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the stores and restaurants,” he wrote in “Of Men and Mountains,” an autobiographical account. “By and large the Indians would come to town on Saturday night, mingle peacefully with the whites in stores, restaurants and theaters and then melt way into the night, back to their reservation.”
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ater was key to growth and irrigation canals were dug at a furious rate. “Irrigation is better than the rain directed from the clouds, for the water goes just where you want it to go and in such volume as it is wanted,” touted one booster in 1890. Taking water from natural streams and rivers, farmers in the Yakima region had about 120,000 acres under irrigation by the turn of the 20th century. But as early as the mid-1890s, most of the Yakima River’s smaller tributaries were dried up by late spring. During one drought just after the turn of the century, the Yakima River essentially dried up below Prosser. Thus began the first appeals for help from the federal government,
which built the first organized system of reservoirs in the Cascades. The venture marked one chapter in a complicated relationship between Yakima and authorities in Washington, D.C. In the late 1890s, national debate centered on whether the nation should retain the Philippines after the Spanish American War. Yakima residents, it seemed, had little patience with East Coast politicians who opposed the acquisition on grounds that it violated the Constitution. Many Yakima residents saw it differently, arguing the Constitution allowed the acquisition just as it had allowed the purchase of Alaska. On the same day those arguments were carried in the pages of the Yakima Herald, an editorial for the new year of 1899 also ran. While the language is slightly arcane, its sentiments have changed little over time. “Unbounded hope about the future is the feeling with which all classes see the close of the year. The hope is based on bountiful harvests, fair prices, increased business in all department of trade.”
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