A Wagon Road Paid For in Bacon and Grain

Seattle and Walla Walla Wagon Road.—A correspondent informs us that the people of Kittitas Valley are subscribing liberally to the stock of the road. Those who cannot conveniently pay cash are paying in labor, grain, flour, bacon and other supplies. Many an additional acre of grain is being sown to help bear the expense of construction of what will certainly prove a great boon to the entire territory.

The company have a force of men at work on the Columbia division, and will shortly place a ferry in operation upon the Columbia, either above or immediately below Priest Rapids, for the benefit of Palouse and Spokane travel. The force now at work upon the mountain division will be increased as fast as the newly disappearing snow will permit. We are confident our people under these circumstances will extend a helping hand to an enterprise which will add to our development, and it is hoped to have the road open between King and Yakima Counties sufficiently early in the present season to enable arriving immigrants to pass directly to and from Eastern and Western Washington. The President of the company, Walter A. Bull, last week received a characteristic letter from Gov. Newell, conveying his indorsement of, and hearty good wishes for the success of the enterprise. Ex County Superintendent Peterson will visit this section of the county this week to interview our business men, and all who are benefited by the growth of the county will sustain the friendly investment. We also learn a petition is being extensively signed, asking for the establishment of a mail route between Ellensburg and Snoqualmie postoffice, on the north of the Cascades. The people of Kittitas are awake and open up a general route of travel to every part of our Territory. Therefore it is of importance to all.—Yakima Assrd.