Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-05-20

Of the mountain four miles away from where
they stood. They worked their way I'D to it
and found that great slide Of the earth had
left bare this great vein of gold The amount
in sight. am told. is worth millions, and one
of the lodges exposed NAV be traced a distance
of 1000 feet up the mountain side from the
bottom OF the gorge, and the width of this
ledge Is from ten to forty feet. The gold seems
to run right through tine mountain and il il
almost altogether in lodges. There are no
placer mines and no nuggets to be found in the
streams. A town is now being built In the
mines, and b. the middle of summer we will
have there one OF the livelest mining camps In
the world The way il will be run however.
will be more as a great manu- fact turing industry
than gold camp. The character of the
mining Is such that IL will have to be done with
the most improved machinery and after the
latest and most practical of business methods -
fiEd that there is little chance for a poor
man to make money in mining in Washington.
The country has been very thoroughly pros
pected in the neighborhOod of the new gold re-
gions. and bis only hope OF work would be at
regular wages IN the mines. The railroad
which the Colby-Hoyt syndicate is now build
ing will take plenty OF good workmen there,
and wages will not be extrayagantly high
There is more money in the buying of lumber
tracts and in investing in hop lands and in
the taking up OF the still vacant territory OF
the state
GLANCE AT SPOKANE.
/ have now spent two weeks travelling through
the state of Washington. 1t is one OF She fines,
states of the Union AMI promises to be one
of the most prosperous. The population il
made up of eastern men and it is full of enter
prise fire and vinegar. 1t seems to me now TO
be on the verge of boom. 1t is recovering
from its temporary stagnation and its cities are
growing very fast. NV first stop made at
Spokane, the metropolis of the eastern part of
the state aud the biggest city between the
Pacific ard st. Paul. Spokane has IS, 900
people and it is practically only four years old
1t was burned to the ground four wears ago, but
it has now fine business blocks as YOU will
find anywhere in the country, and its bank
clearances show that il does much business
III proportion to Its size any town in the
Union. 1t has one of the finest waterfalls in
the world and its electric car lines. electric
lights and great pact of the electric power of
the city comes from these great falls. The city
now Uses about thirty-five hundred horse power
from the Spokane river, and | am told that the
falls give horse power of more than thirty
thousand Spokane is almost entirely popu-
lated b. New England people and families from
Ohio and the north middle states. Ii is in the
center of an agricultural country and it will
continue to grow.
TACOMA AND ITS PROSPECTS.
One Of the richest cities of the United States
is Tacoma. which is at the head of navigation
on Puget sound and which promises to be one
OF the greatest cities OF the country The
town ia only about six years old. bat it has
population of about $4,000 and is assessed at
Si3 100000. Its banks have a capital OF Sc 000 =
OOo and Its car shops pay out in wages $40, 900
every month. FRANK G. CARPENTER.