Excerpt from An Illustrated History of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas Counties: With an Outline of the Early History of the State of Washington Introduction - Senator A. J Splawn Writes of Early Days in the Valley - Early Attempted Settlements - Frederic Ludi Arrives - Tillman Houser Becomes a Settler - First Land Surveys - Settlers of 1868 - 69 - First Store - A Secret Marriage - Hardships of Early Days - Discovery of Gold on the Swank - Rush to Gold Fields - Pioneer Agriculturists - Beginnings of Irrigation - Indian Panic ot'1878-lumbering - Winterof1880 - 81 - County Sepa rated from Yakima - Kittitas Standard - Quotations from The Standard - The Wilson Family Expelled - Mining Activities of 1884 - cle-elum and Roslyn Mines Opened - Northern Pacific Built through the County - Work on First Large Irrigation Ditch Begun - Change in Boundary Lines - Railroad Accidents Noted - Roslyn Coal Strike. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.