Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-04-15

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i This eoonfsy comprisss about 5000
acres Of land Of which little has hithertl
been known, ~ might aimest say. ongl
TO the Indian and stockmeu, Who YER
the owners Of many bands Of hoRses anf
cattle and whose object il always ~
TO discourage the emiarant. a. il sefi
oualy iuteffeTed With their grazing herds
when they were asked about the soil
eta, they vould invariably proooanss il
. barren deseFt. 6t only for grazing.
This valley hes on both ai3es Of tn
Columbia river, b from three 10 tventy
miles vide ~ eighty 6ve miles long end
lies Little above high water, The min
imum altitude hang 637 fses and the
maximum altitude not over 500 fest
absye the levsa Of the "a. This valley ID
the ouly area In Eastern Washington
and Oregon that iss % Low. The oil
mats - tho mildsst In thu winter and by
ten degrees hotter in the SIMMER; TIE
season between frosts i long. In 1881
= vas SIX months and ten days, IN 1859
nye months and eleven days. Season
very backward Ill ovs4 The coast The
sou Y covered with aaRs bsuah and
bunch gran and Is mostly comuossd Of
sandy loam. by many considered Il
sediment deposited there by tho anoient
Columbia river.
This sallsy il especially adapted for
fruit and vegetable raising. also small
fruits; In fact, almost ANYTHING that
can b raised north Of tho semi tropical
regions oan b raised hero. Most ev-
esything can b raised without irriea-
ton ESPECIALLY all kinds Of grain can
be raised without) but 70 raise YeQe-
tables and start all kinds Of fruit trses
the first year il Is highly pfactioa bio 10
have irrigation; after the first year roots
viii 90 down deep enough to sesk their
own moisture. In the spxinG Of 1881
Ar. r. Shuneman pat ont q lot Of trees
IN Ainsvorth. That year he Watered
and cared veil for the trees, and last
year they received no water at al. save
that which fell from the clouds. They
made Gr0vth all the way from three
and half feet TO eleven feet, which
would 10 hard 10 beat, even N the most
fertile portions OF California.
Water u found in Abundance BY
digging from Is to 20 fest thrsa2h soil
and then through wash gravel, in which
the water Ii found, We having no bed
rock tn contend with. The water can
be hoisted for irrigation by steam or
wind power, as the greater portion of
tho season No are blessed with veeter-
" breeze-a true blessing for this coun-
try, AZ it BRINGS moisture With it-whioh
comes from Puget Sound, over the Cas-
cado mountains. which makes it pracsi-
cal TO use wind power. III, writer of
this has wind mill which in q fair
breeze furnishes 5000 gallons per hour.
The rainfall last season was II inchea
Wood for fencing and fuel can easily be
gathered on the C0lnms Ella river, down
which great Quantities Of wood hoat
every summer. Logs and lumber can
be safely RATED down tho Columbia,
Yakima and make rivera; also brought |
by rail, but the former arc evsryone,s
highways, and cannot BE- m0nopoiized |
by one company.
Ainsworth, which ID destined in NO |
distant future to become an important |
center, Is located between the Snake /
and Columbia rivers. at tho COufluence |
OF the two rivers, situated at the head /
Of the described valley and the confer
Of about lO6 miles Of steamboat nayiaa-
tion ~ follow: From here down the
Columbia river to Cello l2l miles, no
the Columbia to Priest Rapids s. miles,
up the Snake about LEO. and for small
crafts 30 miles up the Yakima, which
empties into the Columbia ten miles
above hero. Il 10 safe to predict that
as soon a. demand calls for it, steam
,rafts will ply these rivers and gather
The products from their shores aud carry
hem 70 some central market. We have
already railroad connection With Port
and, Oregon, and Walla Walla. and this
coming summer will have connection
With the Atlantic coast, and tho North
,rn Pacific Railroad proposes TO build
! railroad from here 10 the Sound
through the Cascade mountains. which
xill bring MS within about zoo miles Of
he Sound.
Tho reader may question whore oan :
he market be found for the fruit from ,
o large = valley. This can easily be
answered; in the first place, from here
o 81. Paul, Mimi. there II no moro +.
ruit country found. except for applesl .
md q few more hardy fruits, and SO
md, along the Northern Pacific Rail- !
pad, between tho two above points.
here are millions Of acres of magnih- :
'ent grain lands. This country viii :
Don become settled and to great en- /.
emit these people will purchase our :
rutfs. This valley. as soon - the !
,ascade division Of the Northern Pa !
itic Railroad IL complete, will natural :
, furnish Puget Sound with melons
nd tomatoes, N Seattle can have them !
= hours after they are picked, while II I
axes them four days TO receive the !,
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