class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">187 —The Great Bend country, 187 —Douglas County, 188 —Lincoln County, 189 —Spokane County, 189 —Price of farming lands, 189 —Tonnage, 190.

The Seattle railway passes five coal fields, 191 —Largest shipments from the Gilman Mines, 192 —Superior mining advantages of the Gilman Mines, 193 —Mr. Whitworth's testimony, 193 —Cost of mining coal, 196 —Cost at Gilman Mines, 197 —Prices of coal, 197.

Handling the iron ores, 199 —Furnace sites, 199 —Salal Prairie, 200 —Charcoal cheaply produced, 200 —Quantity of charcoal to the ton of iron, 201 —Bessemer ores commonly distant from fuel, 202 —High cost of Lake Superior ores, 203 —Cost of producing ore in Pennsylvania, 203 —Cost of Bessemer-pig in Snoqualmie Valley, 203 —Large market for steel rails, 204.

Limestone, 204 —Marble, granite, sandstones, slates, 204 —Precious and base metals, 205 —Okanogan, Colville and Kootenai, 205 —Cœur d'Alene, 206 —Transportation lines to the mining regions, 206.

The only competition is between Tacoma and Seattle, 209 —Advantages of Seattle, 210 —Towns of East Washington, 210 —Spokane Falls and its fine prospects, 211 —Mr. Paul F. Mohr's article, 211 —Sprague, Colfax, and Lewiston, 215 —Notes on the Colfax country, 216 —Lewiston, public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@40132@[email protected]#Page_217"