Washington Water Power company has a pole yard at the Northern Pacific tracks where several hundred poles are now piled awaiting shipment to points where needed, poles come from Moscow mountains, being hauled from eight to 12 miles by teams to Moscow. The firm sells some poles but most of those brought to Moscow are used for the company's lines at other places. A carload of 40-foot poles shipped from Moscow to Davenport were pronounced by the linemen who put them up as the best poles they had ever handled. The poles are worth from cents a foot, the longer the pole the higher the price. A few years ago poles sold in the timber of northern Idaho, for $1 to $1.25 for a 25-foot pole, to $3.85 for one 46 feet in length. The price now ranges from $2.60 to $14 for such poles.

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