. The Street railway journal . HE CCEUR DALENE & SPOKANE RAILWAY which have been built west of the Rocky Mountains, havefound business profitable, and many more such roads are nowprojected or are already under construction. The conditionsunder which each is built are necessarily peculiar to that one,but in most instances the handling of freight plays a very im-portant part in the success of the undertaking. Such is accordingly true of the railway inaugurated less thana year ago by the Coeur dAlene & Spokane Railway Company, cific Railroad, through a branch from the main road, but thisservice s
. The Street railway journal . HE CCEUR DALENE & SPOKANE RAILWAY which have been built west of the Rocky Mountains, havefound business profitable, and many more such roads are nowprojected or are already under construction. The conditionsunder which each is built are necessarily peculiar to that one,but in most instances the handling of freight plays a very im-portant part in the success of the undertaking. Such is accordingly true of the railway inaugurated less thana year ago by the Coeur dAlene & Spokane Railway Company, cific Railroad, through a branch from the main road, but thisservice seemed to invite rather than to discourage a thorough study of the situation, and a careful canvassof the probable business, F. A. Blackwell, of Coeur dAlene,interested some of his Eastern friends in the project and theroad was built. That the undertaking was a wise one is indi-cated by the facts that the operation is successful and that aprofitable interest on the investment is already being A FOUR-CAR TRAIN ON THE CCEUR DALENE & SPOKANE RAILWAY Limited, to run between Coeur dAlene, Idaho, and Spokane,Wash., a distance of about 34 miles. Spokane, a very pros-perous and growing city, located inland, draws its businesschiefly from the great wheat lands in its vicinity, and also fromthe neighboring mining districts, which are rich. Its popula-tion numbers about 60,000, and there are no other cities of thissize within a radius of 400 or 500 miles. Coeur dAlene, theeastern terminus and headquarters of the electric railway, hasa population of about 4000, and is beautifully situated at thenorthern end of Lake Coeur dAlene. It is the chief shippingpoint of the Coeur dAlene mines, with boats running to all As shown on the accompanying map, the railway follows thevalley of the Spokane River, which is the natural outlet of LakeCoeur dAlene. About midway between the termini, the roadcrosses the river, 2>7lA ft- above the surface of the water, on a600-ft. woo
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