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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PART I.
GENERAL HISTORY.
This part is identical in content and page numbering to that in AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE BIG BEND COUNTRY, and is not repeated here.
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(contents of PART I omitted)
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PART II.
STEVENS COUNTY.
CHAPTER I. From Beaver Pelts to Ballot Box.
pt.1, pp. 65-70 pt. 2, pp. 70-75 pt. 3, pp. 75-80 pt. 4, pp. 80-85
Encroachments of the Hudson's Bay Company — Explorations of John McLeod — Mission of Father De Smet — Father Ravalli — Pioneers of Stevens County — Pinckney City — Colville in 1859 — Influence of Eraser River Excitement in Stevens County — First Election Precinct — Assassination of H. W. Watson — First Term of Superior Court — Primitive Litigation — Indians Respect White Men's Laws — Consultation at Missoula — Francis Wolff Brings First Wagon to Colville — Execution of an Indian for the Murder of George Breemer — Organization of Election Precincts.
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CHAPTER II. Material Progress From 1871 to 1903.
pt. 1, pp. 85-90 pt. 2, pp. 90-95 pt. 3, pp. 95-99
Cutting Up Stevens County — Gold Dust a Circulation Medium — "Colville" the Capital of Stevens County — Commissioners Lease a Court House Building — Construction of the Spokane Falls & Northern Railway — Contest for County Seat — Disastrous Flood in the Colville Valley — Damage by Wind Storm — First Telephone Service — Citizens of Colville Subscribe for New Court House — Last of the Old Town of Pinckney City.
CHAPTER III. Descriptive.
pp. 99-112
The Stevens County of Today — Altitudes of Various Towns — The Beautiful Colville Valley — Along the Pend d'Oreille — Excellent Roads and Highways — Stevens County Game — "A Great Country With a Great Future" — The Marble Quarries — Considered as a Fruit Producing Section — Transportation Facilities — Stevens County's Markets — Gardiner's Cave — Geology — Coal — Opening of the "North Half" of the Colville Reservation.
CHAPTER IV. Mines and Quarries.
pp. 113-127
The Old Dominion — The Marble Area — History of the Industry — First Marble Tombstone — Excellent Clay for Manufacturing Pottery, Terra Cotta, Sewer Pipe and Brick — Eureka Marble Quarries — Columbia River Marble Company — "Tombstones for Unborn Millions" — Jefferson Marble Company — The Keystone — The Metalline District — Original Silver Lead Discovery — Young America Group — Mineral Belt on Rickey Mountain—Placer Mining.
CHAPTER V. Cities and Towns.
pp. 127-150
Colville, the County Seat — Platted by Major Hooker and John Still — Troops Depart from the Fort — Town Incorporated but Action is Declared Void — Reincorporation — Initial Session of New Council — Losses by Fire — Erection of a Smelter — Building Improvements in 1897 — Water Works — Educational Matters — Colville Fire Department — Fraternal Societies — Northwestern Light & Power Company — Northport — First Passenger Train — Postoffice Inspector Receives a Gentle Hint — Disastrous Conflagration.
CHAPTER VI. Cities and Towns — Continued.
pp. 150-165
Marcus — Establishment of "Fort" Colville — Visit to the Old Landmark — The Historic Block House — Original Store at Marcus — Meyers Falls — The Goodwin Mission — D.C. Corbin Extends His Railroad — Kettle Falls — Incorporation — Falls of the Columbia — The Old Jesuit Chapel — First Stevens County Fair — Chewelah — Springdale — Bossburg — Newport — Other Towns.
CHAPTER VII. Political.
pp. 165-172
Records of Earlier Days Incomplete— H. W. Watson Chosen First Territorial Representative— Not Permitted to
be Seated— He is Followed by J. R. Bates— Admission of the State— Populists Carry the County in 1894—
Three Tickets m the Field in 1896— "Fusionists"— Election of County Officials Contested.
CHAPTER VIII. Educational.
pp. 172-181
Private School of Angus McDonald — First Public School — Superintendent George Taylor — Father Militry — Modesty of Superintendent John U. Hofstetter — Incomplete Educational Reports — Rochester Academy at Kettle Falls — Northwestern Washington Academy — Eells Academy — Present Number of School Districts in Stevens County.
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STEVENS COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
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PART III.
FERRY COUNTY.
CHAPTER I. Early History and Organization.
pp. 403-412
First White Men in Republic Camp — Original Mining Location — Opening of the North Half of the Colvilie Reservation — Operations of Thomas Ryan and Philip Creaser — Formation of the Republic Gold Mining & Milling Company — Flood of 1898 — Sensational Experience of A. W. Strong and Others — Opening of the South Half of the Colvilie Indian Reservation to Mineral Entry — Formation of a New County — Erection of a Court House — Horse and Cattle Thieves — The Rainy Winter of 1899 — Freight Rates 880 a Ton — North Half of the Colvilie Reservation Open to Homestead Entry — Railroad Exploitation.
CHAPTER II. Republic Camp and Other Towns.
pp. 412-429
Prospectors Flock In — Establishment of First Business House in Republic — Various Additions to the Town — Material Progress — Connected by Telephone With the Outside World — Completion of Court Room and Jail — Organization of a Presbyterian Congregation — Change of Name From Eureka to Republic — Formation of a Fire Department — Disastrous Fires — Incorporation — Keller on the South Half — Judge Hanford Makes Important Ruling — Orient — Curlew — Danville — Other Towns.
CHAPTER III. Mines and Mining.
pp. 429-439
Geological Characteristics of Ferry County — Suspension of an Experimental Mill — Reorganization of the Republic Gold Mining & Milling Company — The Chico Mine — Butte & Boston — Princess Maud — The Quilp — Lone Pine — Surprise — San Poll — Ben Hur and Trade Dollar — The Mountain Lion — Tom Thumb— Morning Glory — El Calif — General Development of the Eureka Mining District — Belcher and Hawkeye Mines — "Tenas George"— The Hendryx Cyaniding Process.
CHAPTER IV. Educational.
pp. 440-442
Establishment of a School in Republic Camp in 1898 — No Funds in the Treasury — Mrs. W. R. Collins the First Teacher — Educational Affairs Awaken Warm Discussion — Erection of First School House in Ferry County — Superintendency of George A. Graham— School Building at Keller— Total Enrollment of Scholars in 1900 — Bonded Indebtedness.
CHAPTER V. Descriptive.
pp. 443-444
Contour, Boundaries and Area of Ferry County — Farming and Grazing Lands — Geological Structure — Excellent System of Wagon Roads — The Famous Bunch Grass — Game Awaiting the Ardent Sportsman — Principal Streams — The Kettle River.
CHAPTER VI. Political.
pp. 445-447
Right to Vote Tested in the Courts — Storm of Indignation Against Alleged Disfranchisement — First Election — Original Commissioners of Ferry County — Democratic Landslide — Republicans Make Gains in 1902.
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FERRY COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
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PART IV.
OKANOGAN COUNTY.
CHAPTER I. First Exploration and Early History.
pp. 485-498
First White Man on the Northern Portion of the Columbia River — New Fort in the Wilderness — Derivation of the Word "Okanogan." — The Early Religious Field — Father de Rouge Settles at Omak — Founding of St. Mary's Mission — Chief Aeneas — Chief Moses and Alexander McCauley — Conflicting Interests Clash Over Limits of the Reservation for "Non Treaty" Indians — Biography of "Okanogan" Smith — Mr. Thorp Experiments With Peanut Agriculture — Organic Act Creating the County of Okanogan — Ruby the First County Seat — Salmon City — Severe Winter Causes the Death of Much Stock — Okanogan County Board of Trade — County Seat Removal Agitated.
CHAPTER II. Passing Events, 1891—1903.
pp. 499-512
Threatened Uprising of Okanogan Indians— Lynching of Indian Stephen— State Called on for Troops to Protect the Whites — General Curry Arrives at Conconully — Interview With "Okanogan" Smith — Delay in Securing a Survey and Extension of Standard Lines — Settlers Doomed to Disappointment — Increase of Taxable Property in the County — Lot and Claim Jumping Discouraged — Organization of Taxpayers' League — Assassination of Peter Coutts — The Blizzard of 1898 — Floods of Unusual Proportions — Okanogan Raised to a County of the Twenty-second Class — War Between Sheep and Cattle Men — Report of State Fish Commission on the Methow
Fish Hatchery — Revival of the Mining Industry — Valuation of Okanogan County Property in 1903.
CHAPTER III. Mines and Mining.
pp. 513-527
Okanogan County the Birthplace of Mining in the State of Washington — Opening of Chief Moses' Reservation Induces Development — First Investors Doomed to Failure — Geological Structure of the County — Wonderful Showing Made in Palmer Mountain — The Pinnacle Mine — Other Mines and Groups in that Vicinity — Meyers
Creek Mining District — The Methow — The Multnomah Mining Company's Properties — In the Vicinity of Twisp — Great Excitment in the Salmon River District — Original Prospectors — Mineral Hill — The Far Famed Ruby Mine — The Squaw Creek Country.
CHAPTER IV. Descriptive.
p. 527-537
Area and Topography of Okanogan County — Mountainous Contour of the Entire Country — Soil Elements and Climate — Variations of Scenery Causes Grand and Imposing Effects — Legend of the "Hee Hee Stone" — Stage Ride From Oroville to Loomis — Lake and Mountain Scenery — Heart of the Palmer Mountain Mining District — Wanicutt and Spectacle Lakes — Pogue Flat — Agricultural Methods — The Methow Valley — Productive Ranches Along the Okanogan River.
CHAPTER V. Cities and Towns.
537-551
Conconully, the Capital of Okanogan County — Indian Lineage of the Name — Concenully Lake Considered as an Irrigation Reservoir by the United States Government — Original Name of the Town Salmon City — First Business Enterprises — Season of Great Activity in Building — Remodeling of the Hotel Elliott — Organizing a Militia Company — Fire Nearly Wipes Out the Town in 1892 — Forty-two Buildings Destroyed by Floods in 1894 — Cloud Burst on the Mountains — Farms and Orchards Destroyed — One Life is Lost — Dedication of the First Church Building in Conconully — First Settlement of Loomis — Many Miners and Prospectors Congregate There — A Typical Western Mining Town — Loomis Improves Rapidly During 1891-2 — Educational Affairs — Marked Improvement in Property Values — Death of "Pinnacle Jim" — Chesaw — Only Town in United
States Named After a Chinaman — Fire Destroys the Hotel Barker.
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CHAPTER VI. Cities and Towns — Continued.
pp. 551-563
Riverside — Uriah Ward, the Original Pioneer — "Pard" Cummings Establishes the Initial Store — Riverside the Head of Navigation on the Okanogan River — Oroville — Surrounded by a Fine Agricultural Country — Bolster — Rivalry Between This Young Town and Chesaw — The Latter Wins Out — Molson — Phenomenal Growth in Early Days — George B. Mechem its Promoter — Present Conditions — Loop Loop Platted in 1888 by W. P. Keady and S. F. Chadwick — Depreciation in Silver Market the Immediate Downfall of the Town — Ruby — Now a Deserted Village — Was at one Time the County Seat of Okanogan — Nighthawk — Its Proximity to the International Boundary Line — Owes its Existence to the Nighthawk Mine — Brewster at the Junction of the Okanogan and Columbia Rivers — Original Name Swansea — Virginia City — Brewster Nearly Destroyed by Fire in 1903 — Twisp -Handsomely Located in an Ideal Spot — Great Mining Excitement in the Methow Valley — Methow — Other Towns.
CHAPTER VII. Political.
pp, 564-571
Organization of Okanogan County — County and Appointment of First Commissioners — General Election of the Autumn of 1888 — Charles E. Laughton First Lieutenant Governor of the State of Washington — Result of the Election of 1890 — Election of 1892 — Largely in Favor of the Republicans— Plurality in Okanogan County in 1892 for President Harrison 139— Trend of Political Events to 1902.
CHAPTER VIII. Educational.
pp. 571-573
Earliest School Superintendent's Report — Administration of J. F. Samson — Financial Depression of 1894 Discouraging to School Improvement — Joseph E. Leader County Superintendent in 1895 — Financial Showing for the Year 1902.
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PART V.
CHELAN COUNTY.
CHAPTER I. Early History and Passing Events.
pp. 669-685
Derivation of the Word "Chelan" — Chinese the Earliest Settlers — Romance of One Celestial — Driven Away by Indians — Missionary Labors of Fathers Respari, Grassi and Rouge — First White Settlers Along the Lake — Adventures of Sanders and Dumke — Woodin and Dumke Erect Rival Saw Miils — The Entiat Valley — Wenatchee Once an Indian Council Ground — Franklin Freer Settles on the Columbia River — Efforts in 1893 to Create Wenatchee County — High Water in the Columbia — "Long Jim" — Tidal Wave in Lake Chelan — Organic Act Creating Chelan County Wenatchee Development Company — Steamboats Cast Away.
CHAPTER II. Descriptive.
pp. 685-702
Wonderful Scenic Attractions — Rapid Progress Made in the Development of the Wenatchee Country — Mildness of the Climate — Sounding Lake Chelan by the United States Geological Surve y— Voyage on the Lake — Stupendous Heights, Gigantic Domes, Cavernous Precipices — Round Mountain — Moore's Point — "Painted Rocks"— Glacial Phenomena— Wonderful Results of Irrigation — The"High Ditch Line"— Lake Wenatchee in the Heart of the Cascades — Tumwater Canyon — Entiat Valley — Horseshoe Basin — Rainbow Falls — Mission Valley.
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CHAPTER III. Mines and Mining.
pp.702-711
First Quartz Mine Ever Developed in Washington — The Holden Mine — Entiat Valley District — Baker Mountain Mininsc Company — Copper Queen Group — Doubtful Lake — Railroad Creek — Stehekin District — Mining in the Vicinity of Wenatchee — Golden King Company — Peshastin and Negro Creeks — Blewett Gold Mining Company — The Phoenix — Leavenworth District — Rock Creek Canyon.
CHAPTER IV. Cities and Towns.
pp. 711-736
Wenatchee — Genesis and Definition of the Word — First Business Enterprise in the Vicinity — The "North End" — Rapid Increase of Population — Opening of the Columbia Valley Bank — Townsite Company Throws Lots Upon the Market — Organization of First Sunday School — Move for Incorporation — Advent of the Great Northern Railroad — First Municipal Election — Fire — Public Library and Reading Room Established — Burning of Steamer "Irish World" — Wenatchee Commercial Club — Building Improvements — Names of River Steamers — Platting of Original Townsite — Various Additions — Chelan — Early pioneers — Chelan Water Power Company — Church History — Lakeside — Chelan Falls — Leavenworth — Mission — Other Towns.
CHAPTER V. Educational.
pp. 736-738
Organization of First School District — John D. -Atkinson First Superintendent — Report of Superintendent Foster — Growth of Schools — High Schools.
CHAPTER VI. Political.
pp. 738-740
First County Commissioners — Republicans Hold County Convention at Leavenworth in 1900 — Democrats Meet at Wenatchee — Fusion an Accomplished Fact — Democrats Carry the County at Presidential Election — Republicans Successful in 1902.
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CHELAN COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
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PART IV.
ADDENDA.
CHAPTER I. Press of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan Counties.
pp. 840-852
Pioneer Journalism in Stevens County — Stevens County Sun, of Chewelah, Initial Paper in the County — The Miner, Published at Colville — Mr. Slater Sells the Miner — Stevens County Standard and Colville Republican — W. D. Allen Purchases the Springdale Statesman and Consolidates it with the Colville Index — The Northport News — Stevens Standard — Springdale Gazette — Other Stevens County Publications — First Paper in Ferry County the Reservation Record — E. R. Cleveland and Albert J. Drake Establish the Republic Pioneer — It is Subsequently Consolidated With the Miner — Five Weekly Newspapers in Okanogan County — The First One Issued Was the Okanogan Outlook — Its Sensational History — The Ruby Miner— The Loomiston Journal Issued by A. H. Sroufe — Palmer Mountain Prospector, by Frank Dallam, the Oldest Paper Now in Okanogan County — Other Journals — The Wenatchee Advance the First Weekly Paper in Chelan County — Established by Frank Reeves — Many Political and Personal Changes on the Advance — Chelan Falls Leader Comes Into the Field — Owned and Edited by Dewitt C. Britt — The Paper is Moved to Chelan in 1892 — The Wenatchee Graphic — The Rock Island Sun — Lake Chelan Eagle — Wenatchee Republican Established by A. S. Lindsay— Lakeside Light.
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CHAPTER II.Reminiscent.
pp. 852-867
Incident in Wright's Campaign — Something of a Bear Story — Of Historical Interest — A Hurried Departure — A Minister's Trip to Colville — Colville an Island — Meyers Falls — A Man of Claims — The Opium Traffic — Building the Spokane Falls & Northern Railroad — An Orderly Camp — Old Fort Colville — She Witnessed the Whitman Massacre — Father de Rouge Among the Indians — Racing Between Indians — "Conconully Kate" — The Embrace of Death — Legend of the Columbia— Battle at Mouth of Okanogan — Legend of Pauline.
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GENERAL ILLUSTRATIONS
Colville, County Seat of Stevens County 154
Meyers Falls of the Colville river 153
Kettle Falls of the Columbia river 154
Fruit exhibit at the Stevens county fair, Colville, September, 1903 113
Buildings of the Hudson's Bay Company's post near Marcus as they appear to-day 153
Ruins of the old Jesuit mission near Kettle Falls 113
Grist mill at Meyers Falls, Stevens county, erected in 1872. . 153
King gold and copper mines.... 113
Wagon bridge and dam across the Chelan river 669
View on Lake Chelan 690
Rainbow falls near the Stehekin River ..., 695
Lake Chelan. View from Moores' Point 690
Painted rocks near the head of Lake Chelan 696
Wenatchee fruit exhibit at the Spokane fruit fair in 1902.... 696
They came from Lake Chelan. . 696
Wenatchee, county seat of Chelan county 711
Winter scene on Lake Chelan. . 669
Glacier Peak 685
Chelan falls of Chelan river .... 685
Residence of J. McFarland 800
Palmer Lake 527
Tramway from Pinnacle mine, Okanogan county 485
Wannicut Lake 527
Toats Coula Falls of the Sinlahekin river 527
Group of Okanogan Indians .... 485
St. Mary's mission, Okanogan county, as it was in pioneer days 527
Medicine woman of the Okanogan tribe 485
Salmon or Conconully lake .... 485
Chief Joseph 499
Curlew lake. Ferry county 427
Republic in 1897, then Eureka. 429
Sans Poil Falls of the Sans Poil river, Ferry county, during high water 427
Gold bricks 429
Republic, county seat of Ferry county 412
First store in Ferry county, located at Danville, formerly Nelson 429
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