The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-06-27

Kansas and Nebraska. Biackberries
are as profitable as Spitzenburgs or
winesaps. and strawberries are just
as sure to make Uuited States sena-
tor in Washington as copper did in
Montana. Moreover, there are the
products of eggs and honey
Orchards do best on well-raked
ground. With two dozen eggs selling
for as much as a bushel of wheat. why
should not the farmer allow his hens
to do the raking?. And while bees are
the trees and a ten-acre orchard. well
"beed," will yield about a ton of the
biblical synonym Of plenty and lux
ury, which markets for twenty cents
a pound, the bee business Is worth
while. Two million dollars worth of
these eggs. as we'll as half as much
honey. were disposed of In Seattle
markets alone last year. Did the saw
age Yakima but dream a meager part
of this why should he not have loved
his desert home?
California boasts that she Is suffic-
lent unto herself. Washington retail
ates with: Fence us in and we can
forget that California is on the map"
Today the central part of that state.
where roamed the Yakima. can almost
boast as much. Every necessary food
and almost every luxury is there for
the getting. Even minerals and lum-
Der are found in abundance in the
mountains that edge her IN.
President Roosevelt recently said:
1T have never seen two such cities
anywhere as Spokane and Seattle. If
my eldest boy was large enough to be
choosing n place, I would advise him
to locate in one or the other of those
cities, and it is a shake-up between
them" Midway between these two
cities lies the picturesque town of
Wenatchee. 1t stands in the midst of
orchards and vineyards. 1t is the
home of the big red apple. where dol
lars grow on trees" All that is true
of Spokane and Seattle in an industrial
and commercial sense is equally true
of Wenatchee in an agricultural and
sense.
1t must be admitted. however, that
while nature modelled Washington af-
ter the plans furnished by the Goddess
of Plenty, her barren central valley
even when reclaimed is wholly want
ing in the satisfying charm that makes
Vermont, New Hampshire and the AL
legheny foothills a paradise to live
in, even If they can not grow a prune.
But Wenatchee escapes the dull land
scapes that encircle most Yakima
towns. Situated on the banks of the
Columbia, which is navigable all sea-
sons of the year. this little city has in
tercourse with the wonderful Lake Che
Ian, which for beauty and grandeur
has no equal in any Eastern state. This
deepest inland water in all Uncle Sans
broad domain is the heart of minia-
ture Switzerland. which is destined to
become one of the show-places of
America And this is no idle praise,
for there are many very great show
places in the West.
Every oasis on the great American
desert from Yakima to Yuma raises
the finest fruits, cereals, and vegeta-
bles. and enjoys the finest climate and
the most even temperature in the
United States" And this is the first
claim of every village and farm from
the Lovely Vale of Cashmere" in the
Wenatchee Valley to the Horse
Heaven" of Prosser, and the river juno
ton at Kennewick and Pasco
Lewis and Clark a century ago pre-
dicted that there would some day be a
city at the junction of the Snake and
Columbia rivers. There are two cities
there now. These two will some day be
one and then Spokane will have a race.
OF this. r. Lewis Rutter. the secretary
of the Spokane and Eastern Trust Com
pany, recently said: II have always
felt that at or near the junction OIL the
Snake and Columbia rivers would de-
velop the largest city of the inland
empire, and I say this with all due re-
spect to my home city of Spokane" AS
President Roosevelt said: Il have no.
ticed your green fields and pretty
homes; your development has only COM
menced, and your future is assured"
This point is to horticulture and agri-
culture of the North Coast Empire what
Pittsburg was to the Allegheny iron
mines forty years ago. North of We
natchee lies the Big Bend country,
where wheat is so abundant one may