Editing Republic, Washington (section)

===Hot Air Line===
[[File:Eureka Gulch, Republic 1910 Umpleby.png|thumb|right|Eureka Gulch in 1910 with the Great Northern railbeds in the center and the "Hot Air Line" in the foreground]]
The [[Spokane and British Columbia Railway]], originally the Republic and Kettle Valley Railway, was a short lived [[Standard-gauge railway|standard-gauge]] private rail company based out of Republic operating between Republic, Grand Forks and Lynch Creek British Columbia.  The line was locally known as the "Hot Air line".<ref name="Eveningsun1905">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=1905-04-04 |title=Changed Names |work=The Evening Sun |location=Grand Forks, British Columbia|url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcnewspapers/xgrandforks/items/1.0341485#p0z-1r0f: |access-date=2020-08-27 |doi=10.14288/1.0341485}}</ref>  The line began operation in 1902 as the Republic and Kettle Valley Railway, before being bought out in 1916.<ref name="Commission1926">{{cite book|author=United States. Interstate Commerce Commission|title=Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States|chapter=Valuation Docket No. 72 Spokane and British Columbia Railway |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WMD1SjKuWfUC|year=1926|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=209–220}}</ref> The company was initially incorporated in 1901 with J. Stratton as president, with construction of the line between Republic and [[Danville, Washington]] at the United States-Canadian border being contracted to the Republic and Grand Forks Construction Company, itself owned by Stratton. The rail line paralleled the Great Northern spur line from Republic through [[Malo, Washington|Malo]] and [[Curlew, Washington]] to Danville.  The northern line was initially surveyed by the Republic and Kettle River company, but they were forced to build on higher ground beyond the Great Northern land boundaries.<ref name="Commission1926"/>  On January 2, 1902, the railroad was also approved by the [[United States Secretary of the Interior|Secretary of the Interior]] to conduct surveying for a southern line though the Colville Indian Reservation along the [[Sanpoil River]].<ref name="Indianaffairs1901">{{cite book |last1=United States Office Of Indian Affairs |title=Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, for the Year 1902 |date=1902 |publisher=Government Printing Office |location=Washington [D.C.] |page=103 |edition=First |url=http://images.library.wisc.edu/History/EFacs/CommRep/AnnRep02p1/reference/history.annrep02p1.i0003.pdf |quote=Republic and Kettle River Railway. |language=en}}</ref>