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Spokane’s population of 115,000 is busy, progressive, and 
thrifty. No need to dwell on her modern business blocks, 
beautiful homes and wonderful falls. 
From Spokane the route is through a portion of the great 
Eastern Washington wheat belt, across a bit of the arid 
section of rich volcanic ash east of the Columbia, through 
Pasco, the rail and water center of Central Washington, near 
the junction of the Snake and Columbia, and finally enters 
the famous Yakima Valley at Kennewick, which is the Junc¬ 
tion of the Yakima and Columbia rivers. 
Kennewick has the distinction of producing the earliest 
strawberries of any section of the Northwest, besides which 
she also specializes on early and late deciduous fruits of all 
varieties, as well as domestic and foreign grapes. 
city of fifteen thousand inhabitants. Leaving Yakima the 
route lies through Ellensburg, in the center of a rich agricul¬ 
tural and dairy section of the upper Yakima Valley, and on 
through the lumber and mining towns of Cle Elum, Roslyn, 
etc., piercing the Cascades through the famous Stampede 
tunnel and dropping down the picturesque Green river to 
Auburn station from which a turn to the right takes you to 
the far famed city of Seattle or to the left to the equally 
famous rival Tacoma, both of which lie on that wonderful 
western waterway, Puget Sound, which is flanked by forests 
. and mountains and snow peaks until the eye is never weary 
of its wealth of magnificent and unsurpassed scencr^^ From 
here the route will be over the Northern Pacific, through 
Vancouver, Washington and across the great new Columbia 
CAPE HORN, COLUMBIA RIVER 
From this point on through the prosperous valley towns 
of Kiona, Prosser, Mabton, Toppenish, Wapato, and North 
Yakima as well as through the branch line towns of Grand¬ 
view, Sunnyside, and Granger, the route lies through the 
splendid irrigated volcanic ash lands for which the Yakima 
Valley is famous, and on which are produced the luscious 
fruits and the splendid grains, vegetables and grasses which 
go to make up the enormous per acre tonnage that keeps the 
Northern Pacific, the O. W. R. & N., and the Milwaukee 
lines busy the year through. 
A special word here about the Yakima Reservation will be 
in order, for at Toppenish, its eastern center, the nurserymen 
will spend a day as guests of the Washington Nursery Com¬ 
pany. 
Arrangements have been made to show the nurserymen a 
portion of the Reservation, the rich hay and fruit lands 
thereof, the fine fruit lands under the Sunnyside and Union 
Gap canals and possibly also a portion of the fruit lands of 
Yakima and vicinity, which city lies nineteen miles beyond 
Toppeni.sh, and which has grown from a mere village on a 
sage brush plain twenty-seven years ago, to a fine modern 
and Wilamette river bridges into Portland the Convention 
city. 
THOSE WHO ARE GOING 
The following members of the American Association of 
Nurserymen expect to leave Rochester, N. \ on the “Nur¬ 
serymen’s Special’’ for the Portland Convention, or to join 
the party along the route. By the time the “Special’’ is 
ready to pull out from Rochester, it is anticipated that the 
number will be largely augmented by some members who 
have not at this time fully decided to make the trip: 
President Thomas B. Meehan, Dresher, Pa. 
Albert F. Meehan. 
Howard Davis, Wife and Daughter, Baltimore, Md. 
Orlando Harrison and Son, Berlin, Md. 
Chas. A. Ilgenfritz and Wife, Monroe, Mich. 
I. E. Ilgenfritz Sons, Monroe, Mich. 
John H. Dayton, Painesville, Ohio. 
John C. Chase, Derry, N. H. 
L. C. Stark, Louisiana, Mo. 
A. B. Morse, St. Joseph, Mich. 
