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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1884)
THE WEST SHORE. 121 subsidy has been passed by the Legislature of British Columbia and awaits approval by the Dominion Govern ment, and the project may be looked upon as certain of being carried out. The special advantage of this scheme to Spokane Falls lies in the proposed construction of a railroad from the city to Kettle Falls, on the Columbia, the point where the sleuwers of the company will be arrested in their progress down the river by natural obstructions in the channel. This will be the end of river navigation, and the easiest and most natural route for a railroad to connect with the Northern Pacific is to season, since its projectors have sufficient confidence in the richness and permanence of the mines to begin work without any other delay than local complications rondor necessary. With a railroad furnishing the only adequate outlet to the mines, with a lino tapping tho grain fields of the Upper Villous, with mWhor nrhing tJ tho city tho vast products of tho Uig bend, Okanogan and intervening country, and with still another draining tho region to the north, Spokano 1 alls will be the most important railroad center on the line of the Northern I'iuuIio between Port- laud and Minneapolis ; and all these linos nro demandiHl Snokane Falls. A company to build this road has been bv tho developments now coma on. organized and is waiting only for the Kootenai project to Tho climato is always an important consideration to be a little further advanced before commencing opera tions. The probabilities are that the whole route from the city to Kootenai will be under the management of one company. Notwithstanding the great regions to the south, west and north, that find their natural outlet through this city it is to the east that the chief attention of tho business men is now being turned. Throughout tho Great West all eyes are riveted on Cceur d' Alone. Much has boon said for and against these new gold fields, and extreme statements have been made by both ". boomers" and detractors, neither of which have sufficient evidence to support them. The plain facts are that iu the mountains of Northern Idaho, between Cceur d'Alene Lake and the summit of the Bitter Root, or Cceur d'Alene, Mountains, there is a region about thirty miles square, which is deemed by many who have visited it to bo the richest in placer and quartz gold now to be found in the United States. This belief is based upon the fact that gcxxl prospects have been found on all the crooks and gulches, that the onlv claim which has been worked to any consid erable extent has proved to be an exceedingly rich one, " and that samples of quartz ledges, which have been reported to exist in great numbers, have givon vorv WfTn nssmvB. Of course a belief founded upon such evidence working beyond opinion nnrl ronrvrta roAPivAil from TKIints AffAnt. thai tlm movement in this direction is general The indications are that fully 20,000 people will visit that wrrinn rlnrinnr the snrinc and summer, nan a uo,on am na i.ova Kami lmd nnt in the mines, throe news. papers have been started, stores have been opened, and all the preparations have been made for prosperous and The only town of any size within easy access of tho mines, and the only place whore goods of all kinds can a miKolinaiul at. rAnaminblo TiriceB. IS SlXlkailO 1' alls. A splendid road leads from the city to the toe of Lamr d'Alene Lake, near the United States military port of one selecting a home, and a few words on that subject will be of interest Though, m a 1'aciho I Joust sense, the winters are cold and the summers warm, still in the sense in which those terms are understood in Iowa, Illi nois and Indiana, they are by no moans ho. By a native of those great interior States, tho winter weather of the , .... . . . . i . 111. . !l uroat ITitoau o tho ixmmnia woum no oonsiuorou ex tremely mild, while in summer ho would miss those oppressively hot days to which ho was accustomed. The thermometer, also, IB very deceptive, for even when it . . . . , . 1 A . !.. 1! . 1 II... reaches the point generally supixmou wi lmiiutun hwhiut. ing boat, the absence, of oppressiveness is marked. I lie nights are always cool and refreshing, rendering light blankets nocessary for comfort. Somo seasons snow may lie a month or six .weeks on tho ground, usuauy, now ever, it disappears within a few days. Tho speedy melting of tho snow is duo at times to a somewhat re markable phenomenon. A periodical warm wind blows tho channel of tho Minimum iroin uio somnweHii throughout tho year. Tins is called tho "Chinook. Before it tho snow melts ho rapiuiy vnai ouen 111 uio Course Ol a lOW llOlirS IV) VOHUCO It'lliiiiim wimni m my ii foot in depth a day Is-fore. The "CUinook wind is a great benefit to the country. Its warm, moist ntiiiosphoro is doubtless tho result ol lis passage across tun kikih Japan current, which the and .. .1.1 1 . ..1 !...... r. . tlm j i : . i a .i i i tiiAwitini rutntiii urnmiii hiimwii un liiii ia uiiir mivT.n..., - . p.r - .. j ..r..n.. ,., ,. , in ii iimitji ir ' 1 1 1-1 nnll U n ti rtitf litvt I tlMtlM I litU HI 1 I H 1 W III 1 II 1 I V Ml UllblUUKU tv viii-v" or the place s ana ie can m,w . . (Mwtwim W(MlU ,,0 0((M fliarilltA VAT. TiMOllHILIltlH. Illlli WIUWHU l"l wiin ' .. .. , i II ,i to be verified, are crowding into the now mines, rigorous in the extreme ur her Tflr an imiir him u liio i i o y . . . . . . Kocky Mountains. Nothing could bo more thoroughly delightful than tho spring and full months, npnng ' . r 1. ...!lt. .......... ..Infiuiint umiilltni ntlil lilaiu begins in iuarcu wuu wmui, iininmnn ... .. .... ,,..t;i tlm mi.ldln of Mav. At this season rain falls iu sufficient quantity to give lifo to vegetation and insure . I'll - Al. . n uli.tu-fta 4a gxxl crops, while during tho Bummer months a shower is rare. Tho farmer can depend nion invariably cleur ui-inuin ImrvAKt lime. There wero in 1HHU but fifty-six cloudy days rented by the United States Signal Ser geant, although all days with 10 per cent, of cloudy nky iiiava olnuuivl II M I'UllKIV. TlinfA la ftllA AlAiniuit alwavs present that renders a HI, Ul ... --- , - f , , , . , Un. wherTims been founded Cceur d' AJ u. City, resntence ,n e WriiTii Sn " T.,'in a town ilosirmed as a final starting poini ior uw mi """"r rr"7 r.i : uU M....l,it.lnr Many buildings have been erocteHhere; and pon are being made to transmit a large yfu "Jf fr ft I()Ug diHt(inM ws tumultu.mly over a d'Alene Transportation Company lias iHtruttol a P";1 i w ftIl falls, the greatest Uins ft steamer to take passengers from tbn iixnm up u. " - "V'V - - f Hilty.fivft fM.t Knn dilTerent ixniiU and Coeur d'Alene River as far as t k stream W Zv L ,t varying asisH-t., m t J their A daily stage runs from Spokane i-al.s 10 ,nowr way, ami in thm pleasing variety City, and as soon as wort can be daw M E tSi greaUmt charm The nx-ky banks of the river a stage road will be completed I into the """ WVI"J Ilt,lin ni,kIly Curi.us formations, ft.m.ng them Ix-ing two i...;Q f mntaH. In either case the general eonvini v ' , . , , i..ju....jui . and favorite starting point will 1 A company has been oiganizod frnm tfin ntv into the inlllOS. ailll " " "J .. .. , , ' I I C ZZ ed tho' .rosentkurc in U,o beautif Biruuuuii uu iuui uuo " " ,
