The B. U. Taylor Construction Co., of Olean, which has been awarded the contract for the masonry and steel work, and the installation of a large steam power plant for the large saw mills to be erected at the new lumber town at the headwaters of Potato Creek, in Norwich township, near Smethport, by the Goodyear Lumber Company,  mention of which was made in last week's paper, started a large force of men to work on the erection of the hugh manufacturing concern on Monday. Work will be rushed and the mills will be ready to be place in operation by next summer.  The contract with the Olean concern alone calls for an outlay of $30,000. 

The mill will be located some distance below the town and a large force of men has been engaged for some time past in clearing an extensivie tract of timber for the site.  The creek will be dammed up and a mill pond constructed for the accommodation of logs.  It cannot be learned whether the mill will be fitted throughout, but it is rumored that the machinery from the now idle Galeton mill of the Goodyear company will be moved to the new town, as stated in an article in this paper.  Be this as it may the fact remains that the concern will be one of the largest in this part of the country. 

It was the original intention of the Goodyear company to saw, and in fact they are sawing, the timber from the big job at their Austin mill, shipping the raw product by rail to that place.  the company built a railroad from the scene of operations to Keating Summit where connections were made with the Buffalo & Susquehanna railroad, into Austin.  When the B. & S. company became insolvent last winter and a new management assumed control it was found that no satisfactory arrangements could be made for transporting the timber into Austin from Keating Summit.  It is understood that the railroad company demanded $1.00 per car for using their trackage.  As the company expected to move 70 cars a day this makes an extra item of $70,00 per day.  Altogether it is estimated that the goodyear company can save $800,000 by sawing their lumber at the new town. 

In connection with the large saw mill the new lumber plant will include heading and kindling wood mills, it being understood that the Cross Fork and Oswayo mills of the lumber company will be moved to Norwich. 

The decision of the lumber company to manufacture the timber from the big job at Norwich instead of Austin will be quite a blow to the latter place.  With the location of a large and substantial industry, employing a big force of men, the new town, which is already one of the liveliest places in Mckean Country, by reason of its being the headquarters of hundreds of men employed on the job, will become a thriving village. 

It is probable that the lumber road of the Goodyear company will be built this way and connections made with the Clermont branch of the Pennsylvania railroad.  This would mean that the manufactured timber will likely be brought through this place on its way to market.