The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-06-27

will do all the work that will be required
of a machine of that kind for this local
ity for the next ten years or so. Once it
is tried it will be found that it is up to
all that has been claimed for it by the
company | represent. We demonstrated
here on trial that the machine would
crush stone but this is not Il fair test OF
its worth. 1t must be put to actual use
and once everything is started to going
will work smoothly. Contractor Bur-
lingame has moved the machine up the
Natchez to point where he expects to
get his stone for the improvement of
Yakima avenue and this week he will
put it to use. | expect to be here at
that time to see that it does the work
just right. ! am now in the county to
sell road machines to the county dis
tricts. | have a model here at work in
the district of Supervisor Stevens, near
the power house, and expect to demon
strate thoroughly that the machine will
do the work. If it works successfully,
as expect to prove, will sell num-
Der in this county.
school census, which | have been en-
gagged in for the past month, | believe
the same plan should be adopted as that
OF the federal government in taking the
general census. BY this system lot of
time would be saved in making can
vass of the district; the names Of the eli
gible school children could be secured
from the parents and a whole lot of trou-
BILE and unnecessary labor would be
saved to the census taker. But as it is
we must go often two or three times to
one family and see each pupil registered.
The law says that the census shall be in
June, but this in my mind is the wrong
time OF year. The census should be in
the winter In June, after school is out,
great many people have left the city
and it is impossible to get the names of
all those entitled to be enrolled. But |
suppose the object of having the census
taken in June was to have the list COM
pleted when the term begins in the fall.
If this be the main object for making
the census in the summer time it should
be along in May when it is possible to
catch all the people. | meet few peo-
pie who object to having their children
registered, but they are not many.
NV
T. A. Davis have just returned from
trip through eastern Washington and
Oregon. The eastern part of this state
and Oregon is great wheat country,
and the crops are better this year than
usual. Walla Walla is fine, thrifty
city, as is also Pendleton, Oregon; yet l
can see nothing in either place to warrant
larger population than our own Queen
City of the Yakima valley. | prophesy
that the census of 1910 will give our city
larger population than the great city
of the wheat belt. l have also been in
vestigating the granite quarries of Snake
river, and find an excellent quality of
work being produced from that material.
| have several samples at my Office and
will handle that line OF work in this val
ley in the future and may buy an in
terest it the quarry.
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p. Y. Heckman-In last weeks issue
of the HERALD | saw a small item rela-
tive to finding fossil, presumed to be
that of snake or sea animal. 1t is
not snake fossil. The specimen is
that of the nautilus umbilicatus, sea
shell animal that lived in ages past.
am in doubt about it being discovered
originally in this state, for such fossils
are only found in the Bad Lands of Da-
kota. 1t is said they are found in the
John Day country of Oregon, but doubt
this. | never saw one like it found in
that locality, and l have great many
specimens in my collection gathered
from all over the country; and have
seen a great many collections, but do
not remember of seeing one like the |
specimen in question in any Of the col |
lections as being from Oregon. How do
account for it being here? That is
easy. 1t was carried here from the Bad |
Lands, and it could be here in no other |