1907-05-19-sr-p5-phoenix-lumber-contracts-band-mill
May 19, 1907 Spokesman-Review Page 5:
TO MAKE BIG LUMBER CUT
Phoenix Company Has Let Contract to Idaho Firm.
SPRINGDALE, Wash., May 18.—Starbird & Ticknor, recently from Chance, Idaho, have just closed a contract with the Phoenix Lumber company of this place for the establishment of an up-to-date band mill of 25,000 feet daily capacity on the Pierce place on Chimokane creek, three miles south of Springdale. The contract also calls for the cutting of 15,000,000 feet of lumber by the mill owners for the Phoenix company, the latter concern to furnish the necessary logs for the same, delivered at the mill yard, The Phoenix company owns several sections of fine saw timber in this vicinity and as their logging railroad, which was constructed last year at a cost of nearly $1,000,000, does not reach anywhere near enough to this tract to handle this timber, they concluded that the cheapest way tn which to market the timber was to get a mill to cut it up into lumber on the ground and then haul the lumber to Springdale for shipment to Spokane.
