Identifier: electricrailwayr162amer (find matches)
Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ions of the United States. To the east of the Palouse country and Spokane is about six billion feet of uncut white pine. At Palouse andPotlatch, which are served by the Spokane & Inland EmpireRailroad Companys lines, are sawmills with a daily capacityof 800,000 feet of lumber. The Coeur dAlene & Spokane division of the Spokane &Inland Empire system occupies the valley of the Spokaneriver for 34 miles, from Spokane to the city of Coeur dAleneat the outlet of Coeur dAlene lake, where connection is madeby fast steamers with the numerous towns upon the lakeand its tributary rivers. At Harrison, Idaho, at the head ofthe lake, the steamers connect with the Oregon Railroad &Navigation Company, thus forming the shortest through lineto the extensive Coeur dAlene mining country. From CoeurdAlene a branch line extends 9 miles north to Hayden Lake. The Spokane & Inland division, now nearing completion. In Operation and Nearing CompletionProposed ExtensionsConnecting Boat Lines
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Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad—Map of Routes. extends from Spokane to Colfax, Wash.. 76 miles, and fromSpring Valley to Palouse, Wash., 37 miles. This division willbe in operation about January 1, 1907. It is the intention toextend this road to Moscow, and eventually to Lewiston.Idaho, in the Snake river, which is a navigable stream andaffords a direct water outlet to Portland, Oregon, and toPuget Sound. The company has under construction at a point ninemiles below Spokane, on the Spokane river, a concrete dam,60 feet high, and a concrete-steel hydro-electric power housewhich, when completed, will have a generating capacity of9,000 horsepower. This plant will be completed during thenext 12 months. Financial. The cost of the properties when the railroad to Colfaxand Palouse is completed will be in excess of $8,000,000,against which there will be outstanding $3,959,000 in bonds,including $1,216,000 of prior liens. The equity of more than$4,000,000 has already been provided by th

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