The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1900-07-19
HAS FALLEN AMONG FRIENDS
A Newcomer to the Sunnyside Country Ap-
rreeates the Welcome Accorded Him.
SUNNYsIDE, July Is, 1900.

preeiates the Welcome Accorded Him.
SUNNYsIDE, July 16, 1900.
EDITOR HERALD:-It is perhaps super
fuous to add my testimony to the studied
reports Of our Sunnyside country and
its specially fine inhabitants that have
COMO out and had it's influence in bring
ing many to this section. AS to the
country, am sure that il measures m ore
to the lineal mile than Iany other part OF
Gods creation ever witnessed by ye
scribe in upwards Of 30 states visited,
and its atmosphere is purer and more
bracing than any of the states visited
not excepting North Dakota, unless per.
haps the latter at times might brace q
man at the rate Of more miles to the
hour, but in North Dakota there is too
much sameness. You know large por.
ton OF the state is one continuous wheat
field and each farm looks 80 much like
the one adjoining that the farmers have
to resort to some special landmark, like
a spotted pig penned by the roadside, or
home on returning home from a trip to
a neighboring town. One would feel
q little chagrined to jump off the train
and run onto neighboring ranch two
or three miles from home just because
of its similarity to his own and so
you see it becomes necessity to guard
against these annoying mistakes. Here
in Washington they brand everything for
Identification except q special few who
have had ranges so long that they are
we'll known to all stockmen.
This country is whole wonder and
how God ever found such special crea-
ton, as some have said, faultess, is still
wonder in the light we view it from
But the inhabitants Of Sunnyside are
largely cause for this country's glorl6
cation. You know, Mr.. Editor. when
stranger goes Into a new place what an
effect it will have on him, whether the
inhabitants flock to him with gushing
and hospitabIe kindness or il they turn
a cold shoulder on him as II to say I'VE
have no room for the likes of you"
Sunnyside abounds in the former condi.
ton, and gives one the first impression
of favor for it's honest and abundant well
come to its gates Some have been 80
presumptuous as to say it was policy and
they were simply after ones money, but
there is an occasional vilifier in all COM
munities and we have proved that this is
a villainous saying as we have no money
and everybody knows it, and regardless
of this fact the good people keep right on
in the even tenor of their ways. Why,
my dear sir, we moved into new place
once where all were strangers, bought,
built, moved in and lived there upwards
Of three months without call from
neighbor, except one lady who called in
to rest ON her journey to the cemetery,
where she went to visit freshly made
mound. You can imagine what an i'm.
preston this kind of community had
on our better half.
But now we are in Sunnyside, in the
midst OF intellectual culture and, oh,
how different! The people are nearly
all from the east and know how to be
courteous to strangers. They drop in
once in while with welcome word
and cheerful countenances, which just
makes one forget to be homesick or that
they once had friends whom 1t was hard
to part with.
And now, Mr.. Editor, if you will spare
us small space in your welcome weekly
paper to express our thankfulness that
we still exist In this strangers welcome
land. We will then be thankful to you.
l trust have not said falsely In any
manner and ask your readers to accept
nothing but the truth, as am reminded
by childhood's instructions to "buy the
truth and sell it not.'
b. L. BULL.