Show IT BEAVER CANYON A pen picture of its prosperity and prospects EDITOR HERALD perhaps a few notes from this isolated region may not be uninteresting to your readers readers as many of the boys working in the mills in thia neighborhood have relatives and friends who road your paper and get information there from bould come from the pen of the hands at camp but you know boys who work at sawmills arc are generally fond of gathering around the camp fire afan of an evening and arc are not much 01 given given to corresponding with relatives only to such as may bo be contemplated tem plated future companions of us wielders odthe woodmans woodmass wood mans axe BEAVER CANYON is full of busy lifee life just list now everything is a astir stir since old sol lias has gained power enough to drive back winter king with his stormy clouds and d dry ir up the roads making travel possible b alc between tile burg and tile sawmills W WT T van noy ct co cc have two mills running and are fitting a largo bill of lumber for the U N R it extension from front silver bow junction to deer lodge and I noticed the same firm were hauling inga a bran new mill just received from the right hand galeb and I heard one at the tile owners say they were going to set it in a nice body af timber enough to last all the s season and expected to baye it running in about ten tell days this if run to its full capacity is quite capable of cutting out from 10 to 15 thousand feet per day it seems to keep two or three men busy all the time loading cars with the lumber the mills make that are now running and more mills will call for more men and more teams to haul from front the mills to the railroad track this same line firm arc are about completing an A no shingle mill and planer under tinder the same roof to be driven by steam team power the boiler and en engine I no have been lately fitted up M and put in place by mr ar R R raymond ay a man of first class ability as a machinist THE TUE BUILDING s quite imposing as I lumber umber is manufactured by the firm and comes clea cheap Ps and they have not stinted the tile proportions but have ample room for the purposes besig designed ned and expect to fiti furnish nish the railway company pan Y NN with t dressed lumber and first ca class ass shingles ingles for their boillin buildings on the U N and S lg line a at t cheaper figures than can be obtained elsewhere I learn it is superintendent thatchers intention to put a spur from the railroad main line to the tile shingle and mill so that cars can bo be loaded as the material is s pr prepared and ready for the market marka the firm have in in connection with their mill business a store well stocked with dry goods groc groceries erics dairy produce mill supplies ac and seem to be furnishing their hands with goods at very reasonable reL reasonable rates I compared prices and found but little advance on oil ogden and logan prices prices mr john 11 barker or newton is the gentlemanly clerk a P D stoddard DAnD SON are represented in tile person of D stoddard sen they have recently received a anew nev mill of large dimensions which mr stoddard informs orrus mft ma lie intends setting at the mouth of three gulches but a little distance from the old U S mail and stage station in pleasant IT valley a ile these gentlemen also expect to do a heavy business in sawing lumber this season with their old and new mills for the oregon short line having furnished that railroad a large amount of bridge and other timber last year fro from in their old mill this firm ai also o expects to keep store in connection with their lumber business so 60 wo ve hope we Beav Beave crites rites will be furnished with cheap overalls jum jumpers ers canned goods and last but not least least tobacco and cigars for mill men arc are noted for cli chewing and smoking and the mill men of beaver canyon arc are no exception to the rule our cental genial friend wm N thornas themas comes around SMILING LING AT EVERYBODY because he lie has successfully run one of his mills since early in february and his stock of lumber has been largely drawn upon by mr bennett alie superintendent of the building department of the U P R arco R co his other mill he has lately located and c set a little distance west of china point in a good body of timber and ho lie tells me lie expects to do a good business with both mills this sea season son as he lie says he is not dout out in this country for his health nor for pleasure particularly up to the past spring we could BOAST OF BUT ONE SALOON that of babett bros and the boys that were ro chopping i to g logs wc casi used to put in an occasional spree at the saloon much to the annoyance of the more peacefully inclined citizens but the justice of the peace mr julius bassett used to get after them and impose a fine with good effect another saloon has been erected by mr I fr raymond sabin but not pro proving ing a success the building has been sold to mr L harris who permitted a f ew dances to be beheld held in it which wo we think lias has not been financially profitable and the owner is naw new fitting it up as a hotel and restaurant so when our friends come to see us in this healthy climate they can have some place to gw sR W lat lay their heads leads and fill their stomachs ac 13 tim BROS are now malting makini extensive preparation to ca curry rry passengers as from this point to the rational gat national ional park this summer and we have no douht doubt but their lino line will be extensively P patronized it by pleasure seekers who wish to take the ahoi test route and best road to see the sights on oil the tile yellowstone more anon S I braven ct cannoy yo I T may ma y 30 00 |