Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-05-26

through the basement of tho ostab-
ishment where We are eating IL Is
finished IN pure white marble, aud 10
contains cold storage chambers 90 ar
ranged that one can look IN and see the
supplies In one room thcrc arc hun
drcds Of beevos, and in another NUT
ton, pork and game are hung up Tho
beef Is brought nom Chicago Ia cold
storage, and the cuts are ~ the same
shape and size, so that one can give
dinner for 30 and have each guest sery-
ed the same This can probably be done
IN New York or Boston. but doubt II
as we'll as here in Spokane.
THE Up-To-DATE WEST.
Indeed the most i've part Of he
United States today lies west Of the
Rockies, An the cities out hero are
growing faster than thistles I'm Canada.
spokane Seattle, Portland and Los
Angeles have on their seven league
boots, and they are striding ahead Tx"
giants ON the road TO greater popula-
ton and wealth.
As far as age is concerned Spokar
Is BABY among our American towns.
il was born Just generation ago. Lut
1t now has so 900 popua ton. and IL 90
ing business, as represented by ne
clearing house figures. Of Sl5O,Ou0OOO
n year. II has 10 banks with deposits
of Sli.000,000. and its business establish
meuts have a capital of about N1 1O0-
UO0. Its factories last year turned out
about $40. 600 900 worth Of goods and
It has a newspaper, the Spokesman Re
view, which boasts of daily circula-
ton OF 80, 900 copies, Spokane has "a
greater number Of telephones IN pro-
portion to its population than any 9TH
or city IN the county. II has 5000. il
has Ave transcontlneutal railways ana
enough street railroads, II they could
bc stretched out in one line, 10 reach
from New York 10 Albany aud addl-
tiOnal suburban lines sufficient tO con-
meet New York with Washington city
IT WORKS WHILE THEY SLEEP.
Have you ever seen spokane?
II not. you have missed one of the
sights of this continent. The city lies
IN valley on both sides OF the rush
ing Spokane This river here ploWs
its way through a mighty gorge, dash
ing down over fall after fall, having a
decent Of 1872 feet I'm a quarter OF a
mile. The waters rage and foam as
they drop from level to level sending
up spray which the sun turns into dia-
monds They run part of the way
through turbines. which have been so
connected with machinery that they
are worth more TO the city than dia-
monds themselves.
The river. in fact, does the greater
part OF the work Of the city. II labors
away day and night, day In and dag
out. every night and every day all the
year through. The falls have n mini
mum capacity Of $4,000 horsepower,
and Of this $1,000 has already been de-
veloped The river lights the city
turns It's mills and factories. operates
its street railways and travels over a
hundred miles OF wire TO the Coer
dAlene mines. and carries there the
electricity by which they produce
about one-hfth of all the lead of the
world.
A MIGHTY WATER POWER,
The energy of the Spokane river Is
enormous In addition to the $4,000
horsepower which lies In the heart Of
Spokane, there are several million
available horsepower in the river
above and below the city. The Spo-
kane has a big volume and It flows for
a distance of 90 miles above and be-
low here. through a gorge of such q
nature, that factories can be built all
along Il. In this 80 miles the river
falls 200 feet, or more than twice the
height of the Washington monument;
and the fall is such that it is estimated
a horsepower greater than that of Nj
agara can be generated from it. The
power is so situated that turbines can
be put I'm every three or four miles
along the whole 90-mile gorge and
each set of turbines will have a fall Of
40 feet.
The fall of Niagara from Lake Erie