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Rh in the west, and remarked to my friends that nature had destined a city here, the center of the richest section found anywhere on the American continent, with its mines, lumber, farms and natural available water power; with its two transcontinental railroads and branches, with division headquarters for all lines passing through the city, of all the western railway systems, bringing business from the Dominion of Canada, as well as the United States, an Inland Empire within itself. All these, combined with the energy and enterprise of its citizens, will make Spokane the largest inland city on the western hemisphere.

Probably what made me so interested during the fair was that the final games of the Pacific Northwest National Baseball League were being played here at this time, and I was delighted, of