Good Old Days: July 2, 2020

The Commoner

125 years ago

June 21, 1895

A recent issue of the Review, under date of Colfax, publishes the following: “Frequent rumors are heard regarding the intention of the Great Northern to tap this country with a branch line from Harrington.

The route has been surveyed once or twice and only a few weeks ago a party of engineers passed through here on their way to Lewiston, presumably to survey a continuation of the route into the Camas prairie country.

There is an excellent natural roadbed through Sprague and by the mouth of the Rock lake up Pleasant valley to this place and on up Spring...