Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-09-04
FROM THE NORTHWEST.
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-,ant Industries That Are pnda-
tmp'-Marvelous IncroAss Of popul.t1o,,
v,n.s and Mining The Country IN
General
GspEC1AL CONSEQUENTIAL
When you travel over the Northern
,oo,fc- with your trusted kodak In your
w. osa choicest bits Of scenery, let US al
lh s, vou to hold your ammunition until
VIZ VIZ zach the Clark's Fork River, unless
you ,ake couple of snaps at the Flat
! oad who hang about the stations In
u .hn vicinity of the Rosebud Agency. No
sn under the Government experienced
While with such citizens The artist
. apo took typical Flathead counte-
Sance as a study OF "troubles would be
n nannd to overdo the subject, IL he was
.asi,hful to his model. Their tents, how
. .ro, are quite picturesque, and 50, also.
're the Indians, provided they are far
.nough away.
the valley in which the Rosebud
Agency is located is very fertile and in
rtinp, and home seekers and capitalists
Like view it with envious eyes Perhaps
its popularity of Indian reservations
~ anuear to the eyes Of whites to be q
little more desirable land than that
nhich is equally fertile and we'll located.
but which is open to the white settler
md speculator. 1t is the forbidden
which always appears more tempting.
When once you have reached the
shores of Clark's Fork you will be tempt.
ID to fire a perfect fusillade OF snap
.hots: for every mile of the one hundred
along which we follow this stream of.
iers new and enticing scenic beauties in
marvellous and striking variety. Here
thc sportsman finds an abundance of the
choicest victims. Almost every noun
tain brook that flows into the river is
alive with aspeckled beauties" hungry
for the hook, and neither too shy nor too
wise to help themselves freely, at the
first opportunity, while bear, deer, and
other large game are plentiful in the
woods
Lake Pend 'Oreille, in Western Idaho,
is one of the most enchanting lakes in
The West Southwest of Lake Pend
dOreille is Lake CGur d'Alene. another
beautiful mountain lake. This is the
beadwaters of the Spokane River.
The banks of this lake and river are
thickly tmberel with fir and cedar, and
the cost of booming the logs down the
Spokane River is from thirty to fifty
cents per thousand The great water
power must make that city the site of
some of the greatest lumber mills of the
West, for the amountof timber on the
Spokane River, Lake CGur d'Alene
and the st. Joseph, St Mary and Cnur
a'Alene Rivers which flow into the lake,
is almost beyond computation. Spokane
already has various prosperous mills, one
cutting 1907 feet of lumber per day.
Spokane draws q large amount of
wea tn from adjacent mining districts.
which are all within 200 miles distant.
The Idaho districts which are tribu-
tary to Spokane are the CGur d'Alene,
southeast the Pend d'Oreille, east and
the Metaline, northeast. The Kootenai,
across the line, in British Columbia, is
also tapped by a Spokane railroad, and
the districts in the State of Washington
which are partially or wholly tributary
10 Spokane are the Okanogan and Col
vile, to the north and northwest. The
supplies for these districts are mainly
furnished by Spokane, which will derive
a large additional source of profit from
| its surrounding minerals as soon as the
magnificent smelling plant just built,
some five miles out of the city, is in full
operation. The capital stock is one
million dollars. The amount of free