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Show SMALL SAWMILL HAS GOOD BUSINESS W. M. f ampbell returned this morning morn-ing to his home at Oakley, Ida., having hav-ing completed his detail at the local district for at office. An anomally in the present almost universal dullness in the sawmill business is the activity activ-ity of a m'll on the Minidoka forest, operated by Reed & Co, at Slandrod. Utah, which Mr. Campbell asserts is running day and night to keep up w ith It orders. It Is a small portable mill oi about 3000 dallv capacity, and its principal business is custom work for homesteaders and ranchers, who buy timber at 76 cents a thousand, do their own logging, and pay $7 a thousand thou-sand for the sawing Thus with a cash outlay of $7.75 per thousand, rough lumber ls obtained that would otherwise cost from $18 up. The pre ent cut Is rxclusively Douglas fir. the trees running from i6 to 30 Inches in diameter The trees are felled by saw, two men working together In the felling, bucking and loading, the latter being done with skids, using a chain nnd team for the larter logs Two w h sol trucks are improvised b Inserting ? temporary tongue in place of the reach In the back hounds, or by putting the hind wheels on the 1 rout axle Loads vary from thref to six hundred feet and the distance from woods to mill is from a quarter to a half mile. The logging costs In labor nr about $4 a thousand, two men and a team, felling, loading and delivering ibout 1500 feet a day. The distance Irom mill to farm varies from 2 to li miles, but a team will make a round trip a day if the distance does not exceed fifteen miles, hauling 1500 fen Thus building material costs not to exceed $14 or ?1 j a thou eand. |