The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1890-04-24
OUR GLORIOUS WASHINGTON.
In the Center Of Which Is the Peerless
Jewel Yakima.
what We Have aud what Is want.
ed-A Few Words 20 Those
Seeking Homes.

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Is Washington.
There iS nothing weak nor lacking in
the proposition.
The state has plains, mountains. timber.
minerals, agriculture, and rivers, seacoast,
railroads and ranrhes.
II there is spot in the state Of Wash.
ington letter than another just now, it is
North Yakima.
Why?
Mind your own business, and look to
your own Lest interests long enough to
read this, and You will find out.
In the first place il has the best climate
In the country.
In the serond place, It is Garden Spot
which even now supplies the coast cities
with farm and garden produce Of all
kinds. The coast also gets its meat from
the Yakima Valley.
These are the principal reasons. Given
agriculture, you may have everything else
with il.
When people want to invest money
they generally 20 to a town or city that
Is the center of an agricultural region. A
capitalist who will not do this thing will
not he q capitalist for any great length
Of time.
In the Yakima Valley the farmers and
gardeners depend upon irrigation for their
moisture, and they never meet with Ills
appointment. They can In this way place
the water at the roots. The sun is con.
stantly on hand to pump it into the tops.
Market gardening is the best thing for
small families without any capital except
labor. A family may he we'll supported
on five acres we'll worked.
The market gardener tan raise two crops
Of potatoes averaging Eve hundred BUSH
els to the acre. lie can raise two hun
dred dollars worth Of melons on half an
acre. He can raise sweet potatoes as well
az in Georgia.
lie can raise grapes as well as in Cali
fOrnia.
He can grow fruit Of all kinds to per-
fection. In fact, there are more goOI
bearing orchards on the old ranches
hereabouts than anywhere else in the
Northwest.
II the large farmer wants many acres
to protitably cultivate he tan 70 into hopS
and never fail for want Of pickerS. Tie
Yakima Indians are always ready At
pi king-time.
He can 20 into tobacco and do as we'll
as the VirRinian or the Kentuckian in
this line, (come and see the Tobacco fields
and the cigarmakers working all the
year round on homegrown leaf.)
He can put his land In alfalfa and cut
five crops year, and sell II either in the
bHle or in beef.
lie can raise perfect wheat, but he will
10 much better to raise the more profit
able crops. The land is too well suited
70 garden crops tn lie wasted on wheat.
He can raise all the potatoes and corn
he wants.
Perhaps the capitalist Is In league with
the manufacturer to make money.
Very we'll. This new state il using ev-
erything that is manufactured and max.
ing comparatively nothing but lumber
and lime. With the water power here to
run the machinery and the raw wool,
hides, beef to can, and other things
which enter into the worlds work, why
not come here n make It.
Why has all this not been known be-
fore?
Because the City Of North Yakima IL
but tive years Of aye and has Rad railroad
communication with the Sound for only
three years.
What Is land WORTH
From five dollars to Eve hundred per
acre; M you desire to be near town or on
the outside.
What are town lots worth?
From one hundred to FIVE thousand
dollars, ~ you desire, the best corner or 4
lot in the outer nm.
What do you burn for fuel2
Coal and wood, Of which there lS plenty
in the country.
What are rents?
From ten dollars for cottages TO sew
enty-iive for stores, with takers as fast as
either are ready.