The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-04-04
IN SCNNYSIDE LAND.
The Place Where Crops are Bountiful and
Peace and Contentment Reign.

fedCe ana Government ke1gn.
The year following the Worlds Fair
there was a large immigration of eastern
people to this famous land of sunshine,
then an arid desert. Walter n. Granger,
the originator and promoter of the great
Sunnyside canal Capable of furnishing
water to the entire Valley, is resident
among us and has the canal under his
personal supervision, and it is due to
his gigantic and "never give up efforts
that the hundreds who are seeking its
borders are all able to build ideal homes,
and with reasonable amount of work
and economony to become rich and pros
porous. The first settlers were mostly
from cultured homes and were refined
educated and Industrious Then came
the depression of business in the east as
predicted by the wise men of our coun-
try and immigration ceased. The coun-
try's progress was checked for Il time !;
innumerable drawbacks attended the
three first years of living here, and many
of the pioneers became discouraged
and moved elsewhere. There were Il few
however who chung tenaciously to the
hope of a bright and promising future
for Yakima valley; and one very nota-
bic fact which will always stand to the
credit and honor Of her people, at a
period when the country through no
Tn milf I,nr ,,f ,ta Let
when there was every thing to discour-
I, age public and private enterprise with
no immediate prospect of change, the
majority OF the band still continued to
sing the praises OF the valley and its
future prospects. For they knew that
right here was the FL Dorado which only
needed people to make it bloom like a
garden and bring to the happy possessor
both health and wealth.
These people We're the 'bone and
sinew' that kept the wheels moving,
never once losing sight OF the assurance
that there We're brighter and better days
for our beautiful, but much neglected
country. Occasionally some one would
remark that the Yakima valley was a
dead issue, but she has been an exceed
ingly lively corpse. There was life, en-
ergy and frmness enough to hold the
shell together in determined grasp un-
till such times as the inspiration OF ma
terial progress got a hold, when a new
era would mark its progress. 1t
has come it is here in full force. Beau
tiful homes dot the valley, real beauties
OF the modern type, resting under the
grandeur OF our mountains lovely or
chards, magnificent fields of alfalfa, fine
schools and the best society, combined
with the best of church privileges The
people are indeed blessed with the best
OF everything which is necessary to the
moral and spiritual wants of man
The Sunnyside country is gaining II
widespread reputation and soon will be
famous for its fruits, its beauty of land
scape and climate, and its health-giving
atmosphere. Its reputation is steadily
attracting homeseekers. The soil here
is well adapted to growing to perfection
all the fruits, grains and vegetables OF
the temperate zone. Pear trees mature
two crops per year. no better grapes
can be raised on EARTH gooseberries
never mildew, and so on ad infinitum.
The outcome of an acre of fruit proper v
handled should not be less than 500.
Poultry raising is remuneratve indus
try in this country and goes we'll with
any kind of farming. Twety acres is
about the average size fruit farm and
will compare favorably in net results
with an ordinary 200-acre grain and
stock farm, but with this important dis
tinction: on the fruit farm the work is
practically confined to five or six months
OF comparatively light physical and
mental labor, while as rule the ordi-
nary farm life represents an unbroken
strain OF physical energy the year
around. The leisure intervals on the
fruit farm can be devoted to mental cul-
ture and social intercourse.
Mrs. JOSEPH LANNIx.
Sunnyside, Wash.