The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-01-22
BIG PULP MILLS
MAY Be ERECTED
STATE is FINE FIELD FOR PAPER
MAKING INDUSTRY ACCORD
ING TO EXPERTS.
MOUTH OF YAKT RIVER BEST
Engineers Say Lumber Is Suitable
Throughout This Territory to Make
Selection Of This as Center Of En-
terprise the Best Possible Site.

Columbia Falls.-The establishment
of pulp mills for the manufacture of
paper in Montana, and the utilization
of the vast tracts of timber which
cover the regions of the northwestern
part of the state, are being consid-
cred by eastern capitalists, accord
ing to A. l.. Jordan of this place. Data
on the advisability has been turned
over to w. ]. Swindlehurst, commits
sioner of labor and industry.
Official Makes Comments.
In commenting on the proposed VEN
ture, Mr.. Swindlehurst said:
During recent months this depart
ment has given this question some
attention, and our investigations have
shown that the matter of establishing
pulp and paper mills in Montana is
going to be matter of great import
within the next few years. Unques-
tionably, pulp mill established in
northwestern Montana under judicious
conditions, taking into consideration
location, transportation facilities, op-
portunities for obtaining raw material,
cheap power, modern machinery, and
judicious business management, would
prove financial success.
'The Montana field has been care
fully investigated during recent
months by capitalists interested in
the manufacture of paper in eastern
States"
Is Considered Feasible.
It has been considered by the engi-
neers employed by these persons that
there is available in northwestern
Montana splendid power facilities, an
unlimited supply of suitable timber,
and all of the features that go to
make of an attractive location for
pulp and paper mills.
The mouth of the Yakt river, at
it's confluence with the Kootenai river
gineers employed to investigate this
project. Application was made on be-
half of these people to the forestry
service for tract of timber estimated
to contain 700,0G0,OO0 feet lying along
the Yallt river and in the great basin
north of Slyvanite.
Lots Of Spruce.
Northwestern Montana has an
abundance of good spruce suitable for
the manufacture of pulp. If a paper
mill were to be established and con-
Quoted along the right lines, it could
undoubtedly be made to pay in that
territory. A large field for the sale
of paper is opening up in the Canadian
northwest. Except in the extreme
east, there is hardly paper mill run.
ming today with the prospect of any
continued duration of operation.
With freight rates for paper to this
northwestern field of from twelve to
twenty dollars ton from Chicago, it
is only a matter of a short time when
paper mills must be established in the
northwest. The removal of the tariff
on pulp and paper and the consequent
REIMBURSEMENT of the paper mill bust.
ness in this country has to large ex.
tent broken the power of the alleged
paper mill combine.
It is the firm conviction of this de.
partment, from the investigation we
have been able to make, and from all
the data available on the subject, that
the time is near at hand when the
manufacture of pulp and paper on a
large scale will characterize the in.
dustrial life of northwestern Montana