, 1889-03-28
AT COLFAX.
Glimpse of a Busy and Prosper
Ous Town.
Its Business Houses, Schools and
Churches.
Now Buildings In Course Of Erection and
to be Put Up THIS
Year.

large immigration at this time. few
years ago it was not heard of east Of the
Rockies, the most of her settlers coming
from the Pacific coast. Now they are
coming by the thousands. Doube.header
trains in sections are bringing them from
all points of the compass to the richest ag-
ricultural region on the face OF the globe
where failure in crops is never known.
Spokane Falls is the great distribut-
ing point and this REVIEW representative
would advise all new corners to take a run
down to Colfax. the county seat Of Whit
man county. There are two branches OF
the Oregon Railway Il Navigation rail
road running In here connecting with the
Palouse branch of the Northern Pacific at
Garfield or Pullman Colfax Is a town OF
1000 souls. 1t does not claim to be a city;
it is essentially Il farmers town, supported
by agriculture ana stock raising, located
in "a ravine with the Paouoe river coursing
through it. while on either side the crags
tower up like miniature palisades on the
top OF which, stretching for miles, Is the
great wheat-growing Paouse country.
The people are friendly and helpful to
newcomers. There are no sharpers and
sharks such as infest large towns and prey
upon the ignorant. On the contrary, they
are gentlemen who are willing to give
THE TRUE FACTS
in the cass, be il detr mental or other wise.
Colfax is we'll provided with numerous
wells ocked stores, implement houses,
hotels, boarding houses and res.
taurants. Tne two principal
hotels are the Thielsen house and the
Baldwin, There are three fine public
schools, one just finished, a four.story
building, costing $4,000, besides two
schools belonging to the Baptist demon.
ination. Ureat many OF the buildings
are built of brick, among them q neat two
story fire engine house in which is kept
an improved Sllsby engine, hose cart, lad
ders, etc. which has done good service at
times. Two hourishing weekly papers,
the Paonse Gazette and Com moner are
published here. Banks do Hourishiue
business. They have two national banks,
savings bank and faro banks. The ma
tional banks did business last yea- of
three quarters of million dollars. There
are two saw mills; the principal one ia
owned by William Co1d and cost $50, ,000
which turns out 3, 100000 feet of lumber
annually; also Il roller flour mill owned by
the Colfax Milling Company and one Of
the oldest land marks in town. the daily
capacity of which Is sixty.five barrels; also
brisk trade. A machine shop supplied
with all the necessary machinery for first
class work is owned by Carey Bros, and
has been constantly running excepting
Sundays for two years. A new creamery
has been built at cost of $500, but un-
fortunately the builder erected it without
consulting the stockholders, alongside the
town dumping ground, and the stockhold--
ars refuse to accept it. II Is TO be hoped
fh..h ,lnt., Ia kSl. L.. A.
a more desirable site. as it will be pay
ing institution, What is destined to be
the principal business of Coiax ia the
near future is
THE PACKING HOUSE.
owned by Perkins, Mills & Becker. 1t 10
Il two story brick building built last Au-
gust at a cost Of $4,000, and is fitted up
with the necessary machinery for first
class packing house, in fact it il minia-
ture Armour. On the outside Ia the pen
from which there is a driveway leading
to the second story wherr the killing and
scalding is done, then IL is hung on
d tramway and carried by gravitation to
another part Of the building and lett to
cool, when it is then cut uD and put into
the picking watts, six oak vats each hold
ing 1000 barrels, and after certain length
of time they are taken ont, washed off in
WI" Wueci, tuch uTy, dTCtT
which they are put into the smok ehouse,
where they smoke 2000 pieces at one time.
In the storeroom the REVIEW representa-.
tive was shown several tons Of lard, and
the same of hams, bacon, etc. When run
ming to their tull capacity they kill Is
hogs per day.
A two-story brick addition, 4Ox7O, will
be built shortly. Il is big thing for the
country. for the farmers fud they can al.
ways raise the ready cash on hogs, which
they cannot on wheat
THE NEW BUILDINGS
include Masonic hall three
story brick SO feet front on Main street, to
cost $50 900; Knapp, Burrel & Co. will
build u two story brick. 50x90 on Main
street TO, cost $4,000, three.story
brick bank building as well rs a number
Of private dwellings, The county was
bonded Monday for 100000 for the pur-
pose of building court house, Jail, etc.
The finest residence in town is owned BY
J. n Bellinger and cost about $4,000.
Hall and Noble, undertakers, who also
have a branch establishment in Spokane,
are spoken of very highly. They do the
principal busines in their line and carry a
very large stock. Business Of all kinds Is
prosperous, from the S75 900 house up to
Coon Lee wAahee