The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1907-07-24

which 1t will pass. To a greater ex.
tent than any other railroad the Mi.
waukee is using its own capital to
develop its tonnage territory. The
Monarch Lumber company, admit
tedly subsidiary concern, has ac-
CURED nearly 100000 acres of tim
Der land in northern Idaho, $4,000
acres of which are adjacent trib-
utary to the new line. Some of this
timber runs as high as 10000, 900
feet to the quarter section, while a
good average is 100000 feet.
Hundreds of thousands of acres of
timber land is along the banks of
the st. Joe and St Maries rivers
where the timber will be easily log
ged either by water or trail trans
portation. Branch lines are to be
built from st. Maries up the st. Mar
les river, and other lines will run
up Marble creek and Mica creek.
where the company has heavy timber
stands.
Two sawmills are now in course
of construction OF st. Joe by tho
Monarch Lumber company, with a
combined capacity of close to 100
900, 900 feet daily. A planning mill
is also in operation. A large pulp
mill is to be erected near the site.
but whether it is a Milwaukee pro.
Jeot or private enterprise is un.
certain.A The pant is said to be
backed by Mr.. Price, who has charge
of the electrical power development
For the Milwaukee, and who is a
papermlll expert. Thousands of
Balm of Gilead trees line the banks
of the St. Joe, while spruce grows
higher up the mountains. There is
plenty OF material available to keep
a large papermill in operation for
years.
Timber tributary to the st. Joe
river will keep the mill in operation
for 25 years. That includes only the
accessible timber, thousands of acres
back in the mountains being too re-
mote from transportation to enable
its removal with profit at the presen.
prices of lumber. However, the ex-
tension of branch lines into the re.
mote district will add to the tribu-
tary timber and the increase in the
size of the mill or the building of
new mills will be the natural result
tributary to the ST. Joe, St. Maries,
Occur d'Alene river and Occur
d 'Alene lake, it is estimated there
are 100000 feet of standing
timber, or enough to keep the mills
at Occur d'Alene, Harrison, Hayden
Lake and ST. Joe in operation $50
years.
From the tunnel at Lost Pass to
Chatcolet, at the mouth of the st
Joe river, the survey is hardly 100
feet from the river bank. In many
places the roadbed will have to be
blasted cut of solid rock which rises
perpendicularly to heights, while in
other places it runs along the base
of mountains, where earth from the
cuts can be rolled down the noun
tain slope, saving expense of haul.
In running the line surveyors often
found it necessary to hang suspended
in midair on the face of bald rock
for half an hour at time to get
their elevations. In places where
the roadbed is to be blasted out of
precipice the overhanging rocks
to the top of the cliff 100 feet or
more above will have to he RACED.
filling the river with thousands of
tons of rock.
Thirty months is the time it is
estimated it will require for the COM
pletion of the Milwaukee from Butte
to the Coast. Part of the line will
be in operation before that time, as
steel is already being laid west of
the Cascades, but it may be three
years before a through train will
run from Chicago to the Pacific
Coast over the new line.