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Lumber Company, and a charter for a 

 standard gauge road up this valley has 

 already lieen issued anrl tlie road will 

 probably be eoustrufted within the next 

 year. Another feature of the Eagle Creek 

 and Bone Valley jiroperties of the Mont- 

 vale Lumber Company which promises 

 eventual returns of value is the faet tliat 

 copper in paying ijuautities has been dis- 

 covered at several jioints upon them and 

 many thousands of dollars have already 

 beeu expended by copper people in opening 

 some of these mines. The location is a 

 very favorable one for the establishment 

 of a tannic extract plant and one is already 

 projected. Altogether the prospects seem 

 very favoralile for the speedy opening up 

 of the Hone Valley holdings of the com- 

 pany without the necessity of its construct- 

 ing a railroad to the month of Hazel Creek 

 on its own account. 



Outside of comparatively little rock work 

 that will be necessary in railroad construc- 



ilCTUUKSyUE AND 

 tion at the mouths of Hazel and Eagle 

 creeks, the railroad jiroposition into botli 

 these holdings is a very good one. After 

 the first mile of the creek mouths is passed 

 the slopes of the mountains are very 

 favorable for both railroad construction 

 and logging operations at low cost. The 

 slopes of the mountains are not .severe in 

 any place and show little or no rock pro- 

 truding over any of the property itself. 

 In fact, Mr. Winchester and myself on 

 horseback traversed a large portion of 

 both tracts over blind trails with the neces- 

 sity of dismounting on account of obstruc- 

 tions less than a half-ilozen times in a 

 three-days' journey. The forest is a re- 

 markably clean one and I do not recall, 

 outside of an occasional small tree on some 

 of the ridge trails, having encountered dur- 

 ing the entire journey a single fallen tree 

 by reason of hypermaturity or windstorms. 

 The country is delightfully alluring and 

 the illustrations of several phases of the 



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