The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-03

IT WAS A PLEASURE TO SEE HIM A THEM.
When | passed through Spokane three
years ago, the city was doing business in
tents. Business is still intense, but not
so much SO.
Three years ago" said a Spokane
merchant. Il did business in a tent and
sold more goods than | do now in a
handsome brick and stone building"
Spokane pronounced spokaa) is the
great railroad center of that part of the
country. 4 map made recently shows
the city to be the center of half a dozen
short roads besides the transcontinental
lines.
She IS a pretty city surrounded by an
enormous scope of lands which are now
offered for sale. She has a minimum of
$4,000 horsepower. 1t is estimated to
cost less at $40 per horsepower delivered
free on board the cars than coal at So
per ton.
1t grinds wheat at a quarter of a cent
per barrel, produces electric light at one.
tenth of a cent per hour for each l6-can-
die light and supplies 30 miles of car line
with power at s. per ear per day.
Her death rate is II $40 per loo, the
$40 being a Chinaman who wa killed
by request. When VT compare this with
the death rate of New York, which is
24.os, we ask ourselves, Why will people
remain in New York S much as they do:
The reply TO over 300 postal cards sent
out by me i'll New York among people
who move in the best society and out
again is that they prefer to do SC.
Thl. pp1rafrs f-s n. t1a E,1,,4;,n - H.
problem-vlz, that more people at the
present time prefer TO live in New York
with a death rate of p - per 900 than
in Spokane 1T Il per 900,
Spokane has three transcontinental
roads-viz, the Great Northern, the
Northern Pacific and the Union Pacific.
The general public does not generally
know this, but | Wa there recently and
saw them Spokane shows the greatest
growth of any city in the United States
from 1880 to 1880, according to the CEN
sus report.
This is a good feature, yet all cities
and countries nave their great features.
A man in Wyoming raised 500 bushels of
potatoes to the acre, and another here in
Montana raised 1,2oO. They were to
have gone to the Worlds fair, but Major
Handy reported the potato exhibit as
now complete and asked for more art.
Side pork and potatoes, he said, We're
being fully represented. while sculpture
and tapestry were shy. |
Each OF Us Is proud of our own coun-
try Even my own state. North Caro-
lima. has its speciality.
4A .-z-l ia.l+l- IL
tain dew are what we boast of. Thou
sands of people are constantly risking
their lives by not living in North Caro-
lima.
Montana is a great state, noted for its
wealth and poverty. As it grows. how
ever. it is harder to buy. Even the legis
has advanced its rates, and a
United States senator probably comes
than most any other furniture
found in Washington.
Great Falls looks like a very prosper
GUS town with wonderful resources. If
you desire to buy a lot for future use in
q growing town, Great Falls offers a
good location.
The chinook wind is found in great
in Montana. 1t comes from
the warm and spicy japanese current
and loves to woo a band of cattle up a
and freeze them to death. We
met one of these simooms at Billings. IL
came with a wild whoop from the Indian
ocean and swept away the man who hal
given his fanne!s TO the poor. !
We exhibited in q pleasant church an
dressed IN the little room where tie
oyster Is prepared tor the festival. Tie
ar was 4L.ia.S eo.A The ranSs ~s7