The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-05-16
DR.. SCHIEGEl ON SPOKANE.
Former Redwood Falls Physician Thinks
the Population Will Be 10000.

| belong to one OF the most unique
clubs ever formed in the west |
believe you and the readers of your
paper will be interested in knowing
something about this remarkable
organization and the city in which
it has its origin.
The club is known as the 100000
Club of Spokane" and its avowed
intention is to double the popula
ton of this city in five years. To
accomplish this we have $3.50 men
and women organized as Boosters. "
The club works along modern lines
and the novel organization has
gained wide popularity in a very
short time. The plan of the club
may appeal to your readers and in
duce them to form such a society
in their own community for the
welfare of the country.
To double a city's population in
five years after that city has already
attained a population of $4,000
would seem a stupendous task. But
we believe it can be done here and
we have set to work Systematically
with that end in view. Our society
is the most cosmopolitan on the face
of the earth, it's membership includ-
ing people from all walks of life,
from bank presidents and street
laborers to preachers and cigar
makers. Every member has equal
rights and privileges in the club.
The dues are one dollar a year,
every person joining signing a
pledge to pay this sum annually un-
til Spokane has a population of
10000.
The club does not encourage the
immigration of laborers and me-
chanics but seeks to increase the
city's growth by inducing eastern
factory owners and commercial
houses to locate here. A publicity
campaign thru the medium of adj
vertising and personal correspond
ence is in full sway, each member
of the club making it a point to
inform himself on the openings
available here and either write to
persons who may be interested or
turning over his suggestions to the
secretary or one of the subcom-
mittees. The club also entertains
/ persons who are induced to stop off
here for day or two, and the
advantages of the city and surround
ing country are impressed upon the
visitor in every way possible.
| am an enthusiast over Spokane
because l am positive it has the
greatest future of any inland west
ern city. Located on the slopes
rising gently from either bank of
the Spokane river, the city has a
perfect system of drainage. The
beauty of such location could not
be surpassed and the view from the
hills in the southern residence por-
ton is one never to tire of. Forty
per. cent. of the residents own their
own homes. Civic pride is shown
on every street, and citizens take
pride in having Spokane referred to
as the "cleanest big city in the
United States" From the mansions
Of the wealthy to the humblest
homes, shade trees, beautiful lawns
and shrubbery of all kinds are the
rule. Well-paved streets and con
tinuous sidewalks, with parking be
tween the walks and the street, ado
to the attractiveness of the place.
No other western city has such {
variety of resources as Spokane
with an exclusive distributing ter
ritory as big as the states of New
York and Pennsylvania combined
There is $4,000 horse power avail
able by the succession of falls il
the river thru the heart of the city
Of this $4,000 horse power has beer
developed. This great power, will
abundance of raw material, is /;
strong inducement to manufactur
ing establishments. Our resource
include agriculture, numbering, nor
ticulture, dairying, market garden
ing, mining and stock raising.
Opportunities are open here t,
the man of small means to acquir,
wealth in the dairy, poultry ant
market gardening business. Fo