The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-09-27

WIRE III Y nNe million one hundred and
four thousand
Notwithstanding the serious conditions
"hlch have accompanied agriculture, our
resources were so numerous as to para
I'VE the conceptions in endeavoring to
comprehend 1t. In 1890 we owned four
million two hundred thousand farms /:
they would average one hundred and
thlrty-two and one-half acres. They were
worth eleven billion one hundred million
oil collars. Over these farms for their inn
provement was scattered implements of
the value OF four hundred and eleven mil
lion five hundred and fourteen thousand
dollars, while the products of these farms
rose to the figures of two billion nine hun
dred and fifty-eight million dollars. As
an incident to illustrate the immensity
and marvellous magnitude of these fig
ures, we will note that seventy-nine mil
lion four hundred and seventy-ihree thou
sand dollars was spent in building and
repairing fences alone. The crop of 1899
had to be transported; and on the basis
which you farmers adopt of about four
teen tons to the carload, it would have
| required twenty. nine million one hun
dred and thirteen thousand cars. Assum-
ing that these cars, as is ordinary, were
thirty-one and thirty. five feet long, we
would have just one hundred and sixty
two OF them make a mile. If linked to.
gether, ranged In continuous track,
- "ou'a e.,e'Sh Instance OF more
sand one hundred and forty-two miles.
we ascertain that from the city of New
York to the CITY OF San Francisco is about
three thousand four hundred and fifty
miles. Upon this distance, from these
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,hna auu .". zee 'iour.ns racks uouollng
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GROWTH OF MANUFACTURES.
r A..
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az, ,eo snousanu eisi'' iunuIeu anu
my eofeii uianu,aI.uIius esiaoiishtnehts
s" oaP''s' VI 'hiee .liousanu hilli'on
'ai re- "n' nl.e'y SEVEN ."ousanu
y. uoliae. i"ey enp,oyeu thIee union
a I'M quai 'ei VI persons' atiu tiiere WERE
Is " s q ',, as pay uisu's .uoisiuu i'il'
ao VI 10 ~, nIat saiisn ooneuiiieu
80 III "o''n ioui ., uillon t"o nun
uIoa anu 9VNon'y -oiie 1'''iloii "oiiars, anu
pionioeu as result 'no,e I''an 1--WE nil-
ton ,ou' llunN'eu anu eisnty n m ih,i'io,
uona's worm y, pIoui'.s. lnis piaceo
uo a. ~" m IN p-, aus VI nn'.ons aua ca
S S u ,n. pti',au os slA nunufea anu
h',i.iohe y. uoi'arS'
auu .ne 'ai ms WV klo" "ooi arg
naiuiy ooneeiouS vi the eApause Tue iao-
r'o "oven iIolh lhelr Pron an Nonlu cover
~ tnle saine yea, VI ioeo we .hhhuiac-
.uieu oie nuiiuIe" anu eie',ty .hine ''iou,
senu 'niies oi Wooi OF TWO nuhlfeu ana
asc
uity 'iousanu yafos-a quantity, "hich
woven ih,o Garhleht' Wouid furnish
.. whole oost.ior every uian auu woman
n''us ou .ne no" Ano"n ear.h. Ii ioo1
III controversy eAls.ihs between the
1ns. ?roessof vi SEMINARY anu lnoiias
'enerson . aunefents, tne ouserVatloh
.naue '.,a' 'iI's couu'iy "ouid pfoiuce
twenty tlree llliiion ya'us VI cioth a1hu-
any vas Ie2atueu as oiIe Napor'nes ol an
'ulos auu ye., IN iooo We inaue eo.toi
cioth aiohe' which, were IT woven ihto
weo ohe yarn "i"e' "ouIu equa. onc UNI
and four hundred miles, or more than
sufficient to have circled the earth to the
moon through its mean distance of two
hundred and forty.one thousand eight
hundred and fourteen miles four times,
and then to secure that belt from Shining
the remainder could be wrapped around
the equator inst twelve times.
AS an Indication to YOU of how the
mind has propressed and the march of in
tellect kept pace with the resources OF the
country. this whole forest of cereals. cot
ton. tobacco and cloth were all grown
within t.sy reach by your children of the
23l .sI6 school houses. bearing on their
portals the maxim "Knowledue is Power"
easily within the shade of the l1l .4l6
church, of the ever living God, bearing
on the plistening cross the undying truth
that "hil things work together to the
good of those who love God and keen
his commandments. And, sitting upon
your doorwavs in the pleasant twilight
of a well spent day vonr hands easily
reach out TO grasp the l5,II7 daily news
papers. to saw nothing of your periodi-
Gals. which fit around your homes like
&, he to,,o, nf a,,,r,n r,a,lol ~, A.