The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-09-20

farming country in the world. From
Granger to Sunnyside. there is sue
cession of cultivated tracts without
interruption and so fruitful and well
cared for is the row of big farms
that it would seem that it could safe
ly challenge comparison with the
best
There are many things which as
tonish in a trip by auto from town to
town of the lower valley. While 1t is
typically 'the country" and its peo-
pie farmers, nothing short of the city
best seems to do for them In the way
of conveniences. Sunnyside and
Granger both have hotels which for
commodiousness, tasteful furnishing
and excellent service, might move up
to North Yakima at once and enter
into competition with the best here
with sure chance of getting patron
age. The Planters Hotel at Sunny
side, has been built couple of years.
1t has an attractive lobby, good
Sized clean, well-furnished bed rooms
and an upstairs parlor with really
home-like appearance. Radiators ara
now being installed for heating
system which will add to it's general
comfort. The dining room is large
and the service good.
Hotel High Line
The Hotel High Line, at Granger,
which has been in operation nearly a
year, is built Of two colored brick
When the court is covered with lawn,
and the concrete basin supplied with
its fountain, the entrance will be most
attractive. The inside arrangement
is such that the sleeping rooms all
have an outside exposure, the furnish
ings are handsome, there is Kew
aunee water system, and a big boiler
for the heating system. Just back
Of this hotel is to De the new o. w.
r. & N. station, work on the fill-in
for which began yesterday
The school buildings of the various
districts are another surprise and put
the Yakima country in the front rank
of progressive farming districts. Sun
nyside has a large, finely built and
INTELLECTUALLY handsome High school
besides a good looking grade school
or two. Granger has a new brick
grammar school and has just CONSOLE
dated with the Alfalfa district. the
two together proposing to build a $15,-
900 High school. Outlook has a
school building requiring seven
teachers. The only fault to be found
with it is the distance from the town
proper. Somebody was a false prophet
and the village which was supposed
to grow up about the school, took
root, instead, about mile or two the
other side, with thea result that the
number of children's ponies attending
the hitching rack is large. The dis
trict has just added two acres, max
ing the holding four acres in all.
Good Work at Toppenish
Toppenish has two fine stone
schools, and is remodeling the old
High school into what promises to be
a likely-looking building Wapato has
" little brick affair of unusual con-
struction, but neat withal
New business blocks are going up
In all the towns on both sides of the
river. Bungalows of attractive de-
sign, some of them comm odious and
expensive, are to be seen in all the
settlements. Among the conspicuous
signs of good taste in house building
is the row of new homes, with green
terraces in front, which line the hill
overlooking Sunnyside. The w. P
Sawyer home at Sawyer, built in col
onial style, is among the handsomest
valley. Rumor has It that Mr.. Sawyer
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structure is comm odious enough to
warrant this multiplicity Of comfort.
The green lawns, trinity cut and
free from weeds were a feature OF
homes, modest and pretentious
throughout the whole trip. there was
hardly farm house needing a coat
of paint. Everywhere was an air OF
prosperity and self respect.
Only One Fault
In only one thing could the lower
valley farmers be criticized, and that
is fault they share with people above
tie Gap, the roadsides were over
grown with all sorts of Objectionable
weeds, among them the great pest
the Russian thistle. A few farmers
had shown self respect and good
judgment in cutting the weeds alonf
their fences before they went tt
seed, but they were altogether the ex'
ceptions. In Sunnyside, in one of the
newer and attractive building dis.
trcts, a recently laid concrete side
walk was about half over grown witt
the thistle.
| AS for the roads. themselves, the
recent rains have put them into ex
cellent shape. There are few puddles
bumps are not too frequent and the
going is such that a good clip of speed
is possible. Both for trip of enjoy
ment. and for first hand knowledge
of the varied agricultural industries
practiced in the valley. the trip is t.
be recommended.