Assessors Hear From Visitors On Yakima Valley Growth
Norfolk Virginia native Joseph Hewett describes the Northwest’s rise and prosperity in the Yakima valley noting strong bank wealth and high living costs. Ira Kratz foresees a spring surge in real estate, immigration, and resource-based growth across the Sound country and Alaska. Edward Corke reports over 1,000 homesteads filed and rail land sales boosting wheat production and Pasco development. J F Porter commends local treatment at the assessors convention amid a thriving agricultural economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Hewett
Norfolk
Old Colony
Tidewater
Virginia
Ira M. Kratz
Yakima
Sound Country
British Columbia
Alaska
Edward Corke
Franklin County
Pasco
North Yakima
North Yakima notes and local fire praise and survivor tale
Letters from North Yakima recount hospitality from Mr Scott and praise for the Yakima fire department after a Friday blaze. Mentions M B Jaques, Alex Sinclair, J J Dixon, and Dan Simmons. Also a dire Nome starvation tale of Mrs Emily Knight, later Emily Brown, who died waiting for her husband Knight in Circle City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. D
Yakima
Alex Sinclair
J. J. Dixon
Emily Knight
Nome
Emily Brown
North
Circle City
Knight
Tacoma
Dan Simmons
U.S
Lee Watkins
Real estate and horse sale notices by F H McCoy
McCoy advertises 40 acres seeded to alfalfa at 60 per acre with easy terms. Additional 20 acres seeded and fenced near Sunnyside at 60 per acre in four years. Includes 3 business lots and a 24 by 60 store building for rent. Also 10 high acre tracts and a 12-room hotel with five lots at 1200, rent 20 monthly. Unimproved lands with perpetual water at 35 per acre for five years. Then offers a full-blood Percheron stallion Arelequin 21973 aged three, 1900 pounds, plus five Norman mares. office in Norris building opposite Hotel Sunnyside.
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Sunnyside
Chicago
Arelequin
Lost-Pair eyeglasses found in North Yakima
Local notes list a missing pair of nickel-bowed eye glasses with a request for the finder to leave them at the office. The item appears amid a miscellany of society news and brief notices from North Yakima and vicinity.
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Nickle-Bowed
Also Mentioned on This Page
Boston
T. N. Elliott
Yakima Valley
Chelan
Douglass
Ruby City
J. F. Porter
Columbia County
Honey
Mr. Scott
M. B. Jaques
Stevens
Washington
J. W. McCurdy
Tribune
Imperial and
Cleveland
Biggs & Damm
F. H. McCoy
Norris Building
Hotel
T. A. Davis
Mr. Davis
Hawaiian Islands
Honolulu
Charlotte Lum
Ethel Page
Ellensburg
Miller Freeman
Seattle
Seattle Athletic Club
Northwest
Pacific Northwest
Yakima Hardware Co
North Yakima and Vicinity
Louis Lesh
Everett
D. E. Lesh
A. D. Sloan
Roslyn
George Sloan
Dell Hiscock
New York
G. A. Graham
Mr. Spider
Kl. B. Moore
North Second Street
Wonder Store
Clegg
Yakima Avenue
Rinehart’s
Andrew Lynch
S.C. Henton
United States
Teller City
Fawcett Bros
Chas, Kraus
Palace Bakery
HALE
Kinne & Baker
Proprietors
Studebaker
M. Schorn
Front
Cor
Gatumbla
A. N. Short
Liggett & Short
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