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Title: The official Northern Pacific Railroad guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, its branches and allied lines : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation : and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products and natural features of the great Northwest
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Northern Pacific Railroad Company Riley, W. C. (William C.)
Subjects: Railroad travel
Publisher: St. Paul : W.C. Riley
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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s more of a mountaincharacter, the nights being cool and the summer days not aswarm. The farming lands in the basin are irrigated by ditchestaken from creeks running into the Yakima. They have a richalluvial soil and produce heavy crops of small grains and vege-tables. The raising of horses and cattle is the chief industry,and much attention is paid to blooded and grade stock. Cat-tle are shipped to the markets of the cities on Puget Sound andin British Columbia. Ellensburg (1,809 miles from St. Paul; population, 3,000)is the county seat of Kittitas county and the headquarters ofthe Cascade Division of the Northern Pacific Railroad. It hasa court-house, two large hotels, several small hotels, anacademy, Masonic temple. Odd Fellows hall, two flouringmills, an opera house, two banks, a planing mill, an iron foun-dry, three newspapers, and is well-supplied with mercantileconcerns and mechanics shops. It has had a great growthsince the railroad passed through the valley, and is a very ac-
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Cascadi Division. 83Y tive, prosperous town. vStages run to Port Eaton on theColumbia river, from whence there is a steamboat whichruns on the Columbia and Okanogan rivers to the Okanoganmining district. A raihoad is projected (1889) to run to theColumbia river at Port Eaton. Clealum (1,834 miles from St. Paul) is the junction of theshort branch road which runs to the Roslyn coal mines.Extensive beds of iron ore have been found in the vicinity of(lealum, and preparations are now (1889) being made for theestablishment of an important iron and steel manufacturingplant at this place under the management of an English com-pany. The population of Clealum is about 300. Roslyn (1,838 miles from St. Paul and 4 from Clealum) isthe terminus of the Roslyn Branch, and has a population ofabout 1,600. It is the most important coal-mining point on theentire line of the Northern Pacific. The coal is a superiorhard, black lignite, and is used for locomotive fuel and alsofor domestic fuel in all the to

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