about 136,000. Its growth was over 500 per cent
in twenty years. Situated on both sides of the Spokane River with
wonderful waterfalls in heart of city. One of the leading railroad
centers in the west, it has five transcontinental lines operating on
their own tracks and two others over joint tracks. Its hotels, theaters,
public buildings, and homes, are among the most costly in the northwest.
Its fifty-two parks, comprising 1,933 acres valued at more than
$2,000,000, give the largest per capita park area of any city in the
United States. Splendid boulevards within the city connect with broad
highways leading to distant points in the Inland Empire. There is a
boating course two miles long above the city, a municipal bathing pool a
mile from the business center, and a zoo at Manito Park. One may see
large manufacturing establishments, irrigation, wheat fields, and many
big development projects within a limited area. It is the home of the
North Pacific Fruit Distributors, which markets 60 per cent of the
apples of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana.

A few of the more important trips should include the following:

Mt. Spokane, 20 miles N. E., highest peak in
Eastern Washington.

Indian Canyon, 2 miles west (Indian wigwams still
there).

Medical Lake, 16 miles S. W., famous for medicinal
qualities of water; one of state's hospitals here.
Return by way of Cheney, home of one of state
normal schools.

Spokane Valley, fruit section along Apple Way to
Hayden Lake.

Reardan, by Sunset Highway, 21 miles, built at
cost of $194,000.

Jas. P. Grave's model farm; Country Club on
Waikiki Road.

Arcadia Apple Orchard at Deer Park, largest in the
world.

Colville Valley, Chewelah and Colville, a rich
agricultural valley, good roads, mountains in
sight, many lakes.

Pend Oreille Valley, Newport, Ione, and Metaline
Falls; see Box and Grandview Canyons; river falls
400 feet in 12 miles.

Steptoe Butte for expansive view of Palouse
country.

Through the Palouse to Colfax, Moscow, and State
College at Pullman, one of the most remarkable
rides--train, auto, or electric.

Kellogg, Idaho, to see largest lead and silver
mine in the wo