The Bitter Battle for the Yakima Depot

Paul Schulze, when interviewed by the Tacoma News reporter in reference to the decision of the supreme court in the Yakima mandamus case, says that now objections to establishing a station at the old town have been withdrawn by the N. P. land department and that the engineering department has been instructed to draw plans for the necessary buildings. As to the action of the company in this matter he gave the following explanation: 'The Northern Pacific’s reason for locating a town at North Yakima was the fact that the old town was lying close to the so-called Yakima gap on low ground and at the very southern extremity of the basin formed by the Ahtanum valley, the Moses country and the Natchees valley. Its location was unhealthy owing to the fact that all seepage from irrigation, etc., from these valleys drained to that location, gradually forming a swamp there. North Yakima is most centrally located and accommodates every part of the basin. Her prosperity and growth has shown the wisdom of the railroad’s policy, now sanctioned by the supreme court. I don’t think there is another man in the state who has been so unmercifully abused as I was in connection with the location of North Yakima. Every demagogue in this state made the Yakima outrage his stock in trade.' Mr. Schulze did not wish to name the politician referred to, who is understood to be a prominent Yakima republican.