. The official Northern Pacific Railway guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railway and its branches : containing descriptions of states, cities, towns and scenery along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, industries, products and natural features of the great Northwest . t500 inhabitants. The surrounding country is. rollingprairie. Almira (103 miles from Spokane) is a farming centerwith a population of 400. Coulee City (124 miles from Spokane, population 500)i
. The official Northern Pacific Railway guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railway and its branches : containing descriptions of states, cities, towns and scenery along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, industries, products and natural features of the great Northwest . t500 inhabitants. The surrounding country is. rollingprairie. Almira (103 miles from Spokane) is a farming centerwith a population of 400. Coulee City (124 miles from Spokane, population 500)is the terminus of this branch. The surrounding countryis mainly used for stock raising. The town is situated atthe middle crossing of the Grand Coulee^ the most remark-able scenic feature of the Big Bend country. It is a pro-found volcanic crevice, extending across the country for adistance of seventy-five miles, and reaching the Columbiariver at both extremities. Its walls are of basaltic rock, andof an average height of about 800 feet. The floor of thisgreat chasm varies in width from a few hundred feet tohalf a mile, and contains many alkali ponds. At only twoplaces are there natural crossing points for wagon these places, known as the *Middle and * Uppercrossings, the walls of the canyon have been broken downby volcanic action. Stages run from Coulee City to theOkanogan mining
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