, 1889-04-18
FROM CHENEY.
PROGRESS or NUMEROUS vALU.
ABLE IMpROvEMEN rs.
Reasons why the Branoh NGriouituPaa
College Should be Estabiished
There.


enc-.---lne Northern Pacific Railroad
Company has commenced to sink their
well In the southwest end OF town, where
they are putting mp stock yards. The city
council has let the Contract sor grading
| streets, which Ia now under way. New
| sidewalks will be laid on the grade. rs-
| moving the unsightly steps 1T the corn~rs
Ut the streets and pulling down the old
| plank awnings which disgrace Western
town. On the I'd Of May a vote will be
| taken on u proposition TO issue $40 600 OF
water bonds as u bonus to induce private
capital to put in system OF water works.
This last proposition seems TO be u Wild
| Cat scheme, but II may work we'll.
| The people here all recognize the fact
that Spokane Falls IL the metropolis Of all
this vast country north of Snake river,
| and wholesale center which will ulti-
| nately supply all the towns along the rail-
roads leading thereto. And that II will
CO DtiDue its growth In proportion
resources OF the country, which
now progressing with raoidity unpar-
alleed 10 the history of the northwest.
and occupies the enormo.s advantage Of
not having any large cities within ra-
d,us OF over 200 mites to hold her in check.
| Minneapolis has her 81. Paul. Duiuth.
Milwaukee, Chicayo. Omaha and hum
drrds OF smaller cities, all hiDderinV heP
| progress. while Spokane Falls has u clean
sweep. wide field and more enterprise
I than any of them. This is not fattery,
but plain facts.
| Now. Washington will soon assume her
position a. u state. and the government OF
the Uuiie,' states has given her vast land
grants for educ ttional and cfaritabb. pur.
poses---aIl ot which will be the property Of
the state, and over which there will be Q
scramble for the benefits accruinu there.
! irom. Already there has been much trad
| ing done in our legislature regarding the
location OF different institutions Seattle
has the State University. Olympia tho
state Gu pitOl. StellacO the iU-aue ~, lun,
| Vancouver the deaf mute asylum, Waila
Walld thu penit"ntiary and Medita Lake
the branch asylum for the insane. Among
the numerous other institutions yet to be di-
vided between Eastern and Western Wash
| invton your correspondent would kindly
suggest that "a branch agricultural college
should be and ought TO- be located ut the
quiet. heaitbful and moral little city Of
Cheney, for the reason that it is easy Of
acce 3, the center of the Big Bend and Pa
and Walla Walla, and is the highest point
on the railroad; and her citizens will do
note the finest agricultural lands adjoining
| the city for an ex xprrimpntai farm. Spo-
kane county and Spokane Falls can we'll
afford to aid in this location because it 10
the proper thing to do, as il
will reflect its benign influence
over the agricultural reRioa and
build up the value the country AS we'll
as pour money into the stores at Spokane
Falls, "a we have admitted at the outset
that Cheney is as much tributary to Spo-
kane now as any other point, and it would
be graceful act TO reinstate the old coun.
ty seat and all the country situated In old
Spokane county, from Idaho TO the Wena-
chee and down to Pasco. embracing Spo-
kane, Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and
franklin counties, which will respond
gladly to the call of her old county seat,
no y left de>olute by desertion and subdi-
vision, for the branch agricultural col
lexe. This IL all that Cheney will ever
ask for. as her people do not c0vet Offices
emoluments at the hands of the people
and this much she must have.
One enterprisine citizen,J. w, Mathews,
contemplates erecting u neat brick hotel
this season to accommodate the transient
| public, much needed corva- jence.