Newspaper articles - Yakima Valley (part 6).

Abstract

"But reflect on the time of statehood achieved when Yakima's population was less than 2,000 and an editor could write: 'There's not a pauper in the county.' Yakima now has a population of 43,600. The Territorial population of 3,965 had grown to 242,046 in the 36 years before 1889 and is now a bulging 3,000,000. Dollars were cart wheel in size and you owned them in President Grover Cleveland's time. A meal cost 25 cents. Trice is eight to 16 times more now. Rooms cost 30 to 40 times more than they did 74 years ago."