Title: Economy of Spokane, Washington - Wikipedia
Headings: Economy of Spokane, Washington
Economy of Spokane, Washington
Contents
Economic history overview
Trade
Mining boom
Logging, forestry, and agribusiness
Stagnation
Economy diversification
Head offices
Prominent industries
Agriculture
Mining and forestry products
Manufacturing
Transportation and distribution
Tourism and hospitality
Energy and technology
Healthcare
Economic development
See also
References
Bibliography
External links

Content: As with the mining industry, lumberjacks and millmen working in the hundreds of mills along the railroads, rivers, and lakes of northern Washington and Idaho were provisioning themselves in Spokane. In Idaho, lumber production reached its height in the late 1910s and 1920s; in 1925 there were seven lumber mills operating in the area that were producing 500 million board feet of lumber. Spokane became a noted leader in the manufacture of doors, window sashes, blinds, and other planing mill products. The city also became noted for processing and distributing dairy and orchard products and for producing products milled from timber. By the early 20th century Spokane was primarily a commercial center rather than an industrial center. The agricultural hinterland of the Inland Northwest was a breadbasket and was able to develop and grow further with the completion of several railroad networks as well as a highway system that began to center around the city, aiding farmers from around the region in distributing their products to market at low cost. As with mining in the late 1880s, Spokane was an important agricultural market and trade and supply center. Stagnation
The Industrial Worker began publication in Spokane in 1909. This work was produced during the US Panic of 1910–1911
Expansion abruptly stopped in the 1910s and was followed by a period of population decline, due in large part to Spokane's slowing economy.