, 1889-03-14
RICH COLVILLE.
Its Mineral, Timber and Agri-
cultural Lands.
Excellent Opportunities fol
PrOspectOrs and Farmers,
Aad with Open Arms the People OF
stevens County Welcome the spo-
kane and Northern.

OoLvILLK, w. t.. March Score
spondencs-Ths intelligence which was
conveyed TO the people Of Stevens county
BY the daily REvrEw OF March 5th that
the contracts for construction Of the Spo-
ksae and Northern railroad had been let
to the we'll known and reliable firm of
Burns & Chapman of Spokane Falls, and
that the work would commence and the
road rushed along to completion as rap
diversity Of interests of the Colville
country to great activity The coun.
try may Doom, but whatever sense
the meaning Of the terri may
convey every enterprise will stand upon
merit. All that the country Ia capable OF
sustaining in the production of weslth has
never been told much less understood. II
is the proper thing that we should all en-
courage the advent of q new period of pros.
perity by holding open every inducement
OF the railroad enterprise. and 1t is safe to
say. that all is we'll and favorable at this
end Of route. In speaking Of
THE LEADING INDUSTRIES
engrossing the attention Of the most enter
prising classes, mining is the first on the
list. Prospecting for mineral has been
the chief pursuit of those engaged in min
ing during the past four years and II is
pleasant TO state that those who have thus
employed themselves are In very fair way
TO reap their reward in hard cash.
Chewelah district has its Eagle, Colville
has It's Old Dominion, CluRston creek its
Dead Medicine and BS Bonanza, it Little Daliss @
its Silver Grown and Northern Light and
Summit its Daisy-all Of which are good
mining properties, situated within q
radius Of thirty miles from Colville, and
capable OF daily production of 500 tons
Of ore that will net value Of $50 per ton
in silver and 80 per cent Ia lead, and yet
the country has not been
HALF pRosPRcTED.
At its present development the Daisy
alone can furnish the ore to keep stack
OF fifty tons daily capacity in full opera.
sion the year round, and nearly every one
of the other properties will do half as
we'll. Then there are hundreds of pros
poets that will do their part from the very
commencement.
Aside from mining. the numbering in
terest can be fairly estimated as no small
item. and the demand and rush for timber
lands means the opening up Of a consider
able interest in that direction. The lum-
Der interest is more promising Of greatness
than has ever been supposed. All the
valleys along the mountain streams
and the adjacent uplands fur
nish tracts of many hundreds
miles in area of dense forests of an ex-
cellent growth of pine, fir ana cedar.
Then again there are thousands of
EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITIES
for the husbandman to claim q most de-
sirable homestead from the publis domain.
All the timbered lands when cleared can
be utilized TO a great advantage for farm
ing aud dairying purposes. The live stock
raiser can find ample room here for his
herds where hundreds of grassy hi'ls of
perpetual ranges stand open. Indeed the
country is 10 large and the natural ad-
vantages 80 greatly diversified that no man
can necessarily discourage his prospects
for fortune or peace of miud or conscience.
The isolated condition of the country and
the lack of proper transportation facilities
has kept back in the great race for su-