The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1907-07-31
SAWYER WRITES Of THE TRACTION
PROBLEM IN THE YAKIMA VALLEY

imously chosen by the stockholders
and there are SOME decent men am
ong them, and this community can
suffer only through the RASCALlTY
of this board of trustees. 1t is the
most idle talk possible to say that
the interests of the public are in
jeopardy because some one man has
the POWER to make deal by which
their interests might be sacrificed.
AS well say that every bank in this
city and every mercantile establish.
ment is improperly organized and
ought to be changed because there
Is some one man in each one of them
who has the legal AUTHORITY to
sign papers that would cause their
ruin. We do not need to look out
for the authority, that has to be ex-
ercised in every business enterprise.
The thing to look out for is to see
that the authority is vested in the
RIGHT MAN, and no one who knows
A. ]. Splawn thinks that he is ever
going to abuse any authority with
which he is invested.
The extreme facility with which
some people can cry BANK FIGHT"
is one of the great misfortunes of
this community. 1t seems impossible
for some to realize that there can be
any differences either of opinion or
anything else that are not based on
bank interests. The cry has been
started in connection with this bust
ness without the slightest foundation
in fact. Three members of the
n 1cf0 nf hA V.Ix
Trust company have been on the
board of trustees Of the Traction
company ever since it started and
three of them and no more are on
the board of the Transportation
company. Mr.. Rankin takes the
place of Mr.. Dills, that is the only
change.
Mr.. Rankin, who is known to be
an energetic and successful worker.
has been elected member Of the
board and is a trustee with Just ex-
actly the same authority that every
other trustee has, and no more: and
the talk that the whole enterprise
has been turned over to him is with
out the slightest foundation and is
utterly absurd. Mr.. Rankin was
elected to place on the board be-
cause 1t was known that he COULD
WORK and it was believed that he
| WOULD WORK, and he will natur-
ally occupy place OF prominence
and strong influence with the board,
as such men always do, but there
are no grounds for supposing that
he would be inclined to do anything
improper or that he would or could
improperly influence the board OF
| trustees.
The management Of the Trans
portation company would like to have
every man in this community believe
that this enterprise will never bv
any act of theirs be turned over to
the Yakima & Valley railway and
| through them to the Northern Pa
| Sific railroad, or to any other ral,-
road. We realize that for some
time to come all our business must
be done with the n. p. railroad. and
we have no quarrel with them upon
any account, and it is our desire and
expectation to always maintain
friendly relations with that company.
and when We go properly to them
for connections to which we will be
reasonably entitled. we expect to re-
| ceive the recognition to which we
are entitled, because we are in no
wise competitors of theirs, and our
| interests are identical and in no wise
conflict.
We stand now in just exactly this
position If every one who can will
cooperate, we can very speedily
have the new company completely
organized with all it's capital stock
! subscl ibed; we still have to get sub
scrlptions for sixty to seventy thous-
and dollars worth of stock and we
are very much in need of the good
will and LIFT of every public spirit
ed man in the county. AS soon as
this organization is completed our
five per cent per month assessment
will begin and be continued until
we have means of obtaining money
more rapidly in some other way.
Orders for rolling stock and more
building material will be placed at
once and Yakima will begin to see
its long dream of electric railroads
wideawake reality. and the work
once commenced will never stop I'M
til the entire system of lines is COM
pleted. Our engineer tells us that
If we can get connected up by the
10th of August he can still get the
road to the fair grounds in opera
tion by fair time, and 1t seems to
me that NOW is the time of all times
for people TO stop throwing twigs
in front of the wheels and get right
in and give the enterprise good lit
by subscribing for all of the stock
that they can take care of.
VIM. p. SAWYER.