The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1913-10-17

in that statement aud you mRy quote
me as saying So, Such we're the
words of Superintendent A. V. Brad
erick OF the Milwaukee mill yester
day when interviewed by a Record re-
preventative regarding the big news
article published In the Spokane
Chronicle Wednesday evening under
a Occur d'Alene date line This
article is briefly that the Milwaukee
Lumber company has purchased q
mill site at Ooeur d'Aleue and con
template moving their big mill from
this city to that place
SAlI over the city Thursday comments
and suppnsitions we're being express
ed as to the truth OF the statement
and when interviewed by a Record |
representative Superintendent Brad
erick was loud aud emphatic is his
accommodation of the article, its
writer, and where the report had
originated There is absolutely moth
Ing TO it, be stated when asked
whether or not the mill company
really Intended moving from this
city, ''in fact there is not a word
would so Inform the representatives
of ths Spokane papers, in order that
they may correct the report in those
papers''
While a mere glance at the news
In question shows many, many, ab
surdities to any person In the least
informed with the Milwaukee Lum
Der company operation, to the casual
reader, the article might we'll be
taken for the truth
Note carefully the following as 1t
is the Chronicle report intact
Occur d'Alene, Oct IA - Special
The Milwaukee Lumber company
ia closing the option It has had for
some time on the tract of ground
situated at the soUrce of the Spokane
river abuttinR upon the lake and
river bank The tract includes up
wards of 20 acres and the lumber
company will utilize Il az a sswmill
site It is their purpose to move their
large mill from st Maries aud locate
It upon this site
The st Maries mill has had much
trouble on account of high water at
various seasons and for the further
reason that practically the entire cut
of the mill has to be kiln dried be
fore It can be mai keted, the moisture
prevailing IN the st MRries region
being 90 constantly in evidence that
lumber will not dry IN the open air
The removal of the mill to the new
site at the head of the Spokane river,
l..
As the present supply of logs now In
the boom at st Maries is exhausted" "
TdaaAhFst essential statement made
10 tSht the company is closing an
optIoh on a tract of ground to be
used as a mill site This statement
might be true. IL it did not have the
absolute denial OF the company super
Intsudent, but continue on over the
article The next point is that the
tract contains 20 acres of land. and
that it is the purpose Of the company
60 move the large mill from here dowr
there Anyone knowing of the situR
tion would almost be compelled tC
smile 10 thinking of the Milwaukee,
mill and yards being moved upon q
acres OF land Why, here the M
pany las over three times tina
amount of land In uss and aie ever
now crowded for space and are ex
tending their yards to larger limits
Continuing, while it is a fact tha
the company has been having troubl
over high water conditions In the
npriug, It does not follow that 70
the entire year the local region d
40 damp, that the lumber will no
dry in the yards
The last statement OF the Rrticl
while merely a side Issue howeve
clearly shows how uninformed tn
writer OF the article is regardin
conditions here II thai statemeu
was true We could even now b
watching the company In its work c
tearing up the plant and gettin
ready to move, Notwithstanding th
fact that Il has now an entire seaAor
cut OF lumber drying 10 the yards
ne the mill Was closed dUwn two dag
last week on account OF the lack {
logs
Occur d'Alene has been booming
90 they say, during the past few dal
- hooHAe "a N-o sf-o~'-~-~ -~~"N-~
OF the Rutledge mill there, az
sinoe prospects begin to look even
littel brighter In that city indication
point that their news Representative
are now up floating among the ciou'
imagining and even stating as fact
that Occur d'Alene has somehC
possessed q powerful magnet Viii
cannot help but draw every mill, fl