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Fifteen Years of North Yakima Boom and the Signal Office Bomb
A history of the North Yakima townsite boom sparked by the Northern Pacific through Yakima City. It covers the 10s era as the Signal office was blown up fifteen years earlier, early town leaders, the movement of houses, the Lillie Hotel, Saloon era, provisional government, and the ensuing boom before the panic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yakima
J. M. Adams
New York
A. B. Reed
J. B. Reavis
Harris
E. M. Reed
Yakima City
North
Snake River
Northern Pacific
North Yakima
Charles Schanno
Henry Ditter
Schanno
Lillie
J. W. Shull
Lower Front Street
Judge Navarre
Schulze
Tom Cavanaugh
M. B. V. Stacey
W. D. Inverarity
Ed Whitson
Judge Lewis
David Guilland
Old Town
Guilland
Bruce Milroy
Col
Henry D. Cook
Col. Cook
Yakima Sun
P. J. Flint
E. W. Dixon
D. W. Stair
F. T. Parker
Hoscheid, Bartholet
C. J. Taft
Agent Cooper
Laughlin MacLean
Fred R. Reed
Pandora’s Box
Payton Hatch
Portland
S. J. Lowe's
Fawcett Bros
First National Bank
Mikado
Odd Fellows
Sigmund’s
Sam Chappell
Milling Co
A. Forbis
Mr. Jones