The Daily Missoulian., 1912-09-10
| UMBER BUSINESS
ON THE BOOM
FOREST SERVICE GETS APPLlCA-
TlONs FOR TIMBER AND LOG.
GiNc CONTRACTS LET.

Reminders of the strong change that
has come over the lumber market and
the numbering situation throughout
the west are being received here daily.
Logging contracts are being let, ship
ments of lumber continue to increase
and the call has gone out for men
from all sections Of the districts where
is carried on At the for
est service headquarters here the
inquiries concerning timber that is
for sale in the national forests are
increasing and within the last few
weeks a number of new applications
have been received for timber Yes
terday brought an application for
3s, 100000 feet of timber to be cut
from the Blackfoot forest. Applica-
ton is in for other tracts, which as
yet have not been sufficiently cruised
to allow estimates of sale being made.
But this work is forging ahead and IT
seems that the PROSPECTS for the ma
| tional forests to yield a big return
through timber sales within the COM
| ing year are excellent
| Throughout the Inland empire ter
ritory the lumber situation presents
Il much better front now than it did
a year ago. From records kept by
the forest service here 1t is shown
that shipments have been more than
doubled recently A report from 33
large mills in this territory for the
month of July just past show the
shipment of 1000 cars of lumber. The
shipment from these same mills in
July, 1911 was but 1000 cars.
1 1T is apparent that the fine crops
throughout the northwestern states
are responsible for mucH of the de-
mand from this territory for lumber"
said forestry official yesterday
| This is the best crop the farmers
have enjoyed in years. They have
needed new buildings before but could
not afford to buy We can tell that
the farmers are consuming an i'm
| menSe amount of lumber in this way
| because the class of lumber ordered
and wanted is unusual something
that has not been called for for sew
eral years.
A number of logging contracts have
been entered into recently in west
ern and northwestern Montana one
of the largest ever let in northwest :
ern Montana was entered into recent
ly between the Somers Lumber com
pany at the head of F'lathead lake,
land III. w. Good. The contract calls
for the delivery to the company of
35,000,00o feet of logs within the next
two years. OF this transaction the
Inter Lake said recently.
The timber is to be cut on the Still
water, about 25 miles northwest of
kalispell, and will be sent down the
saltwater and t'lathead, and across
the upper bay on the lake to the mill
ut Somers. The logs will he cut
from Mr. Goods own timber
lands. He has III the neighbo,hood
of 24,00O,000 now and will buy enough
more to make up the required amount
Half will be cut the coming winter
and the remainder in the winter OF
1894.
Mr.. Good will employ 900 men and
so teams in the logging operations In
the winter and is already taking steps
to secure them. The men formerly
engaged in the operations in the
country have scattered throughout
the northwest. but quite u number
who heard the work would be resumed
here have returned and say the news
that there will be employment here
for them again Is heading the old
: men this way.
7 The contract Is but one OF the signs
of the return Of the timber industry
; to it's old form. The Somers company
will let additional contracts and the
, other companies will have forces of
men in the woods good many
hundred will be engaged during the
winter. and the mills Will un-
doubtedly operate to capacity next
year, The awakening of the lumber
business is something the Flathead
has been looking and hoping for 1t
means employment for the men, bust :
ness for the merchants IA better local
market for the farmers and better
times for eEerybodyn -