. The Street railway journal . houses along the companys lines, andas these granaries are located every few miles the farmersfind it very convenient to ship over the Spokane & InlandCompanys lines. Single-phase compensated locomotives are used forfreight handling, the freight-car equipment being made upof standard freight cars such as are used on the steam lineswith which the Spokane & Inland interchanges lines are the Great Northern, the Canadian Pacificand Soo lines. The agreement of the Spokane & Inlandwith these companies provides for the publishing of throughKites over the r
. The Street railway journal . houses along the companys lines, andas these granaries are located every few miles the farmersfind it very convenient to ship over the Spokane & InlandCompanys lines. Single-phase compensated locomotives are used forfreight handling, the freight-car equipment being made upof standard freight cars such as are used on the steam lineswith which the Spokane & Inland interchanges lines are the Great Northern, the Canadian Pacificand Soo lines. The agreement of the Spokane & Inlandwith these companies provides for the publishing of throughKites over the roads with which equipment is company also has traffic connections with the RedCollar Steamship Line, which plies between Coeur dAleneCity and Harrison and points on the St. Joe and St. MariesRivers, a distance of sixty-eight miles. The Red CollarCompany has four steamers in operation, besides four tugsand six .barges, all for handling freight. In this connection it is interesting: to note that traffic. A SUBURBAN FREIGHT STATION, SHOWING TEAMS DELIVERING GRAIN FOR TRANSPORTATION OVER SPOKANE & INLAND opening of each succeeding extension has been extended, sothat now the handling of freight is a very important branchof the companys business and plays a conspicuous part inthe operation of the different lines. Properly to under-stand the character of this service, it is essential that onebe acquainted with the territory seved and with the linesthat extend f om Spokane as the hub of the system. Originally incorporated as the Spokane Interurban Sys-tem, the Spokane & Inland built a line south from Spokanethrough Waverly, Rosalia, Thornton and Colfax, and sur-veyed for a line from the latter city to Penawawa, Wash.,and Lewiston, Ida. A branch was built, however, fromthe main line approximately midway between Spokane andColfax to Palouse City, and the Y-connected system be-tween Spokane, Colfax and Palouse City is about 106miles in length. The products of the territory a
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