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 CHAPTER XIII.

Spokane and the Inland Empire.

After a pleasant stay of six weeks in Butte, I went over the Great Northern Railroad to Spokane, making short stops at Great Falls, Havre and Kalispell. Arriving at Spokane I took a coach and drove across the river to the Oregon Railroad and Navigation depot and took the train for Tekoa, Washington, a distance of fifty miles, passing Rockford, Fairfield and Latah, extensive wheat sections. Tekoa is the town where the trains branch off to go to the famous Coeur d'Alene mines, consequently this is an important division point. Millions of bushels of wheat are shipped from here yearly. This was a picturesque looking little town to me, with the hills dotted by