THE PIIESENT AND FUTURE OF SHtAOUE.
nal and tho Sentinel three hotels, two much for tho advancement of tho city.
HTcry stables, two drug stores, a book An evidence of th!i ii tho flotirinj? mill,
and stationery store, a furniture store, Mr. J. 0. Stevens, tho projector of tho
two hardware stores and a national bant enterprise, was induced to locate hero in
Three religious denominationa-Congre- preference to Spokano Falls, by a pledge
gational, Episcopal and Catholiebavo of $25,000100, which was raised In a sin.
neat church edifices, and tho Methodists gle afternoon. Similar effort are being
havo a strong organization and holdser- made to secure a wo!en mill, ami they
vices in a halL The public school build- will probably bo successful, as alwut a
ing was erected in 1885, at a coat of $7,- million pounds of wool are sheared near
000.00, and is a substantial frame struc- Hprnguo annually. There are a nuralor
turo of two stories, excellently adapted of improvement in contemplation, Uth
to the uso for which it was built Tho public and private, among which is a
achool has an attendance of ono hundred system of sewerage for th city. A lard
and fifty scholars, is well graded, and of trade was organized by tho business
under the charge of thrco teachers. Tho men laid spring, and is looking chwly
sisters of St JoBeph havo a large, two- after tho city's welfare,
story, frame building, in which a paro- Tho largest industry of Spraguo is
chial school is maintained. A hospital that of tho railroful The company eta
is contemplated by them, to be erected aa ploys alout three hundred men lmt
soon aa arrangements can bo completed, tho shoj, yards and headquarters build.
There are lodges of Masons, who own a ing. This is the division headquarters
hall, Odd Fellows, Knighta of Fythiaa of tho Idaho division, and hero U locat-1
and Knights of Labor. ed tho company's land ofliee f.r Eastern
Spraguo was incorporated by tho leg. Washington. Fully half a million dub
islature in December, 1&'J, and during lar have lxen t ijiendM in shoj ami
the four years of its existence as a city, improvements, tho former being tho larg.
has spent much mouey on its street est on this end of the line. The month,
and for other improvements. It has ly pay roll is 50,000.00. The ho;
not, however, burdened itself with debt, arc permanent, and form a good found,
and consequently it does not rcjel stran- tion njon which to build a town, even
gcrs who seek investment there, by a without the other advantage of location
heavy rate of taxation. Tho city coun. found at this oint
cil has recently granted franchises to the Lincoln county, of which Spraguo I
Spraguo Water Co. and tho Spraguo tho county seat, rrnbrae much of tho
Electric Light Co. Tho former ha a hVt jiortion of tho ttig lU-nd country,
capital stock of $23,000.00, and tho lat. now becoming famous a the larg. t
ter $o0,000l00l These companies pro. area of gI agricultural land to Wah.
pone to put in complete systems of wa- ingten. Tho county contains sixty-threo
ter works and electric lights, and aro township Theo embrace, on an aver,
making arrangements to that end. 1Mb arg twenty thousand am of arable
companies were tocor(oratl by (ieorge land, from ono to two thousand of gra.
&Erooke, D. K. McPherson, John J. ing land, and from um to two tbmsa&l
Uurns, J. II. Shield and W. K I;tU of Macab,M a tho tract aro calM
man, who aro among tho most etterpri- where tho soil is thin and tho rocks crop
ing and substantial business men of tho out on tho surfwn Tho greater rtIon
city. The progrmivo spirit displayed of tho scab land i in tho southern pof.
by these gentlemen, and others, Udoicg tion of tho county, in tho vicinity of