Newspaper clippings - Railroads - Transcript (part 5).

Abstract

"Notice of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the city of Yakima brought back memories of that period to T. Harris Bartlett of Portland, who as a transit man for the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. in 1885 set the track centers at the rails were laid into the city of Yakima --if it could be called a city at that time. 'As I remember it' wrote Bartlett in a letter to the Yakima Morning Herald' there were at that time but two saloons, one church and a general store pitched in the midst of heavy bunch grass in covering the city plat."