Sawmill helping Priest River community to boom
A logger gets his photo taken in this photo shared by the Priest River Museum.
100 Years Ago — 1921
Town is booming
Perhaps no small town in this immediate vicinity shows more life than does Priest River, where there is apparent no signs of the general apathy in business. The sawmill owned by Charles Beardmore is working two shifts a day, and he is operating several good-sized camps north of Sandpoint getting out timber. This little town recently voted to put in a sewer system, is preparing to pave its main street next year, and two large business blocks will be built next spring...
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