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Show IIICN TI1ER IN JAU'S HOLE Lumberman Dan Seory of the district dis-trict forest service, has returned from Idaho, where he spent a number of days investigating regarding the feasibility feasi-bility of handling the vast amount of timber in the torests near the Jackson Hole country by driving it down the streams where saw mills may be, established. es-tablished. 4 The transportation question is a Serious one, Mr. Socry sajs, in tho country embracing some of tho national na-tional 'forest in northeastern Idaho and northwestern Wyoming, railroads being scarce and the expense of building build-ing wagon roads Into the far-off districts dis-tricts being so great that it is hardly justifiable There Is a great quantity of good timber in that section of conn-try conn-try that should bo marketed and Mr. Seery Is dotermlncd to find so'me way of doing It. Streams leading into the mountains for a distance of 200 talles are hounded hound-ed by large bolts of UnYber, suitable for nearly all commercial purposes. Mr. Seery says that the timber should be driven down tho streams where saw mills can be established that will be accessible to the markets. There Is ample water In most of tho streams ho says, if they are freed of waste-wood, waste-wood, rock nnd other obstructions, to carry the timber, and, log driving there, he says, Is just as practicable as It Is in Maine or Michigan. Mr. Seery's recent trip was for the purpose, principally of gottlng somo one with sufficient capital interested In tho project to carry tho enterprise to a successful Issue. Idaho Falls people peo-ple aro considering the matter and It is oxpected that a company will bo formed with a capital large enough to build saw mills and institute a log-driving log-driving enterprise on the south fork of Snake river and Its tributaries |