, 1889-03-14

time ago the bones OF some large animal
In the bottom Of spring. They wers
shipped east, but ss yet they have been
unable to decide a. to what they are, being
much larger than the mastadon. The
breast bono is ten feet high. allowing the
tallest man to walk thrc ugh IL. Since
then others have been found at the differ.
ent springs in the neighborhood. A full
account OF this once strange animal will
be given In the Latah Times shortly.
Seven miles further along the railroad 10
Which is at present the liveliest town Of
the lot, being the headquarters Of ]. H.
tract for the building of the Coeur
d'Aleue branch Of the o. r. & N, sixty
miles In leneth. The value Of the outfit
including stock. implements, stores etc., 10
$50, 900. The amount of goods shipped
along the route last month was valued at
$3S 5000, and the number of men employed
10 1900 Rock work has been in progress
for over month, but grading only com
menced Thursday last. Six months ago
there was nothing but wheat field where
now stands the enterprising town of
T;!ekoa, at the junction of Hangman and
county. Lake Latah is on bluff Of
very rich black loam.- There are over
City houses. and all branches of business
are we'll represented and doing thriving
trade. There are your well stocked mer-
chandise stores owned by j. w. Warner,
George ID. Brown, s. h. Coffin, and Matt
Johnston. A fne two story hotel owned
by Sanders and Manchester is doing a
rushing business. In this hotel W. H.
Robinson has opened first class tonsorial
parlor and bath rooms. B. +. Trusx has
g finely equipped livery stable. d. w;
notary public OF the town. The new build.
inRs TO be built are large store for hard
ware by Mr. Howe, another for drugs by
George Switzerland, another by Or. Beach.
All OF these gentlemen are from Colfax.
Frank p. Connell is building three, stores,
one for a butcher, another for farming i'm.
pliments, and the third for rent A
new depot the. same as at Latah, as
we'll as two section houses, will be built by
the railroad company at once.
In all of these towns one finds the wide
awake, enterprising business man each
one determined that bis town shall be the
severance is all that is required We shall
see three Hourishing cities In this part Of
Washington in the near future.
OF from the regular line Of trade but lit
tie Ia known of this
MAGNIFICENT FARMING COUNTRY.
The soil is remarka kably rich black loan
from four to forty feet deep. This may
seem incredible, but is nevertheless . fact.
II produces wheat from thirty to sixty.hve
bushels to the acre; 100 bushels Of oats
and 100 bushels of barley have been taken
from an acre. Farms are pointed out
where the eleventh successive crop was tax.
en- of last year, producin9If 9Iforty-six bushels
by weight to the acre. Corn can be raised
very abundahtly If the farmers would only
devote little mere time to its cultivation;
as it is they raise very fine article for
table use. Fruit of oil kinds do we'll and
are very productive. This is not in the
Palouse country proper, but In Spokane
valley, an area of sixty square miles, the
most productive valley in Washington,
and most inviting to settlers from the east
who become disguised with the rocks and
farming lands along the Northern Pacific.
They should get of at Spokane Falls. take
the stage to Rockford, where they can con-
meet with the o. r. & N. railroad, which
would take them through farming coun.
try the productiveness of which i not to
be found anywhere. In every direction
can be seen the farmer busy plowing and
seeding. The grass is nice and green, and
in some places the early spring flowers all
in bloom while in the east the ground is
covered with snow and ice. Take this
trip, eastern friends and see for yourself
before returning home.