point for the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, I had dinner, and then moved on to Colfax, the capital of Whitman County, situated in the rich wheat section of the Palouse country. There are lumber industries carried on here, and extensive flour mills, and while the climate is in every respect all that could be desired for the growth of both winter and summer wheat, the fertility of the soil is such as to make it incomparable. The entire country and its citizens are continually busy sowing and harvesting their wheat, storing it in large warehouses, whence it is shipped to the Pacific Coast markets and from there to Asiatic and European countries. I leave Colfax for Spokane, and from there go over the Great Northern to Kalispell, Montana, stopping on the way a few days at Troy, a division point of the railroad. There are
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