The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-09-10
ROBERT A. TURNER EDITOR.
Population of County, 1924
Population of City, 1000
Business men and
Firms in Ellensburg, 100
1924
1000
WORD PAINTING.

Ex-Governor John H. McGraw, in an
address at the opening of the inter-
state fair at Tacoma. in 1895 said:
with the fondness for comparison
which is typical of the analytical Anglo
Saxon mind, Washington has been
called the Pennsylvania of the West.
The analogy is perhaps as just as such
popular descriptions usually are, but it
is description which needs moditica-
ton and extension. TO the coal, iron
and limestone of Pennsylvania add ir-
descent opals equal to those of the
Ural mountains, vast fields of precious
gold and silver, and merchantab BILE
quantities of lead, copper, zinc, anti
mony, nickel and other metals, not to
speak of the purest porcelain and pot
terry clays. and mountains of marble
and building stones: to the tobacco,
hay and modest grain resources of
Pennsylvania, and to her fruits, add
the finest hops in the world, peaches
equal to those of Delaware, grapes as
fine as the best of California, apples
equal to hose of Michigan, luscious
prunes, whose like have never been
sen, the watermelons of Georgia, the
cranberries of Cape Cod, and every
small fruit, vegetable and grain pro-
duced in temperate, or almost sub
tropical climate, which are produced
here in previously unheard of quanti-
ties to the acre: upon the soft, green
slopes of the Alleghanies pile up a
snow-capped dome raising toward
heaven to the height Of nearly three
miles, as in the case of Mount Rainier,
and cross Pennsylvania by three such
grand ranges as the Rockies, the Cas-.
cades ana the Coast range; pour the
placid Delaware and Susquehanna into
one stream aa1 you will not have
the equal of the Amazon of North
America-the Columbia-which sweeps
superbly in a majestic curve through
Washington: extend Delaware bay
from Philadelphia to Pittsburg and
you will not equal our Pacific Medi-
terranean-Puget Sound-whose bosom
rarely heaves with more than the regu.
lar beat of sleeping babe: take the
mean of the heat and cold of Pennsyl-
vania and you have hardly, even then,
the extremes of Eastern Washington,
and much more than the extremes of
Western Washington, whose humid
breezes restore the invalid to health
and add vigor to the strong: to the
puny pines of Pennsylvania, whose
largest growth would be considered
mere sticks in Washington, add bill
lions of Washington pine, whose
strength surpasses that of oak, and
Is millions of feet of cedar, spruce hem
lock, tamarack, alder, maple, ash and
cottonwood: to the shad of the Della
ware add the salmon of the Columbia,
the sturgeon of Russia, the cod and
halibut of Massachusetts, the sardine
of Italy and the oyster of Virginia,
with the smelt, the clam and crab and
brook trout in myriads: upon the thin
red loan of Pennsy lvania, needing an
nual applications of artificial stimu-
lants, impose the marvellous volcanic
ash of Eastern Washington, and the
scores of feet of vegetable loan of
Western Washington, ineXhaustible in
its natural fertility, needing only to be
tickled to produce bounteous crops
laughingly: add all these resources to-
gether and you will be able to form a
vague idea of the resources and prod
ucts of the Pennsylvania of the West
the state of Washington.