Picking Apples at Five Mile Prairie, near Spokane
This file appears in: The Apple Boom and Otis Orchards
This is a postcard from 1908 when the apple craze was in full swing in the Spokane Valley. Local residents flocked to the booming job market to get their share of apple wealth.
Image courtesy of fruitfromwashington.com
This file appears in: The Apple Boom and Otis Orchards
The Apple Boom and Otis Orchards
In 1908, Spokane launched its first National Apple Show with high hopes of making the area a major fruit distribution center. The inland Northwest was emerging from a decade of rapid apple-tree planting, with schemes of irrigation claiming nearly…