The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-01

miscellaneous lot of smaller hrict, s,~,,..
nres Tor business purposes, that cost i, tha
aggregate $780, and residences thai cost
IN the aggregate $4,000. This does NOT
take INTO consideration large number of
frame structures erected for business r,,r-
poses outside the ire limits.
In line with building operations br,
not included in the above nynreS l. En-
Improvement of the grounds of the North
ern Pacinc Railroad Company for freight
yard purposes at a cost of Si500oo. tba
IKE work Of the Union Pacil.c comnanv
at cost OF Sl00, 200; the same by the sno,
Kane Northern company, at a cost of
10000; the building Of nunnes and dams
oy the Washington Water Power Corn
pany, at cost of 500, 600; the building Of
railroad to our smelling works, at n cost
OF 100000; the building of one new cleo
the rapid transit line, at cost of $50 600.
the building of one cable rapid transit
line, at cost of $4,000; and public works
oy the city, such as grading, water mains
ana sewerage, at a cost of $25o, 600.
need not dwell upon the reconstruction
OF the city proper, the kind and cost of
various purely commercial structures
which would be credit TO any city on the
continent. / take it for granted that the
immensely of the changes accomplished
here in that line are pretty we'll under
stood through the mere recital of figures
given above.
There are two or three features in our
development for the year that / regard as
specially significant, and to which / wish
to call particular attention, because | be-
lieve they, more than anything else, in
dictate the lines upon which we are to
accomplish the making here of a great
city.
First--The improvements in the water
power of the Spokane river We have an
available 10000 horsepower the year
round. This is a good deal more than
they have in Minneapolis. We have a
water power unequalled in America for
steadiness of how, clearness and purity of
water, freedom from ice and driftwood.
and in convenience of building ground
Here lies the secret of Spokane's advan-
tage as manufacturing city. It's import
ance is just beginning to be felt, and the
Washington Water Power Company has
begun q scheme of improvements that
IS colossal in extent and that will
be far reaching in effect. They have a
capital of 81 100000 and are under intelli-
gent and capable management. They,
however, only control part of the power of
the river. The Spokane Water Power Com
pany have also taken great strides in the APP
plication of water power as motive force.
At the present time all the Touring mills
OF the city, producing nearly 1000 barrels
of -four day, and all the sawmills of the
city, cutting nearly 100000 feet of
lumber per annum, alf the rapid transit
lines of the city, including two cable and
two electric roads, the electric lighting
plant of the city and forty electric motors
by which printing presses and elevators
are operated, are run by water power, and
yet we are employing but 5000 out of our
total available 10000 force. So we have,
in fact, but made beginning.
The development and experiments of the
past year have proved that We can deliver
perfected horsepower as follows:
Where 1000 horsepower is used, at SIS
per horsepower per annuni.
Where 5000 horsepower is used, at
5000 per horsepower per annum.
Where 10000 horsepower is used, at $40
per horsepower per annum, or at an aver
age cost of say SIS per horsepower per
annum.
The average cost of a horsepower
throughout the United States, where
ctedfu SeTflCt 10 ndu, - ftO per We
therefore effect a saving over cities that
use steam of $35 per horsepower per year.
On the 5000 horsepower we are now
using we effect a total saving every year of
$105,0oo.
If we were using 1000 horsepower, as
we soon will be, we should effect total
saving of $4,000 a year, and s700,o per
annum if We were using 10000 horse
power.
All this means that we can furnish cleo
trio light, run rapid transit lines. operate
mills and drive general manufacturing
machinery cheaper than cities that use
steam service. The practical results are
apparent We having during the year put
in an electric lighting plant that has Ca
pacity of 1000 incadescent lights and $50
arc lights, and we are now making plans
for 1ouring mills that will have COM
hined capacity of $500 barrels a day.
This will take up about 1000 horsepower
in addition TO the 5000 we are using today,
making total consumption of 5000 horse
power-only one-sixth of the total amount
available at the minimum stage of the
river.
Second-The establishment of plant for
the smelling of ores. Spokane has always
claimed to be mining center. We are
now 10 have practical demonstration of
the truth or falsity of this claim. The
Northern PACING Reduction Company,
with a capital of 100000, have about
completed an extensive plant six miles be
low the city on the Spokane river, and the
people of Spokane have guaranteed the
cost of railroad built for the accommoda-
ton of these works. We look chiefly 10
the Caur d'Alene and Kootenai districts
for our supply of ores.
The Caur d'Alene district lies east OF
Spokane Falls. about eighty miles distant,
and Is the oldest and best-deveioped of all
the districts named. Placer mining was
formerly carried on there TO very great
extent. but this has been to a great degree
abandoned in favor of lead and silver min
ing. Il was discovered two or three
wears ago that gaiena orc existed here IN
great bodies, and since the development
work has been very rapid and extensive.
The output of ore last year amounted 10
about s.. 0po,0 coo This year it viii be more
than double that amount. The value Of
the gross output of the principal mines
this wear IS about as follows:
Geld Hunter. at Mullan.. $al00oo
Morning mine, at Aulisn.. -.----.--..-- 5eys9
The Gem, on Canyon creek ,-.--------. -Nb9
The Granite, On Canyon creek -.---.-- 4oe4
The Poorrnan, on Canyon creek------. lrenes
The Tiger, on Canyon creek .---.- $1,000 t%opIs
Helena & Frisco. on Canyon cTeek--.-.- slonn
Custer. on Nine Nile creek-- --.----e.. ssA1o
California, ON Nine Nile creek. .-...--- 500
Emma & LAsf Chance, az W aTdner...- $50
sierra Nevada at arsfFleT-- 500
stem windeT, al " ardoer-. lshsN
Partially developed mines --.-.----.--- ho@sD