Northern Pacific Railway and electric car line. Silver Lake, within a mile of Medical Lake, affords fine fishing.

Lake Chelan, sixty-five miles long, running far back into the Eastern slope of the Cascades, is Nature's scenic paradise for the tourist. From Stehekin, the head of navigation, a climb of a few hours lands the tourist in the heart of the Cascades, where glaciers and snowcapped peaks stretch away for hundreds of miles to the South, West and North, like the frozen billows of an angry sea. Tourists who have visited the Chelan country say that the scenery surpasses anything to be found in the world-famous Alps of Switzerland.

Moran Mountain, six miles southeast of Spokane, and to be reached shortly by electric car line, is about four thousand feet above sea level and affords a glimpse of an immense expanse of farming country. The summit of the mountain is a natural park with springs of sparkling icecool water. The wonderful clearness of the atmosphere at the summit has the remarkable property of magnifying objects at a distance, so that the naked eye beholds the vast panorama as through a telescope. Steptoe Butte, the cone of an extinct volcano, situated in the heart of the famous agricultural district known as "The Palouse," fifty miles to the south, appears to be but a few miles away.

Gardner Cave, greater than the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, and but partially explored, is reached via the Great Northern Railway and steamer ride down the beautiful Pend d'Oreille river to Box Canyon, the foot of navigation, and thence by horseback. It is situated in the heart of the big game district and requires a guide.

Spokane enjoys a delightful climate. The transition from cold of winter to warmth of summer, or vice versa, occurs gradually by comparatively small changes of mean daily temperature from day to day. Sudden violent changes of temperature seldom occur here. There have been but two days of zero weather at Spokane in the past three years. The low relative humidity of East

ern Washington during the warm portions of the year accounts for the freedom from heat prostration or sunstroke, for which Spokane and the surrounding country are noted.

This place has remarkable freedom from violent winds, due, in a great measure to the topography of the surrounding country. Tornadoes are unknown except in name. Thunder storms are rare and seldom, if ever, of the violent kind experienced perienced in the Eastern states. The nights are always cool even in the warmest weather. Another feature of extreme warm weather is the cool refreshing breeze always experienced in the shade. The annual precipitation is about nineteen inches at Spokane, or a little over a third of the lowest precipitation re

corded west of the Cascade mountains. The principal factors giving Spokane such a remarkably delightful climate as compared with other sections of the United States are the elevation above sea level (about two thousand feet); the prevailing southwest winds which blow from the equatorial currents of the Pacific ocean; and to the high mountain ranges which shut in the country on the East, North and West. The mean average temperatures at Spokane for the past twenty-four years for each month of the year as recorded by the local office of the United States Weather Bureau, are as follows: January, 26 degrees; February, 30 degrees; March, 40 degrees; April, 48 degrees; May, 56 degrees; June, 62 degrees; July, 69 degrees; August, 68 degrees; September, 58 degrees; October, 48 degrees; November, 37 degrees; December, 32 degrees.

It will thus be seen that Spokane has mild winters and cool summers.

"Not once since the opening of the United States States Weather Bureau office (over twenty-four years ago) in this place, has there been an instance of loss of life or property at Spokane, caused by extreme meteorological conditions, such as occur annually in other parts of the United States," says Observer Charles Stewart of the United United States Weather Bureau.

Rev. Jonathan Edwards, a state historian, in speaking of Spokane says: "Spokane is the Eastern gateway to the vast Northwest, the largest city from the Mississippi River to Puget Sound. It is a city most happily and commandingly situated in the center of a territory with no prospect of a rival that can obtain a like foothold. Thus far all attempts at prophecy have proved the authors deficient in the necessary gifts. Great cities are often located beside great waters. It is evident that the hand of destiny or Providence marked marked the region

around the falls as a populous city. No wonder that the groves around the falls were the camping grounds of the aboriginal Spokanes for ages unknown, for a more delightful spot would be difficult to find when in its natural state. A more advantageous site for a great city, one may travel long to find."

Doctor Hines, another state historian, says: "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is this Spokane. The city is located in the very heart of the most perfect. scenic poem. Form and color and motion have their most perfect blending. Woodlands, lawns and waters mingle green softness, gray soberness and silver brightness in one long and broad picture such as no hand but that of the Infinite Artist could ever touch. Just where the Spokane river, which has come wandering down through the plains. from the northeast for many miles, breaks into laughing ripples, then speeds away through the various channels for a half-mile race of flashing and jeweled beauty, and