, 1889-04-18

ye,urs started uu and ura,iiuv has alr-auy
been coui iulepc-'. TUE cl'v is alive with
pp,plr. The sidewalks will hardly hold
the ptopl- who are ont In the afternoon
anL evening The first day was here
wondered what was gong on to brinx Uut
so many people. After max ing souie in-
1nirv I learned that u was an every day
o<e ,rreuce. and not iAs un, Q ial.
THE LOCATION
il one of the finest | ever saw for Q city.
The streets are from sixty TO 100 feet vide,
and are being graded verv rapidly. Some
OF them now make as nices drive ~ race
course. The city has exDpnded q great
deal VI money on streets and bridges. II
has built eight elegant bridges across the
river, within the las, few vears, vt = cost
Of from $4,000 TO $4,000 each. two Of
which are now under construction. One
OF these two, costing As, 900, will 30 used
when completed for y cable line, wagon
and foot bridge. This IL the most costly
bridge 10 the city. Il 10 to DO completed
June I.
There are two large Touring mills. two
saw mills, one planning mill and couple
Of sash and doyr factories, oil run by water
power. The electric light plant and the
water works are xlso run by water ~ ser.
The cable car line will also DO operated oy
water power ~ soon Ne 10 ls completed,
which will b- about Sept l. One mile
of track 10 nov laid. and the line will run
Two miles west and two miles south. A
u0tor line is Also being built on which
two miles of track has been laid. II 10
not yet known where the te' minus OF this
line will be. The city supports two daily
Newspapers. the MORNING RhvIEw aud
un EuautnD (shrnntcIa hntk alaDopk
papers, There are eight weekly papers,
about ten very aood hotels, four national
and u number Of private banks,
seven public parks, eighteen churches.
four large school houses and number OF
small once, one business college, one
Methodist college and one Cntho ic college
The Ca, holes have a very large hospital.
n very fine brick building with room for
200 patients. This Is one Of the most use.
tut institutions in the city There IL "A
very large h,atinp population here, among
whom there are meu who hav- no ho,n-s,
and when they are slck they are taken in
aud are cared tor. The sisters are spoken
OF very highly here for their kinuness and
tneir devotion TO works VI charity.
The old opera house Is no longer suffici.
ept TO meet the demands in that line, and
new one will h. buiIt this summer vt
cost of about 100000. The city has a
large and very good volunteer depart
ment.
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC
railway runs very nearly through the
center of the city. Ii has two branches
running out Of here. one heipg the Spo-
kane Il Ceur d'Apne. which runs TO
CDur d'Aene lake. thirty miles south of
east from here, where the company has a
line of steamers that run up TO the C9ur
d Al NJ mines; and the other branch ia
west for about eighty miles and tapping
the best farming land in the territory,
lands that are said to produce
from forty to sky bushels of
wheat per acre. The Union Pacific RAIL
way Is reachinv this way with branch.
and the end of the track il only thirty
miles distant. The Seattle L. Eastern Ia
another 70 I'd being built. Trains run ont
Of here 6ffy miles westward, and 100
miles are completed on the Seattle end.
Work has been con- menced on the SDO-
kane " Northern. a new road mentioned
above. Eiubty miles through great
mining country will be built this summer,
re- ching to Colville II will connect with
thu Canadian Pacific. The CGur d'Alene
mines lie southeast of here about seventy
five miles, the Chloride mines, where the
great rush Is at present. fifty miles ea-t,
the kootrnai mines forty.hv miles north
east, and the Colville mines about
sixty mites northwest. All these mines
are supplied by Spokane, and they use up
more supplies and hard especially
bard dwarp-thsn all the Iumbermen up the
MisSissipp,. LAUNDERING is verv good.
There are hundreds of millions of feet OF
timber up thu river, mandy to get at and Of
very good quality. This will in time also
be a very good fruit country,
Deer and bear are very plenty up in the
mountains not n great distance frou the
CITY. Fish are not so plenty as around
Brainerd. hut they are of very superior
quality, being speckled trout and salmon,
Cnickens aud parLidRes are plenty, but
ducks and geese somewhat scarce.
think | have written about enough for
this time, After reading this you will
doubtless conclude, as | have, that Spa
kane has u great future. With its great
water power, its railroads, its tributary
mines and farming lands it's unsurpassed
location as the only supply. point between
Helena and Tacoma, distance OF 800
miles, and its wonderfully large and well
established local interests, it certainly
ought to be great city. have sent for
my family, and intend TO locate here per-
manently and spend the rest of my days
here. p. NJ RRTz.
CnoLaua E,l. Mech