Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-03-29
WILL IhEH 8l1LD ?
iYakima SIGNAL. /


None save those ia authority, and per
haps not even they. know much about
the Cascade division Of tine Northern
Pacific or xh, ther Il will be imme'ila'ely
Constructed. A great many reports are
put IN circulation. both negative and af
nrmai!vo, but from their conflicting
character ii IL evident that they are
tner.. con iectures. If the land grant
ua- ont of the way and the field made
free To all. i, ~ absolutely certain that
not many years would elapse before this
MAGNIFICENT rout; 10 the grand-st har-
bors III the world would be utilized
Railroad. are p: essIng westward. and 1t
Is safe to say that In no part of the
United States Is to be fonnd better
opening for Investment than IN building
railroad between Eastern and Western
Washington by wAv Of the rich valleys
of the Yakima. In these days, when
hundreds Of miles of railroad are built
through barren wastes and narrow
canyons, IT would DO very unreasona-
bic to suppose that capitalists will long
delay the construction of line winch.
in the near future, must certainly he
come one of the best paying roads III the
entire Test.
SEtftDIS from TIC tHtiU iIflc tue
Northern Pacific At Alnsworth and pro-
,e,.ing up the Yakima river, the road
would have on either side one of the
riche.. agricultural regions in Washing
| ton Territory. On the sOuth side lies
what II known as the Horse Heaven
Country" which ~ being rapidly filled
up by settlers. On the opposite side.
| and sloping back from the river for some
twenty miles, Is what Is known AS Sun
| nyside," vast bunch grass and sage
brush tract of country which Is also be-
| ing filled with settlers. Arriving at va
kima the road will find PROMISING
town surrounded by system of pro
ductive valleys. Proceeding from here
w the Yakima the road will enter Kit
titas valley, one of the finest agricultu-
raj countries west of the Mississippi
Passing through kittltas the road will
enter the timber and also the reanaway
coal fields, which were di covered las,
| fall, and which are found to contain in.
exhaustIble quantities of what old Goa
miners agree III prOnOunclng the bes,
specimens Of coal ever discovered west
of Pennsylvania and not inferior to tn.
best variety Of coal Ill that State. Tn.
| Teanaway country is also characterized
by numerous small prairies or openings
| in the timber which make fine farms
Above this Teahaway country and ne al
the headwaters Of the Yakima the rOat
will ,ss several fine lakes filled with fish
and 80 situated as to afford As fine SUN
mer resorts As pleasure seekers cOulC
wish. These lakes are known as Gle
o. un, katehees and kitchslas. In tn,
mountains, not far from these lakes
are the mining districts of Gle ell I'm
and Swauk, embracing gold, silver, iroI
and copper; the latter beng found il
vast lodges running ~ high AS 10 per ct
of pure metal. Entering the Snoqualmi
Pass the road would pass through a tim
her relon which Is conceded to have II,
superior.
Thus, from the time the road woul,
leave the so-called main line Of Tia
Northern Pacific - the very summit q
the Cascade Mountains it wonld pas
through country rarely blessed witt
natural advantages and in the fOrego
ing brief sketch not even half of thes
advantages have been revealed. W.
have made no mention, for instance. o
the vast grazing regions which woul,
every year contribute thousands of hea,
of cattle. horses and sheep for ship
ment over this Cascade road to til
Puget Sound and Eastern markets
Nor have we alluded to the great trac
of country at present comprised in tia
Yakima Indian reservation, which will
some day he densely populated witt
thrifty farmers.
If the Northern Pacific Company doe
not propose to build the Cascade brancl
and is made to relax its hold upon GU
lands. we shall not DO long in securin
the desired road. That is a certainty.