanse of sagebrush plains in eastern. |