Chapter IV: RAILROAD PROSPECTS.--The Northern Pacific Railroad, a

transcontinental line, already passes through Spokane Falls. If the cut-off through the Coeur d'Alene country should be made, it would be equivalent to an additional road. The Spokane Falls and Palouse Railway joins the Northern Pacific at Marshall, only nine miles from the city, and its general course points directly toward it.

The road across the Great Bend has been commenced. The road to Colville, Little Dalles, etc., will inevitably be made at an early day.

This would make it really the centre of six roads, counting the Northern Pacific as two.