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U5s s sLAND OF PLENTY”A Brief Write-up of “Beautiful Kittitas” as Found in one of the Latest Folders Gotten out by the Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway Companyi IThe* following article re-; aiding Kittitas county is found in one of j the recent bulletins issued by the Chicago, Milwaukee and l'uget : Sound railway company:The central p* rlic n of the county is made up almost entirely of the yreat Kittitas vain-*v, the fn\-*t con-; sale!able trad of agricultural lands' east lt;if ti.e Cascade mountains on the line of the Chicago, Milwaukeei5c St. Paul railway. This is oval in shape, its grenlc t length being about 25 nub and breadth about jo miles. ()u eiill* r side it slopes east an 1 we-t .gradually toward the Yakima river, while the down rad-- from the foothills at the north to the e at ‘.he south is very perceptible. A large part of the valley b given over to successfulatriitutuie under irrigation, wh.ilemuch of it remai is in a st ite of natuic, awaiting developnulit by the settler. IThe countv has within it .bordersitimbered mountains, fertile valleys,i at trac.tm: gi iz:ug lands, lakes, livers, and creels in piofusion, and b t of alb excellent transpor- ■ tation 1»\ railway and by wagon road.It Inn been recently demonstrated that lii • irriysted Yakima vaP l.\ , in K iuitas countv, in the vicin-•r M • *itv of Kittitas, r.llensbipg and Timrp is fir.M-class fruit k ud. and it A bCu:.; rapidly developed as such, These latids produce pears, era I s, apricots, plums, cherries, and especially winter appl:S ot thehighest grade. A wormc-y a] pie is absolut • iai nown, -in there are no insect pests.Poultry rawing, dairying, truck and small ;rnu farming cm be carried on while an orchard is growing to the productive ape. Hundreds of acre « f fru.it trees re being set out, and the hay meadows, for which this vallev has been known on the* coal for ) ears, are being converted into sundi fruit farms.With hay and. j.rain, butter, fruit, sugar, potatoes, wool and mutton, beef and pork, with gold, silver, copper, coal. irlt; n,and lumber, and tlie best market in th.e world only 120 miles aw v, Kittitas county is lt;1 Mined I be ,Ueat. and he will do wei! who now lt;.ws i.m h ‘ here and seeks a h-wu* within its borders.band with perpetual water rights sells for from bK 1 p, bjen per acre but 10 a res i- as much as one man can take care of and wdll produce as much as a 100-acre farm in the east.Kittitas cminty l*as a population of about 15.(;o(i. Kllensburg, the principal town and county seat, has a populatian of about 4,000 people, with banks, schools, hotels, chtin lies, newspapers, library and public reading room, good water supply, paid fire* department, fine theaters, electric lights, telephones, steam-heated dwellings and public buildings, laundry, good sewer svstem and, in short, all the conveniences and contorts of a modern municipality.
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Ellensburg Dawn
Ellensburg, Washington, US
Thu, Mar 25, 1909
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