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Show REVIVAL SEEN IN LUMBER BUSINESS The mining industry has not been the only one which showed advancement advance-ment in 1915. The lumbering industry indus-try came into its own, particularly in the southern part of the state, where the Boise-Payette Lumber company opened one of the largest mills in the northwest, north-west, a short distance from Boise, at Barberton, after huilding a railroad to its TO, 000-odd acres located in the Boise lasin. The mills have :e?n working overtime turning out lumber. The railroad rail-road and mill operations represent a heavy investment. Retail lumber yards to handle part of the output have been secured in a chain across tile southern part of the state by this company. This state has the best white pine limber lim-ber to he found. It is located in northern north-ern Idiiho. There were over 400.ooo.ooo feet of limber savrer bv mills, valued at SI 5. 000,000. The stand of timber in tills state is estimated at 44.600 000 oon r..t Tributary to the Arrowroek- dan, iLr! k t mber enough to take fifty rears To Hm it over that structure, which wi?l e neces.-ary when it comes down the Boife river. If the mills of the state ran Tt full rapacity continuously. It would t-ikc seventy years to cut Tdaiio's timber Tbe larecst Hjiw mill in the world in located in northern Idaho. |