The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-04-26
THE FARM and FACTORY
Reports From the Various Sections Of
Yakima County.
A PROSPEROUS YEAR is PREDICTED.
"a Country OF Fruits. Flowers aud
Thoroughbred" 10 what Cap
tain Fred n. Reed Calls This Ia.
veFed section.

Model farms are no longer a novelty in
Yakima, for the old methods OF shiitless
farming, which were the heirlooms Of
stockraising, slickearing and the vaquero,
have given place to thorough and scien-
tific cultivation of the soil with view to
raising the largest crops and those which
give the best returns on the investment.
Model farms, in the local acceptation OF
the term, are hot alone things OF beauty"
for the pleasure OF the rich man, and
from which no substantial returns are
expected, but are rather "bread winners"
and wealth producers, furnishing COM
forts to home and increasing the reserve
capital In the bank. These model farms
are becoming numerous 10 Yakima county
and another is being added to the num-
Der by DR.. G. j. Hill, who is placing his
farm in Wide Hollow under an excellent
state Of cultivation. His recent efforts
have been directed toa hop yard aud he
now has SO acres Of thrifty vines which
in another month will be leaping up
we'll built system of trellises, which is
now approaching completion. The doctor
does not propose to discontinue his work
Of improvement until his farm is the
equal Of any OF its size in the county.
The White River Manufacturing &
Single company is making preparations
to supply the Yakima country with the
vast number Of boxes which will be re-
quired to ship our fruits and vegetables
to other markets.
I. W. Dudley, OF the Yakima Irrigation
& improvement company, is up from Ken
newick this week and reports many new
settlers coming into the lower end of the
county, and that the work OF improve
ment and development is keeping every.
body busy. Capt. Brown, the colonizing
agent Of the company. brought in and
located nine families from the east, on
the 9Th Of the month, and has gone back
to pilot to Yakima thirty families from
the vicinity of Rockford, Peoria and FL
gin. Illinois.
Wallace Williams has Just finished
seeding so acres of his sunnyside ranch
to alfalfa.
d. +. Lesh estimates that the fruit
crop of Yakima this year, II there is no
bad luck from frosts in the next two
weeks, should bring between 5000 and
100000 into the county. With fair
prices our hops, fruits and various other
productions will realize for the people OF
Yakima in the neighborhood OF million
OF dollars.
All the lands sold by the N. p. Y. & X.
Irrigation company are now under water.
About one hundred men and teams have
been employed on the main canal and the
latterals for the past seven weeks, at a
cost Of about $40 900, and the big system
is nowi in first-class working order.
G. L. Burlingame is planting 160 acres
Of land under the artesian wells, on the
Mckee, to potatoes.
The Yakima Orchard company has
been incorporated with capital stock Of
$4,000. Eighty acres Of fertile land have
been secured which will be planted to
fruit. The incorporators are j. w. AIRING
ton, OF Spokane; ]. T. Kingsbury, N. W.
Field and Thos. Norton, of North Yakima.
r. S. Morgan continues to be busy
shipping potatoes and hay to the Sound
markets. He reports good demand for
these produc tons and that the farmers
are realizing so cents per bushel for their
potatoes and 81 per ton for mixed tim
othy and red clover hay.
Yakima grown lettuce, asparagus and
rhubarb are now plentiful in the markets
Dwight Crandall is planting 400 fruit
trees and. ten acres Of potatoes on his
property on the bench to the west OF the
city.
A number Of the claim owners on the
Mckee are arranging to purchase and
operate another artesian well boring ma
chine.
ID. 4. and Louis Lesh, who own section
Z, township IL, range 20 east, on the
M ,xee, are making arrangements to I'M
prove the land and will plant 100 acres
to apple trees. They also propose sink
ing we'll for artesian water.
T. ID. Quinn, of the Wenas, was a WIS.,
itor to THE HERAI office on Wednesday
and reports that the prospects for fruit in
that section are very fattering. There
has been no blight through frost and
none is anticipated. Mr.. Quinn has
grown fruit on the Wenas for the past
ten years and in that time has never ex-
perienced failure OF the crop.
The surveys for the Wide Hollow irriga-
ton ditch, projected by Messrs. Wilson,
Congdon and Gilbert, are being pushed
by Engineer II. X. Owens. who has
placed the field work in charge Of L. r.
Hamilton.
Dave Correll was up from the Sunny
side country this week and gives it as his
opinion that the peach crop is not injured
in that section. mir. Correll planted q
acres of fruit trees this spring and Of the
whole number there are not fifteen
trees which failed to flourish. He
has a thousand Italian prunes, and
thousand winter apples Of the North.
ern Spy, Ben Davis and Redcheeked
Pippin varieties.
A speeding cart for J. r. Patton and a
road wagon for d. Z. Lesh are being
manufactured at Schorn's carriage fac
tory.