, 1883-02-17
FROM LEWISTON.
A Real Estate Boom-A Wagon Road 70 Ine
Potlach Country Good Times COMING
Etc
LEWISTON, Feb. S. 1855.


We sre al agcg with excitement penc'n3
further developments. Articles OF ineorpor'
stion organizing the % Lewiston Real Estate
Company" with capital OF SSO.Wo were
filed with the Recorder last Monday. The
plateau south Of toEn Is 70 be re-sGTveYe"
and plated Jointly by the city ami indiV!d-
nal propr:etors, and al effort viii be made
10 introduce water there, which, II success
tul. will provide room for the thousands OF
ELIGIBLE AND HEALTHY RESIDENCES.
>.ould the Oregon Short Line decide deii-
n!.rlv TO build their railroad down Snake
river. Lewiston Will surely double It's Popa-
lsrion this year Oar people have met with
50 many disappontments IN railroad ma
ters that we are no longer 50 easily eNcIteG
as Of yore. and should our hopes be again
bl1sted, there will not be ! great number OF
broken hearts over il. Tie trade ot the
| Bitter Root and Salmon River minInS
! camps is still! controlled By oar merchants,
J AID vh. II % tha. Is added the trade oi the
surrounding agricultural regions i ing north
! Of Clt arwater. the cream Of the trade OF tar
, field county, as well as heIng the supply
{ point of the Clearwater logslng camps, II
can b, readily seen tha. the volume OF bHsl-
ness transacted III oar di'apidated stores Is
/ very considerable. Ia addition 10 the fore
! uninu, the cIt,a, KS Of Lewiston Will next
month. open 4 wagon rold up Clearwater az
an expense Of -. O00. 10 bring here the trade
/ and produce Of the Po,lach country, winch
! will aid very largely tn our commeTc!ai III
! terests, to say nothing ot the probability OF
| the development OF 4 rich mineral region IN
| the mountains lying between the fots1ch
prairrs and the north foTk OF Clearwater.
! Although Lewiston is .nly 90 miles east Of
/ Wala WaI!a, II ls, so far as development
! c,cs, fully - years behind your thriving
1 c.ty, OWING 10 your possession Of railroad
communication L., here We are solely tie
/ pendent, in the ~in;.r fUo";hs, upon the
/ old-time dead.axe wagon t"r communication
? u TN me butGl Ntllh az "t'''h
/ EEEGrLAE STEAMER sEEvI-E
/ In the Spring, Sunmtr ami Fall. In fact,
! We are worse of uo@ than We were = year
AGO. Tor then the mail service was let at
rates which permitted of srryIce benz PER
! formed on schedule time, ami under Me
Morris admins ration, with covered stag
and fpur-hOTse teams, whereas nader the
existing rates the contractor thinks he docs
! real Uc.l II be brings us letter mail t"I-e
/ wsk. leaving uc T,paPe:s and other matter
/ - accumulate at paiutS below un-Ii next
| summer, when the rolis viii prrni. OF on
/ occasional sack OF two to be hrou. .ht through
without killing the scrub musings which
nov perform the service
/ Bat Lewiston is al essentially frontier
! town ami we are content t. ABIDE hy these
harlships and grumble at them unit. civ:h-
| alton in Me form Uf railroads enters among
us. Il j. still in order to Spe.l. % Lewiston
as camp for the business end Of town
remains Just as it was in the palmy days "f
the Florence, Hro Emo ami Warren : excite
men:s, only much more drlapi ia,ci. Many
! improvements in the way Of brick stores are
contemplated for the ccrseit year, and
should
THE oEE"ON SHORT u>E
Down Snake river become fixed TACT, it
would lend sn enormous impetus not only 10
building. hut every other form ot enterFriSe,
as well Is acting a. a stimulant IN the de,
velypmeut OF the surrounding country.
/ Wth well established railfcai connection
you VIII see city here that will eclipse
anything il the interior Il Is not only the
/ head Of navigation but 1t i the only river
town on a nlrigable stream between the
| Rocky Mountains and The Dslles. Its ira !e
extends to the south and east iOy distance
OF two hundred miles, with IN immense area
OF unieve!oPei and practically unknown
cOgntry at its back SIX miirs east OF the
cry limits lies the Nez Perez InGian reser-
va,Icn, containing 80, 600 acres of arabic
land lying idle and unproductive ander In
dian occupation. This valuable tract, which
should be the back hone of our city i, aS II
always has been, 4 dead weight tor the
town 10 carry and tax upon our resources.
The Indians, numbering about l.l0l, live
exclusively On the bottom lands of tie tfi5u-
raries OF the Clearwater for q distance Of -
Z 81.
agercy. With this l.nd which the Inlians
DO not neei nor use, in cultivation by white
men, town of 300 people wou!d exist
aere- Our taxable property would increase
sufficiently to permit Of
DIVISION OF oUR COUNTY
Into some s3rr 0: geographical harmony.
vii. h i, impossible as things stand. Wecould
then 20 all ad an. bond ourselves to bridge
the rivers, and in Thousand Ways develop
the eoantry and increase its products :;
whereas, It now cr1pples our energies and
taxes our resou ces to the utm pst. There
are practically doubtless possibilities Tor fu-
ture development in this tara ;acoJR1G,
drained by the Clearwater aud its tributaries
| con!d tell YOU Of its great forests of cedar
and pine Eledged TO lie the best tim
Der east OF the Cascades OF its mineral
bearing mountains and ri:h gold bearing
gravel tars; OF its limitless pasture lands
spreading from mountain SUBMITS 70 foot
hills, and OF its fertile irairies on the river
uplands /: all lying just as Nature left them
ana awaiting development 4, the hands Of
the large civilization which railroad COM
nun cation brings ia its wake. Il Is a good
country to stay witt, anyway, ard relieved
from the political bondage which binds it TO
an alien territory, and with the sphere Of
It's energies enlarged By the abolition OF its
Indian reservations and intersec tel by rail
roads. these four counties OF North idaho
viii proTe TO be the most inviting and re-
maneratire field of industry in the ne
Northwest. Yours truly, Me- PEErE
SERIOUS CHAEGES-We understand that
no less than six officials OF the Northern Pa
cihc S1e aow nnGer arrest charged with con
spiracy to defraud, and what may be termed