, 1890-09-11
AN ERA OF PROGRESS.
How Trackless Forests De-
come Busy Haunts.
COLWLLE'SMARVELOUS GROWTH
Thrifty Business Men-The iron
Horse Takes the Place oi
the Cayuse.

the Cayuse.
Written for the REVIEW by Randall H.
Kemp.
A year ago last February, wheh
ID. &. Corbin, A. A. Newbery anu
James Monaghan returned from
trip of nearly 300 miles, made on
runners, whereby they looked o''O
the proposed route of the Spokane
Falls Il Northern railway, the four-
dation was commenced on whlch
one of the most important business
enterprises beneficial to Spokane
Falls and a vast area OF country
was reared.
A rerson does not have to bo an
old-tiuer to remember the alacrty
with which the people of this pro-
gresseive city accepted Mr.. Corplll
request for bonus of SlOO,Ooo'
which should be guaranteed before
he commenced the construction oi
the road.
The board of trade took an active
Interest in,the matter, the bau kerleiV
his counting house, the editor MS
chair, and the merchant his ledger,
the entire population of the city APP
peared to consider themselvesa com
mittee, and before they scarcely
paused to take breath this sum was
pledged, and ID. G. Corbin, the rail-
way magnate of the Pacific North
west, was actively engaged in the
construction of this line, which Is
rapidly becoming n great artery oi
commerce.
Like all successful business men,
possessing that rare faculty called
genius, he selected his stall of aids
and assistants from the best material
to be found, and from its inception
up to the present the carrying out OF
this colossal scheme has moved
with the precision of a well regu-
lated clock.
1t appears almost incredible That
such II perfect road as the Spokane
Falls X Northern could be con-
structed and equipped in such II
short time, and the benefit 1t has
been to the Colville and Upper
Columbia country, and this city rs
well, can scarcely be realized.
The days of the lumbering stage
coach, the heavy freight wagon and
the slow cayuse method of travel
ing, are numbered among the things
that We're, and another rich section
of the great North west has received
the benefits of one of the great
equalizers, a modern railway.
TO CoLvILLE.
On Tuesday last | took the Mar
Gus flyer at the depot In this city
and was soon being whirled along
the smooth road at the rate of
twenty-five or thirty miles an hour.
The contrast with the old stage
coach of a year ago was very notice
able.
1t is surprising the amount of
business that has been developed
along the line of the road. Brick
yards and sawmills are seen on all
sides from the car windows, while
an industrious rancher carving II
new home out of the wilderness Is
not an unusual sight.
Loon lake, which one year ago
was comparatively unknown, IL
now one of the noted health and
nIeasura rasorts az tbia sactIon of
aonrtrv Exo,r,io,s to tIis haov-
tif,I and fayored snnt are of oim'nst
daily occnrrence
Ten miles hevond the lake md
q ,,,, IL, 80 - ' III, ""N
the town of Snrinpdaie tho snIote
ia seen arising rom snore or m,oro
of lime klIns md lone strinas oS
freiyht ca "a are stondins On tho slde'
tr,rLs h.ina ioodad ,,i,5 M ,,,,aT,I
nroduct
From bere the road ,vinds do,v,
Sheen creek and i'm a short tine
,ve sboot frnn, tha narrn,y ,o,ero a,d
are glid,ng along The oram5 "nd
lovely CoIyiiIo Galley ths g,rdan
snnt of ,h,. ror,ian ~, t,,o NJ,
West.
vi" IN oil diroo,,o,s oon ho ooa H.,
,namse r;cts os ,ba ",i ,i,oo,%,, o @ h,, ,,,
which has made this v,I,eu oo es
mons yhiIa tha ro,n,,a, a. -.
hired help are busy afieId adding to
the great oIantitiea stacked mn for
winter use and for the market
Tile train bnlts mt CheweIah and
I'm n measure the scenn chanuns
Here the miner stcn. In and ,a %.
a hand i'm extrnctinp from th,.
ground some of mother enrtt',s 70
Sources. Cars are heing Laden Viii
rich ore and sent tS the n,on,.
sn,eItiny works In tho Iin;,aa3
states. ~ '''1
The Eoyle min. Iooataa fo,r
miles from Chawa,ob vioidad J'', =