The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1895-02-21
TOLD UNDER SUD-HEADS
The Hollanders are Coming 10 Capture
The Yakima Country.
ARRANGING FOR SUNNYSIDE FARMS
The Council knocks out Arc Lights
Extraordinarily The Interesting
Points OF N Week IN the Legisia-
ture-Lesh,s Commission BiiI.

Potnts OF n week IN the Iegtsta-
ture-Lesb's Com mission Biii.
Even as the whistle of the chinook, the
cracking and rushing of the ice in the
mountain streams and the buoyant fresh
ness of the atmosphere herald the near
approach of spring and the breaking up
Of winters frost encompassed domains,
so does the tide Of immigration steadily
surging westward and breaking like the
surf of ocean upon the sand dunes and
sagebrush of the fertile Yakima valley,
betoken the beginning of the end of
long struggle against the past and in a
moiety present financial stringency. Like
the FIRST appearing birds in early March,
who sing OF the winters passing and
presage the coming of the flowers and
fragrance OF the summer, the sturdy i'm
migrant, the solid merchant and farmer
and the homeseeker have been coming,
one by one, for month or more, to rest
after their pilgrimage to their Mecca in
this busy little City of Sunshine and its
tributary valleys; and now, following in
the footsteps OF the venturesome few, full
of the spirit of progress, imbued with the
hope of prosperity surely promised them
here, come the squads of workmen, the
platoons OF homeseekers, the great army
OF fruit raisers, ranchers, stockmen and
Notwithstanding into the grand young
state OF Washington and journeying
across the desert to the oasis OF the plain,
finding their promised land-here!
Six hundred families from blizzard
swept Dakota; 300 men, women and
children who are searching for room in
which to grow and thrive; small army
OF energetic and industrious farmers, de-
scendants of hardy, honest Holland-will,
in all probability, become possessors of
perhaps 5000 acres In the Yakima valley,
and the fruits OF their toll are to enrich
the county and the city as well as tn en-
selves in material blessings.
For two weeks a party of gentlemen
representing this colony has been inves-
tigating the resources of the Evergreen
state, looking for the locality best suited
to their purposes. Over all OF Washing
ton have they travelled yet they find that
for which they seek here in the smiling
Yakima valley-and only here. Tele-
grams and letters have been sent back
ward to their friends and relatives in
South Dakota, dwelling upon the fertility,
healthfulness and progressiveness of this
section, the great profits insured farmers,
the comparative cheapness of land, and
the absolute certainty OF crops under the
network of irrigating canals and bitches
These representatives state that the col
ony will come to Yakima, without doubt !;
and one or two emissaries have already
chosen land in the Sunnyside and gone
back to tell their people to begin the
exodus.
The Hollande RS are part OF a great
series Of colonies in the Dakotas, num-
bering perhaps 100000 souls. The fam
lilies which will come to Yakima are the
sons and grandsons OF the Dakota pio-
neers, who adopted the same plan now
about to be followed by their children
The Dakota lands have become too small
to accommodate the wants of the increas-
ing members of the colonies, and they
are searching for new homes and more
opportunities to better their fortunes.
They are hard, steady workers, one and
all. They are economical and sober, and
they are the very best prtrons business
man can secure. Their transactions with
merchants are usually upon a cash basis.
In short, their advent cannot but prove
an element of additional strength financi
ally and from a standpoint of eyelop-
ment, to the varied interests of the Yaki-
ma valley. THE HERALD is anxious that
they should come; and, in advance,
reaches out the hearty hand of welcome
to this city and this county, and rejoices
with them for the prosperity and content
ment assuredly theirs in the not distant
future.