February 15th 2010 Issue

Last Bite – From timber to apples

Mad River Orchard Company had 240 acres of fruit trees by the 1950s.

Arden Harris was a member of a family that pioneered in the development of the lumber resources of the Entiat and Waterville regions of north central Washington State. His father was Charles Albert Harris, a native of Hannibal, Missouri, who was an engineer on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, a real estate entrepreneur, and a contractor for the construction of highways and power plants. Early in 1888, just a few months prior to his son’s birth, Charles Harris started operation of a sawmill on Badger Mountain in north central Washington. This mill cut lumber for the local courthouse and also for […]

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