The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1907-05-15

department.
The various mercantile establish
ments would do credit to a much
larger city. They carry, as rule,
larger stock than is ordinarily found
in city of this size supported by a
farming community. This is neces-
sary to meet the peculiar demands
Of its inhabitants and of thickly
populated community of intelligent
and well-to-do people successfully
engaged in diversified and intensified
agriculture.
The banks of the city, of which
there are four, have combined cap
italization of 100000, are among
the most stable in the state and do a
prosperous business.
To realize the possibilities which
lie before the city of North Yakima
in an industrial and commercial way,
as we'll as in the attainment of
high social and educational plane,
one has only to stop and consider
the forces which are at work in its
behalf. The natural center of a
large irrigated region, which has
wonderfully developed in the past
and must still continue to develop
almost without limit, the city bene-
fits by the upbuilding and develop
ment of all parts of it. Irrigation
means the production of large crops.
Large crops, requiring more care on
given amount of land and larger
profits, tend to the holding and culti-
waiting of smaller tracts by those
who till the soil. The large products
arising from scientific horticulture
also tend to the subdivision Of the
land and the increase Of the number
of holders upon a given area. This,
Il connection with the fact that It
Is the more highly educated and pro-
gressive agriculturists who are at
tracted by the advantages of an irri-
sated over a non-irrigated country,
easily accounts for the fact, apparent
to all corners, that the people of the
Yakima country are above the aver
age in general intelligence and pro-
gressiveness.
Practically all the land for three
o. four miles on all sides of the city
has been subdivided and plated into
small tracts of from one to ten acres
This land sells at from 500 to
$1,000 pei acre, depending upon its
location. the character of the soil
and the state of improvement AMI
cultivation.
North Yakima and the surround
ing country offers the conditions nee
essary for the building of happy
homes filled with an intelligent,
prosperous and contented people.
In the city there are four newspa-
pers, ten churches, a good library
supporting an open reading room for
the general public, and a large and
we'll appointed theatre. The city has
an excellent public school system
composed Of high school and graded
schools.
The Washington State Fair is
held here each fall, commencing
about the first OF October and last
ing at least one week. The fair
grounds and buildings are commodi-
Gus and we'll appointed. and under
the present capable management. the
fair is fast assuming Importance as
state event.
The city is in easy and quick
communication with all parts of the
surrounding valleys by means OF
rural free delivery routes run out
from North Yakima, and there are
others in operation in other parts
of the county. Telegraphic service,
! locally and with the outside world
is FL. nished by the Western Union
4 telegraph company. and telephone
service By the Pacific Telephone and
! Telegraph Co. The latter company
has public long distance station in
the city and also local telephone
exchange which covers the city and
i being extended into the surround
ing country by the building OF lines
in different directions.