Show CROOKED LINE UNE OPENS ES T Idaho Project Engineering Feats and all Large Cost j Americas America's last great gr at white while pine pineforest pineforest forest whose inaccessible position In the mountain fastnesses of ot Ida Ida- Idaho Idl- Idl Idaho ho has preserved It In Its virgin state through history Is to fall at last ost before engineering ingenuity and economic demand Logging operations In a a. square mlle of or the Immense Clearwater orest tore t will begin In July Jul accord accord- log Ing ng to the Review of Reviews They The have been made possible by b bythe the he completion of or the nations nation's crooked cst railroad twisting its way vay up feet from the th town of Oro Fino Idaho into the heart of ot an en American Amerlan wilderness as tvs I primeval al today 03 IlI when Columbus touched foot on the continent AT HEAVY IlEA COST The demand for f r match sticks and other white pine products has bas justified tile the building of oC f the railroad at ot the seldom equaled qua led cost of ot 1 a mile It t is estimated that hat the tho nest n t t 10 years vears witness the depletion of ot the present white pine supply In n Michigan Wisconsin and anti Mine Mine- ota sota leaving this the single great remaining source Sixty SI t engineers have beeS been em- em employed employed In routing the tho railroad a branch of the tho Northern Pacific and frequently In laying out time the right of way wa have been forced to o lower themselves by ropes rope over cliffs lIff and to scale almost vertical banks anks of ot rocks to reach spots where m. m rn never before stood r ANY r BRIDGES Construction has lIas Involved ed the I building of ot 40 10 bridges In tho time 41 u miles the blasting away a wa of ot I yards ards of or rock at a single spot the he laying byln out of ot scores of curves I Ione one of ot which Is a perfect semi semi- semicircle circle and the tIme transportation ot of supplies first h h- truck then by b wagon and finally by y the old In Indian In- In Indian dian drag dr method to their desti- desti lallon net Ion The largest white while pine mill mm In Inthe he UH world has been built to handle the he mlle 00 tract However How How- ever e this Is Li I but the tho first attack on the time immense forest lorest acres of which since it forms a national forest preserve will be bs kept in its e tate I y |