The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-11
BUTTE TIMBER MEN
THEY HAVE LOCATED 1000
ACRES OF TREES IN IDAHO.
RAILROAD HEADING THIS WAY
TRICK Being Laid at the Rate of
Mile a Day-Butte To Be
The Terminus Of
Vhe Line, tt.t

william +. Cobban, who has been iden-
tilted with the interests Of Butte twenty
one years. is back from trip to the
interior OF Idaho, where he went last
February in search of timber land for a
Butte syndicate of which he Is one. The
excursion of Mr.. Cobban was not by any
means barren Of results. as the syndicate
now has $1,000 acres Of the finest timber
land in the west. The tract is located or
the Payette river forest reserve land
scrip.
Our land is simply wonderful for tim
her use" says Mr.. Cobban. 1T is 20 sit
uated that the logs can be floated down
the river to proposed railroad point
and shipped to market, but in addition to
the land we have serveral mill sites on
which we intend to erect mills and saw
the logs into lumber on the ground. A
few days ago we had some Duluth lum-
Der men there and they pronounced the
land as fine as any they had ever seen.
THAT whole section of the country Is
coming to the 'front.'" continued Mr. Cob
ban. Colonel William Dewey of Napa
is building what Is known as the Idaho
NoRthern railroad which is heading for
Butte as rapidly as possible. He is lay
ing. rail at the rate of a mile day right
noW. and has 200 miles Of the proposed
route surveyed and crOss-seotioned. AS
soon as the line is completed to Emmett,
a distance Of thirty miles from Nampa,
the road will be bonded and the money
used for continuing the work In the di-
rection of Butte. The line will! follow up
th@ Payette river and onto the Little Sal
mon and pass close to the Sheep and
Thunder Mountain Mining districts in
WHICH some discoveries Of very rich ore
have been recently made. 1t IL about 420
mics from Nampa to Butte, which Is $50
miles shorter than the present way to
thes Idaho terminus. Col. Dewey himself
owns a rich mine in the Thunder noun
tain district. The vein Ia 900 feet wide
and the matter in it Is like white tale.
During the warm season the gold 10 sep
arated from the gaugue in sluice bOxes,
but in the winter the gaugue freezes, and
the colonel is now erecting q mill In
which the output can be treated at all
seasons Of the year. He is also building
a large hotel at Nampa. The Colonel La
not a poor man and is as fine a person
as one could wish to meet. He made his
money out OF some mining ground near
Silver City, the sum realized by him, 1t
is said, being about 100000.
while in Idaho I met Frank Hunt.
governor Of the state. Mr.. Hunt is an old
Butte man. I knew him here years ago.
He once had charge of the tailoring de-
partment of the Cornell store. Being
possessed OF a spirit Of outdoor enter
PRISE he went to Idaho and when the
Spa nish- American war broke out raised
a company OF men and went to Manila.
On his return to the state a wave OF
popularity struck him and he was nom
mated for governor and elected. 1t was
a happy surprise to him. but he Is all
right.
"The citizens Of Boise treated me fine.
When they ascertained the nature OF my
visit to their state they showed me every
courtesy possible, not once placing as
much as a straw in my way.
During my absence from Butte l Wis
tied Portland, San Francisco. Seattle,
Tacoma, Spokane and other progressive