The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-20
WES7ERNWHlSPERS.
A Glimpse Of Halla Walla and
the Country Surrounding.
A BOLD burglary AT PAYsoN.
The Old Folks Havea Most Enjoyable Time
at Mount Pleasdt-A Very Interest
ing Occasion.

ing Occasion.
WALLA WALLA, Wash, July 16, $780,
Especial correspondence of TIE HERALD.
If the maker of this universe sought to
prepare spot where beauty should be the
1ore-runner of riches, certainly the Walla
Walia valley is that spot. Here is an unend-
ing, ever constant. never firing panorama
OF ell that arOuses and encourages admira.
ton, teaching sense Of thshkfu1ness for
the tfeati5n of pleasing views and iticul-
eating gratitude for country whose soil
laughs with the rich harvests If but
tickled with the seed and plow. No other
valley duplicates this Walla Wala country,
1t Is valley. mountain locked, from whose
crests and sides, in all directions pour
cut streams eff the pprest waters
and as these little rivulets Widen out from
their source they intermingle with neigh
boring rivulets until they re ach the basin
or valley below, when they merge into the
dignity OF rolling rivers. 1t is from this
source that the Indians derive name
Walla Walla = meaning, literally, Many
Waters. In point of landscape it would
seen as though the whit u valley was con
strueted to please the eye. The country is
undulating or rolling prairies, and It's to-
biography is so constructed that every ele-
waited spot is a commanding point from
wlich the eye rests upon a scene as
pretty as it is rich. And, strange
10 say, from the very top of these
blue AisdtiEn mountains, thepee down
through the valley and again up the iioIln-
tain sides to the crests of opposite noun
talns every foot Of land is tillable, and
where cleared of mountain timber is in
cultivation. The city of Walla Wa,ia is
situated at the junction of two lines OF the
UniSn Pacific .Ilwa ani is 245 miles
from Portland ~ miles IRON Pendleton
und apa niles from SPOKANE Falls, 1t has
d populatioh Of $500, and is centrally 10.
cat ID II this va ley of arming, fruit and
garden land OF such wonderful fertility as
uescrloed and b, auty as can but be
Imagined. Ii IS generously laid
out with its business streets
100 feet In width as are all those pafaelled
with II, tOralIg handsome avenues While
the intersecting are eighty feet. Gas and
eectr ligh IS both arc and incandescent
are IN ust'. and at night the city is brilliant
~ Eliminated. A continuous steel track
horse railway traver,es the streets for five
miles, bringing its railway station, GENE
tary and ou de residence portions in
close connections with business centefs. A
large volunteer fire department Is the out
growth OF several, deva fitting fires by
which the city has been visited at
various times in the past few
years, and precludes the re-occur-
rance Of such disasters. Three daily
newspapers are phb.lshed here. an evidence
of enterprise that would hardly be looked
Tor in the east in city with 10000 inhabi-
tants. Among the buildings of note. a
spacious court house erected at cost of
500, COO a So, coo city hal, a spacious opera
house with capacity OF 5000 people and a
convenient postottice attracts attention
The city has carrier. service. There are
thirteen churches, representing nearly
all denominations, while all the secret So
cieties have lodges and large membership.
Educational advantages are of the very
best. There are several large and commod-
ious public schools. ST Vincents academy
for girls conducted by the sisters and ST.
PauPs school for girls under Episcopalian
auspices There is a good public library
and the Y. NJ. G. A. MAINTAIN reading
room aud gymnasium. A business college
Is well attended and emf loys competent
teachers The agricultural society has
fair grounds and tine ace track just out
side the city limits. The hotels and res
tauranis are supplied from their surround
lngs with luxurles uneXceiled and the fame
of the Simon House--a massive brick hotel
has reached far beyond this section.
Among probe ted Improvements is large
Sl5hOO0 hotel whicRrit is promised will be
completed within the next twelve months
Walla Walla has now five Touring mills of
a daily capacity of nearly six hundred bar
rels. 1t has two planning mills. sash and
door factories, machine shops breweries,
creamery, tannery and cigar factory
In its environments adjoining the CITY
limits on the southwest is Fort Walla
Walla United States military post. 1t
is admirably located on slight eminence
occupying about one mile square 1t was
established in 1856. 1t is now a cavalry
post, maintaining live troops of horses, and
with officers and men numbers nearly
a Thousand souls. Walla Walla is a
delightful place for residences, and those
which no" grace its thoroughfa:es are not
only ornamental but luxurious in the ex-
IRENE. The buildings are large and com
modious and the grounds surrounding them
are indeed beautiful
The streets of Walla Walla are novelty
such as no other city has and which MANY
another place would do well TO copy. The
dust on the streets became very deep and
some means had to be adopted to master it,
Some ingenious mind suggested the idea
OF covering the streets with straw, and it
has proven success beyond the dreams
OF the originator 1t keeps down
the dust and beside makes perfect drive
way.
The people of Walla Walla are prosper
ous enterprsl1g and generous, aud YOUR
corresp Jndent will always look back to his
trip here with pleasure for the courteous
treatment extended, and particularly so to
e-r. Henry Keeling, gentleman of true
merit and generosity. SKIEZICKs.