Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-11-17
DALLAS OR SHERIDAN
Prominent Eastern Capitalists Seek
Location for SawmilI of 100000
Feet Capacity.

The sawmill of the Sheridan Lum-
Der Company is to he moved from its
present location at Buell., and will
either be located higher up in the
mountains on Mill creek, or brought
to Dallas, The removal of the plant
has been definitely decided upon by
the stockholders, but the matter of
suitable location is still under con-
sideration. If the mill is moved into
the timber, the lumber will be floated
to the railroad at Sheridan 10 a fume
similar to those in use at Falls City
if the plant is brought to Dallas,
railroad will be built from this city to
the headwaters of Mill creek and the
logging will be done by rail-
The Buell. mill was recently pur-
chased by a number of prominent
Chicago capitalists, incorporated
under the name of the Sheridan Lum-
ber Company and representing sew
eral million dollars Of capital. The
company owns extensive timber tracts
on the headwaters of the Yamhill
river and Mill creek, and are plan
ming to erect a new sawmill with a
capacity of not less than 10000 feet
per day. The officers of the company
now on the ground and investigating
~ AF n lnnnfinp fn1, tho
mill are General Manager Fremont
Everett, Director w. L. Paul and
Secretary @. @. Let's, all of Chicago.
These gentlemen, accompanied by
W. d. Arnold, their construction
manager, were in Dallas, Tuesday,
and spent the day looking over the
town and interviewing the business
men as to suitable and convenient
millsites and the possibility Of build
ing a railroad from this city across
the hills to the headwaters Of Mill
creek. They were given much desired
information by men familiar with the
mountain country west of town, and
spent considerable time in studying
maps Of the lands through which the
proposed road would pass. In the
afternoon they met with the officers of
the Dallas Board of Trade, and were
furnished all the information obtain
able concerning the feasibility Of
logging railroad from Dallas to the
Yamhill country.
The members of the party all eX-
pressed themselves as favorably i'm
pressed with Dallas as a milling
point, and, while in no position to
give out any definite announcement
as to their future movements, promised
to investigate the situation thoroughly
before proceeding farther with their
earlier plans for moving the mill into
the woods. 1t is probable that care
full survey of the proposed route to
Dallas will be made at once, and if
the logging road project is found to
be practicable, they will return to
Dallas and offer a proposition to
locate the mill at this place. II no
suitable route for a railway can be
found, they will move their mill into
the timber and fume the lumber to
Sheridan.
Mr.. W. L. Paul, one Of the directors
of the company, informs the OBSERVER
that it is the intention of his people to
build a mill of 10000 feet daily
capacity. Such plant, when oper-
ated to it's capacity, would give en-
ployment to about $50 men, exclusive
of the men in the logging camps. If
the company should decide to locate
at Dallas. a site of not less than 40
acres of land would be required for
the necessary buildings, ponds and
lumber yards