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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 18, 1910

Tgiectrie Plants That Make Money for Farmers hroUrh an old pasture on the Prf ared Van Wagenen Jr at iro p Xew York flows a very ifyerfU l hich one can easily step 1 1 water is high A little rosstu from the house is an old prhal rjng about three acres Siar rn tiny sawmills dotted lilt long P jht years ago I began to 1 to get this power to the it vuld do a little work t Wagenen My first i 5 i carry it there by belt vf proved that the fric D i t up the five horse power f t trio power easily trans tie loss was the only solu 151 i ked with many who un m niv and its engineering most of them laughed at jr hu1 a small installation construct a million would have been whole flS ce hut a small plant to f an be controlled by a i i wire was evidently a i good ileal of studying the plans were made nig so small the most water had to be ob r a imiciuvii ujjiigiu ht wooden case build if where it would get f d the fifteenfoot

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Image 2 of The Western news (Libby, Mont.), March 28, 1940

The Western News AND LIBBY TIMES mg a ifa _ A news item that appeared in the Sunday SpokesmanReview should be an object lesson to the people of this district The item told of the liquidation of the two sawmills of the Panhandl e 1 u mber Company at lone Wash and Spirit Lake Ida a S7000 000 t 1 11 1 The Spint Lake mill Was established in 1906 and the lone mill in 1908 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT LIBBY MONTANA BY THE WESTERN MONTANA PUBLISHING COMPANY INCORPORATED CHAS D ROWE Editor and Manager HAROLD HALL Associate Editor Entered at the postoffice at Libby Lincoln County Montana as second class matter I MEMBER NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION Subscription rates One year 200 SLx months 125 Single Copy 5c THE OFFICIAL PAPER FOR LINCOLN COUNTY One More Object Lesson For This District would buy the mills and operate them as timber holdings in the vi cinity of the plants were not large enough to warrant the venture It is said that closing of the mills will make virtual ghost towns of lone and Spirit Lake lone has approximately 500 residents while Spirit Lake has about 2000 T This is the very

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