The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-10-14
Upper WHITE RIVER.
RAND Settlement of q King
County Valley.
HOPS AND FRUIT FLOURISH.
S,,r, voc,, for Hundreds OF Industrious
raniIies-The Village OF kn1m-
elaw-ita Growth.

rxrxrrAw. OCT i3-The rains do not
prevent new buildings from beng erected
Judge Holloway. Oscar Brown and frank
stevenson. are building dwellings. X. O.
Re-ghim i having & new bsild;ng butt
on second street. which he viii occupy as
q NEST rnsrke; as soon a. competed.
Mr.. ". n. Cooper. owner OF q sawrulal,
fey miles distant, says that his mill has
been cutting from 1000 to 5000 a day
feet OF lumber since its location, over one
wear ago, on Newankum creek As Mr..
Cooper has no means of shipping. and says
his mill has been running on local orders
since its construction, this speaks well
for the improvements being made in
farming community.
seyers, hundred more industrious FAM
lies can find homes in the Upper White
river valley. convenient TO schools, mark
cts and railroads, by buying part of lands
now occupied By those who are willing 10
sell a part OF their land 10 Improve and fur
nish the remainder. The land IN this sec
ton OF country being covered with small
brush and trees, can be cleared at a
small expense as compared with other parts
Of the Sound country. The soil is black
loan. and very productive OF all kinds OF
vegetables, hops. grain and fruit. Many
people have come from the Western
prairie states, where land is cheap, on &C.
count OF its principal productions being
blizzards and cyclones, and who after hav-
ing made some search, believe it impossible
10 obtain good land at what ihev consider
reasonable prices in the Sound country.
We realize the fact that those who own good
land in the older settled districts of the
Sound country are not easily persuaded to
sell lands which they have watched in
crease IN value from the homestead price
III sums which astonish such newcomers,
but such need not be discoura ged as IS
often the case. The Upper White river
valley offers 10 them an opportunity Of
obtaining land that has no superior in
Western Washington at prices within their
reach. This land has more than doubled
in value within the past year and will con-
tinue 10 increase at nearly the same rate in
the future until it reaches the prices in
other sections. Until the building of the
Cascade division of the Northern Pacific
this section was but thinly settled and but
little of that company's land sold. The
Osceola school district included all the
country between White and Green rivers
the mountains and the Muckleshoot Indian
reservation, 10 which is given the name of
Upper White river valley. So great has
been the sale and settlement of land aud so
rapid the influx of emierants that at pres
ent there are six well-attended schools in
as many districts. The lands then owned
by the railroad company have all been
sold, there being at present less than one
fourth section now in their possession
Until recently there has been no demand
for farming lands that were not satisfied
by the railroad company, which had an
abundance to sell az very low prices. The
prices having been kept at a nominal fig
ure, have but partially advanced to what
the land is actually worth and the prices in
other localities.
The town of Enumclaw is the principal
and most progressive village which has
sprung into existence since the completion
OF the railroad, the other towns being
Palmer and Boise Greek.