KING DAVID TREES, THREE YEARS OLD, TRAVIS

WHOLESALE HOUSES

Commission (fruit and produce)4
Grain dealers19
Groceries2
Alfalfa mills2
Brick yards1
Broom factories1
Candy factories4
Cement or concrete stone manufacturing1
Cereal mills2
Cigar factories4
Cold storage plants1
Creameries2
Cheese factories2
Feed mills2
Flour mills3
Foundries3
Fruit drying plants2
Ice manufacturers1
Laundries3
Lumber yards9
Monument manufacturers2
Green houses3
Packing Houses—Meat1
Fruit3
Pickle works1
Sash and door factories and planing mills3
Stone quarries1
Tile factories1
Vinegar manufacturers2
Wagon and vehicle manufacturers2
Warehouses (grain)4
Saddle tree factory1
Self Oiling Wheel & Bearing Co.1

RETAIL STORES

Automobile12
Book and stationery3
Cigar21
Clothing7
Confectionery3
Department3
Drug8
Dry goods8
Electrical supply3
Flour and feed3
Furniture4
General2
Grocery35
Hardware6
Harness and saddlery6
Implement5
Jewelry5
Meat5
Millinery8
Shoe8
Variety—5 and 10 cent2
Ladies' suits and cloaks2

Perhaps no one business fact is so good a commentary on the financial condition of a community as the bank deposits.

The banks of Walla Walla have had during the year 1917 an average of seven million dollars deposits. On January 1, 1918, deposits exceeded eight millions.

As we shall see, the banks of the other cities of the district have similar or even greater amounts in proportion to population. It would doubtless be safe to estimate the bank deposits of the four counties at eleven million dollars, or over two hundred dollars per capita.

As a means of indicating the financial status of Walla Walla, with Garfield and Columbia counties, the following clipping from a local paper of October 16, 1917, will be of permanent value: