. 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 . ew miles, and the company hasplanted shade trees at each of them, to show that, desert asthis region appears, it only needs water and care to makethe land productive. Ritzville (1,577 miles fr
. 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 . ew miles, and the company hasplanted shade trees at each of them, to show that, desert asthis region appears, it only needs water and care to makethe land productive. Ritzville (1,577 miles from St. Paul; population, 700)is the county seat of Adams county, and a point of departurefor the agricultural and stock-raising country of Crab creek,north of the railroad, and in the Big Bend of the has a newspaper, two hotels, and a number of Ritzville the country traversed by the railroad ismainly too dry for agriculture, but is covered with bunch-grass, and is valuable for stock-raising. Connell (1,623 miles from St. Paul) is in the midst of adry, unsettled country, and is important only as the junc-tion of the Columbia & Palouse railroad running eastward,eighty miles, to Colfax, the county seat of Whitmancounty, whence it diverges into two branches, one runningto Moscow, Idaho, and the other to Farmington, Washing,ton. It is a branch of the Union Pacific 230 Throiio-h Washino-ton, 23 L .^.. -^^---^^ Pasco (1,658 miles from St. Paul; population 500) wasso named from the fact that the Northern Pacific passesover the Columbia river about two miles from the town, theword having been ingeniously coined by the engineers whoconstructed the line westward. Pasco is an importantjunction point for travel to and from the Walla Wallacountry, and to points on the Columbia river. TheNorthern Pacific has a branch crossing the Snake river ona huge steel bridge and running on to Wallula, 17 milesdistant, where it connects with a line of the Union Pacificru
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