Spokane’s Vision for a Riverfront Drive

Enterprise is dawning on our community in whatever shape it may take, and particularly so when it has for its object the benefit of all the people of a community. We have just been informed of a project which, if carried out, will be the greatest improvement the city of Spokane Falls has ever known, and will be a monument of incalculable pleasure, not only for the present time, but for all years to come. It is proposed to build a river-side drive in such a manner as to make of it a continuous drive-way four miles in length. This avenue will run west parallel with and upon the river bank, so that in driving by one can have an excellent view of the falls in their very best advantage. It will then turn by the property of J. J. Browne, striking the high ridge overlooking the picturesque valley through which wanders the pretty and turbulent Spokane River, skirting the creek for a short distance, and then the road leads off to the southeast through a magnificent grove of pine trees to the rear of A. M. Cannon’s suburban home; and from there takes an easterly direction over the hills to the south. And on the way to the city, it would be impossible in a hurried item to give an adequate idea of the beauties of this route. Perhaps there is no drive of equal distance in the Union where one can obtain a view of such diversity of scenery.