The Fight for the Parker Precinct Bridge

As a party interested, I wish to bring a matter of some interest to taxpayers of this county in general and to the taxpayers of Parker precinct in particular. At the last session of the commissioners’ court for this county, a petition was presented for a bridge across the Yakima River, below Union Gap, at such point as would accommodate the settlers of that precinct. The petition was signed by all the residents of the precinct, representing property to the value of $200,000, and also by many representative citizens of the county. The reasons for building a bridge for this district are that at present all produce must be hauled a distance of from twelve to twenty miles, over a miserable road. The expense of hauling debars us from raising many profitable crops. This section is fast developing into the best fruit-growing region in this part of the country. A bridge giving an outlet to the Northern Pacific railroad, a distance of but two or three miles, would aid in developing the country and stimulate production to such an extent that the extra tax would pay for the bridge in a few years.