The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-30

CGnterlnR ABOUT InlS CITY ultll ing IHe
coming summer. Broad expanses
of land all up the valley that now
seem but barren wastes of gravel
soil, bordering on picturesque
blocks of fruit orchards and gar
den spots, will be rapidly turned
into productive fields and beautiful
suburban homesites, such as have
made the thickly populated subur-
ban districts of the coast famous
for their health and beauty.
Elegant roads and speedways
will be built for miles through the
country, and fountains, concrete
walks and artistic drives bordereG
with parking will be built hithel
and thither about the whole OF the
valley near to Spokane. AS soon
as the Spokane County Good Roads
commission has established the
grade on the state road running
out Sprague avenue, fine elms and
apple trees will be planted along
that thoroughfare and irrigation
companies will supply water
troughs at every mile crossroad
along the way clear to the Idaho
state line.
The elms will be planted 100 feet
apart from here to Idaho, and be-
tween them apple trees will be set
by the land companies whose hold
ings border on the road. Each and
every one of these splendid i'm
provements will be looked after,
cared for and maintained for a pc
riod of five years. BY that time it
is believed that the Spokane valley
will have become the most beauti-
full to be found in the entire state.
Macadam Is to be used in the
building OF this state roadway so
far as possible. The Milwaukee
railway has. purchased its right of
way up the valley and its lines may
be rushed to completion before the
close of the present year.
Immigrants attracted by the ia
nous beauty and wondrous wealth
of the Spokane country, during the
year of 1910 may have their pick
from thousands of acres OF the rich
irrigated and subirrigated soil OF
amazing productive qualities, IN the
midst OF which Spokane, the city
Beautiful" majestically stands.
Stretching down the Spokane val
ley for more than 30 miles, more
than 10000 acres OF some of the
choicest fruit and vegetable land
in the entire northwest is being pre-
pared for them as described above.
~ The day in which seekers of homes
and fortunes must heW their weary
way through the forests and rocky
stretches of wild and untouched
country to reach life's opportunity
has passed. No more is the blazing
OF trails and the hewing of logs for
the squatty cabin upon the for
tune seekers program of trials. He
who comes to the valley OF the
Spokane will find the way blazed
ahead of him and a country of
homes and development awaiting
him and his family
Work Is beginning in real earn
est even now for the preparation
OF practically all the Spokane val
ley and OF thousands of acres of
fruit growing land to the west of
the city, for the homeseekers and
investors who will flock to this part
OF the country during the next few
months. Taking in the whole sweep
of country as 1t spreads itself out
from the limits of the city, it is
seen that everywhere this work of
rapid development and OF putting
the finishing touches to natures
own beauty, is going on.
On the west, renewed spirit Is
noted in the development of
Meadow Lake, and turning across
the city to the north and east up
the beautiful valley. the same
spirit of enterprise is seen at work
in Orchard Avenue, Nicely &
Young's project, which at the pres
ent time, in point of beauty and de-
velopment Is among the most at
tractive. On to Opportunity and
Vera and Greenacres, where the
once barren earth is now spot of
beauty and wealth, with its broad
acreage of fruit orchards, berries
and garden strips, streaked as II
with ribbons of silver under the
summers sun by its trickling ditch
es of water that give productive
ness to the land, it is the same
1t was in this section-Opportu-
nifty. Orchard Avenue and Vera
that the inexhaustible underground
flow of the valley was discovered
II Is to this discovery that Spokane
owes to the greatest extent its pure
and unlimited water supply. which
scientists claim Is as pure as there
is in the whole world. Further up
the valley in Pasadena, Otis Or.
chards, East Farms and East
Greenacrcs, all within a few min,
utes' ride by trolley from Spokane,
the same sort of development goe J
on with will, and the whole val
ley. clear to the lakes, is rapidly
being converted into homesites of
alluring and enticing beauty for
the immigrants and the country's
coming population.
The whole valley during the com
ing summer, will be one vast scene
of building activity. Homes will
spring up by scores and great
gangs of men will be at work early
in the spring setting to orchards
and berries and vegetation broad
expanses of the rich gravel land.
Water system extensions Will be
laid both for irrigation and domes-
tic uses and thousands upon thou
sands of feet of concrete mains will
be constructed upon the land the
gravel of the soil being used to
make them.
UNDERGROUND STREAMS.
In the Irrigation of Vera, Oppor
tupitv mud Orchard Avauua alnna