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The Spokane Broom Factory .- This fac- tory was established October 15, 1894. The factory is at 324 Washington street. It is splendidly equipped with all the machinery necessary for the successful prosecution of the business. All kinds of brooms and broom work are manufactured, and the productions of the house have now a splendid reputation and an immense trade, owing to their general excel-
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lence. The business extends throughout east- ern Washington and Idaho. The proprietors of this business are Messrs. Fritz Theilman. F. F. Neitzel. A. C. Neitzel and Joe Neitzel. They employ five men, and deal with wholesale deal- ers in town.
As a manufacturer of flour we now hold the first place west of the Rocky mountains. We have no rival from Alaska to Mexico, nor in fact anywhere west of Minneapolis. As a flour manufacturing point we will in a few years go beyond every city in America unless it may be the city just named. While it is less than twenty years since the first flour was man- ufactured at this point. yet so rapid has been the growth of this industry that there are now only seven cities in America that have a larger output of flour than Spokane.
Centennial Milling Company .- Among the enterprises that have made Spokane famous as a milling centre is the above company. The mills and offices are located on the corner of Howard street and Mallon avenue. This com- pany was incorporated in 1890 under the laws of Washington, with a paid up-capital of one hundred thousand dollars, and from the very outset has enjoyed exceptional prosperity. Each year has seen the hold upon public con- fidence grow firmer, until to-day the patronage comes from all parts of Washington Idaho. Montana and the northwest in general, and is still rapidly expanding. The flour mill is a five-story structure. 60x40 feet in area: the cereal mill is 70x40 feet in area, five stories high, and the massive brick storehouse is 100x 100 feet in dimensions. All modern machinery and appliances are supplied. The number of workmen regularly employed is thirty-five, not counting the extra help frequently needed. They manufacture the celebrated "Gold Drop" patent and other favorite brands of flour. "Wheat Manna" and a host of other cereals. and are shippers of grain, flour, feed and mill stuff. The output of flour is seven hundred barrels a day, and of cereals one hundred bar-
rels a day. Mr. Moritz Thomsen is the pres- ident : Col. I. N. Peyton is the vice-president ; Mr. Samuel Glasgow is secretary and treas- urer, and with the president manages the busi- ness. The company has a large plant at Seattle, the mill having a capacity of two thousand barrels a day, and the flour is shipped to many foreign countries-China, Japan, Russia, Si- beria and others.
C. & C. Mills-On this site was built the first flouring mill in Spokane, by Frederick Post, referred to in another chapter. Clark and Curtis built the C. & C. mills in 1884. but it is now owned by the Washington Water Power Company. The Portland Flouring Mills Com- pany, which has nine flouring mills in all, has leased it for a series of years. Mr. George Shiel is the Spokane agent. The capacity of the mills is from six hundred to six hundred and fifty barrels a day, making one hundred and fifty thousand barrels this season. The brands manufactured are the "Plansifter." "Superb." "Spokane" and "C. & C." Though having an extended home market, the export business is the most important. The Post building. with its timber, is yet in good condition. and much of it is used for office purposes. No better evidence of the excellency and complete- ness of the machinery could be presented than the fact that the mills have been running with- out a stop for eleven months. The wheat is conveyed from the railroad cars to the mills in electric cars and emptied without handling. The power is perfect, and never fails. Thirty men are employed.
The Echo Mills .- These were the second flouring mills built in Spokane. The first building was erected by Havermale and Davis. It came into the possession of Benthen B. Bra- vinder and Albert E. Keats in 1887. The first building was destroyed by fire, and the present brick structure, costing about fifty thousand dollars, exclusive of machinery, was erected in 1802. The equipments are equal to anything in the Pacific northwest, and the brands of
REV. SAMUEL G. HAVERMALE SFOKANE
MRS. S. G. HAVERMALE SPOKANE
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flour manufactured were equally popular at home and abroad. About two years ago com- plications arose that resulted in cessation of operation. The mills are still idle.
Campbell Candy Company, Manufacturers of Fine Confectionery and Dealers in Nuts. Confectionery and Bakers' Supplies, Propri- etors of Spokane Spice Mills. Grinders of Pure Spices and Manufacturers of Celebrated Butterfly Baking Powder .- The proprietors are J. W. and V. S. Campbell and they have operated it for six years with success. The factory and salesroom are on Post street. be- tween Main and Front avenues and their market is the city and surrounding country.
Spokane Mattress & Upholstering Com- pany .- In the fall of 1889 this business was established and from the outset has enjoyed a most liberal patronage until to-day the trade comes from all parts of east Washington and neighboring states. The company manufac- tures mattresses, cots and wire springs, lounges and couches, and are jobbers of iron beds. Mr. S. L. Wood is the proprietor and the fac- tory is on Havermale island and supplied withi modern machinery. Twenty men are em- ployed.
Spokane Soap Works .- This establishment is located on Oak street and Great Northern track. After being in operation for several years it was purchased three years ago by B. L. Gordon & Company. It manufactures the celebrated "Smilax" soap and other brands. The capacity is two hundred thousand pounds per month and four men and two ladies are constantly employed. The goods have a ready market in Washington, Idaho, Mon- tana and British Columbia.
Simpson & Company .- This company is located on the corner of First avenue and Ash street and is engaged in the manufacture of laundry and toilet soaps and sal soda. This industry started in 1894 with a capital of five thousand dollars. J. M. Simpson is the proprietor and employs three persons to as-
sist him in the factory and two men on the road on commission.
Galland-Burke Brewing and Malting Com- pany .- This company is capitalized for one hundred thousand dollars and has an immense and thoroughly equipped establishment. em- ploying twenty-five persons, on Broadway avenue, between Post and Lincoln streets, overlooking the falls. It was organized in 1891. and the officers are: Julius Galland. president : Theodore Galland. secretary : Adolph Galland. treasurer; Samuel Galland. superintendent. The business has extended year by year proportionate to increase of pop- ulation and the products are sent at present not only all over Washington. but also to Oregon. Idaho. Montana and British Colum- bia.
New York Brewery .- This establishment was built nearly fourteen years ago by the late Rudolph Gorkow. It is located on Front avenue and Washington street and owned by the estate of Rudolph Gorkow. W. J. C. Wake- field. administrator. Twenty men are em- ployed.
New York Bottling Works .- The propri- etor is Adam Wicser and the location is 220 Main avenue. This enterprise started eight years ago and the list of productions includes beer. sarsaparilla, ginger ale, apple and or- ange cider, champagne, lemonade, crab cider and all carbonated beverages. Five men are employed.
Washington Cracker Company .- This company was organized in 1891, but was suc- ceeded by the Pacific Biscuit Company in 1899. The offices and factory are at the corner of Bernard street and Pacific avenue. The build- ing is three stories in height and 50x122 feet. with a basement. The first and second floors are used for the manufacture of crackers, fancy biscuits, etc. The third floor is used for candy, which is the most complete of its kind in the northwest, where all kinds of plain and fancy candies are manufactured, a spe-
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cialty being made of the celebrated C. C. cough drops. From forty to fifty people are employed. The quality of their productions is unsur- passed anywhere. The trade is wholesale and extends as far south as Boise City and north into British Columbia.
Y. H. Seltenreich .- Successor to T. H. Palladio and Albert Harper & Son, makers and repairers of high grade violins, mandolins. guitars, basses, etc. The business was estab- lished five years ago at 173 South Stevens street, the present location.
Washington Brick, Lime & Manufactur- ing Company .- To this company we are in- (lebted for the beautiful brick of which the new court house is built and also the fireproof- ing of its walls and partitions. The clay works of the company are located at Clayton on the Spokane Falls & Northern railway. There the company not only manufactures beautiful dry pressed brick but other vari- eties including red. buff. mottled, etc. They are also the only maufacturers of a superior quality of fire brick which has been tested at the Butte smelters and highly endorsed. A few miles north of this plant, on the Spokane Falls & Northern, is located the extensive lime plant of this company, where they manufac- ture the well-known "Valley Brook White Lime," which is marketed in eastern Wash- ington, Idaho and western Montana. The high quality of the products of this firm is recognized throughout the northwest, their brick having been selected for the State univer- sity at Seattle, and several buildings in Port- land. Butte, Anaconda and other cities. The offices and warehouses of this company are on Stevens street and the Northern Pacific track, where they carry a stock not only of their own products, but of other building materials, such as plaster, hair, cement, etc.
Washington Carriage Works .- This busi- ness, located at 414 Sprague avenue, was es- tablished five years ago by Mr. J. G. Ilartert. Carriages are built and repaired and archi-
tectural work is made a specialty. Several expert workers are employed.
Trapschuh & Fassett, carriage makers and blacksmiths, corner of First and Stevens streets, founded their business seven years ago. They do all kinds of repairing.
The Diamond Carriage Shop, a successful Spokane enterprise of which Messrs. Luther Jacques and J. C. Mountain are the progres- sive proprietors .- Seven years ago this busi- ness was established and it has been success- ful. The shop at 822 First avenue, is 25.x- 100 feet in area. Five skilled assistants are employed. Blacksmithing, horseshoeing, car- riage and wagon manufacturing business are attended to.
Cascade Steam Laundry .- Among the rep- resentative enterprises of this kind here is the Cascade Steam Laundry. 911 Bridge avenue. This business was established seven years ago, and through efficiency has become most pop- ular. The premises occupied compose a three- story building, 25x80 feet in area. This is perfectly equipped, being provided with the latest improved apparatus known to the in- (lustry. Twenty-seven people are given con- stant employment. The proprietors are Messrs. A. J. Reise. P. E. Fisher. S. H. Freidman.
Spokane Steam Laundry .- This business was established nine years ago, and is the suc- cessor of the oldest establishment of the kind in the city. The laundry is at 401 Howard street bridge. and comprises a two-story building. 30x100 feet in area. The equip- ment is most perfect, including all the steam machinery and other improved appliances known. The Spokane laundry has made an en- viable reputation for the general excellence of its work and has secured a very large patron- age. The proprietors are Messrs. H. M. Mosely and F. G. Meeks
The Washington Steam laundry, conducted by Messrs. A. A. Hosford and James Tyra. was established eight years ago and by its su- perior work has developed an immense busi-
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ness, which amounts to between two hundred and three hundred dollars per week. The laundry is at 503 Main avenue. It is pro- vided with the latest improved machinery and appliances.
Model Laundry, located at 404 W. Wash- ington street, Henry A. Schmidt, proprietor. The business was established in 1899 and now employes four persons.
BRICK YARDS.
The first attempt to manufacture bricks in this city was east of Mr. H. T. Cow- ley's place near Hillyard street and Sixth avenue. But the oldest brickyard now in operation is that of J. T. Davie & Company, located about three miles southwest of Howard street on the Medical Lake road. Mr. J. T. Davie started this brickyard twenty years ago. It employs during the working season about forty men. Very near is the brickyard of Triplet & Wallace, which started in 1886, and employs during the season from twenty-five to thirty-five men. Both yards manufacture first class brick and find a ready market for it in the city. The J. T. Davie Company ex- pects to employ a larger number of men this coming season than at any other time before.
STREET RAILROADS.
The street railway system of Spokane is tc-day doubtless equal to that of any city of its size in the country. It began with a horse-car line established by A. J. Ross in 1886. Messrs. Holmes and Moore established the Spokane Cable Company, which ran from Second ave- nue and Monroe street to Twickenham park in 1887.
The first electric line to be built was by the Ross Park Electric Street Railway Company, which was organized April 17. 1888. This road was open to Ross Park in November, 1889, when nearly five thousand people im- proved the opportunity to take a ride. The prime movers were Cyrus Bradley, G. B. Den nis, A. J. Ross, and I. S. Kaufman.
The Spokane Electric Railway was estab -. lished in 1891, the road beginning at Whiting's addition and running south on Monroe street. then along the track of the Spokane street Railway to Howard, and thence to Liberty Park.
The Montrose Park Moter Line was built from Riverside avenue and Washington street .. to the Heights, by Francis H. Cook, in 1889. The line is about two miles long. For three years it was operated by a steam motor. It came into the possession of the Provident Trust Company in 1893 and was changed into an electric road.
The City Park Transit Company, Messrs .. David and Chester Glass, managers, built a line from corner of Sprague avenue and Mon- roe street, half a mile beyond the northern lim- its of the city. in 1891. Early this year it came into the possession of the Spokane Street Rail- way Company. The Arlington Heights line was built in 1889, and for about three years was operated by steam power, when it was absorbed by the Spokane Street Railway Com- pany, which extended the road to Hillyard. In 1890 there were four systems in operation, with sixteen and a half miles of road. At present there are but two systems, but the total mileage of railway in operation is about forty. All lines of the Spokane Street Railway center at the corner of Riverside avenue and Howard street. New machine and car shops have been recently built on Boone avenue, near Jefferson street.
City Street Improvement Company, incor- porated, asphalt and cement sidewalks, floors, drives, etc., contractors for all kinds of street work. bridges and railway construction, wharves, jetties and sea walls; J. W. McDon- ald. Jr., Manager : J. S. Jackson, Superintend- ent .- This Company was organized in Califor- nia ten years ago. It began to operate in this city three years ago, and has already done con- considerable asphalt paving, and has a great deal under contract at this time. It employs-
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from one hundred and fifty to two hundred men.
Alcatraz Asphalt Paving Company .- This company organized at Los Angeles, California, was established in this city this year. Their plant is situated across the street from the N. P. R. R. It is now engaged in paving Stevens street. and has other contracts for city work.
Spokane Ice Company .- About sixteen years ago a man by the name of Jones started the ice business and hauled the commodity around in a wheelbarrow. Since then it has developed to great proportions and the supply of ice is becoming a problem difficult to solve. The Spokane Ice Company began to do business nearly twelve years ago, and has con- tinned with increasing capacity from year to year. Mr. I. B. Merrill is secretary and treas- urer. and Mr. J. I. Stone. general manager.
Crystal Ice Company began to operate in the ice business eleven years ago. Messrs. E. J. Bowers, and J. Riston are the proprietors. It was afterwards organized into a stock com- pany with Mr. F. W. Branson as president and manager. These two companies employ ten men each. The Loon Lake Ice Company oper- ates on a small scale. Instead of the wheelbar- . rowful a day that supplied the Spokane market it now calls for at least ten thousand tons a year.
Inland Telephone and Telegraph Company. -- In 1887 Mr. Chas. B. Hopkins came to this city and inaugurated the Telephone Exchange. which was soon sold to W. S. Norman. But in 1889, Mr. Hopkins became a permanent resident of Spokane and organized the Inland Telephone Company and became its general manager, which position he continues to hold. The development of the telephone system of the city is a marvel: over six hundred tele- phones were placed in business houses and homes last year and they are "put in" at the rate of three and four a day. The number of telephones in the city at present are no less than
three thousand. There are sixty-two local op- erators and fifteen long-distance operators em- ployed. The company employs about one hun- dred persons in all.
Telegraph Companies. - The Western Union Telegraph and Cable Company was es- tablished in Spokane in 1884. Albert D. Camp- bell has been the manager for many years and during his administration the business has greatly increased. There are a dozen persons employed at present. The Postal Telegraph and Cable Company was established a few years ago. D. Fletcher is the manager.
Gas Light Company .- The gas light sys- tem was introduced and the plant now located on Stevens street, south of the Northern Pacific Railroad track. established by Mr. H. C. Thompson fourteen years ago. The present general manager and treasurer. Mr. Albert D. Hopper, became associated with the enterprise in 1887. and from that time to the present it has developed from year to year. Originally the capacity was but ten thousand cubic feet per day : at present it is five hundred thousand cubic feet per day. The number of retorts have increased from five to thirty-five. The original capital was eighty thousand dollars stock and thirty thousand dollars bonds, which has in- creased to two hundred and fifty thousand dol- lars stock and one hundred thousand dollars bonds. There are one hundred thousand dol- lars in the treasury for improvements and the system is extending rapidly. The company gives steady employment to no less than twenty persons.
The smaller manufacturers are too numer- ous to mention, cigar makers, art glass, arti- ficial limbs, artificial stone, awnings and tents. bed springs and blank book makers, blue prints. brick manufacturers, cabinet makers, carpet weavers, vinegar and cider manufacturers, cor- nice manufacturers, the numerous dairies, en- gravers. manufacturing jewelers, many laun- dries ( 32). white and Chinese, medicine manu- facturers, paint manufacturers, platers, polish :-
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ers, shirt manufacturers, stamp works and stencil manufacturers, wig makers, wood en- gravers. etc.
SPOKANE AS A RAILROAD CENTER.
As in prehistoric days, according to tradi- tion, all Indian trails led to the great falls, so to-day the city by the falls is the railroad cen- ter of the great "Inland Empire." The mis- sionary explorer, Samuel Parker, expressed the opinion upon his return to New York in 1836 that no real obstacle prevented the construction of a railroad across the continent, and prophe- sied the building of such a road in the near future, and that over it tourists would journey as they at that time did to Niagara. The build- ing of a transcontinental railway was agitated for half a century. Congress appropriated one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for surveys in 1853. In April. 1853. Isaac I. Stevens, gov- ernor of the territory of Washington, was se- lected to "explore and survey a route from the sources of the Mississippi river to Puget Sound." George B. McClellan, then brevet captain of engineers, United States army, explored the Cascade range of mountains and eastward until he met the main party under Governor Stevens. "The decisive points de- termined were the practicability of the Rocky mountains and Cascade range, and the eligi- bility of the approaches. Governor Stevens rec- ommended that from the vicinity of the mouth of Snake river there should be two branches. one to Puget Sound across the Cascade moun- tains and the other down the Columbia river on the northern side." In his message, ad- dresses and every other legitimate way. sup- ported by legislative memorial and the press. Governor Stevens "kept alive the agitation of the Northern route."
January, 1857. the Legislature of the Terri- tory passed "An act to incorporate the Northern Pacific Railroad Company." The incorporators named were Governor Stevens and numerous citizens of Washington, Oregon, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, California, Maine. and New York. The lines prescribed by the act were nearly identical with the present Northern Pacific Railroad system. The char- ter of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company was granted by Congress on July 2, 1864, with Josiah Perham, of Boston, as president. The charter is thus defined : "An act granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and tele- graph line from Lake Superior to Puget Sound on the Pacific coast by the northern route." The building of the road commenced in Febru- ary, 1870, at Duluth, and during that year it reached Branard. one hundred and fourteen miles. In January, 1873. General John W. Sprague and Governor John N. Goodwin, agents for the Northern Pacific Railroad Com- pany, formally announced the selection of the city of Olympia as the terminus on Puget Sound. A few months later the company at New York declared its western terminus at Tacoma. The failure of Jay Cooke & Com- pany, in 1873. greatly embarrassed operations, but it was reorganized on different financial basis with Charles B. Wright as president. Frederick Billings became president in 1880, and after careful instrumental survey a line was located by way of the Naches Pass. The North- ern Pacific advanced under the management of President Billings in 1880 and 1881, stimulat- ing a hope for the immediate building of the Cascade division, which was not realized. The first overland train direct from Duluth to Ta- coma arrived on Sunday, July 5. 1887. But the overland railroad communication was fully con- summated via Portland and the road connecting it with Tacoma in 1883. On September 7, 1883. was driven the "golden spike." sixty miles west of Helena, which fastened the last rail of the Northern Pacific Railroad, practically joining the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Then Spokane was made a station on a transcontinental rail- road. Marvellous has been the development since then The Northern Pacific was the pio- neer road. but to-day eight railroads radiate
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from Spokane. It can be reached over five trancontinental roads, viz .: Northern Pacific, Great Northern, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, reaching here under leased arrangement with the Northern Pacific; the Union Pacific, which enters on the Oregon Railway & Navigation road, and the Canadian Pacific, which makes connection by rail and water with the Spokane Falls & Northern. The Union Pacific reached the city in 1889 and the Great Northern in 1892. The branches of the three great rail- roads are numerous, reaching in all directions. The Spokane & Palouse Railway was built as far as Belmont (sixty miles ) in the fall of 1886. During the following summer it was extended to Genesee, Idaho. Then a year ago it was built to Lewiston. The Central Washington was completed to Davenport in July, 1889. By No- vember it reached as far as Coulee City, where stages connect for Waterville and points in the Okanogan mining districts.
Probably the most important of these branch roads is the Spokane Falls & Northern Railway, now owned and operated by the Great North- ern. It was commenced by D. C. Corbin in March, 1889, and completed that year to the Little Dalles. This line runs from Spokane north through Stevens county to the town of Northport on the Columbia river, a distance of one hundred and fifteen miles. At that point the line splits and under the name of the Column- bia & Red Mountain road it runs to the great mining camp of Rossland in British Columbia. The other line runs to Nelson under the name of the Nelson & Fort Sheppard road. Nelson is at the foot of the Kootenay lake and steamers connect here with the trains for all points on the lake as far north as Kaslo. Connections are also made at Nelson with the Columbia & Kootenay Railroad, a branch of the Canadian Pacific, which in turn connects with steamers in Arrow lake, which go north to Revelstoke, where connections are made with the Canadian Pacific. The Spokane & Idaho was built by D. C. Corbin in 1887, and the Northern Pacific
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