After the Panic, the Woods at Elk Filled Again
A two-month shutdown ended, the planing mill was set to start, and along the Great Northern lumbermen were saying conditions looked brighter than at any time since 'the financial flurry of last year.'
The Consolidated Lumber Co., of Elk, has reopened its logging camp near that place after a two-months' shut down. The planing mill of this company will also start on the first Monday in February. The lumbering and manufacturing conditions along the Great Northern are looking much brighter than at any time since the financial flurry of last year.
“The lumbering and manufacturing conditions along the Great Northern are looking much brighter than at any time since the financial flurry of last year.”
The 'financial flurry' was the Panic of 1907, which idled camps and mills across the Northwest, and a reopened logging camp was the local measure of recovery. Pend o'Reille and Spokane county timber towns have ridden that same boom-and-bust ever since, right down to the mill closings and restarts of the present day.
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