TRANSPORTATION.
Both the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railway systems are in the grain fields of the northern part of the county. The Milwaukee road crosses the southern part, the N. & S. is projected along its western border, paralleling the Columbia river, which is navigable, thus affording all the county, excepting the central portion, good facilities for marketing its products. As the county develops, beyond question branch lines will penetrate this portion, and Grant county will become as well supplied as any other portion of the state with facilities for commerce.
CITIES AND TOWNS.
Ephrata, the county seat, is a small village on the Great Northern railway about midway of the county and the center of a large wheat-growing section. Its transformation into an important town is rapidly going on, the new county government calling for a variety of new occupations to center here.
Wilson Creek, near the eastern border of the county, is a larger town whose chief industry is marketing grain. It is an important distributing point, with prospects of larger growth.
Quincy is a station on the Great Northern and is also an important wheat-shipping point.
Soap Lake, on a lake of the same name, is noted as a resort for the rheumatic.
Bacon, Coulee City, and Hartline are stations on the Northern Pacific railway in the northeastern part of the county.
Grant county is new, but has large undeveloped resources, and is awaiting the newcomer with abundant offerings for his energy and labor.