THE NORTHERN PACIFIC ROUTE. 155 
The Spokane International Railway approaches the Northern 
Pacific line on the right near milepost 43, runs parallel with it for some 
distance, and finally goes under it between mileposts 
Athol. 46 and 47, beyond Athol, and disappears on the left. 
Elevation 2,400feet. Originally this valley was covered with a growth of 
-Sghucepipir yer le scrubby pine and it was not supposed to be suitable 
for agricultural or horticultural pursuits, but m recent 
years fruit trees have been successfully grown, and now apple orchards 
stretch along the railway for many miles. Although the valley is 
continuous, there is a constriction near Lone Mountain and a division 
of the drainage. The water north of this place finds its way into the 
Columbia by way of Clark Fork, whereas that to the south reaches the 
same trunk stream through Spokane River. Near milepost 51 Lone 
Mountain is a conspicuous object on the right (west). It rises to a 
height of about 1,000 feet above the plain. To judge from the bare 
rocks exposed about its base, the ice has abraded its foot, but whether 
or not the glacier passed over its summit is an open question. 
At Ramsey, a station directly south of Lone Mountain, the rail- 
way is double tracked, the eastbound track diverging to the left, 
to unite again with the westbound track at Rath- 
oh apa drum, the next station to the west. In going west- 
Elevation2,s40feet- ward the train gradually approaches the mountain 
gic eee) mass on the right, and at Rathdrum it is only a 
few hundred feet from the foot of the hill. Here the rock is a schist, 
but whether the schist is of Archean age and therefore older than the 
Belt series, or whether it is the Belt, or some younger 
Rathdrum. formation greatly changed, is a question that has not 
Elevation 2,212 feet. been settled. At Rathdrum the Northern Pacific 
I raukinbe wake crosses over a new line—the Idaho & Washington 
Northern Railway. West of the crossing the railway 
runs near the hills on the north for a long distance, but on the left 
it overlooks the valley of Spokane River, which is spread out like a 
map before the eyes of the traveler. Most of the valley bottom is 
farming land, but some of it is too gravelly to be 
Hauser,Idaho. of much value for agriculture. The valley is par- 
ticularly beautiful as seen from a point a little west of 
Elevation 2,140 feet. 
Population 382.* Hauser. From Hauser a branch line runs to Post 
er Falls and Cceur d’ Alene, at the foot of Cceur d’ Alene 
Lake, and there is steamboatservice on the lake and railway connection 
1 Schist is a rock in which a parallel or | in layers parallel to the cleavage. 
foliated structure has been developed by | may have been sedimen' 
shearing-or by pressure, a process gener- | igneous 
ally accompanied by more or recrys- 
tallization of the material composing it the rock is generally o 
