Davenport Hotel broadcast

              •V-  """  Am, ^  a*.  *mmsp*s*&®Gr*  -.. :¦ 1  STUDIO  COPY Station K. H. Q,   — Spokane,  Wash.  DAVENPORT HOTEL  BROADCAST  Tuesday, July 25, 1955.  By Els ton Wyokoff*  *¦«».. **«**-*.*-  :ii^,.  g£  TRIBUTE TO KETTLE FALLS, WASH. '^A'A:'^ A/:  "Where Indians gathered a century ago, white men are settled'today,!V* Tnis, in brief/^ is the history of many, important centers of; the ;-.. Inland Empire*. ¦' joints chosen by the Indians for their conclaves'^, assemblages, councils,  end other purposes, have, during the past century of progress been developed as center of the white man's -civilizationI  .  -.Tfe,  yysf  i-^;  •David Thompson,  Intrepid explorer for the Hudson's Bay Company,"¦ in « -;1811 brought out to his felloy/ builders of early commerce, ,a. des-, oription of the beautiful falls of the Columbia where the.red men;.: :assembled each summer to spear the jumping salmon, on their way ..upstream to spawning grounds. From their camps beside  these falls, '^the Indians had as well a happy hunting grounds,  for this region •^bounded, in wild game of every type. :¦..:.,:A.'.  11^X621,  ten. years after Thompson's preliminary exploration^fithe . ^Hudson's Bay Company established a Fort near the Falls,  and'Called Jit "Colville",    Here began the first mining, milling,  agriculture, land stock raising in the Columbia drainage basin of. northern ^-- --.r:jr- Washington,    The gorgeous falls,   over which, the entire volume'of-.r^,. water in the mighty Columbia drops 20 feet, were, called Kettle   .ttV Falls, because of the curious holes or kettles worn in the rocks at their base by the action of the water through countless ages;  The Jesuit Fathers,  among the noblest bearers of Civilizing in¬ fluences to this region, erected a log church near  the falls in  "1825,    It was an interesting example of construction without V  nails. The burial ground beside the  church bears many an in-r    : -  scription in tribute to the adventurous lives of the early set-  ' tiers. \      -:    ¦•¦.i i .:.¦;•'¦  First settlement near the Colville river was made in the late 80s by homesteaders Louis Bulew and Peter Hackens,    It bore the name of Bulew Town. And then came a curious boom episode*    The. ^ Rochester Land Company of Rochester,  New York invested heavily in real estate here,  and changed  the name  of the  settlement  to Kettle Fallsf after the falls of the river. Electric power was developed on the Colville River, an    irrigation system was con---'/'. structed, trolley lines to Republic and elsewhere were planned; • ¦•¦ and a sumptuous hotel, then the finest west of the Mississippi;': ' according to  eye-witnesses. Excursions brought great numbers of people from Rochester, New    York,  and  at one  time  the population of the town- numbered 2200. LiBe many another Inland Empire town,  fe-