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the secluded portions of the great lake, 
the wild fowl build their nests and rear 
their young. 
BIRDS AND ANIMALS. 
Grizzly, black, brown, and cinnamon 
bears; California lion, panther, wild-cat, 
lynx, wolverine, gray, timber and prairie 
(coyote) wolves; red, black, silver-gray, 
and cross foxes; beaver, otter, pine and 
stone marten; mink, fisher, weasel, bad- 
ger, skunk, muskrat, elk, caribou, Vir. 
ginia, black-tailed, and mule deer; 
rabbits and hares; gray, red and ground 
squirrels; chipmunks, gray and bald 
eagles; osprey and many other varieties 
of hawks; hooting, long-eared and snowy 
owls; sage hen, pintail, pine, ruffed, and 
prairie grouse; capercailzie or cock of 
the mountain; wild geese and swans; 
loons, ducks of many kinds; English and 
other snipe; plover, curlew, sand-hill and 
swamp cranes; robins; blackbirds of 
several kinds; crows, yellowhammers, 
several varieties of woodpecker, bluebirds, 
magpie, snowbirds, bluejays, water- 
ouzel, hummingbirds of many kinds, 
and a great variety of other birds and 
animals are found there. 
FISH. 
Of fish there are a number of varieties 
of trout, salmon trout, suckers, and many 
kinds of shiners and other small fish. 
Salmon come up the Spokan River in 
abundance, but cannot get over the 
Great Falls. There are neither mos- 
quitoes nor black flies—those pests of 
the angler and hunter on the lake 
shores—though there is a fair allowance 
of other insects, the common house-fly 
being particularly abundant. 
NATURE OF THE COUNTRY. 
The country around is a perfect wilder- 
ness, and the few ranches, which here 
and there dot the country, are simply a 
log hut and patch of garden. The Great 
Spokan Prairie, which extends from 
Pend’oerille Lake to the Columbia 
River, being rather more than a hundred 
miles in length, with a varying breadth 
of from six to ten, contains some good 
ranches where the cereals grow thriftily. 
ROUTES. 
There are several routes to this beauti- 
ful country. One is by Helena and 
Missouri Mountains, by the Mullan road, 
over the mountains, This route is al- 
ways closed by heavy snow falls during 
the Winter. During the Spring, Sum- 
mer, and Fall this route is practicable 
for equestrains, but not for wagons, the 
bridges built by Captain Mullan having 
been swept away by the spring floods. 
The scenery along the route is said to be 
very grand and beautiful. One of the 
streams on the route (Hose Creek) 
crosses the road sixty-five times in less 
than as many miles, It is readily forded, 
except during the spring floods, The 
country can also be entered by the Mul- 
lan Road from Walla Walla. (The 
Mullan Road runs from Fort Walla 
Walla on the Columbia to Fort Benton 
on the Missouri River). There is also 
another road from Walla Walla via 
Waitesburg, Dayton, Colfax, Pine Grove, 
and Spokan Falls. This is the most 
practicable route, and the only one over 
which runs a public conveyance. A 
stage runs daily from Walla Walla to 
Colfax, and a ‘buck board” from Colfax 
to Spokan Falls twice a week. At Spokan 
Falls a team can be hired for the re- 
maining twenty-seven miles. ‘There are 
hotels at Waitesburg, Dayton, Colfax, 
and Spokan Falls, but most of the 
houses on the way will accommodate 
travelers. There is another road from 
