What to see in America . y, one afternoon, in a desolate canyon of the CoeurdAlene Mountains. Their provisions were nearly ex-hausted, and they decided to abandon their search for pre-cious metals in those gloomy and rocky solitudes. Towardsundown the donkey got loose from its tether, and they foundit gazing across the ravine at a gleam of the setting sunreflected from a series of ore seams. The creature had dis-covered the greatest deposit of galena on the globe. Thewhole mountain was a lead mine. Within an hour after thearrival of the sensational news at Spokane, that citysremarkable boom be
What to see in America . y, one afternoon, in a desolate canyon of the CoeurdAlene Mountains. Their provisions were nearly ex-hausted, and they decided to abandon their search for pre-cious metals in those gloomy and rocky solitudes. Towardsundown the donkey got loose from its tether, and they foundit gazing across the ravine at a gleam of the setting sunreflected from a series of ore seams. The creature had dis-covered the greatest deposit of galena on the globe. Thewhole mountain was a lead mine. Within an hour after thearrival of the sensational news at Spokane, that citysremarkable boom began. Prospectors, engineers, and capi-talists from the four corners of the republic hurried were found on every mountain side for three hundredmiles north and south, and each fresh discovery hastened Washington 525 Spokanes growth and quickened the fever of its cascades that founded the city are parted in midstreamin the heart ofthe business sec-tion by a mass rock. river over hun- widefeet. Log House near Canadian Line of rough There the plunges ledges two dred feet and seventy high. These are workaday falls that crush wheat, turn lathes, run railroads, and operate mines. The cataract is spanned by a bridge with a central arch two hundred and eighty-one feet long. Only one concrete span in the world is longer. In seasons ofdrought there isscarcely a tricklewhere ordinarilythe river leapsand boils in itsmad rush overthe jagged is themetropolis ofthat tremen-dously rich ter-ritory describedas the Inland Empire, which embraces eastern Washington, northern Idaho, and a part of Montana.
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