, 1890-11-06
SPOKANE WAS IN TT
An Eloquent and Masterful Pre-
sentation of the Marvellous
Growth or Spokane.
There Were at Least Eight Thou.
sand People in the Expo
sition at Night.

the big exposition, and was the most
notable of the season. The day was
dedicated to Spokane and the event
was In every respect worthy of the
magic city.
The procession was the largest
that has ever yet gone to the expo
sition.
1t was representative of Spokane 3
commercial supremacy. From fifty
to 100 exponents of the different
branches of business in the city
were In the line Of march, which
was over mile in length.
Arrived at the building, the inn
mense throng packed itself within
the walls and the exercises of the
day began.
Mr.. Patterson, representing the
business interests of the city, made
a short address, after which, Prcsi-
dent Clark introduced the orator
of the day, who delivered the fol-
lowing eloquent Grafton. He sad
COLONEL wINsToN's ADDRESS.
Delegations of representative citizens
from all parts of Washington and Idaho
have visited this exposition upon days
set apart for them and have honored
their respective localities by appropriate
exercises under this roof. AS we listened
to the praise they bestowed upon us we
felt that in honorins themselves they
honored us still more and we realized
how much this great exposition, under
it's broad generous and progressive man
agement, has done to emphasize the
enterprise of Our citizens ana the metro
politun character of our city.
To-day has been dedicated to Spokane.
This IS our day to rejoice in our own
work; and when we consider what ten
years Of energy and enterprise have
right to rejoce-the right to be proud
people.
In the year lSS0--exactly ten years
ago-the United States mail came to the
village of Spokane Falls once week,
aud was distributed among population
Of less than 200 inhabitants. The yearly
receipts of the postOttlCe amounted to
less than SEQ. Now there are twenty.six
daily mails distributed in q city
of $4,000 inhabitants, and the
yearly receipts Of the postoftice exceed
10000. Our population is forty times
greater to-day than 1t was ten years
ago.
In 1880 our only streets consisted of
the intersection OF Two country roads !;
now there are 500 miles of beautiful
slItctS anu DfOhu avenues, UEHlcU WITH
electricity and adorned with handsome
edifices made brilliant and bright, sup
piled from the largest incaIldescent light
plant on the Pacific coast, and along
these streets and avenues the motor,
cable, electric and horse.car lines extend
for twenty miles. Rivereide avenue is
this handsomcst street west of the Mis-
sissippi river.
Ten years ago there was one tempo
rary school house here, constructed OF
rough boards This year We have ex-
pended $3.50, 00O in the erection of mag
nhcent public school build ngs, and our
Children's day procession OF our chill
dren was more than n mile in length,
mum bering more than 5000, marched
into this building.
In 1850 there was no transportion by
rail into or from Spokane Falls. Now,
seven separate railroads run out of our
city. more than run out of the cities of
Portland, Tacoma and Seattle combined.
Ten years ago the entire taxable prop
erty of Spokane Falls was valued at less
than 81, 500; now 1t is valued ut more than
slSooO,Oo 1t has increased a thousand
times in ten years. ThSn there was not
single ounce of silver or lead mined
within 800 miles of here, This year there
will he mined and exported from within
q radius OF 100 miles $25, 900, 900 worth OF
gold and silvcr and lead, and there is in
process of erection upon the SUBURBS of
our city an immense smelter ut which
these ores will soon he treated.
Ten years ago there was not from with
in u radius of 100 miles of here single
bushel of grain exported. This year
within that radius We have raised and
will export l6, 600, 900 bushels of wheat
while within the same radius the crops OF
barley. rye, oats, hay, flax, fruits and
vegetables are unequaled i'll quality and
quantity anywhere on the face Of the
earth, upon territory oi equal extent.
In 1850 there WAS weekly upNS-
paper published in Spokane Falls. Now
there are four great daliics sold upon
our streets by an army of newsbOys.
Then there was one private bank of
limited capital; now there are seven
national banks, two savings banks ana
one private banking inotitutlon, with a
combined capital of Sl.b)OOOO whose
daily clearances average 100000.
Ten years ago our manufacturing was
done by single sawmll; to-day we
have twenty large manufacturing estab-
lishments one mill alone turning out
10000 600 feet OF lumber yearly and
our fails, the basis OF our growth and
greatness contain power sufficient to
turn the wheels of 300 manufacturing
establishments. Then the telegraph h
and telephone were unknown; now we
can communicate by telegraph and by
telephone with sixty prosperous and
growing towns within 100 miles of here,
each of which is u source of tributary
wealth. 10 our CITY.
But why 60 back ten years to institute
q comparison, when within the last tif-
teen months We have expended s.. 900, =.
0O0 in the construction of brick and
granite blocks; when within the last
fifteen months we have put S400 worth
of Improvements on nearly every foot of
land along the main thoroughfares of
the burned district?
Standing around the hot cindcrs and
gazing upon the ruins of the great fire
of 1885, what heart was hopeful enough
to anticipate the spectacle this day pre-
sents?
Brave though we were in the face of
that great disaster, who of us all the
morning after that fire would have de-
clared that within fifteen months the
100000 worth Of property then de-
stroyed would be replaced by 81, 700, 900
worth of brick and granite blocks?
Spokane Falls is the mining, manu-
featuring and railroad center of Wash
ington. From the Rocky mountains on
the east to the Columbia river on the
west, from the British line on the north
to the Blue mountains of Idaho on the
south, our supremacy is unriyaled and
complete. This is the point vt which
ideas and values are exchanged, and
from which population is distributed for
the whole of Eastern Washington. Our
commercial supremacy covers more than
10000 square miles, and embraces one
third OF the people and one-half the