The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-02-27

have seen in the west. The streets,
even Main street was all shaded with
/ Locust and English Walnut trees.
The yards were as green as in June,
and the flowers were all in bloom, as
they had had no frost yet on the
22d of October. While along every
sidewalk trickled little irrigating
ditch.
From Sunnyside we followed the
canal north near Outlook. AS there
came up a shower, we took refuge in
an empty building, eating our lunch
there. 1t soon cleared up and we
travelled on, leaving our grip with
lunch and other travelling necessities
on bench.
! the roads being not exactly muddy (I
| but very heavy, we made slow time,
seven o'clock. Zillah is quite nice
little town, and has a good hotel.
While talking with the sociable land
lord, he informed us that Joe Fore
man lived but seven miles north of
| of there, promising to take us out the
| next morning.
On our way to Joe's we passed Mr..
H. H. Green's place. Which is a
very pretty place, mostly in alfalfa,
where the cattle were sup to their
knees in clover" AS there were fine
roads our landlord soon pointed out
/ Mr.. FOreman's place and there stood
Joe, natural as life. They have forty
| acres all under irrigation, and be-
tween 20 and 30 acres of orchard: they
| sold their fruit on the trees for a
thousand dollars.
| There is lot of money made in the
Yakima Valley but | don't see what
the people do with it, as not many of
| them fix up their homes as one would
suppose they would where everything
is almost tropical in it's growth. We
staid at Mr.. Foreman's that day and
until noon the next, coming as far as
Topenish on our way back, to get an
early start to cross the mountains on
our way home. Topenish is on the
reserv alton and is not very large
town, but has two fine hotels and
some very large stock yards, the land
around Topenish is subirrigated and
raises the largest wheat and highest
grass l ever saw. The Indians rent
their land and it is all under culti-
walton.
AS it was forty miles to Cleveland
we started early. The first twenty
five miles lay through desolate
sage brush, but think it must be a
fertile country when watered, as they
say the larger the brush the better the
soil, and arrived again at Cleveland
| at 7 p. M.
| The next morning, thinking we had
had enough of Rock creek canyon, we
took the mountain road for Golden
dale: it led us for 25 miles through
| heavy pine timbers, with but few
settlers, the land being mostly owned
by the White Pine Lumber company.
| AS we reached GOldendale before
dark we decided to go on home: about
four miles from home darkness over
as we had to go three miles through
the timber, we had to trust entirely
to our horses. After sundry mishaps
and a good soaking we reached home
with no bones broken.
The next day while looking for feed
we found that our present home was
for sale, which we bought and moved
into immediately, thankful to be
under a roof of our own once more.
This is fine neighborhood and a
delightful climate SO far, with no
wind in the winter although the
people tell us that it blows in the
spring and summer. The coolest it
has been here yet is eight above zero,
with some snow and very little rain
and fog.
We think we shall be satisfied here;
the only thing we need to make us
satisfied is a quarter section of Dakota
grass transplanted out here, for there
is little wild grass here, but timothy,
clover and alfalfa do we'll in the
valleys. l will say for the benefit of
those thinking of coming west, that
Washington as far as we have seen
it is the greatest country for the
greatest changes in short distances
we ever saw, you will find a nice
valley with lots of nice soft water and
possibly five miles from there is land
you would not take as a gift. The
roads here generally are not as good
as in Dakota.
MRS. J. S. CAMPBELL.