1921-09-03-colville-examiner-p8-work-on-road-to-detillion-bridge
September 03, 1921 Colville Examiner Page 8:
Correspondence from Miles
By A. E. Lewis
The Ololim copper mine situated about two miles east of the Detillion bridge on the former Spokane reservation, has resumed operations and has a force of men tracing the outcropping ledge which has a grass root showing for about four miles. They expect to get the mine in order for shipping ore by next year, when the North Star state highway will be completed from Inkster ranch to Detillion bridge, on the road from Davenport to Meyers Falls. This mine is under the management of James Keeth of Spokane.
The output of fruit at Crystal cove on the lower Spokane — river near Miles and other tracts in the same valley is the best for several years. Pears are about marketed and peaches are just coming on. Apples which will be ready for picking the middle of September with a heavy crop. Hauling is being done to the shipping points of Davenport and Creston, both places being about equal distances from Crystal Cove.
The Columbia valley and highlands between the Spokane river valley and Kettle Falls in Stevens county is steadily developing in the dairy business. Shipment of cream by trucks to Spokane is increasing. This season shows an ample supply of hay and other cattle feed. The main routes of shipment of dairy products are by way of Kettle Falls in the north, and the state road from Daisy to Addy, and the road from Hunters to Springdale over the mountains in the valley center, while in the south end of the valley trucks run via Detillion bridge and Davenport, entering Spokane over the Sunset highway. Next spring the state will begin work building a section of the North Star highway from Inkster ranch to Detillion bridge on the Spokane river, which will make a complete surfaced road of sixty miles length from the bridge to Spokane, and will open the north Columbia valley with its products into Spokane. The people of this valley are anxiously awaiting the completion of this road to facilitate traffic outlet to the Spokane market. A better breed of milk cows is being purchased and increased in this region, which will soon be one of the best producing dairy regions in the Northwest.
