, 1889-08-22

fcsses to be democratic in politics and
high tariff on the economic question.
This city of Spokane Falls, although
only six years In existence as sort OF
town or city, shows the most wonderful
progress 1t boasts s,00Oinhrbitants.
II has splcndidly laid out streets, some
very fine brick and stone buildings,
magnificent stores, eight banks, good
hotels, and IL building an opera house.
to ho the exact model of the Broadway
Theatre In New York. OF course the
most important question arises, Is their
anything substantial behind all this
wonderful progress2 We'll, in the first
place, II seems to be the distributing
center of an immense area of country
that Is said to be tho most fertile agri.
cultural and grazing country on the Pa
cifc slope. But all this is nothing to
the groat gift of nature, namely, the
water power that Is conferred in the mag
niiicent falls situated right in the heart
of the city.
At present this water power, in its ex-
tremc infancy, supplies power to very
largo and lucrative sawmill, whose pay
roll Is said to be $4,000 per month. This
mill not only saws logs and produces
of doors and windows, lattices, and
many other wooden works. Then there
are three prosperous flour mills and
other manufacturing Industries supplied
with power by these tnlls. But there Is
some hundreds OF thousand horse power
when the river is high, still ready to
seek for more employment. The falls
here are superior to the st. Anthony
Falls of Minneapolis. Natural gas is, of
course, a great boom but water power OF
the kind you find here is so much cleaner
and safer.
About ninety miles from here Is the
Colville district, where Mr.. Corbin of
New York is building II railroad, now
half finished, and 1t VII be fully finish 1tl
known for its great fertile valley, with
its immense crops of wheat and other
small grain also for hops and immense
quantities of hay. IL Is also q mining
district and produces galena ore. A
smclter was built there two years ago
and will now, with better railroad
facilities for coke and freight, be fully
and steadily employed.
Tho people in general along the line of
the newly admitted states are much
elated. The admission of Washington
territory as u state has given great inn
pulse to this city, and the inevitable real
estate boom is the result. Real estate
offices are not only very numerous in
pluccs like St. Paul, Minneapolis and
Spokane Falls, but they invariably oC-
occupy the most prominent and elegant
places for transactng their business.
really believe ii hud the chasing of the
business situation lwould put real estate
in St. Paul, Minneapolis and Spokane
Falls as first.
The crowning point of my pleasure
trip, as far ms grand natural scenery is
concerned, will begin when leave here
for Tacoma and Portland. | shall then
have the pleasure of passing over the
great Cascade division, which, IL Ii said,
/ surpasses anything to- be found between
| st. Paul and the Cascades. | left the
Yellowstone Park to my right coming
| here, which of course Is fully well known
| in New York. The Northern Pacific is
| by all odds the most interesting and de
| lighttul OF all trunk lines that 20 from
New Ho0k, or rather (I beg pardon for
this Slip Chicago to the far West.
/ The road itself, although only q single
track road, is splendid railroad.
! Everything seems substantial and the
roadDed is, to judge from the smooth
way of travelling on 1t, us good as the
I Pennsylvania ruad and, TO the honor OF
the nlangg sment be IL said, comfort and
/ pol'teness are the characteristics of tho
, line. | am perfectly able to appreciate
the difference, as two years ago | Is,tvC Il
description of my journey on the Union
and Central Pacific roads in the columns
of the New York Times.
! really cannot say much about the
crops, nut there j. general Complall'
about druuths, aud even in this triill
state a great crop Is not expected. IN
/ California il is said there il a good crop.
| hope to be in San Francisco about the
18th or i0ih, and | shall deem il pleas.
urc To write from there. Thus far
have enjoyed my trip very much, nor
would | exchange 1t for trip to Europe.
Nothing but a few ears OF II general
Continental war win compel the aristo-
cratic (not 100, but 10000 tn seek and
/ find the pleasure OF II Western toui
which now enjoy. j. ). MooRE,
| Spokane Fails Washington Territory
Thursday, July IL, 1889.