, 1890-05-22
THEY HAD THE SAND
Harry Floyd. an old-Time Stage
Man. Visits Spokane After
Three Years.
He Tells How He Managed q
Stage Line to the CDur
d'Alenes Six Years Ago.

d'Alenes Six Years Ago.
Harry Floyd, an old-time stage
man of Walla Walla, was at the
Cliff house Saturday. Mr.. Floyd
came In Friday from Ruby City,
where lie had been looking after the
mail routes and stage lines Of the
Northwestern Mail and Transpor-
tation Company, OF which q. &.
Mccoy, the veteran stage man, is
manager. Mr. Floyd goes from
here to Montana and Dakota to in
spect the company's lines and sub
let mail contracts.
mo, the days of the stage coaches
are not over yet" said Mr.. Floyd to
REVIEW reporter. sour company
has lines In Washington, Oregon,
California, Utah, Idaho, Montana,
Dakota, Colorado and Wyoming,
In fact II has mail contracts all over
the coast The company has lately
secured over $40O,000 worth of mail
contracts. Manager Mccoy had to
do some pretty close figuring to get
some Of them, coming In COM
petition with the company
Of which A. II. Boomer, the
veteran stage man and mail con-
tractor, formerly of Boise City, and
now of San Francisco,i is manager. On
two large contracts the bids were
tie, and the department. awarded
both of the contracts to Mr.. Mccoy.
SOME IMPROVEMENTS NOTED.
az have just been taking a ride
around the city" pursued Mr..
Floyd. "rhe last lime 1 stopped
off here was three years ago, and the
improvements that have taken
place here since that time have COM
pletely bewildered me. / knew the
town was going ahead, but had no
idea IL WAS masking such strides,
Spokane Will soon become u great
city, and no person on earth can
stop Its progress now. Anyone who
| Will take the trouble to note the inn
provements going on, and acquaint
himself with the numerous ad-
vantages Of the place, its vast min
eral and agricultural resources, can
not come to any other conclusion.
A Btr OF SPOKANE HISTORY.
"You see," continued Mr.. Floyd,
81 was here for some time six years
ago. At that time a. NJ. Cannon,
j. N. Glover, H. l.. Cutter and
others organized a company and put
on n transportation line between
Spokane Falls and the Cnur
d. Alene mines, and they secured
my services as manager. We had
twenty-eight miles of staging be.
tween spokane Falls aud Ceur
d. Alene City, thence by boat to the
old mission, and then more staging
to reach the mines. There were
several other lines over much short
or routes from the railroad. one be-
ing from Thompson Falls, u distance
OF only about thirty miles from the
mines.
81 went to Mr.. Cannon and told
him that lac knew how to run
bank all right enough, but / was
not 40 sure about his being a stage
man, aud I informed him that
1t would he impossible for us to
compete with the routes over the
short trails. He told me that was
all right and for me- to go ahead and
q. X. the bills and the company
would pay them; that they were
willing TO lose money in order to
benefit the town. They then put
the rates down the same as the other
and shorter lines. The result was
that people came on to Spokane
Falls TO start for the mines Instead
of going to Thompson Falls and
other points afiOrding shorter
route from the raiiroad, and In five
months and o half from the time we
started our line, had driven all
the Others to the wall and
they hauled off, after which Spo-
kane Falls very naturally captured
nll the trade Of the CGur d. Alenes.
This Is an illustration OF what pluck
Will do. Spokane EIIlls WIS fortu-
nate In having among her first set
tiers men Of enterprise and push,
and they have placed the town In q
position To become one of the largest
cities In the West.n
THE EXPOSITION MANAGER.
Tho High Esteem In Which He Is
Held in Montreal.
Mr.. w. Fl. Lynch, Of this city,
who has just returned from a busl-
ness trip 10 Montreal, says he saw
while there Mr.. b. q. Stephenson,
secretary Of the Montreal Council of
Agriculture and director of the ex-
poaition OF that place, and heard
from him q very high commcnda-
ton of Mr.. Robinson, manager
Of the industrial Exposition of
Spokane Falls. MIR. Stephenson
had Just seen the news In one Of the
Montreal papers of Mr.. Roblnson's
selection. He told Mr.. Lynch that
MIR. Robinson WIS one OF the most
capable exposition managers In
America, and that Spokane Falls
was most fortunate In securing his
Services. MIR. Lynch was greatly
lpseased ut the high estimation IN