The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-06-24
TO ERECT TIE FINEST SAW
MILL IN The WORLD
Kendall Lumber Plant in Oregan to
Eclipse all Others.


By vote of more than nine to one
the property owners of the city Of
Roseburg. Ore, at a recent special
election voted a $500, 900 bond issue in
favor Of the Kendall Lumber Co. as an
inducement for the kendalls to begin
operations on their immense timber
holdings in Oregon with Roseburg as
the center of their activities, said last
weeks Meyersdale Republican The
company is also to receive a free right
of way for thirty miles of standard
guage railroad and a deed in fee simple
for eighteen acres Of the Roseburg fair
grounds as a sight for what is intended
to be one of the largest and finest lum-
Der mills on the Pacific Coast.
Hon 5. A. Kendall has made two
trips to Oregon IN the last few months
in connection with this enterprise which
is fathered by himself and brother, j.
L. Kendall, Of Pittsburg. and on June
18th Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall and sons.
Samuel and John Wiley will start for
Roseburg in private car via Chicago.
Milwaukee. St Paul and Puget Sound
Railway, to remain for several weeks
while Mr.. Kendall completes arrange
ments for the building of the big lumber
mill and railroad with which 20 conduct
the proposed lumber operations They
will be accompanied by a party Of
friends, the Kendall Lumber Company
mill architect and several expert saw
mill men who will be connected with
the Roseburg ENTERPRISE.
Plans for the big mill have already
been drawn by the architect. but be-
fore they are adopted the experts who
will be members of Mr.. Kendall's party
will visit number Of the most modern
lumber plants on the Pacific Coast in
order to get ideas and Incorporate all Of
the best features in existing mills in
the new one at Roseburg. as it is the
intention of the kendalls to make this
the most complete lumber plant on the
Pacific Coast, which Is the same as say
ing the best in the world.
The route of the new railroad from
Roseburg into the forest where the
Kendall timber holdings are located.
along the Umpqua River on the west
slope of the Cascade Mountains, has
already been surveyed The road will
run through fine farming country for
about twenty miles which will be easy
of construction; the remaining ten mics
will be through a rough mountainous
country where heavy work will be re.
CURED The logs will be transported
over this road to the mill at Roseburg
and there is enough timber in their
tract and in the government forest re-
served adjoining, where unlimited STUN
page is for SALE to keep fifty big saw
mills like the Kendalls have at Crelhn.
Md, running continually for fifty years.
1t is expected that the population of
Roseburg will be increased by at least
5000 by the time the mill is ready for
operation, ana doubled in a short while
thereafter, as the new railroad will
help to develop large scope of produc-
tive country and bring other important
industries to the town which is the
county-seat and metropolis of county
Douglas about as large as the entire
state of Connecticut The little city
will have to pay special tax of $40, 600
to SIS, 600 year for 60 years before the
bonds voted IN aid of the Kendall enter
prise are all paid off, but the unanimity
with which the bonds were voted shows
that the far-sighted citizens of the town
consider the benefits that will occur to
the city are of far greater value than
that
Mr.. Kendall and party will 90 to San
Francisco, after he has completed the
business at Roseburg that is taking him
there this month, and will return home