The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-05-11
| GERMAN SETTLEMENT.
D. W. Riedel VIII Locate Fifty Families
In the Evergreen Stane.


Tacoma Ledger: d. w. Riedel, OF the
province of Manitoba, Canada, is in the
city. Mr.. Riedel comes as an advance
emigration agent of a German colony
which he settled some years ago in that
province. He expects to locate as many
as fifty families in Washington during
the summer. He may also locate other
emigrants from colonies in the province
of Assiniboin who are dissatisfied with
the country. Last Wednesday Mr..
Riedel, f. T. Curtis of Puyallup and an
agent of the Northern Pacific, Yakima
and Kittitas Irrigation company left for
North Yakima, from which place they
drove sixty miles through the companr's
holdings. Several large ranches were
visited during the trip belonging to gen.
tlemen of this city. Mr.. Riedel was
highly pleased with the country and
procured an option on two sections of
land under the canal with view of
making them the nucleus Of his coloniza-
ton scheme. Two more delegates from
Manitoba have been telegraphed for by
him, and when they arrive the Sunny
side country will again be gone over, and
if they are all satisfied with it quite
strip OF Sunnyside land will be obtained
and the colonizing scheme begun imme-
diately. 1t was Mr.. Redel's impression
that the Yakima country could be made
| to produce excellent grapes. He stated
that he originally came from the vine
region of Germany and that in his opin-
ion the same qualities Of soil and climate
exist in Yakima county that produced
grapes so abundantly in the Fatherland.
When he has effected his colonization
project he was sure that experiments in
this direction would be made by the Ger
man farmers who were familiar with
grape culture in the old world.
Another way in which Mr.. Riedel
thought the German emigrants would
make farming in Washington unusually
profitable was in the preparation of sun
| dried hops.
Hops" said he, "are kiln dried,
understand, in eastern Washington at
the present time. They tel me there
that they have never been successful ir
drying them by the heat of the sun. In
Germany, where hops are always sun
dried, the farmers get almost twice as
much per pound for their product as the
hops from this state will sell for in the
same markets, and the hops which they
raise there are no better in quality than
the hops which were shown me in va
kima county. am greatly pleased with
central Washington myself, and it is my
impression that the people | intend col
onizing there will also be. Business
seems to be very brisk and work is plenty
throughout the entire Yakima country.
The farmers there promised me that any
emigrants coming in the fall would be
given sufficient work to keep them
through the winter.
II have been in the colonizing business
for many years, and have settled in the
province OF Assiniboin the colonies OF
Alsace. Longenbury, Laundensteip,
Beresina, Ebenezer, Columbus, Land
shut and Wilhemesbal.
"The climate OF that province is too
cold for the Germans, and they are dis
satisfied solely from this one cause. Be-
fore left paper was drawn up and
signed by number of them, which be-
gins something like this: we, the un.
dersigned, intend to settle in a warmer
country No one knows the rigor oil
that climate, except those who have lived
there. 1t is my impression that there
will be great immigration from the
German settlements in Manitoba and
Assiniboin in the near future"