Yakima's wealth consists in the combination of its soil and water
and climate. The county, lying east of the Cascade mountains, in
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large part at a low elevation, receives somewhat severe heat in
the summer, which gives the opportunity successfully to ripen the
less hardy fruits--peaches, apricots, grapes, etc. The county has
half a million bearing trees and two and one-half million young
trees growing in its orchards.