The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-03-17
COLVILLE RESERVATION
TO BE OPENED SOON
UnrivaIed Fruit, Grain and Mining Posi-
bilitieS-NO Better Watered
Section in the World

49, 49,
Rress, printed in the daily press this
week, to make a determined effort to
have the Colville Indian reservation
opened to settlement at an early date,
possesses unusual interest for the thou
sands Of people who have had an eye
on this last large body of valuable land
to be opened to settlement. 1t will be
recalled how some years ago a popu-
lous state was created over night when
the Indian territory was thrown open to
settlement. A rush something akin to
that will occur when the Colville reser-
vation is opened The following de-
scription of the Colville reservation by
the editor OF the San Poll Eagle, who
lives there and knows the country, will
help to give the reader an idea OF the
country if he harbors a desire to go
there:
For the benefit OF those living far
away from this reservation, and to save
the time OF answering so many individ-
ual letters. we beg to say the Colville
Reservation from east to west is 65
miles and from north to south is As
miles and it contains about 1900, 900
acres. A considerable portion of it is
quite mountainous. 1t contains very
fertile valleys and bench lands. Its val
leys are we'll watered with pure, clear
mountain streams and it is blessed with
thousands OF pure springs. Within the
townsite of Keller there are no less
than seven everhowing springs. Like
other mountain countries in this lati-
tude, in the northwest, it enjoys mild
climate; the summer days are not ex-
cessively warm and the nights are
always cool. A more healthful climate
cannot be found in any other part Of
the world.
Probably no inland section OF any
country in America of corresponding
size can boast OF so great navigable
water frontage as this reservation. Ma
ture in all her glory never entwined the
arms OF her water courses more beauti-
fully around so great a section of Gods
domain than she did around the Col
vile Reservation. On all its southern
and eastern borders it is washed by the
Columbia, one of the largest and great
est navigable rivers on earth. The
reservation frontage on the Columbia
river is more than $50 miles in length.
On the west side comes down the Okla
nogan river from Osoyoos lake in British
Columbia and adds another fifty miles
OF navigable river frontage to the reser-
vation.
Then comes the charm of all the
glory of the Nimrods and the Mecca Of
the outing parties-the beautiful San
Poll river which crosses the entire res
eryation from north to south. 1t is not
only we'll supplied with game fish, but
il is one OF the great spawning streams
of the Pacific coast salmon which swim
BY the thousands 62o miles up the
Columbia to propagate their kind with
in its crystal waters. Besides the San
Poll there is the charming Nespelem
river and about fifty other small streams
all flowing either into the Columbia or
Oksnogan rivers. In addition to its
streams and springs, the reservation
has many beautiful lakes of pure. clear
water and some so highly medicated as
TO insure the new settlers with natural
health resorts unsurpassed anywhere on
the American continent.
A considerable portion Of the noun
tain sections of this reservation has
been set aside by the government as
mineral lands and subject to entry only
under the mineral laws.
TO the prospective settler who ex-
poets to cultivate the soil or engage in
fruit growing or gardening or the rais-
ing of stock or poultry, this mineral
land with its bonanza ore bodies already
opened, should add greatly to his en-
couragement. 1t is recognized TACT
that mining always supplies ready
market for all kinds Of farm, stock,