The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-26
MORE HOME MAKERS.
Fifty Thousand Acres Of Land In TIE
Famous ~unnyside Valley 10
He Sold tO SetfleRa.


A contract between the receivers of the
Yakima Investment Company and the and
department OF the Northern Pacific rail-
way, by which the company Is 10 UNDER
take the sale of "a go acres OF land lying
under the famous Snnnysidc ditch. has
been closed within the past few days. The
immigration bureau of the Northern Pa
ciflc will he charged with the work Of
filling the Sunnyside valley with settlers,
and II is predicted that the country tribu-
tary TO the ditch will be occupied rapidIy
by home makers.
Last Skinner. rs the readers Of the Post-
Inteilicenccr will remember, the receivers
of the Yakima Investment Company, J. 8.
Allen, Of Spokane. and George Donald a.
Yakima, peiitiened the circuit court for
authority to lower the price Of land owned
by the company. The land had been held
at So per acre, and this price. consider5ne
the times, was considered too large. II
was urged by the receivers-and IN thls
the hondholders of the company Joined
that lower price on the realty belonging
10 the trust would induce more rapid saleo
and that small. well filled farms would oc.
cupy the territory now sage brush VII.
derness The petition OF the receivers was
granted and the price on the land wss
fixed at $50 per acre.
The next move TO he made by the recc1v-
ers was TO find way In which to !nllflee
Immigration into fhe state and the yauld
occupation OF the land by homeseekert.
Negotiations were opened with the North.
ern Pacific. which Is n heavy Stockholders
IN the company. These negotiations hayo
been closed with the signing OF a contrxof
by which the land department Of the roaA
Is 10 take In hand the marketing Of tn
land The entire immigration bureau r.
the road VIII be used In directing the nt.
tehtion OF prospective emisrants IN tn
East to the tract owned by the company
The Sunnyside canal is one OF the iargeot
irrigation bitches in the United States. anH
certainly the largest In the state. Il wae
bnlit by the Yakima Investment Company
AT a cost approaching xO0o 90. II n foftys
three miles I'm length. and In addition thefo
are 20 miles OF laterais Since the prop-
erty was placed in the hands OF receiverx
early Tn 1895. little has been done 10 perfect
the plans under which the enterprise was
commenced
No section of the state of washinstca
presents greater possibilities In an asr1.
cultural way than do the irrigassd lands a
the Eastern part OF the state. Yaklms
county's farms have by their great sefti1-
ity ana productiveness attained natloun1
repute. The country is capable Of sustasn-
Ing In comfort and plenty four times fho
amount of people In comparison with th4
agricultural areas OF the East and middio
West. I'm Yakima county farm cf forty
acres will yield as much a quarter-eec.
tion In the Mississippi valley. Crops are
not known TO fail. and from the time thu
plow OF the farmer first turns over tho
rich icam Of the sage brush prairics the
land begins to be productive. There Ii ~
waiting until the land In broken" ~ q /,
the case on the prsiries OF Minnesota. Iowa
and Nebraska. Once water is turned On
the land, II will grow any kind Of cr0p
known. and In more than twice the quar-
tity OF nan-irrigated lands
The people of Yakima county believe fhae
the closing OF the deal between the receiv-
ers and the hand department Of the North.
orn Pacific Fs one of the most impcffane
events In recent years in that section %
the state. The rapid settlement Of the
lands r. predicted and. In consequence
great gain I'm population is looked Tor.