Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1920-11-09
SEEK site FOR
PAPER MILL
EASTERN NEWSPAPER PUBLISH.
ERS PLAN TO MANUFACTURF
NEWS PRINT In THE WEST
DATA ON TIMBER AND POWER
representatives Shown Resources of
County Saturday and SUNDAY,

An exhaustive investigation of sites
pulp wood material and power avail
| able was made in Boundary county
the past week by ]. M. Mccartney, who
| is looking up paper mill locations for
group of some 200 Independent news
paper publishers of eastern and mid
| dlewest states. j. G. Barline. of Spo-
. kane, is associated with Mr.. Mozart
. ney in the location of promising sites.
but was unable to accompany Mr.. Nc
Cartney here. The two gentlemen
we're in Bonner county several days
last week looking over pulp wood
timber, sites and power possibilities.
Mr.. Mccartney came here Friday
evening and on Saturday and Sunday
visited all parts of the county. view
ing available timber. in company with
Dr. e. r. Fry, A. J. Kent. j. Harley
Cave, E. Des Voignes and C. w. King
| representatives of the Kootenai Valley
Commercial Club. He expressed him
self as being very greatly pleased with
| resources of the county and stated that
he would report to his principals as
accurately as possible the conditions
found in the various localities he has
A%eNH
visited.
Mr.. Mccartney was in New York
and other eastern points many weeks
this summer in conferences with the
men who propose to finance the paper
mill project and has a thorough
knowledge of their plans Upon re-
turning west he spent month on the
Pacific coast investigating possible To-
cations. He has spent several weeks
in Montana, Idaho and eastern Wash |
ington, of late, looking over locations
Speaking of the plans of the indie !
pendent publishers Mr.. Mccartney
stated that the stockholders of the /
company would be on the field to
make final decisions as to sites with /
IN short time after receiving his final |
reports and data. The company is de- I
sirous of locating in a district where
some two billion feet of pulp wood
timber is tributary and plans to de-
Velop its own power. 1t is expected /
that 200 ton daily capacity mill will
be in operation by 1923 and the opera
ton Of this plant will require some
$4,000 horsepower. The capacity out
put of the 200 ton mill is now con
tracted and it is understood that the
independents" will double the capa-
city of their proposed mill the first
year
Mr., Mccartney states that the pro
posed paper mill will run the year
around; it will employ in the neigh
D0rhOod of 1000 men and its location
IN the vicinity of any town would mean
an increase in population of over 5000
The payroll of the proposed new mill
Is estimated at s15O,0OO or more, each
month in addition to the large sums
mat would be paid out for timber If
Inc mill should be located in Bound
ary county there would be an imme-
date market for the cottonwood that
is found in large tracts along the t
banks of the Kootenai river as well {
as the large tracts of spruce, hemlock, q
etc. tributary to Bonners Ferry.
The committee appointed by the j
Aootenai Valley Commercial Club to c
assist Mr.. Mccartney in his investi- /
cations will secure accurate data of
me amount of pulp wood timber in B
me county and districts tributary. +
several years ago a report was issued d
E government officials in which it {
vas estimated that there was S00,000,- d
WV feet of pulp wood timber tributary p
70 Bonners Ferry, or enough to run
me proposed mill for many years
Mr. Mccartney states that the news
paper print supply of the United States I
IS now controlled by three or four +
syndicates. These corporations have v
mol only raised the price of news print
rom cents a pound to Is cents in the i
ast few years but are threatening to n
use their mills for the manufacture Z
D only such print as required by their q
own newspapers The print paper sit
latlon has become so serious that in i
lependent publishers have been COM " "
'elled to effect an orgS nizstion and
nan the building of mills in order to
ontinue in business. The "indepen
lent publishers have unlimited means
'ehind them and for a beginning will Y
lgure on operations sufficient to cover b
ontracts now on hand and extending Il
or period of twenty years. a
The location of the mill will depend,
ifst, upon the amount OF timber avail "
ole; second, the question of power n
aclities; third, suitable mill site; b
oarth labor conditions. climate and
of surroundings. h