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Rh the elevated bench lands, is the town of Grangeville, in the wheat section.

Lewiston is the out-fitting and business city for the mines of Central Idaho, and the location of the State Normal School.

I passed up the valley through Kendrick and Troy, ascending again to the wheat country at Moscow, where the State University of Idaho is located. Here crops are grown without the aid of irrigation or artificial fertilizers. I take lunch at Pullman, and go on to the town of Palouse, Washington, which, in addition to its farming interests, has important lumbering industries, mills being here that manufacture the lumber brought down the river from the surrounding country and Central Idaho. I stopped at Garfield, and thence on to Oakesdale, Rosalia and Spangle, passing through the immense fields of