Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-08
BOOM IS PREsAGED
FOR CROWS NEST IN
INDUSTRIAL PLANS
Paper and Pulp Mill to Be
Erected and Other In-
dustries Developed.
Snecial to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
Lethbridge, Alta, Sept. 7.-Great de-
yeIopments in the natural of
the Crows Nest pass and the south
eastern valleys of British Columbia are
imminent, including the construction OF
pulp and paper mill at Elko, B. O., to
cast $500, 600, according to informa-
ton supplied by Lethbridge people in
terested in the industrial activity of
that region. 1t is stated that Chicago
and Seattle papers, particularly the Chi
cago Tribune and Daily News, are the
financial hackers OF the paper mill
scheme.
During the next year the country
through the mountains east of this city
will see rapid and extensive develop
ment, it is predicted, in the fields OF
mining, numbering, hydro-electric pow
er and pulp and paper manufacturing.
Endowed by nature with a wealth of
natural ~esource southeastern British
| Columbia and the Crows Nest pass in
Southern Alberta are bound to witness
industrial expansion and with 1t a de-
| cided increase in population.
Pulp Mill at EIko.
The developments now contemplated
will mean an expenditure OF over So
OOO. 900. These constitute only two
propositions-the pulp mill at Elko. and
a new concentration plant at the Sull-
van mine 1t Kimberley, near Gran
brook, the capital outlay of which will
be over a million and a half. 1t is un-
derstood TINT the Canadian Pacific
railway is interested In the latter
scheme.
These undertakings are but forerun-
ners of immense developments in the
region vast of this city" said a Leth-
bridge mining man recently. with
millions being spent In irrigation de-
velopment on the prairie, and with
these promised industrial plants in the
mountains, I think this whole country
is entering a new era. Real develop
ment of our natural resources is just
starting. Up to this time we have
been in the pioneering stage"
The present plan for the paper mil
at Elko calls for the dammming of the
Elk river to a height of about 100 feet
near Elko, the dam to serve not only
for the log boom, but also for the de
yelopment of some 6,O00 hydro-electrIC
power to run the mill. Seattle people
are already on the ground, n 1t Is
understood they are associated with the
powerful Chicago newspaper interests.
May Extend Power Line.
For the Sullivan mine c~oncentratol
project, where over a million and a hal
will be expended, hydro power will b
generated to the extent of some 2o,OV
horsepower. Part Of this is alread!
available from the Bull River powe'
plant at Bull River, B. c., a compan!
now supplying power to the mininj
camps east through the Crows Mes
pass to BeIlvue and Hillcrest, ant
there is talk of it extending its line
out on the p~rairies to service foothlL
towns. 1t has even been urged b
Lethbridge manufacturers that the LIN
be extended to this city.
J. E. Woods Of Pincher creek, a pho
neer g~eologist of western Canada, an
an interested figure in the border o
field. is interested in the developmen
of the hydro electric resources OF tn
pass, and sees in this undertaking.
channel for investment certain to orln
a profitable return.