Editing Tri-Cities, Washington (section)

===Early history===
Pasco was the largest city in the Tri-Cities, mostly due to [[Pasco Intermodal Train Station|its railroad station]]. It also had the most land for easy irrigation and [[farming]] and was still the largest up until the founding of Hanford near Richland.

Farming was the basis of virtually every sector of the economy in the early years. Indeed, the area remained mostly rural well into the 1940s. It did not have a daily newspaper or radio station until the mid-1940s. Even today, agriculture is a big part of the Tri-Cities, Pasco in particular.