The Columbia River . Inland Empire Systems Power Plant, near Spokane, 20,000 Horse-Power. Photo, by T. W. Lower Spokane Fail,, by T. W. Tolman. Land of Wheat-field, Orchard, and Garden 327 go out by the carload and steamerload, earlier thananywhere else except on the banks of the Columbiaitself, to all parts of the West and even at times toChicago and New York. Hot? Yes, hot! They saythe mercury sometimes boils out of the top of the ther-mometer. But heat and water and good soil make therich juice and bright cheeks of the peach and is the metropolis of this
The Columbia River . Inland Empire Systems Power Plant, near Spokane, 20,000 Horse-Power. Photo, by T. W. Lower Spokane Fail,, by T. W. Tolman. Land of Wheat-field, Orchard, and Garden 327 go out by the carload and steamerload, earlier thananywhere else except on the banks of the Columbiaitself, to all parts of the West and even at times toChicago and New York. Hot? Yes, hot! They saythe mercury sometimes boils out of the top of the ther-mometer. But heat and water and good soil make therich juice and bright cheeks of the peach and is the metropolis of this region, one of themost attractive of the smaller Western cities, a trulyhistoric spot, the key to one of the most productiveareas in the Columbia Basin, and worthy of extendedvisit. Hundreds of miles up Snake River in the wideexpanses of Southern Idaho the waters are being di-verted for some of the largest irrigation enterprises onearth. There the Twin Falls canal, one hundred feetwide and deep enough for a steamboat, conveys thewater to two hundred and eighty thousand acres ofland. The Minidoka canal covers
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