Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-12-30

According " WOiQ iCNClNtN hNiO
this week the sale of 63,300,O00 feet of
white pine and other valuable timber
on Callahan creek, some II or IA miles
from Troy. Mont, has been completed
by the forestry service to the Boomers
Ferry Lumber Company. Bids for
this tract were received up until De-
cember "a and were opened Friday.
The bid of the Boomers Ferry Lumber
Company for the white pine timber
was $410 a thousand feet There
were several large lumber companies
in the bidding and the sale is the larg-
est ever made in District No. l. The
bids were opened at Missoula and the
! sale is subject to the approval of Col.
/ II. S. Graves, chief Forester, of Wash
ington, ID. c. r. H. Mccoy, who yes
terday confirmed the report regarding
the sale, believes that the approval or
rejection of the sale will be made in
side of 60 days.
H. j. Mccoy, assistant general man
ager of the Bonners Ferry Lumber
Company and NJ P DeWolf, land
agent, left yesterday for the Callahan
tract. TO look over the land with a
view of determining the most eco
nomical way of logging it.
, r. H. Mccoy, who is the vice presi-
dent and general manager of the Bon
, ners Ferry Lumber Company, stated
Yesterday to the Herald representa-
tive that under the terms of the sale
of the Callahan tract the purchaser
, must begin cutting before July, 1921
! and is allowed eight years in which to
take off the timber. He stated that
it would require about four years
time to log the tract. The sale made
by the forestry department does not
include the land.
+ Mr.. Mccoy states that the timber of
z the Callahan district is not easily ac-
a cessible and that if the sale goes
2 through, engineers will be placed on
e the ground at once to figure out the
easiest and cheapest way of handling
the timber. 1t is expected that work
e on the logging roads will start early
!. next spring but it is not likely that
any of the timber will reach the local
: mill before 1921. The logging roads
a required will cost many thousands oil
n dollars as will the camp equipment
n that will be necessary.
! The Boomers Ferry Lumber Com
e pany is considering, quite seriously
: the purchasing of auto trucks with
o which to handle the timber CT the Cal
e lahan district and these trucks would
have to be run on planked roads. The
e logging season in the district would
l. be about seven months only on accoun
is of the heavy SHOWS
Mr.. Mccoy states that his compan.
may bring the timber from the Gala
han district, down Callahan creek t
4 the Kootenai river at Troy Du
al it is also probable that logging roa'
,r will be cut leading from the tract I.
Of the head of Ruby creek from whlcl
v. point the logs will be fiumed to tn
h Kootenai river. This would not onl
save several mile haul but woul
\ mean that the Boomers Ferry Lumbe
40 Company would also begin cutting a
Is once its holdings of some 100000
feet of white pine and other timbe
of on Ruby creek which was purchase
of by r. H. Mccoy some thirteen year
IN ago. This timber on Ruby creek ca
N not be logged successfully, it is salt
is except by fiume.
The fiume on Ruby creek would ;
about eight miles long and would
doubt cost in the neighborhood
$4,000 mile to construct.
he II is estimated that included in til
SIS timber of the Callahan tract there
and this will be taken out at the san
=. time the white pine is cut. The BOZ
cd ners Ferry Lumber Company will e
d. tablish a yard at Yakt or Troy al
en- perhaps at both places, for the ham
I'm ling of the cedar products. Heret
fore the company has never handle
ds cedar and it has cut but little viii
rs pine.
The securing of this large tract
timber by the Bonners Ferry Lumb
Company will probably not very grea
he ly please the citizens of Troy, Mon
nal who for some time past have had no
AL of Interesting lumber interests in
ras tablishing a mill near that town.
en- With the Callahan tract sold to t
raj Boomers Ferry Lumber Company the
is so little timber left tributary
ars Troy that all likelihood OF securing
eat mill is gone The local lumber CO..
the pany is in better shape to handle
not timber than any other concern becau
the logs may be brought directly
the mill from Troy in the KooteI
river
ms: This recent sale is certain to be
avs great benefit to Troy from the Il
frs. that the large camps will be Local
close to the town and that large p
rch of the supplies and equipment VIII
by handled through that town. Inc 10
will derive great benefits from
nth trade of the men employed and
ac- from the cedar yards likely to be
wed stalled there Then, too, the tax
off of the timber on this tract