The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-06-01
Over Fifteen Hundred Men Have
Crossed
THE CLEARWATER THIS SPRING
Continuous Line of Grain Warehouses
There Arc Plenty OF Horses but
Very few Colts.

Lewiston, May 26.-When a PROPOSE
ton was made two years ago 70 divide
Whitman county. setting the three
eastern tiers of townships off into
new county, it might have been more
successful had its promoters got the
Legislature to pass through the agri-
cultural country along the line between
Whitman county, Washington, and La
tab county, Idaho.
The writer has just gone through
there on his way to the outskirts of civ
Misunderstanding for that mythical re-
gion where white men have never been.
Entering Whitman county from Spo-
kane a few miles south of Latah, the
route from there to Lewiston was never
more than eight or ten miles from the
Idaho line, passing through Tekoa,
Pennington, Garfield, Palouse, Pull
man, Johnson, Cotton and Uniontown.
In each of these towns the most notice
able feature is the row Of grain ware
houses, more wheat probably being
shipped from them one year after anoth-
err than the same number of towns of
equal population anywhere else in the
world.
The country everywhere presents the
same general aspects, one hill having
its perfect mate in many places through
| out the Palouse.
A few miles south of Palouse City, at
the foot OF Kamiac butte, is one of the
prettiest spots in eastern Washington,
! but here commences a section where de-
vices for destroying ground squirrels
have an attraction for farmers second
only to that felt by the residents Of
Winona and western Whitman. The
little pests are from three 20 five times
as numerous from there to Uniontown
as in northern Whitman and southern
Spokane.
Near Johnson the first fax appeared
by the roadside, although there is some
raised north Of there. For several
miles flax rivaled wheat in area. Sew
eral other peculiarities were noticed
through the same section. Much more
land is being summer fallowed than
farther north, sometimes nearly one
half of the cultivated area; there are
fewer orchards, none of any size being
noticed; there is much more poultry
and livestock. Especially is that no
ticeable about Uniontown, where tn
substantial German farmers are sur
|
barns of any section of eastern Wash
ingtOn.
one can not help noticing the bligh
that has struck the hOrse-raising in
dustry. Mile after mile is traversed
with band after band of horses, blu
no colts If the same conditions pre-
vail everywhere-which seems natura
: the price of horses will material.
advance.
Z Lewiston, at the junction of the Clear
water and Snake, appears insignificant
when seen from the top of the hill tiv
miles away, but after crossing the rive
where one can peer among the shad
trees it strikes one much more faVora
bly. 1t was almost deserted when on
party entered, nearly the whole popula
aon being at the racetrack two mile
y out on the Mount Idaho road.
The shadetrees and gardens are feat
ures that impress the stranger, ef
: pecially if he comes into town from tn
top of the hill, 1,7O0 feet above the rivel
where the strawberries are only /
bloom, while on the river the fruit
n ripe Irrigation is said to be the mean
g by which the sand of Snake river
made productive, but our experienc
does not prove the assertion, as a heav
= rain began falling last night abou
: dark, continuing all night and good
- part Of today. Did the same amour
% fall in the Palouse the farmers al
happy.
- Fifteen hundred men have crossed III
Clearwater at Lewiston this sprin
bound for the upper Clearwater an
- Salmon river on prospecting tours; {
- many more have probably crossed {
Lapwai and other points, and the Ell
is not yet The rush began two month
- ago, but the snow still hangs on II
mountains so that no work can
done except on ground that has bee
- thoroughly explored years ago. Son
snow lies on the summit yet betwet
." here and Grangeville- which is consi
cred a highly civilized region compare
- with sections where gold is to be foun
One evidence that we are apProac
- ing the borders of civilization
ia the old Concord stage coach, which pull
Il. out of here at 4 o'clock each mornir
bound for Mount Idaho, Ga miles ava
L. It gives a feeling Of strangeness to Of
or who has been accustomed to the whist
as of the locomotive for years.
20 FORMOSA IS A REPUBLIC, TIC
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