A Cement Plant Rises at Sullivan Creek
Crews push a 15-acre cement works, a 70-foot dam and mountain reservoirs—and bring in a diamond drill to test coal and lead.
Tuesday evening Manager F. C. Fiske, of the big cement plant being put in at the mouth of Sullivan creek, returned from a business trip to Spokane. The company have decided to test the coal indications that are very marked in the vicinity of the cement plant site and other localities in the vicinity of Metaline. For this purpose a diamond drill has arrived capable of boring to a depth of 800 feet. It may be this drill will also be used to test some of the big lead deposits of this district. A wagon road is being built from the landing on Enoch Carr's place to the site of the cement plant. This plant when completed will cover an area of 15 acres. A large force of men is now at work on the power plant which will have an effective head of 460 feet. A 70-foot dam is being built on Sullivan creek, two and a half miles above the mouth, having a reservoir area of one mile square. Another dam is being put in near the foot of Sullivan lake, which will have a reservoir area of four square miles. —Ione Record.
“This plant when completed will cover an area of 15 acres.”
The Sullivan Creek cement and power project was part of the early twentieth-century resource boom that remade Pend Oreille County. Today the same valleys are argued over for dams, mining and energy, with the old industrial scale still visible in the landscape.
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