The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-08-30
lEMENT WASHINGTON FRIDAY. AUGUST 30 $50
EASTERN WASHINGTON.
Spokane Falls aud tie Treat
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pzratisely avw. The gseisic ocean
-ogtae sss ages a@o azshs~l the westsrt
side q this mighty ug.sii;. The Sssrras
- California ard the gascsss.S Of
Washington sna Oregon astaise.i
their present elevation after series
os safsserranean struggles. and with
them the vast areas nov constituting
CIR Faefac states acre broaghs forth
from saisry esensilses lit has nos keen
many years sifse the great volcanoes
OF the Cascade range ceasesl to show
signs o. internal agitation. There are
people now iiviflg in Portland whe
claim 70 hare seen smoke issuing from
the Crater ef Mount Hood at one
time or another within the last ten
years, But these lofty resks are prac-
tieaily extinct. They are responsible.
actively or passively, for almost all the
physical conditions of the new
state OF Washington. In shape
Washington Is paraleilogram. its
longer axis running east and
west from the coast 10 the Idaho
boundary The Cascades cut i; in
twain. Maine does not more widely
differ from Caiifonnia than do the sss-
tions thus created They are differ
ent IN soil. in climate. in vegetation
and III the resources offered 10 human
endsayor. The mountains. the at
nlospherle moisture on their wind
ward, or westward side. producing for
more than half the year constant
succession of raiufaIis on a mighty
forest that covers the country from
the mountains 10 the sea. while the
leeWard land. deprige1 of moisture, is
for many miles, or until relieved OF It's
mountain blanket, q foriorn and
dreary desert. West of the mountains
the soil i a deep vegetajle mould.
produced hy the decay of fallen TIM
hers, with a top dressing Of alIuvsaI
deposit on the tide lands of the
coast East of tie mountains the soil
i basaliic, while the desert area is enc
vast lava bed. West OF the mountains
the climate is mild. and the seaSoas
are described with relation tothe rain
fsli. East OF the mountaiEs the eli
New York, for. al housh higher in lat
isaae. Its na'urai seyerity Is tempered
by the warm Pacific winds,
These differences between East
Washington and West Washing on
need To be emphasized. for they affect
the people IN all their affairs. The
Interests III one section are rarely the
Interests of the other. All through
this immense country / have been
deeply impressed with the wonderful
elasticity OF our political system.
From the ninety meridian 10
each of the boundary oceans is about
the same distance. 4 line drawn
from that meridian, near the nakotas.
TO the Pacific would pass through
four states. Drawn To the Atlantic
il would pass through nine. Ia the
matters of climate aud topography
there are as many reasons for dividing
the Western states into small com
rnonwealths a. for so dividing the
Eastern ones. Ii is remarkable how
harmoniousfy communities thus re-
motely placed from each other live
under the same local government,
and especially remarkable because
every individual town is steadily
and fiercely struggling in furlherance
OF the common ambition to be the
business center OF the state. Two
great Western cities. Denver and ST.
Paul. stand out as brilliant examples
OF what industry and sagacity can do,
and every little hamlet burns
with the spirit of emulation. They
all have some body in them who knew
Denver and st. Paul when their only
tenants were Jack rabbits and rattlers.
Somebody is always taking about the
time when he was offered a third OF
Denver or half of 81. Paul for the
price of buffalo robe. Somebody, as
be lounges in Tn hotel OF an evening is
sure To toe reminiscent of the DAYS
when he ranged his cattle in what is
now Kansas City. or sold the whole of
Omaha for couple of cayuses. These
tales eff wondrous chances To grow
rich, had the teiIers OF them bat pos
sessed the divine faculty OF fore
knowledge. are told 10y the million,
and Ii must be owned they
are more less disturbing.
When YOU look around and see from
every pin point of the compass hun
dred large and thriving cities that
have grown up from a sagebrush prai-
RE or pine thicket within the past
ten years. IL makes you wonder not a
little whether the spot you happen to
be standing on may not be an embryo
metropolis. where the lsnd YOU can
bay today for $40 an acre might be
sold tomorrow for 81 .ts1 from. foot
Fortunes have been made in Spokane
Falls. are yet being made, upon just
that scale OF values. Spokaue's his
tory--oh. by the way, cali IL spo-kan
II you please, as though II rhSmed
with ban or tan. not with gain or lane,
and put the accent on the last syllable
--Spokane's history. as | was saying
is almost incredible. When Mr.. HAYES
WAS insuguraled il vas blank wilder
ness Not n SINGLE civilized being
lived within a hundred miles of IL
One day in 1878 white man came
along in bull team. saw the wild
rapids and the mighty falls oi the Spo-
kane river. reflected on the history of
81. Paul and Minneapolis with their
little Falls of St Anthony. looked at
the tide Of immigration just turning
toward the further Northwest, and
concluded he wouid lit right down
where be WAS and wait or city u
grow around him. This tar-stf hted
pioneer l. stin living wttin earShot
Of these rumhling fails, ana they
make a cheerful music 70 him. De
city - there with him. = ~. people I:
and h can draw check toaay GOOD
for 81 sso .0sn For several teAss hsA
ewes fell ON nothing hut Prase' ie,la
anil foamv waters. Now "a ne coz
around he sees mills and factor :
railroad lines 20 the north Soa'h'
east ard west, churches thsaue' :,
schnalhnuseS. costly dwellings anu
stores. paved streets. and al ta,a'
makes living easy and comfort aoae.
The greater part 81 this has c".,'e
within his vision since l.-S. when 'tie
Northern Parific blew ia FIRST Whistle
in Srokane Bat even then there wa
agite = VILLAGE. After this earliest
r,inneer had spent lonely
wear or two on his homestead two
other men came along. They were
friends who. UPON an outing. had
rl,snred to meet. They we're eanti-
vsted bw the waterfall ard hy what
the usanssr told them of the
fine farming lands in tire
al accent country. ard they offered
each 20 tske third Of bis holding.
Then they began 10 adE.rsi . aua io
ftace adventurous farmers en- home
s.eah claims. They were sise IN their
siav and generation and thew worked
hsrsser so fiIi the country with grsin
r-safueer< than ~ cell real estate
around ffse falls Thew Soon bal their
regard. IL game 9th the railroad.