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Show MISSOULA HAS A BOOM Big Lumber Mills Are Being Moved to the Montana City. F. A.' Hammond, a retired lumber dealer of Missoula, Mont., la a guest at the Windsor for a few days prior to going go-ing to California to spend the winter. Mr. Hammond says that JMissoula Is rapidly becoming the principal lumber camp of Montana. . ' y "The Big Blackfoot Lumber company has recently moved its eaw mills, with an output of over 300.000 feet of lumber a day, to Bonner, six miles from Missoula, Mis-soula, and is now receiving material to construct twenty-five miles of logging log-ging railroad Into the timber country the coming summer. "W. A. Clark is arranging to move his mill of 150,000 feet a day output to that place from Lathrope, and Mrs. Largey la also contemplating moving her mill of the same capacity to Missoula. Mis-soula. "Both parties will construct logging roads into the woods as soon as they have moved their mills. "The cause of this concentration of the lumber business at Missoula is the advantages to be had In railroad facilities facil-ities and the ability to work mills at this point both winter and summer. "These mills will together ; employ about 600 men the year round at an average wage of J2.50 a day, and the total pay-roll will amount to about $45,-000 $45,-000 a month." |