Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-05-05

1.-THE Occur d'Alene Lumber com
pany will commence operations on
Thursday morning, and continue I'M
til the holidays, provided business
warrants it. The planning mill has
been in operation for the past three
months, and will continue through
the season." That was the cheering
statement made yesterday afternoon
by j. T. Carroll, manager of the COM
pany, and it came in response to a
question propounded to him by a rep
resentative of the Press as to when
the company's mill would again re-
sumo operations. Continuing, Mr..
Carroll said: "The mill has been un-
dergoing extensive improvements for
the last four months. 1t has been
repaired and altered and improved,
from the foundation up, practically
made over new, and 1t is now COM
plete in every respect and the COM
pany will be in a position to cut a
than at any other season since the
mill was built"
How is the lumber market as COM
pared with the two preceding years?"
was the next question asked. 1.-The
company" he said, besides supply
ing its local trade, has been shipping
all the lumber run through its planer
to its market built up in the east, and
in this line has not been in need of a
market. The lumber market, how
ever, is not as good as it was in the
years of 1906 and 1907. A depres-
sion has been prevailing since last fall
throughout the entire business world
and with the markets in other lines
the lumber market has also declined
and suffered"
Besides the mill at this place will
the other mills connected with the
company, one at Post Falls and one
at st. Maries, commence operations
and run through the season." he was
asked.
THE company will operate both
these mills during the season." he re-
piled. THE mill at st. Maries was
established last year, and will be util-
lied to supply the demands of the
lumber market at st. Mariees, st.
Joe and the territory surrounding
these places and extending up the
rivers. A mill was also established
at Post Falls last year, and owing to
the fact that the company has not
sufficient land at it's mill here to pile
the lumber that it contemplates cut
ting, it will, late in the summer fur
nish the Post Falls mill with six or
eight million feet of timber to cut. "
Mr.. Carroll at this juncture indi-
Gated that this was all the statement
that he desired to make at present
with relation to the resumption of
operations by the mill, and the con-
versation drifted to other subjects.
Mr.. Carroll, before coming to this
state and taking charge of the COM
pany's business at this place, was To-
Gated in Montana. Knowing that
during his career there he was one
of the leading and prominent men in
the political arena of that state, and
that he was one of the prominent
figures in that hard, long, bitter and
expensive political fight waged be-
tween Clark and DAILY, he was asked
to express an opinion upon the politi-
cal conditions of the day, and Incl
dentally his opinion on the county
seat removal fight that will come this
fall in this county. He declined,
however. to express an opinion along
these lines, stating: 81 am not tax
Ing any part in politics; not identify
ing myself actively with either party,
and l have been too much preOccu-
pied and engaged with the demands
made upon me by the eompany's
business to survey the field with the
care that should be exercised before
expressing any opinion upon the pO-
litical conditions confronting the
country"
The Occur d'Alene Lumber COM
pany's mill has been closed down for
something like four months. Its
closing down threw a large number
OF men out Of employment and the
loss Of the payroll made itself felt
to every business institution in the
city, and the announcement that Il
win resume operations Thursday
morning viii come as a welcome It'd
ing To the huainaqa institutions of the