YAKIMA AND ITS SUMU)UNI)ING&
piniah and Simcoo creeks run through is tempered by tho snow-cappod aks
it It is hoped that the larger portion of tho Cascade mountains, which are ti.
of this will soon lo open to settlement ible io tho distance at all seasons of tho
Tho congressional committee TinitM tho year. Tho nights are always coul am!
narration last spring, ami hold a con- plcaaant, and tho heat of Iho summer U
ferenco with the Indians on tho subject norcr opprewtiTO, owing to the dryr.cs
of Uking lands in severalty and throw, and purity of tho atmosphere. Thoaa
ing the remainder of the reservation son of cold weather in the winter iausa.
open to settlement That whole region ally short, anil the climate daring tho
is directly tributary to Yakima, Tho fall and spring months is delightful
trade of the Indians amounts to consid- Tho stock growing advantage of this
crablo, and when thousands of white part of tho territoiy hare long txn
people hare made their homes upon its known and uM with profit by thoe cn.
fertile exrunae, it will support a city of gag! in that lino of Lusioru. Its K'
considerable size, ricultural capacities aro becoming equal.
IMow this point is a great stretch of ly well known, ami tho settlors who have
arablo and grazing land, of which the locatM in tho neighborhood, although
town of Piwser is tho businnis point they hare suffers some from dry s'a
Prowwr is located at tho falls of tho Ya- sons, aro tatisfiM that in tho production
kima river, on the line of the Northern of wheat ami other cereals, they will I
Pacific railroad, alout fifty mita south- as succmf ul im the stock mn have Un a
east of North Yakima. It is tho center heretofore. Along the lower jortioii of
of business and trade for tho surround- tho Yakima river, and rallel with tho
ing country to the extent of twenty-fivo Northern Pacific railroad, there 1 a strip
to forty mile in every direction. Con- of sago brush land, rich and pruluctive,
siderablo shipments of stock, wool and from six to ten milea wide, which re
other products of the country aro already quires irrigation. To tho north and
made from this joint, alout fourWn south, however, there are cxt'tisivn dis.
hundred horses, among other things, tricts of high table land, coverrd rhMy
having been forwards castwardly by with bunch gram, which do not require
rail during the pnwnt season. Tho irrigation. It is a peculiarity of this re.
placo and country around it are uotM gion that tho rains follow tho highland,
for ft climate remarkably salubrious, am! and the result is that tho precipitation
this part of the Yakima valley is entire- of moisture thereupon is sufileirnt for
ly free from malaria, haTing excellent the cultivation of croj without Irria
drainage and no swamps or overflowed two. To the sooth of Pioawr, and trU
lands, utary to that ict, there is a section of
Tho altitudo of Prwr is about six this high Ublo land, knonn a Hor
hundred ffi t above the leH of tho a- a. Heaven, Ucauao of tho rxc Uui utor
The summer wmom are long and warm, ago it affords, which is aUut svrnty
affording a climate well adapt I to tho rnihs Jong from nt to wrt, and from
collation of jaehes, grai-n, tobacco, aixben to Wei.ty.five mil'4 wile from
sorghum, sww t potato, tomatoc am! north to south. It would be hard to (ltd,
other smi tropical fruits and vegUblrs. in any part of the 'trtn country, a
The surrounding country proml- to more beautiful body of UtA than this
Income one of the Ut localities on tho con!!ir;, as it tin, of a foiling ep.
Pacific sty for tho lOMwufol caltiva- laml, risitg gradually from in atolad
tion of Indian corn. The air in summer of aUut ol tUol frci, raf Walla-