, 1888-04-26
tue LEWISTON COUNTRY.
ts Productions. Climate and Ad-
I vantages Connection
~ with Spokane Almost Con.
summated.

WITH Mr.. JOHN L. VoLLMER BY A
REVIEW REPORTER.
Mr.. John P. Vollmer,of the business
house Of John p. Vollmer & Co., locat.
ed at Lewiston. Idaho, with branch
houses at Mt. Idaho. Grangeville,
Lapwai, Asotin and Uniontown,
stopped over day q. the Grand on
his return home from Portland and
points ON the Puget Sound.
To the reporter, who said to Mr..
Vollmer, II believe you have the larg-
est store in Idsno territory, and bust.
ness connections OF the most extensive
character, therefore your views on
your section cannot fail to inteie est and
instruct the readers OF the REVIEW"
that gentleman replied: ave have a
farming country reaching in every di-
rection from our very doors, which
yields on an average without irriga-
ton thirty-two bushels of wheat to the
acre last season, which was very favor.
able, the weld was much larger, say
.verage of forty bushels. This
country is practically limitless in ex-
ten. and fertility, and is unequalled by
any in the east. Rye, oats, barley and
fax yield proportionately. No
farming country exceeds ours.
Fine farms can be bought at prices
ranging from IS to $15 per acre. The
grazing is uulimited. Most OF these
lands border on the Nez Perce's reser-
vation, which affords an illimitable
range.
We have demonstrated within the
last few years that we can raise, with
out irrigation, on the hillsides in every
direction from us, and on lands which
have heretofore been considered only
fit for grazing, apples, pears, prunes,
peaches and grapes superior to any
now being grown in California.
personally examined the California
exhibit at the Mechanics fair at San
Francisco last September and found
nothing there equal to the iruit grown
by Louis Delsol, Robert Sleicher, John
II. Evans, l. N. Lindsay and others of
our fruit growers.
Strawberries, of which we have two
crops season, raspberries, currants,
and the smaller fruits are equally pro-
lifc..
CLIMATE.
Our climate, except three weeks at
Lewiston in summer, and two weeks
in winter, is, without the slightest ex-
sggeration, perfect; there is no better
climate on earth, perfect days and
nights all the time. The three sum-
mer weeks at Lewiston are only disa.
greeable in the day time, the nights
being COOL while the heat OF the day
is uot greater than at Spokane. The
cold snap in winter is not go intense
az at Spokane, and lasts, as l said,
about two weeks at farthest.
CONNECTION WITH SPOKANE.
We expect'at an early day the ex-
tension OF the o. r. & N. line from
Riparia to Lewiston. The Spokane &
Palouse road has reached Genesee,
which is only two hours v stage
from Lewiston. SO that when you of
Spokane send out morning train,
which / expect will be done within
thirty days, you can go to Lewiston in
one day. Spokane talks great deal
about mines and mining interests, but
when connection is made with Lewis
ton through the Palouso, Farming
ton, Moscow, and Genessee country
you will find an inexhaustible and
rich and varied field for traffic, COM
mercc, and intercourse.
Within year or two, undoubtedly
some great trans-cOntinental line will
cross the Bitter Root and reach Lew
iston by way of the Clearwater. The
building of such line will open up
the immense mineral districts directly
tributary to Lewiston which are, as
yet, inaccessible. / refer to the Oro-
tino, Pearce City, Clearwater, Flor
ence, Salmon river, and Warrens dis
tricts.
1t is statistical fact that about
twenty millions Of dollars have been
taken from these districts in gold dust
To tap the mother ledges from which
this gold comes would be the direct
result OF such u road across the con-
tinent.
TRADING CENTRE.
The trade of Lewiston amounts tc
several millions yearly, being larger
than that of any place OF its size west
of the Rockies.
The future OF the lewiston country
is assured beyond doubt. 1t is only
q question OF a few years until Snake
river will be opened to tide water fol
free navigation. This will make oul
country independent OF any railroad
combination. In this respect ! claim
Lewiston's superiority over all interior
points. When we reach that position
you can remove ths plant OF the RE
VIEW to the metropolis of the grea
Clearwater empire.
At this point the reporter asked Mr.
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