n South Central Washington are easily reached.
Business and public buildings are of artistic design. City is
symmetrically laid out with very wide streets, well shaded. It grew from
a village to the metropolis in a few years, keeping pace with the rapid
development evident all up and down the valley. A blossom festival is
held annually in the springtime, and the State Fair in September. A
sight-seeing electric car will take one forty miles through alfalfa
fields and orchards where the results of irrigation are displayed. Good
automobile roads extend in every direction.

Trips should include:

A climb to West Selah Heights for a comprehensive
view of valley.

Up the Atanum, past Old Mission, through the
narrows to Soda Springs.

Moxee Valley to see the flowing wells: on the
return Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams are plainly seen.

One through Union Gap either by O.-W., gasoline
motor, automobile, or the N. P. Ry. The towns of
Sunnyside, Toppenish, Wapato, Mabton, Granger,
Zillah and Fort Simcoe, of historic interest, will
be seen; also largest area of sage brush land in
the state.

Bumping Lake; Lakes Kachees and Keechelus in the
Cascades--summer resorts and storage reservoirs.

Horseshoe Bend, past perpendicular cliffs of
Basalt, following the American and Bumping rivers
to the summit of the Cascades.

Up the Naches Valley on the State Road, past
"Painted Rocks."

Into the Tieton basin by pack trains; the mountain
and glacial scenery here rivals the Canadian
Rockies.

Headwaters of the Cowiche and Wenas--good roads
and scenery.

Ellensburg via valley of the Wenas--beautiful
scenery.

=ELLENSBURG:= Metropolis of Kittitas Valley, of which 60,000 acres are
irrigated, while the High Line, proposed, will water 84,000 acres more.
A level country checkered with orchards, oat fields and dairy farms
gradually rises to the foot hills of the Cascades, where grand mountain
scenery is revealed. Estimated population about 6,000. One of the three
State Normals is here. Splendid highways.

Suggested trips:

Cle Elum, 30 miles through the forest, with a good
view of Mt. Stewart (9,470 feet).

North Yakima via Valley of the Wenas.