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* . u. \.'U(iu (iuu uinuu* 11 cuou;i.In the death of Mr. Suitor, the , ‘ Paciflc Northwest has lost out- of its , most useful and uetlve men. He was ? a developer and bulldor in the truest t sense of the terms, and left the im-s press of his influence upon every community in which he lived. En-5 dowed with indomitable enorgy, keen i foresight and .sound judgment, he• carried to a successful termination I numerous industrial enterprises,* that in the hands of men less bold and energetic would have resulted in failures. He engaged in the sawmilli business in Polk county ut a time i when the industry was far less profit-, able than at present, but uotwlth-- standing the fact that he suffered unavoidable losses and that almost insurmountable obstacles were thrown I in hia way by peopio less progressive,, he proved himself master of his work i by establishing at Dallas one of the i best paying sawmill properties in the i Northwest.5 His courage in beginning this* work at a time when he had been t rendered alrnot penniless by the r burning of hia mill ut Falls City; the -* masterful grasp of mind displayed in. planning and building an extensive . system of Hood-dams in the LaCrcole i river and in clcariug the stream of* obstructions for a distance of 15 miles I to make it navigable for logs; his• long and stubborn legal light for the ■ right to use its waters for logging ; purposes, and Ins final victory in the i Supreme Court of Oregon, where the ! rights of sawmill owners in this state* as to the use of streams were definitely , settled, once and for all, are well i remembered by the people of Polk i county. In carrying out this work,* Mr. Suitor settled a question that had 1 long been uppermost in the minds of » the people of Dallas by demonstrating r that logs from the vast forests on theheadwaters of the LaCreoIe river could be floated to tills city and raanu-t factured into lumber at a profit. It is only truthful to say that Dallas'• supremacy as a lumber manu-: facturing point was established on I the day that the Suitor sawmill cut its• first stick of timber.After operating the roll! successfully i for several years, Mr. Suitor sold out ] at a highly profitable figure and went• to Westport,on the Lower Columbia I river, where he developed another line t sawmill property. Afterward*, in i partnership with D. J. Riley, he builtand operated a sawmill at Linnton, pronounced by experts to be the most substantially constructed mill between Portland and the mouth of the Col u in-. Ida river. Hinoe selling this mill to t Eastern capitalbite, Mr. Suitor hod . lived in Portland, where be engaged , in buying and selling timber lands.He had been living In Vancouver only , n few weeks when his death occurred.
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Dallas Polk County Observer
Dallas, Oregon, US
Fri, Aug 03, 1906
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