Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-04-10
The Northern Pacific Country,

The Northern Pacific Country.
Land Commissioner Lamborn, of tae
Northera Pacific. returned Saturday
from q two swssks trip over his roaa.
Interviewed regardiar the cendirion ol
the weather, crop; prospects,immi grafton
and the Northern Pacific country IL
general, he said: -. &,
f West Of the Rockies the season is much
further advanced than here. In Wash.
iasfan Tsryisory the spring crops have
all been pladted, saa winter wheat is full.
- Z foot high, The rivers aad streams
|pf Montana aud Washington Territory
present marked contrast when com
Pared with those of Minnesota and Dskc.
~. Whila the latter are still e.bound,
the lormsf sae+e than month past. In
NettA Dskota ehs season 10 early. The
sno~. hasl eons, 7and the farmers are busy
putting in wheat The acreage uf crop
this year in Dakota will be about the
saaie as last year. West of the Missouri
the acreage will be larger. In Washing
ton there is a large increased acreage put
10 crop, probably 25 percent more than
last year. Immigrasion gives promise Of
being considerably larger than last year.
There is a heavy movement into Dakota
west Of the Missouri, where there are yet
open for entry several million acres Of
tirst.class government land. In Montana
there is greater activity in mining opera
ton and in the stuck growing interest
than ever before. The most thriving
town in Washington Territory is proba-
b)y North Yakima, on the case ade branch
ninety miles west Of the Columbia. Two
months ago the town was an unoccupied
sage brush plain. To-day there are 400
people there. Water is obtained by an
irrigating canal built from the Matches
river. Small irrigating bitches have
been built through each street to furnish
irrigation 10 the lot owners free Of cost.
Quite large number of the largest busi-
ness houses OF Old Yakima, located four
miles distant, have bcen moved to the
new tswn an trucks aud rollers, and
Others are following rapidly, The appli~
ancss for moving houses were brought
frem Postland ami are very complete. "A
two'storv house, 20 feet BY 50 feetin size,
is j acked up and placed securely on
bread trucks, aed twenty to thirty horses
trapster the building across the le"s!
plain'to the new site in half a day. The
larger houses, like the Gillilapd and
Baftllole, hotels, we've rcmoved on iron
rollers, with horse aud capstan, and make
aboutitwe thousand feet per day. The
Gillilahd hotel was kept open, ana was
tlisd with guests all the time it was be-
lug rolled TIE four miles acrpss the
country. Not an article Of furniture or
window was taken out of the building:
1.-The meals were cooked aud tue guests
ate them and occupied their beds while
the house slowly moved to its new loca.
tion. The building Of the First National
bank Yakima, with its great stone vault
and heavy fire proof safes all in place,
will start ON its rolling journey to North
Yakima next week, aud will continue
business with open doors tue whole ten
days of its transit. This, I think, will be
the only instance on record Of national
bank continuing its business while the
building travelled from one town to az.
ether.