The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1904-01-20

of hops to the acre? How would 100
bushels of wheat to the acre strike your
Did YOU ever see corn 50 high that it
back? How'd you like to see potato
weighing seven pounds? That's what
that land will produce. Fifteen cents
township, heyl"--a snort-"Why, that
lands worth $40 an acre today. and
within six months it'll be worth S15 an
acre. We're going to dig a big irrigation
ditch, 40 miles long, down into that
country and turn the Yakima river in.
to it. When that's done it will blossom
like the rose. Irrigation nuisance
Why, my dear sir, we have no rain from
January to December. The sky is al
ways blue, as you see it now" pointing
through the attendant dust cloud to the
heavens the train had started again.
III wouldn't live in a country where it
rains. | Just say: Jim, open the sluicc
the jobs done. Rain. indies" another
Snort-"you couldn't make me pres
ent of land i'll country where it rains"
How is this district for healthful-
ness" inquired an Iowa doctor who was
going to Portland to locate.
We'll, sir. I've been here four years.
and the only death in the county during
that time was when Cockeyed Charley.
ii Yakima Indian. had his neck broken
by being thrown from pony. He was
drunk at the time, too, OF he wouldn't
have been hurt. There isn't doctor in
my town. and I'm glad of it. Don't
think much of EN-, anyhow"
The doctor relapsed into silence. Still
the Athenian tongue wagged. The meta
phors of Proctor Knott. Duluth"
speech paled their Intellectual fires before
the praises of the Yakima valley a.
voiced by the ex.Bostonian. Pumpkins
80 big that team of horses found one
of them load; plims as large As an or.
binary apple; ,trawberries-why bless
you-one of 'em was enough for
family of four gigantic squashes. brob-
dignagian tomatoes-all the products of
the earth paraded in heroic dimensions
before our wondering eyes, the mono
logue winding up with the admonition
to secure some land in the favored spot
before it was cverlastingly too late.
1t grew toward dusk. The little group
in the smoking room became silent.
Even the exponent of the wonders of
Eastern Washington gradually simmer
ed down Then an idea struck him
Going to Portland;" he asked OF the
pennsy lvanian,
Tacoma first, then Seattle" was the
reply.
Bring macintosh with you?" was
the next query.
Neither macintosh, umbrella nor
overshoe,,'
My, dear sir are YOU serious? I'll
you are YOU have certainly never been
in Tacoma before. Why. you'll drown
over there; you'll positively drown. by
George, you've no idea OF the weather. |
Why, they wear their mackintoshes all
the time over there. They Use 'em for
night gowns, by iove 1t rains every
day of the year at Tacoma: it does. sir.
Seattle's almost as bad. only there it |
SHOWS occasionally in wintcr-it rains
all the time in Tacoma
We all laughed
Pm not eXaggerating a particle. just
wait till we get through the tunnel in
the Cascade range. On this side OF the
mountains it never rains -conscious
triumph. "On the other side of the
range it rains all the time. I'll bet s.
to 81 we strike rain storm when we
reach the western end of the tunnel"
No one took the bet 1t 50 happened
that it wasn't raining on the western
side. and the Yakima man called heav-
Ell to witness that it was the first dry
daV in the memory of man