The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-04-28
TOPPEN|SH IS
BRIDGE ANGRY
AND WANTS PROPER ROADS
Indignation There Expresses Itself iSs
Various Criticism of County Com
missioner Mcdonald.

Indignation at Toppenish over tho
road and bridge situation. which has
broken out in several ways latterlr
has among other ways, found express
sion in communications to The Herald
in which the chairman of the county
commissioners is roundly blamed for
failure of the county to do bridge ana
road work OF Toppensh. With this
blame goes the assertion regarding
activity on the part of the county
with regard to roads and bridges triSs-
utary to the new TOWNSHIP at Parker
"a Citizen of Toppenish" writes let
ter which is rather strenuous and ak
of which is not printed. He says.
Wake up The County,
Patience ceases to be virtue For
ten years the merchants of Toppenish
and farmers surrounding have built
their own roads bridged their eowrc
streams and bitches and dounderedl
through mud and mirc with silent
endurance that. to continue longer
would be a sin. We have paid our
taxes. and high taxes. willingly with
the repeated promise from the County
Commissioners that they would legal
ize our roads and build our bridges
Every promise has proven false. We
have filed petition after petition, bui
to no avail. One petition filed by ~
| Mcleod and others was worn out by
| dust rolling around three years ir,
the bottom drawer of the county sur
veyor's desk.
Promises of Help.
| "a committee from the Toppenisfa
Commercial club has waited on the
County Commissioners innumerabie
times. If Dan McDonald's smiles and
promises would open roads and builGa
bridges tributary to Toppenish as they
actually do real roads and bridges
tributary to Wapato and the new
townsite Of Parker, Toppenish would
| today be the center of a network Of
paved roads! And II is! But the
pavement Is Dan McDonald's Smiles
and promises! II is thin and not wear
| ing well!
| "Toppenish people, relying on Nc
Donald's promises to open roads. con-
structed bridge to Parker Bottom
and the new Lombard 4 Hershey
highlands, several thousand acres OF
splendid land. already the homes OF
hundreds of families. and lessene6
their distance to market by many
miles. This bridge Immediately
doubled the value of a number of
ranches including several hundred
acres belonging to Dan Mcdonald.
But this bridge threw business 10
Toppenish and away from other
towns. This was crime. Roads
must not be opened to the Toppenisll
BRIDGE
Put Blame Where IL Belongs.
Let the blame be placed where il
belongs. Many in the lower valley.
not knowing. have blamed the people
of North Yakima for the failure to
open reservation roads and the new
road from Parker Bottom to Topper
ish. And this is tho chief reason for
much of the talk for a new county be
low the Gap.
North Yakima against Toppenish
No, Dan Sinclair the former commits
sioner voted and worked on every oc-
casion for opening our roads. And
how is Meloy? He Is for a square
deal. He is an experienced engineer
of ability and voted Yes for taking
the bridge and opening our roads
The county chairman voted NO ana
carried the shrewd wizard of BeImn
with him.
Waste OF Public Money.
| Thousands of dollars for new
bridge to boom Parker without a slla-
dow of reason Simple waste of the
peoples money. But the roads to Top
| penish? Block them. Block them.
Anything to try to keep the central
city of the valley down, But, Toppen-
| ish survives, in fact doubles populs-
ton and business every few months
People will travel through mud ana
mire, crawl through lanes, pay toll
over bridges, anything to get to real
town like Toppenish, even II every
| road is graded and paved only with
smiles and promises!
North Yakima can wake up the
county chairman, shake him from his
decisions, secure the friendship of the
lower valley and preserve the present
boundaries of Yakima county. II
North Yakima hesitates, "A new county
Will arise and the lower country be
lost to North Yakima"
Citizen of Toppenish.