And the Famous Palouse Country 



II 



Mr. Jos. E. Wing, the well-known correspondent of the lirecder's 

 Gazette, of Chicago, in writing his paper concerning the climate here, 

 says: "And the climate! The morning and evening air 

 Ideal Climate. -^ j-j,^ ^^^e. At midday it is only comfortably warm to 

 me. It is a land where you will ride in comfort with a light top coat 

 on in midsummer. If you happen not to have one you will get along 

 just as well. At night you creep between two blankets, and your 

 troubles find you not until morning." 



Loading Fruit on Snake River Steamer, 17 miles from rullman. 



In some of the low valleys of Eastern Washington, the temperature 

 in summer sometimes rises somewhat higher, but there has 

 never been a case of sunstroke in the Palouse country. The extreme 

 dryness of the air in warm weather undoubtedly accounts for this fact. 



Farming:^ and its Results. 



The earliest settlers came into this country about 30 years ago. Of 

 the crops first grown, wheat proved the most remunerative, and the 

 yield being so large, wheat raising became almost the exclusive feature 



