Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-21
MIL WAUKEE ROAD
BUYS WOOD LANDS
PRESIDENT EARRING AND OTHERS
INSPECT STANDING TIMBER ON
VANCOUVER ISLAND.
HAS OPTION ON TWO TRACTS.
System Can Thus Supply Lumber Mar
ket for Years to Come Drawing
from Immense Ranges.


MILWAUKEE, Wis, Feb. 1T pe-
ciaD The Chicago Milwaukee & S. Paul
road is not only vigorously pushing Its
extension to the Pacific coast, and con-
sid,rIng the question of its own steam
. ship line to the orient, but it is evident
ly taking steps to insure itself a large
amount Of timber that will be needed
by the road for car-building and ties, for
years To cone.
During his present trip to the coast,
President \. j. EARRING is accompanied
by Potter Palmer, Jr., u young Chicago
mlIilOndlre, auu together they have cure
fully lnspCt tcL large tract OF stand ng
timber on Vancouver island. \ few
days ago President Earring, ii. Il. vii
hams, Mr.. Palmer and others interested
lett Seattle, Wash, and proceeded 20
the northern part OF Vancouver, where
they have inspected a tract containing
many thousands of acres OF nne standing
timber. l. his tract, 1t is believed. the
road, or a Company consisting of ottic:a 5
and others, has determined to purchase,
looking 20 the future when the question
oil good timber on the northern Pacific
coast one OF great consequence.
Establish Car Ferry Line.
! Ii is also reported that the Milwaukee
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large tract of timber on the Olympic
peninsula, and the company will con-
Struct d road to the Straits of Euca, Lot
far from Port Angeles. This, it is said,
Will be followed with the establishment
OF line OF carferricS across the strait
by which the Milwaukee road will be
enabled to ship its lumber from Van
couver to Fuca, terminus Of the road,
from where these shipments can be made
to any market desired, or to the shops
/ OF the road III Milwaukee, Dubuque and
Minneapolis.
BY these movements, it is pointed out,
the Milwaukee system will be enabled to
supply the lumber market for several
generations to come, drawing from the
immense sections of timber purchased or
now being negotiated for. The road
itself will, in the years to come, require
vast quantities of lumber for its own
shop work, and as a result of this deal
1t will be enabled to secure the sup
plies direct.
Get Ties from Canada.
Recently a Pacific coast company made
a contract with an American lumber
company in Hawaii, by which the road
is to receive 100000 railroad ties, de-
hVered to it at San Francisco. This deal
suggests strongly the fact that the ques-
ton of railroad ties is already one which
requires careful cOnsidera ton. During
the past two years, the Milwaukee road
has been importing ties from Canada.
paying the duty upon these shipments in
addition to the price paid the Canadian
dealers, these ties having been purchased
for the Pacific coast line. Delivered in
this country to the company, the ties cost
an average of 70 cents each.
Anticipating the action in Vancouver
by the Milwaukee road, several shrewd
eastern capitalists have quietly secured
large holdings of timber lands on the
island, the capitalists buying some %
900 acres in all about one-tenth the
ruling valuation Of standing timber
there