Has probably knocked at YOUR door in the past and possibly you did not hear it. She may do so again in the future, but then there is nothing certain about this indefinite promise. Why not, therefore, answer the call of opportunity now—today—at this very moment, as you are reading this invitation?

This is not merely a cold advertisement. It is an appeal, an invitation, a plea to call upon you to come to

ELLENSBURG

and see with your own eyes what opportunities are lying dormant awaiting the man with ability, perseverance and capital.

If you are possessed of a fair supply of any tow of the above qualities you will succeed here.

A period of general activity has arrived at Ellensburg, and with the completion of the great transcontinental railroad, the C. M., & St. Paul, to this city, thereby making it the strategical point of Central Washington, with unrivaled direct shipping facilities, a great impetus to trade may be looked for.

But it is in the surrounding country that you see the marked signs of

As before admitted, the possibilities of the city are great, but they cannot stand up against the matchless and resistless opportunities presented throughout the surrounding country. Thousands of acres of deep rich soil, fed by the living streams from the nearby and beautiful Cascade Mountains, await the newcomer. Everywhere you go you find the mark of prosperity stamped upon the country and those who have helped make it what it is today.

Poverty is unknown in this land of sunshine, and let the home seeker or the investor travel the entire country over, he will not find a place more blessed by nature than

Properly called “THE LAND OF PLENTY". Farmers in the past have become wealthy in this section of the country. Their lands have for years produced a revenue of over 10 per cent net on a valuation of $300 per acre, and this has been accomplished chiefly in the raising of hay.

Those who have put their land to a more profitable use and planted to fruit have made such returns as we dare not quote figures. and the beginning has scarcely commenced yet.

This beautiful Valley is destined to become one gigantic garden and orchard, subdivided into small tracts of five, ten or twenty acres. This movement has just begun and NOW is the time for the homeseeker to turn his eyes towards “Kittitas, The Land of Plenty," where for $100 per acre, and up to $200 per acre, for the choicest tracts, he can find the very best of land in a beautiful Valley of matchless climate with opportunities too numerous to mention, with prosperity on all sides of him and where, finally, there is absolute assurance that a normal amount of ability and industry will be met by that friend we are all seeking.