, 1890-02-27
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Mr.. j. M. Adams Compares
Yakima With Spokane.
THEY ARE NATURAL ALLIES.
The Changes That Have Come to
Spokane in the Past
Five Years.

- 4"' <htuiSf iOihitliy % iusiutht
of Yakima and now of Spokane
Falls, Ia In the city this week, ut
the Hotel Yakima. In conversation
with the Herald's representative II
day or so ago he spoke of Spokane
Falls As one of the worlds prodigleS
city Of unparalleled growth and
untold destiny.
"And yet, have been rejecting"
he confined, "that between North
Yakima as II appears to-day and
Spokane Falls MS IL appeared when
went there to reside some five
years ago, there are many
striking features of similarity. The
pluck and courage of your young
people here reminds me of the en-
terprise and push of the people who
have built up the young giant city
by the falls. And you may be sur
prised to know that you have In va
kima more brick buildings and in
linltely finer business blocks than
Spokane Falls had when | went
there five years. Moreover, you
have telephones and other mod
ern convcnlences which Spokane
did not then have. But the
future of Spokane was then full of
bright promise, as yours is to-day.
IL was II prospective railroad center,
Just as Yakima IL now. IL had the
Northern Pacific passing through
IL, US you have. 1t was bound To be
focal point, as is the case with
Yakima. And do you know that |
look upon the Interests of Yakima
and those of spokane as intimately
related to each othcrn'
How Is that?'' asked the Her.
aid.
~ will tell you. One Of the upper
most questions ut Spokane Falls Is
that connected with tho establish
ment OF smelling or mineral reduc-
tion works. That city has q vast
silver and gold field lying near IL,
but no known deposits of coal near
by. Yakima, ON the other hand,
has immense undeveloped coal fields
close mt hand and perhaps not
enough minerals to make this u good
point for the establishment of re-
duction works. With direct line of
railroad from here to Spokane, US
you are sure to have In the near
future, that city will get connected
with Il direct coal supply, while
this place will reap the benefits OF
the great coal mining operations
that will speedily follow. This rail-
road will extend through here to
Portland, thus connecting Spokane
with the great city of Oregon, as
well as with Yakima. This road
.ta ..t.r AN.nlsnttn M IA -
to the scabord (at Astoria,
ncction with the Southern Pacific
system, extending to san Francisco
and the south. a transcontinental
road will pass through here and
through your Nntcheez pass to
Gray's HarbOr and the Sound. An
other road Will probably utilize the
Cowlltz pass, and this must a $50
pass through Yakima. Your peculiar
situation being such as To control
the entrances to all of the available
passes these lines would have to-
come through here even If your
productive valleys and coal fields
did not invite them as they do.
q. CHANGES IN SPOKANE.
"Five years ago business lots In
Spokane Falls could have been pur.
chased for 81, 1000 which would now
lie regarded us cheap ut $4,000
And while great fortunes have been
and are still to be made in Spokane
real estate, you will see fortunes
made here also. This great irriga-
tiou project, in which Helena and
Eastern capitalists are to eXpcnd 80
much tine present year, Will
lead TO others of equal magui-
tude, and your vast tracts Of fertile
soil will be converted into a garden
teeming with fruits and other prod
ucts. The fact that you can pro-
duce such Is variety OF crops here
will give peculiar value to your
lands. In this you have some ud-
vantage over Spokane ms you have
perhaps over all other sections OF the
state. But Spokane, ON the other
hand, draws from IA wider range of
country and thus the cquilib-
rum of the comparison Is pre-
served, And ! may say of Yakima,
as Of Spokane, that Ii has no rival.
At one time Spokane did have have
sort of rival in the neighbOring
town Of Cheney; but superior ad-
vantages ON the part of Spokane
soon solved this rivalry.
give years ago the SPOKANE
REVIEW was IL weekly newspaper,
rs the Yakima Herald is now. To
day the MORNING. REVIEW new'-
paper Is easily worth 100000, and
The proprletors would perhaps refuse
that amount for IL. In addition to
tins the proprietors OF the REVIEW
purchased a building site less thun
year ago for $50, 900, and this ground
would now doubtless be regarded
cheap ut S00,OOO. In these facts the
proprietors OF the Herald may lind
some encouragement in their jour
nalistic labors.
"This Irrigated land that sur
rounds North Yakima and stretches
away in the distance Is perhaps rs
productive as can be found any
where. You have enough of IL TO
make a city, even If you had no
other resources or railroads; but the
day IL not far distant when thnt
great stretch of level land lying
now in the Indian reservation will
be opened to settlement and culiya-
ton. This lies right Mt your door.
The level part of the reservation
Will, of itself, afford farms for
5000 families, and counting five
persons to the family this
means 10000 people, whose labor and
traffic Will be tributary exclusively
to this city. Every acre of IL IL sue
ceplible OF irrigation and "A high
state Of cultivation. A gentleman
residing Ia the Yakima valley states
that last year he harvested three