Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-01-29
arsAgoin Libby
City Was Happy Over Building OF
New Sawmill

uary rs, 1906, was contained in the
statement that $4,000 capacity saw
mill would be established in Libby
that spring Regarding this develop
ment the newspaper said.
Il. L. Barr, who has been active in
getting some eastern parties interested
here says Libby is to have $4,000
capacity sawmill, The parties interest
ed in the new enterprise are J. E.
Leary James Hurley, D E. Dawson
and Frank Mcbride. They are from
Merrill. Wis. They have been in Libby
for the past three weeks looking over
the situation and have definitely de-
cided to come. They have taken short
time option on the John Johns ranch
near town and are to pay Sl,750 for
the same. This option runs for Is days
and the actual work of putting in the
plant is to begin within one month
from date The machinery will be. all
new or practically so and will be up
to-date in every way. In addition to
the option on the mill SITE they haxc
secured options on quite lot ofsAim-
Der land along the Libby valley.
THE mill will be on land Immediate
ly joining the townsite on the west
and between the Great Northern track
and the Kootenai river. According to
Mr.. Barr it is the intention to hold
the logs in the Kootenai river, there
being some dead water near the mill
site available for that purpose. They
will drive the logs down the Kootenai
river at seasons of the year when it is
safe. and in addition will put in a rail-
road and haul logs and dump them
into the river at the mill site
The paper said "it was estimated that
there was about 2,o0O,O00.000 feet of
timber tributary to Libby creek alone,
and with the possibility of getting logs
down the Kootenai river the timber
available for mill here is almost un-
limited
Another item told of Capt McCorkle's
striking good ore in the Buzz Saw
- After getting one of the upper tunnels
cleaned out and timbered.' says the
paper" he put on crew OF five men
and from the time work commenced
the men have been in ore all the time
He is drifting north into the mountain
and the ore shoot is getting wider as
they 90 in. It is now about two and a
half feet wide, all of which is shipping
ore" The ore was being sacked to be
shipped to Everett. Wash. McCorkie
said it would go better than $50 to the
ton
Creation of Cabinet national forest,
or rather withdrawal of lands for that
purpose, was noted The proposed for
est was to include lands in Flathead
and Sanders counties in Montana and
Kootenai county in Idaho. A long edi-
torial bitterly condemned the national
forest movement The paper said, The
first impression one residing here has
is that this is a bad thing, And the
next impression is that the thing to do
Is to kick All reminiscent Of the bit
ter opposition Of those days against
creating national forests, which has
now almost completely died out
The Local and Personal Column
said.
John Mccormick, the potato king of
the district, was down from his ranch
a few days this week on visit
Mr.. and Mrs. Cusick have rented the
Fitzpatrick residence in the west part
Of Libby and will make this their fu-
ture home.
The Odd Fellows Of Libby have is
sued invitations for social entertain
ment to be given in their hall over
Wallis store on Saturday evening, jan
uary 9th. Invitations must be present.
ed at the door.
Deputy Sheriff Hubbart was in Lib
by to serve condemnation papers on
Samuel B. Pratt for right Of way for
the Montana & Great Northern. Mr..
Pratt was agent for the Pacific North
west Mining Corporation and the right
Of way desired was across that COM
pany's lands.
Murray E. King, able exponent of
socialism, spoke in Plummer's hall to
good sized audience. The paper said.
"Mr King spent the evening talking
about the trusts and the remedy for
the great eveil and will probably have
everything in fine working order by
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