The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-11-14
DR.. FELL BOOSTS
YAKIMA COUNTY
DID MISSIONARY WORK IN EAST
Found That This Section il Insuffi-
ciently Advertised and Started
the Ball Rolling.

DR.. George +. Fell returned yester.
day morning from an extended trip
east by way of Denver. and st. Louis
to Buffalo, New York, his former home
While there he met many of his old
friends to whom he expatiated on the
glories of the west and the Yakima
valley particularly. One evening he
addressed the Medical Union of Buff
falo one of the oldest regular medi-
cal societies of Buffalo, and for an
hour detailed his experience in the
west. His remarks were greatly APP
precated and many expressed a deter
minatlon to visit and some will come
here to stay.
The doctor says North Yakima is
very little known in the east. Nine
tenths of the people appear to have
not heard of it. Seattle is vaguely
spoken about, but the general know
ledge of our advantages. is but vague.
He made it a point to jot down the
names of those he conversed with
and will request the Commercial club
to forward data regarding our fer
tile and progressive valley.
Doctor Fell spent day on his re-
turn via. the C. P. r. at Victoria and
was interviewed by the "Colonist" on
sanitary matters, and took another OPP
portunity to boom our section. The
Colonist. quoted in part, said;
IAN important visitor to the city
yesterday was DR.. George Edward Fell,
NJ. D., F. r. NJ s.. a resident for the
time being of Yakima, Washington.
~, 81 let he
said:
GAS a civil engineer who has since
become a physician, I am always very
much interested in sanitary matters.
of which l have had considerable ex-
perience, not only in my native city
of Buffalo where I practiced as Unit
ed States assistant engineer on the
harbor works of Lake Erie and in
charge of the sewer contracts of the
city of Buffalo, but also as regarding
question continually arising in re-
lation to the contamination of streams
by sewerage, affecting the potable
water supply of western cities gen.
orally. This question is coming up
now in the Yakima valley. Some Sec
tions have taken steps to prevent the
the river ny ScWer-
age from above which will necessi-
tate the construction of septic tanks.
filtration beds and purifying of foul
ed water before allowing it to pass
again into the river.
1.-The position at Buffalo was this:
A typhoid epidemic existed on the
shores of the lake above Buffalo,
which was supposed by many to en-
danger the water supply of Buffalo
city. which Is taken from the center
of Niagara river at its head near Lake
Erie. Fortunately for Buffalo, how
ever, there existed such a condition of
currents at the head of the Niagara
river. that the material coming from
the lake shore, with it's septic fac
tors was DETECTED by these currents
toward the eastern shore OF the river
and away from the intake. thus pre-
venting the city of Buffalo from being
one of the worst typhoid centers in
the country; and questions arose as
to whether the sewage of Cleveland,
o.. which Is thrown into Lake Erie.
about 200 miles west above Buffalo,
might not work eastward and act as a
factor in polluting the water of
Lake Erie. whence Rufalo takes its
supply.