New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-29
SPOKANE TIE IUD1CIOUS.
PROSPERITY OF THE EAST WASHINGTON
METROPOLIS.
THY INNING AND FARMING DISTRICTS THAT
PAY HER TRIEj TI.-HER ENTERPRISE
FELT IL BRITISH COLUMBIA.

| TIfr INNING AND FARMING DISTRICTS TINT
PAY HER TRTEt TI:-HFR ENTERPRISE
FELT IL BRITISH Colombia
| SPOKANE. Wash. Jan 7.-Old Chief spokane cmpha
sized my antcprnnGai walk along the Wicrnham Road
this morning. There was tailoring snowstorm, and
| every football charmed for the snow AMI have been
| separated now ten wears. The Indian camp was Ia
confusion The warriors stless enough. but IN,
| sqaws rolling mp their od0rcls gay blankets and
tcp"r- poles, and fastening the same in their Jwn IN
cNptablc way on the lltllc brcncoS Il Is the latest
mtnng OF the tribe away from the nohl' river which
hears It's name 10 !on SnlteSe and his 800 selfSnp
porting braves on the Occur dAcn" Reservation. The
Old chief stool In front Of his handful OF FIRE. his short
| thick body Apparently mis,haprn IN account OF The
difference In The length Of his legs The ncc sagacious
and seamy. Ike chief Joscph> relaxed slightly rs
approached. and. observing me lXcdy. he stopped
down. crossed roth bands over IL knees aad then
raicd them slowly 10 his middle, acIoSs which n
drew them significantly. accompanying the gesture with
hi, anonic prophecy of the length and severity of the
winter 81 hand " Heap cold. heap Snowl'
My Inst vi-it 10 Sp0kanc was In 1882 just after it'
great fire. which lcf nothing Of The business portion
Of the city few small frame buildings OF tenn
pora;y character 0'a had been constructed TO meet
immediate and pressing dcmand,l and the falls OF the
Spokane River!
Now the business district has been Greatly enlarged,
and is well covered with brick and stone structure.
six stories high. Three banks have doubled their
capital stock during the last year. and all the city
financial institutions are substantial basis and
pro porous. This pleasant state Of affairs Is explained
by spoknne's relation TO the Of the country
surrounding and the construction OF railroads.
The Northern pa ire the first to come, and fonr
OF the eight railroads That GENRE hrrr under the
control OF that company, which fOrrsaw the great pos
sibcs OF city at this point and. after the com
picilon OF It's main line IN Iss2, lnauguratcd larg"
branch system, which reaches all the neIebcring min
tf,.,to
Ing extended into remoter regions. About twenty pas
scncrr trains into and go out OF SPOKANE every
twenty onr hours, than half OF which are under
the control o. the Northern Pacific.
The main agricultural district Is opened by the
Northern Paclhc's "spokanc and Paousc Railroad, >
which extends from this city to kcndrck Idaho, about
l3j miles, through that most prolific country known
The Pnlousc." AS rode over this and the Grab
Creek and Asson lands three months ago they ap
pcared be- simply gigantic grain field The farmers
hcshing and there were thousands OF acres I'M
harvested with tie unshipped fruage OF many more
stored In the open 4 wellnformed resident told me
that the crop In East Washington alone is GOO 900
bushels II So Its entire value market price Is Just
about equaed BY the amount realized the present year
from the cedar single output OF West Washington SO
the two Sides of the Stale keep hand In hand There
has never been failure OF the wheat crop here The
yield averages twenty-five bushels TO the acre. This
wheat bears high repute ut the centres Over go 900
bushels lately purchased from single farmer by
a milling company In Minneapolis. which makes a
feature Of such food products rolled wheat ID arna
The Union Pacific built into spokane In 1890 and
the Great Northern, the third ransconncntal line has
just arrived and let contracts for the construction OF
shops. The Northern Pacific shops Will probably be
removed here next year. The Spokane aDd southern
Hallway has lo5 miles built and now In operation. and
surveys completed sixtyfve miles further to Nelson
In British Columbia. the centre Of that mining region
which Is now attracting so much attention. At Mel
son the road will meet line Of the Canadian Pacific,
now building sonthward through rows Most Pass 1t
Is this junction that will give TO SPOKANE It's four trans
continental railroads.