State Ex Rel. White Pine Sash Co. v. Superior Court

The respondent, Hedlund Lumber & Manufacturing Company, is engaged in the sawmill and lumber business, its manufacturing' plant being located in or near the city of Spokane. It purchased from the government of the United States a large body of standing timber, lying in two separate tracts on the easterly portion of what was formerly the Colville Indian Reservation. To remove the timber from its place of location to its manufacturing plant, the respondent conceived it necessary to construct a logging railroad from a spur on the Marcus branch of the Great Northern Railway southerly for a…