, 1888-10-11


Let US see. II costs at the lowest esti
mate 81 per head per month for each
man, woman and child for footwear We
have l2O0O in the city, and tributary
country five times as pOpulous--say alto
eetber 10000. Their footwear costs
S720 900 year. boot aud shoe factory
ought to find good home market IN so
large and populous an area, and 1t is
hs certain that tanneries would do
equally well.
PAPER MILL.
Why not have paper mill2 The very
best timber for paper pulp exists in un.
bounded quantities. The quaking.asp Ia
species OF cottonwood), spruce, white fur
and straw, 30 useful for the manufacture
Of paper. are Of little use now. Straw in
great abundance can Ue bought for 81 and
90 per ton The pulp material il cheap,
the price OF paper is high, aud the
demaud always good. Besides the vast
CONSUMPTION Of 1t by the press, it is used
tor boxes bags and hundred things
even to car wheels, aud yet this splendid
held ot industry is not yet filled.
OTHER MAEuFACTOUtEs.
Outside OF politics and morals, and all
that, why not have distillery2 The mar.
ket Is here for the goods that might be
produced and perhaps the distilcry pro.
prietors would get rich before the reforms
OF the ave get well into effect.
Amy quantity OF rye. barley and wheat
is grown, and the classical drinker says
that potatoes make good whisky. IT they
do not. then they are useful in the manu-
facture OF starch, and there is no starch
factory on the entire Pacific coast
Ask at the groceries where their stOrCh
comes from. Look at tue labels on the
- lAlF L l.. Ill
comes from the East.
But one exception must be made The
Chinese restaurant keepers soak the pota,
toes they are to dish up two days In water
before they cook them. By this mean.
they obtain the starch used in their laun
dries, and for this same reason no Chinese
cooked potatoes ever reached the table ex
cept in soggy and tasteless condition.
THE WATER POWER.
There is more water power Mt this eoin'
in tue Spokane river than there is at Grand
Rapids, Michigan, where manutac'
tories are almoAt innumerable. scien-
titic survey recently made shows ouc ca
pacity above the bridge to be 55 900 horse
power Mt the lowest water, Low water
exists from the lst of September TO Janu
airy and high water in May and June
The variation between high and low water
in the river is but five feet. Consider th,
force of its power when but l0O'horst
power will run saw mill with daily
capacity for cutting 50 900 feet Of lumber;
and the same amount will run flour mil
that turns out 400 barrels IL day. At high
water the force has not been estimated
II Is altogether too strong for tiyures.
There ia abundant room for hundreds Of
mills and factories above the Poet street
bridge and ON the islands, and alsO below
the bridge. vt which latter place there is {
drop OF forty feet,
But the great place for such establish
ments Is from the bridge up the stream
In that direction the fall is bity-seyet
feet.
Three islands are situated there, all
adopted for the location of mills. Two OF
these lie side by side, and the third one u
above thesr two. This one is onc.hal
mile in length and one.fourth Of mile IL
width. The larger OF the other two L
one fourth of a mile in length and IL
neigh6or IL 800 feet in width. The r0Cl
on these islands il hard ana can be readily
used for the foundations Of buildings tha
may be constructed there.
II Il impossible 10 completely describe
the force and picture the possible ultilit.
of the water power Of the Spokane. 1t |
a study never ending, but one which read
lily cOnvlnCes all business headed men tina
it has the power 10 he-tOw wealth on thos
who appreciate and make use Of it--and
| manifest destiny TO fulfill, which il. I
make Spokane one ot The great mlnufdC
turing cities Of the United States.