, 1882-04-01
Letter from Yakima
YAKIMA CrTY. Mar. 2ith, lSSe.

YAKIMA CITY, Mar. 9th, lSos.
Ed. SrarESyAx Winter still fingers
with Us, 50 much 50 that grass has made bu:
feeble start up to tbs TINE i fear the old
adage that ''Then <pring comes in like lion
| il Will 60 out Ike 4 lamb" is going 10 be
/ hbeied tins time We have had no snow foT
several weeks, indeed :he streets are dry and
dusty. but We have s.roug winds and cold
nights.
The mines IL the northeast corner OF the
county viii soon open ont, when work will
begin N earnest in tha. quSrte-. The future
Is biz with interest as - our gold ami silver
product The two mills now on the grOnnl
viii not s.art up much before the middle Of
April, but preparations were made last fall
with the view Of making an early commerc-
ment this spring by placing supplies on the
ground and other materials toI Use in that
result
have been told by some Of our orchard
ists thai the frui, crop has favorable ap-
Pe,.ranee, particularly apples and pears.
while tie peach crop will not be so full, the
early frost-or freeze, | should say--jam-
aged II 10 some extent This freeze occurred
in October while the sap was stall up. OF
course om orchards are mostly new and have
not come extensively into hearing.
Bat little Plowing has been done; the
ground remained froze SO long this spring and
now the wind seems TO be driving all the
moisture out Of the ground. The soil here Is
OF so sandy nature that the wind has a
powerful effect IL that direction. There are
many new farms in the course OF being opened
up, and many OF the Old farms are having
large additions made III the way of cultivated
acres. The sage brush is being harvested IN
a very Destructive manner.
Have you any cheering railroad news for
US, that is az to building the Cascade branch:
Tha. is of more interest 10 US than anything
else. Our bottled up condition is becoming
yearly more and more oppressive. 1t is IN
possible TO get the products OF this country
10 point where they viii command money.
The palles is our shipping point and that is
one hundred miles away. \ railroad to
the SOGnd should be the all absorb
ing tspic with the Walla Nalla
people % well a. with US. do not believe
You think 81 or you would advocate it more
stoutIy than you do. 1t seems strange that
your people viii rest contented with paying
tribute to Portland FOR all time to come 1t
is the country east Of the mountains that has
given her the consequence she enjoys 5"
largely to-day, and still the yoke Is borne
without murmur, # We may Judge by the
tone Of the press.
The Record has been doing its feeble might
this winter to ventilate the protrlcted delay
in building the Cascade branch. 1t has a
very moral tone in many respects and one
would Judge that the editor is very pattern
Of man-that is persons at distance would
think so-but his every day life Is libel on
his published statements. He likes 4 game
Of draw poker almost a. well as profession
al who does nothing else, and he INDUCES in
his tOddy quite freely every day "t his lite.
Rum0r SAYS that the Record Is to be
changed INTO a republican paper. Then the
anomaly viii be presented OF a pronounced
democrat editing black republican sheet
What sort OF progression do you call that !:
The political pot Is beginning TO boil. /
don't know who our party wi! pat NJ for
sheriff al the coming race. Our Old sheriff
has gwen good satisfaction as an officer
C. T.