, 1889-02-21
VIEWS OF PALOUSE.
Glimpse Of the Country by a
Tourist.
His Impression Of the Young
and FlOurishing Towns.
Pullman. Palouse> City, Garfield, Oakes-
dale, Rosalia, spangle, and
Marshall junction.

dale, Rosalia, spangle, and
Marshall Junction.
Mr.. j. Zeamer, editor Of the American
Volunteer Of Carlisle, Pa, made tour of
the West last year, and writs as follows
concerning his impressions of the Palouse
country and the towns between Uniontown
and Spokane Falls: Monday, August
20. at 6 o'clock, l rode with my host of
the Union house 10 the depot to take the
train for Spokane Falls. The morning air
was just chilly enough to cause one to think
that the summers here are short and the
however. say such is not the case. They
pronounce the summer pleasant and the
winters short and mild; and. If they know
Won to be su Eastern man, Invariably add,
with O tinge of qualification, "and we
never have cyclones and billiards. here"
The train starts at Genessee, the termi.
nus Of the road, and on this certain morn
ing was q little behind time. While wait.
ing for 1t paced the long platform and
studied the landscape. IL is not wat one
can call hilly, yet it is far from level. being
made up of dales, gentle slopes and knobs
that In some cases are of the shape and
size OF buttes. There ere no ridges. The
knolls are separated by low ridges, and the
railroad winds through these and around
the knolls in grace full curves. The low
places and most OF Tho slopes adjacent to
the railroad are fenced in a simple and in
expensive way, and are farmed in wheat,
oats, rye and flax, and the crops were very
good. The distance from Uniontown to
Spokane Falls is l03 miles, and the
greater portion Of
TUE COUNTRY
between those points 10 Of the same
general character as the country about
UniontewD,bu probably not all 30 fertile.
The train WAS very short one and bad
gradually filed up a. we approached Spo.
kane. At Pullman, = place built ON
rather billy site nineteen miles north OF
Unioctovn, We stopped halt An hour for
breakfast.
PULLMAN.
is not town that facinates the traveller.
Hills enclose it, and the country around is
broken and uninviting. Apparently. cir.
cnmstancer located 1t and it has been built
- rapidly that there wasn't time TO clear
away the rubbish and grade the streets
properly. Considerable building was In
progress at the time and one naturally in
fers, from what he saw IN passing through,
that the town 10 destined to grow to very
respectable proportions. Already IL is .
sort OF railroad center a. the Pslouse and
Spokane Falls branch OF the Northern
Pacific and q branch Of the Oregon Rail
way 4 Navigation Company's line cross
each other here, the latter having recently
built through from Colfax and extends in
which lies over in Idaho. not far
from the line. There are .tores.
hotels, boarding houses, shops, banks
and such other establishment as a
live new business place contains, but the
buildings are of the insubstantial charac.
ter usually found 10 pioneer towns. But
Pullman has future and the reader who
chances to come through 1t year or two
hence must not expect to know il from the
description ! here give it. Sixteen miles
more brought us to
PALousE CITY.
Here the sarsace OF the country undergoes
a change. From Lewiston thus fur there
ts no timber to be seen, either along the
railroad or away from it, but here 10 pine
timber Of 6ne quality. The timber is
scattered at first and gnarled in character
t1.;n apparently bsa. 1a on but a; the the
denss. The seil is also different, Being
more gravelly and in places rocky.
The town 10 on the Palouse river, . little
way of TO the right of the railroad.
There are some saw mills close by the
town which appear TO be doing thriving
business and the place wears business
air that 10 quite agreeable. Palouse City
y not far from the gold mines and l saw Q
statement not long ago that the mer-
chants Of the place in the last year had
taken in nearly 250,O In nuggets and
dust in trade. The country around. al
though somewhat of different character
from the country farther south, produces
HEAVY CROPS
of wheat and heavy shipments Of the grain
are made from Palouse.
From this point ON some distance, the
railroad is near the Palouse river, which
stream was In places quite filled with cav.
| logs that had been cut somewhere on its
banks and hoated down and caught in
booms. The waters Of the Palouse river.
like the streams generally in this country,
WA clear to the very bottom.
Ten miles more brought us TO the town
of
GARFIELD,
| Where there is another railroad crossing.
the Pennington branch Of the Oregon
l. Railway Navigation Company coming
up from Colfax, where that line forks. and
reaching ont to the eastward in the direc-
ton of the Ceur d'Aleue mining region.
the Northern Pacific and the Oregon Rail.
way d Navigation Co,npsby are in
active conpetition for prestige IN this
part Of the country, there 10 no tell.
ing 10 what advanced point II may bs
pushed BY another seAA0n. Garfield 10 NJ
yet email place and were 1t not for its
railroad facilities would be considered Of