, 1889-05-30
1T IL ALL HERE.
THE CLIMATE, THE SOIL. THE
WATER, TnE RAILROADS..
Enumeration of Some Of the Advapsags q
ofThis God Favored Country Wy an
Oak.sdAie Corraspondsnt.

OAKEspALR, May 20. Cores spondepce -
The rams the past week sre maxim. vrge-
t,tlion OF all kinda almost run away with
itself.
1t Is rather unusual to have rain in May
q this country, hut II has proved "A great
benefit TO everything. II has been fne for
he breakers aud the grass Ia the best for
several Years. All stock on the range is
now 10 fine condition
What Is known as railroad land is about
| all sold and is bring broke out by the
| thousands of acres and by next year this
time there will be very lIttle but will be
broke or fenced MP. 40 vive US no fence
Law and do away with the unnecessary ex.
p~nse OF buying wire to fence the grain
and then we can also keep the roads on the
best ground.
Business of all kinds still keeps good,
and buildings keep going up IN all parts
OF to3n-6oih businpss and resident
with lots selling every day.
WORK IL progressing at u lively rate on
the brick block.
The machinery for the planning mill is
being put up as fast as possible and will
be ready Tor business by the first of June
Like Spokane Falls. this place still
Keeps attracting attention, and many that
yet tickets for other points on the road
after arriving here stop Utf on account of
seeing ~ so lively.
Tne Oregon Railway & Navigation
Company has for the past week had con-
strnctlon train with $50 Cinnamon bal.
lasting he rond and lutline in an extra
side track. They are now getting down 10
business
The Pacific elevator is now completed,
the hnishng OF painting and lettering 1t
on being completed last week
There IL great demand for men and
teams to brt ak sod
avrre with the REVIEW; If Spokane
Falls IL not kept before The people 10 will
not be its fault. | say the same in regard
to OdkesdaIe. believe in advertising.
As time goes on and after II occasional
trip to the Falls feel more than ever con.
WINGED that my prediction, about the future
OF Spokane Falls and Ouksdale will be
more than fulfilled and in much less time
than nature bias done its part Cor both
places, a. the clti2ens OF each place fully
realiz- this and are mp and doing their
part. The p-ople Ia and around each of
these places are showing their faith by
their works. Or course we shal not claim
that Oaksdale, like Spokane Falls. wilt
make "A great city, but VIZ do say that it
VIII make the largest and best town ia
whitman county; it is 30 destined by
nature.
The county division feeling still keeps
increasing, and not only TO make two, but
three 'orinties out of Whitman county.
This would make county seats handy and
convenient tor all, and whenever a act of
msn undertook to drive people in this day
and age of the world they would I've sure
TO get left. One thing VIZ feel sure Of
that there IL no driving or jealousy exist
Ing between the towns on the Spokane
and Palouse ruilroad Including the Fall.)
and that Is rs it should br; they all ap.
pear to be men OF large ideas and broad
views,nothine narrow minded or con.
tracted about them they do not want the
whole rartn, but only their part Of IL
knowing that there 10 room for ally and
that part they are going TO have.
lhis Is great and glorious country;
we have climate to suit alnp OF any one
no extremes OF cold to last any length of
time, no sultry. sun.stroke weather In
summer; the richest and most durable soil
In the world. a soil that has grown grain
and vegetables for from ten to fifteen
years and no fertilizer Of any kind, With
last years crop just as good a. anv pre.
ceeding It, with the prospects as good or
better 30 far this spring T. an ever before;
no impure water, no insects to dis
turb grain, vegetables. man or
b-asts. no blz2ards, no drouths to cut of
our crops, no yclones to Destroy life and
property, malarial diseases, and last hut
not least. that dreaded life DESTROYER. con.
sumption-Done OF that-and yet there are
many OF the pioneers that do not fully an.
preclate the God favored country they live
in-mostly. l think, on account OF the
Disadvantages and hardshps of a frontier
life to make this what 1T now is, a country
of towns, cities and railroads ut our very
doors. Il.