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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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., hiiard ilk- cars. way. (Julside Ihi- rad two courses of brick placed lengthwise arelaid. In unpaved streets 60-II)., 4A-m. l-rails are laid on tamaracktics spaced )8 in, center to center. In the paved district and forabout a mile on the Corbin Park line is double track. Fifteen motor cars, which arc of the Urill seml-convcrtible typemoimteil on 2t-K niaxinnnn traction trucks, comprise the rollingstock. The olficers of the Spokane 1 raction Co. arc: President, Jay P. (iravcs; vice-president, A. I,. White; secretary, Clyde M. Graves; treasurer, II. H. Ferris; manager. H. J. Weeks; purchasing agent, C. M. Graves; sui)erinteiidei.l. II I). Wh.-rland; electrician, I-. N White. Coeur d AUne & Spokane Ky. rhirty-four miles cast of the center of Spokane, at that pointwhere the Spokane Kiver leaves Lake Coenr d .-Mene. is the miningtown of Coeur d Alenc. This town is beautifully situated and hasa population of about 4,000. There has now been in successful operation for scnii- i«o years
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BriLlllNC, IMAN .\ND TR.\CK L.AVUVT. SlOK.VNE TERMINAL CO. The officers of the Washington Water Power Co. are: President.II. M. Richards; secretary and purchasing agent. H. L. Bleecker;treasurer, II. E. Perks; manager. O. I.. Huntington; railway super-intendent, C. P. I.innsdcr; master nu-chanic, I. P. Kelly; electrician,J. H. Fisken. Spok:me Traction Co. The Spokane Traction Co. controls the Spokane & MontroseMotor Railroad Co. and also has city franchises. The companyhas 17 miles of track, comprisiitg a loop of si.\ blocks in the centerof the city, a line running north to Corbin Park, i^ miles; a litiesouth to ,-1 p.-uli.dly developed district on the blufTs known asManito l:ivk .iddition, and four miles e.xtendicg east to the citylimits, and the Montrose narrow gage line, originally operated bydummy. Current for operating the line is furnished from the plantof the Washington Water Power Co. In paved streets the track construction consists of 70-Ib. T-rails,7 in, high, in 60-ft.

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