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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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ome one in the employ of the road, the conductor ifthe car has one, shall go ahead and see that the track isclear and safe for the passage of the electric car. Theinmost vigilance is required of the employee who under-takes (his work that accidents may not occur. The car isin no case to proceed until signaled to do so by the personwho has gone ahead and ascertained that the way is clear.A copy of the rule is to be posted up in each car. January 26, 1907.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 135 THE SPOKANE-PEND DOREILLE RAPID TRANSITCOMPANY Probably no other siection of the United States has beengrowing so rapidly in wealth and population as the territorypopularly known as the Great Northwest or Inland Em-pire. The latter title is well deserved, for it would bedifficult to find elsewhere an area of equal extent possessing illap .sUo«iiif>- Ka.ilway Line of the I SPOKANE - PEND DOREILLE EAPID TRANSIT COMPANY, LTD?J Distance, Spokane to Lake Pend dOreille, 45 Miles Scale: 12 miles to one inch 1
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Trout Creek 48 MilesThompson Falls 71 Missoula 173 ^Cnpmi.crAlene Deer Lodge 258 ■ Anaconda 289 3utte 298 , Helena 298 r,,! nil. Jui:rn, ROUTE OF THE SPOKANE-PEND DOREILLE LINE such varied resources in minerals, timber and agriculture.Within a 200-mile radius of Spokane are located the CoeurdAlenc silver and lead mines; the rich copper deposits in,the Boundary and Roseland districts of British Columbia;tile Palouse wheat and fruit belt, and the Big Bend countrywith its stock and agricultural regions. This territory is steam railroads serving it, thus opening up a promising fieldfor electric railways. Among the projects now under wayto give electric service to this territory that of the Spokane-Fend dOreille Rapid Transit Company, Ltd., may be takenas typical, on account of the length of the line to be built,the district it will serve and the character of the service. The Spokane-Fend dOreille Rapid Transit Companysline, which is to Ije of the high-speed interurljan type, is nowunder

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