The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-03-25
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MANY MATTERS or LOCAL MOMENT
lOcat Items Regarding Nisceiiane.
Gus Events which Have Trans.
pired In aud About North Yakima
During the Past Week.

has disposed of his store at Northport
and is about to move to Sandon, b. G.
j. NJ. Hall is of the opinion that the
increase in the area of cultivated lands
On the Mckee, this year, will be between
ID and % per cent.
The city bitches have been repaired
and Marshal Backer says the cleaning
will be finished in time to turn in the
the water by Monday next.
Paul, the New Convert" and 1.-The
Conscientious Criminal as Exemplitied
by Saul" are the morning and evening
themes at the Christian church next Sun
day.
The Junior Endeavor society Of the
Christian church have arranged an inter.
esting program for Friday evening. The
different nations will be represented in
costumes. Admission for children, five
cents adults fifteen cents.
Joseph Stephenson returned on We'd
nesday from Portland and the William
cite valley. He says seeding and other
farm work is four weeks behind in that
locality on account Of the constant rains,
and that the first glimpse ne had obtain
ed OF the sun in two weeks was upon his
return to Yakima.
The Northern Pacific will on Sunday
next naugurate change in their time
schedule by which the east bound pas
senger train will arrive in Yakima at
IL 30 p. M, instead of 35 q. m, as
heretofore. This change will prevent q
travellers bound for the Colville and Co
lumbia mines.
Senator Lesh eturned on Wednesday
from the Sound. He has given much
attention to the subject of the preserva-
ton of the forests but is of the opinion
that Clevelands forestry reserve order is
too sweeping in its provisions. He be.
lleves, however, that efforts to have it
annulled will prove unavaiing and that
the work Of the Commercial club and
ether organized bodies should be directed
towards securing an amendment admit
ting of the prosecution of mining work
but not interfering with the other restrict.
i've features.
w. +. Sawyer was in the city Saturday
and says there is more activity on the
farms OF the Parker Bottom district than
he has ever seen before. Every hop
yard unless it is that of T. NJ. Vance, is
being cultivated, and already half of the
hop poles have been set. The work is
now further along than it WAS in the lat
ter part of April last year. AS to fruit
he says there Is diversity OF opinions.
One 'expert" will go into an orchard
and after opening a dozen buds and find
ing them all dead will give his opinion in
that line while another will find live buds
on the same trees and pronounce the
coming crop assured. The most conser-
vstive say that fair crop Of everything
but peaches and French prunes may be
anticipated and that the peaches. outside
of the early Crawfords, are anything but
a failure.
According to J. d. Medlll the Natcheez
has proven its superiority as fruit region
in the past year by the manner In which
the late frosts and the severe freeze of
early winter were weathered. Mr.. Spauld-
ing, who has an orchard under the bluff,
says that while the thermometer regis
tered - degrees below in this city and
the Mckee, it was only degrees below
at his place and that he will have plenty
OF peaches to prove this fact. The
Natcheez showed some peculiarites how
ever. for while the damage to fruit trees
was very great in the vicinity of the
school house no injury at all is percept.
ible mile distant in the orchards of
Frank Wheeler and the Gibson brothers.
Another fact deduced by Mr.. Medill
from the severe weather of early winter
is that the Italian and not the French
prune is the crop for this section. To
the east of North Yakima the distruc-
tlpu vi tfcto WAS duitc ociiouo uut ~ W no
mainly of the French prunes which had
been planted quite extensively Of late
years.
j. f. Ryan returned on Tuesday from
British Columbia. He visited the vsri-
GUS mining camps of the several districts
and is now planning to 90 into business
at Grand Forks. He says Rossland and
other towns thereabouts are crowded
with the unemployed and that the news
papers continue to advise those who are
looking for work and are without capital
not to come into the district. Many OF
the mines have closed down, including
the Lsrabee properties. 1t is given out
that this is due to the heavy SHOWS but
Mr.. Ryan is inclined to think that the
the exhaustion OF capital is a more truth
ful explanation. As an instance OF the
extent of the gold fever and the unwar-
ranted rushing of miners from one camp
to another he speaks of Horse Creek.
When he passed through there first there
were only half dozen cabins, and one
man was excavating in the hillside flor a
dugout. He found nugget valued at 81
and within few weeks Horse Greek had
a population OF a thousand people.
Wages are good throughout that country
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