The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-06-13
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! WHAT PEOPLE SAY !


W. |. Lince-My trip to the Sound
was mostly on business. am pleased
to say that was quite successful in dis
posing of some Yakima real estate and
inducing some of the monied men
to come over here and make some in
vestments. We have now two large
deals about closed with Seattle men and
expect to have more in the near future.
While on the Sound l took trip over to
the Bremerton dry dock to see the battle-
ship Wisconsin, which is now in the dry
dock undergoing repairs. We spent
about two hours on board the ironclad
and l must say that her officers and
men were very obliging in showing us
all the parts that go to make up first
class battleship. The Wisconsin is all
right, but is little too large to carry in
your vest pocket. met great many
Yakima people. Col. w. F. Prosser is
doing very nice business in real estate
and Ed. G. White is still at the tailoring
business. l found Moritz Harris is still
there and is married again. Geo. Dorf-
fel, former real estate man of this
city, is now in Seattle and doing well in
the same line. l also saw Jas. Greer an
ex-Yakiman, but now the freight agent
for the Yukon and White Pass railway
at Victoria.
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County Assessor Scott.-The assess
ment work for the year 1901 is practi-
cally completed, in so far as the work
OF the deputies are concerned, but there
yet remains considerable work to be
done by the office force to get the books
in shape for binding. The books for the
real estate are ready and are being
bound for easy reference, but the per-
sonal property rolls will not be in shape
for this disposition for a short time yet.
| cannot tell just how much the total
assessment will be in Yakima county
this year, but in the real estate there
will not be a great advance. Last year
the valuations amounted to over $5,000,-
900, and the additions to this vast sum
will be Just the value of the new land
brought under cultivation in the last
year. There will be, however pretty
good increase in the personal property
valuations. We have had some little
difficulty in assessing the property of
some of the Indians. Some of these
natives have large bands OF horses and l
have been assessing them just the same
as though they were white people. They
don't like it, but it must be done.
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E. r Leaming.-In making my trip
to Creston, Ia, last week it was my in
tention to go to Cape May, N. j., my old
home, for brief stay, but was so sur
prisingly successful in closing up some
business matters at Creston that con-
cluded to return home at once and re-
main in the northwest during the sum-
mer. | have some property that want
to dispose Of and as soon as that is done
/ shall turn my business matters over to
someone else and take it easy the rest of
my life. found times little dull at
Creston; there doesn't seem to be the
hustle and hustle among the people there
as at this place. Money is SO plentiful
back there that interest at four and five
per cent is considered good by the
lenders, and perhaps this is the reason
business seems to be on the wane. l
would not care to go back east again. l
have spent the best part OF my days in
helping to develop this valley and make
it fit for future generations to live in and
have grown so used to the country that
change would not be satisfactory in
any way. | have always found it the
case that once person lives here for
year or two he does not want to leave,
and have been here long enough to get
over any thought of ever returning east
again.
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+. f. Huff, sheriff OF Chehalis county.
Il came to eastern Washington to re-
cover my health, but have been unfor-
tunate in striking bad weather, just the
kind you had here on Tuesday. / first
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