, 1889-11-28
LUMBER RSOURCES UNTOUCHED
Views Of a Prominent Chicago
Expert.
VAST TRACTS OF UNEyPLORED PINE.
Tho Lumber Is OF Excellent Quail.
ity and Suitable for Finish
ing Purposes.

'I have been to oil the coast cities
nom Sitka, Alaska, to San Francisco; ;
have visited all tho Sound cities, and
when In Seattle and Tacoma thought
had soon all the push and enterprise
possible, but Spokane Falls beats them
all, and Is second Chicago in energy
and opportunities"
And every stranger that visits the city
agrees with Mr.. George w. Hotchkiss,
the editor and proprietor of tho Chicago
Lumber Trade journal, who made the
above remark u day or two ago to o
reporter of the REVIEW.
II have taken number of viows,"
continued Mr. Hotchkiss, "of some OF
the palatial residences, and business
blocks, now almost completed, for If
should tell them tho facts, without hay--
ing the proofs, ! would be laughed at.
When you speak Of new Western
town to an fastener, he Immediately
conjures up In his mind a picture of q
band of five or six hundred rough, un-
couth men, living and doing business In
unpainted board sheds lining long,
muddy street. II is utterly impossible
for him to imagine even that there are
buildings that would do credit to Chi
csgo, going up on every street in your
city. -''"
Spokane Falls sxcels anything even
l, who am getting pretty well accus
toned to the surprises in Western cities,
had anticipated or imagined. If II has
the natural advantages, which believe
II has, of great mineral wealth and broad
acres of timber land to back II, such as /
am told it has, Spokane has a great
future"
EXTENSIVE TIMBER DISTRICTS.
Mr.. Hoichkiss was for many years
secretary OF the Lumberman' Exchange
of Chicago, and has been identified with
the great lumber interests of that city
for long time. He seemed surprised
that the lumber trade was little appre.
ciated here, and in speaking of it said:
81 am ngrecably surprised at the ex-
tent OF tho timber resources of Northern
Idaho and Eastern Washington tribu-
tary to your city, and when the people
awaken and find out what they have at
their very doors Spokane will become
great lumber aud milling center.
Tho lumber districts are very much
moro extensive than l had thought
There Is large area of white pine to tho
south of the Cocur d. Alone reservation,
and in the reservation; and another
large body west of the Cnur d'Alcne
lake and extending into Idaho. There
are also immense tracts of yellow pine,
one running from your city, to within
ten miles of Colville, where 1t ends, and
beginning again fifteen or twenty miles
the other side of Colville it extends TO
tho British Columbia line, that will cut
from 100000 to 1900, 700 feet to the sec.
tion.
''In the big bend of the Columbia Is
also q large area OF white pine and some
cedar. Along the Pend d. Oreille river
10 another large tract Of the true white
pine. r-
OF EXCELLENT QUALITY.
''The timber is of very much higher
grade, and moro valuable than your
people seem to realize. 1 have been
shown lumber with a deep red streak
through the centor, and was told that it
WIS sap; while on the contrary, 1t was
only change of color, and can be used
to advantage for finishing purposes.
''Whilc It Is not so valuable as the
lumber of some sections of the country,
1t is adaptable for all uses. 1t is the
counterpart of the Arkansas and South
ern pine, but is softer and has finer
and better grain. 1t makes a grade of
lumber, that in comparison l should
place between the white pine of Michi-
gan and spruce; it is harder than the
white pine and softer than the spruce.
''The radials, generally spoken of as
the grain, are further apart than in the
Southern short leaf pine, but not so