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NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANYW. J. HUNT, Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . St. Paul, Minn.

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The Cover PictureSkyscrapers of the prairie are the

grain elevators silhouetted in an early-dawn picture made at Beach, in western_ North Dakota, by

Warner Clapp.with his cameraaimed in a sou-therly direction.

PhotographerClapp caughteven more thanan interesting reproduction of a

scene. His covershot somehow

conveys a “feel” of the northern plainswhere such tall sentinels of the spring

IF YOU WISH INFORMATION regarding The Northern Pacic Railway, or about Industry, “lheat country have been a colnmonagriculture and other resources in the territory which it serves please address one of the following slght along the rallroads of the area aatficers (depending on the information desired): I ' I ' fong time, so ong, 1n act, that newP. D. EDGELL, General Manager, Properties and Industrial Development. . . . .St. Paul, Minn. grain smrafée added in very recqnt timesono KOPP, Vice President—Traffic ............................... ..St. Paul, Minn. largely lakmg anmhel” f°1'm—e1tl1@Y ta"

6 77osoaoe M. wnsnmorou, Vice President—-Oil Development ........... ..BiIlings, Mont. tanks of concrete or steel or ‘ at ware-F. C. SEMPF, Manager, Industrial Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .St. Paul, Minn. houses——appear, particularly to old-J. T. MOORE Western Manager, Industrial Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Se ttl W h, <1 e, as - timers, as strangers on the landscape.S. G. MERRYMAN, Manager, Timber and Western Lands. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .SeattIe, Wash. Turn to pages three and four for 3GEORGE R. POWE, Asst. Gen. Mgr., Properties and Industrial Development . .St. Paul, Minn.L. S. MACDONALD, Director, Agricultural Development Department . . . . . . . .St. Paul, Minn.

review of the increased grain storageow available to house farm surpluses.

3,120,000 Square Feet of Space at Spokane Suited to Variety of UsesCould Accommodate Manufacturing, Processing, Wholesaling and Distribution

Through recent acquisition of a U. S. federal government’s use, is located on ing frame, concrete and masonry. allnaval supply depot at Spokane, Wash., a 542-acre tract seven miles east of Spo- with cement oors. Each warehouse con-by Spokane lndustrial Park, lnc., 3,- kane. It is served directly by the main tains approximately 120.000 square feet120,000 square feet of warehouse space line of the Northern Pacic Railway at of floor space. In addition to the ware-have been made available to serve the Velox station. houses, there are 20 acres of open storgrowing agricultural and industrial com- Among the buildings acquired by the age, about half of which is paved.

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plex of that general area. new Owners are 26 0ne_5t0ry warehouses The depot is served by nearly 16 milesThe depot, no longer required for the of various constructional types, includ- of lmemal trackage and Wlth water-

sewer, power and natural gas and it hasre protection. Five of the buildingsare equipped with covered trackage andelectrically-operated cranes.

General Melvin Smith, retired, presi-dent of Spokane Industrial Park. lnc..who lives in Spokane, where he alsooperates the Spokane Pres-to-log com-pany, points out that the warehousesare suitable for a wide variety of uses,including manufacturing, light andheavy industries, storage (including

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FORMER GOVERNMENT DEPOT, in the foreground, is iuitable for manufacturing, commerce and economic development.processing or storing goods or or wholesaling and distri ution. There are 26 ware- ,. - 'houses. The Trentwood rolling mill of the Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical corporation at 01) mpla’ recently waS.appomted manis at the right, center, in the picture, which was made seven miles east of Spokane. ager of Spokane Industnal Park: Inc-2 ‘

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AN ELEVATOR W'ITH ROOM for 2,808,000 bushels was completed‘ recently near Jamestown, N. D., by the J-T Grain company, whose

president is James Garvey, of Ft. Worth, Tex. Each of the three steeltanks holds 820,000 bushels. A Northern Pacific west-bound trans-continental freight train is in the foreground, on the railway’s main-line track. North Dakota has storage space for 582,616,000 bushels.

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Grain Storage Capacity Now the Highest in HistoryA Fifth of the Country Elevators in North Dakota Built Additions in 1959; $6,000,000 Spent forCleaning and Handling Machinery; Space at Primary Points in Minnesota Up 129 Per Cent Since 1956

Reports continue to come in on what Demands for space to house unpre- facilities at elevators on Lake Superior.some people called in 1959 the biggest cedented farm surpluses. as well as the Among the grain companies that haveboom in grain-elevator building to hit needs related to regular marketing func- made improvements in their facilities onthe northern plains since homeseekers lions. are cited as the reasons for push- the harbor or that will make them soonrst broke virgin sod to plant wheat. ing storage capacity up to heights not are the Osborne McMillan Elevator com-Storage capacity has reached the high- attained previously and for modernizing pany, General Mills, lnc., Farmersest point in history in the area, the equipment in many elevators. Union Grain Terminal association and

While a lion’s share of the increase Room in terminals has been enlarged. F. H. Peavey & company.occurred last year, the following table too, at Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth Higher spouts at three Peavey pro-showing the change in country elevator and at a few outlying points. The com- pvrties—its Globe elevator in Superiorspace over a four-year period is signi- pletion last year of the St. Lawrence and its Duluth and Occident terminalscant: st-away is cited as a reason for additions in Duluth~will accommodate loading

Jnn.1,1956 Dec.3l,1950 to grain-holding and grain-handling of bigger ships. At the Pcavev DuluthStale Bushels Bushels '

Minnesota 54,410,000 124,670,000North Dakota 76,406,000 117,593,000Montana 33,116,000 38,4-18,000

The increase amounts to a hefty 53per cent in North Dakota and a bulging129 per cent in Minnesota.

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that additions were made at a fth ofthe country elevators in North Dakotalast year, varying from a few thousandbushels at smaller ones up to 500,000bushels in isolated cases. The new con-struction consists chiey of “at” ware-houses, frequently roundtop steel build-ings, and steel and concrete tanks.

It has been estimated that in NorthDakota alone new equipment costing

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A MILLION BUSHELS CAN BE PUT into this concrete struc- PEAVEY DULUTH TERMINAL, of F. I'I. Peavey & company,ture of Jamestown Terminal Elevator Inc. Fourteen of the and other elevators on the Duluth-Superior harbor are receiv-tanks, resembling tall silos huddled together, went up in 1959. ing major alterations to speed up loading of grain in ships.

terminal an extension loading gallery The Jamestown Terminal Elevator, trial spur off the Northern Pacic, thecarrying a conveyor belt 114 feet above lnc., which began doing business in J-T Grain company (J-T stands forthe water and extending 225 feet from 1955, has a $550,000 plant. The rm. Jamestown) recently completed a 2,808,-the elevator over the harbor being con- of which J. J. Flannery is president and 000-bushel elevator and, in addition tostructed during the current winter will Don DeMersseman is manager, rst having a government storage contract,make possible loading of the largest had room for 500,000 bushels in 12 re- will buy, sell and ship grains.ocean ships without turning the vessels. inforced-concrete tanks and a head A “country end” on this new plantWith this addition and by using six high house. Last year 14 more concrete tanks. has a driveway and two steel tanks thatspouts and two low ones, the terminal’s large enough for another 500,000 have room for 14,000 bushels each. Acrew will be able to load from 75,000 bushels, were added. reinforced-concrete main house has ato 100,000 bushels an hour and it will The company also does a retail 320,000-bushel capacity and three steelbe possible to convey four different business in feed, seed and fertilizer. F. tanks, each 100 feet high, hold 820,000grains at one time to various holds in W. Hatterscheidt, a business man in bushels apiece.a ship. Thus, loading capacity is being Aberdeen, S. D., is vice president of this James Garvey, an elevator man in Ft.increased 100 per cent. rm. John H. Eagleson, a farmer, is sec- Worth, Texas, is president of the J-T

Additional deep piling soon will be retary-treasurer. Grain company. George Stockwell, andriven at this elevator to allow for more Just west of Jamestown, on an indus- attorney at Wichita, Kan., is vice presi-dredging—down to 30 feet—which willbe completed in 1961 to permit ships ofdeep draft to load. Dredging will bedone, too, at the Globe elevator.

Terminal space in Minnesota now isadequate to hold 126,407,000 bushels.

Terminal elevators in North Dakota,with much of the space having beencompleted only in the last four years.have total capacity for grain in excess of8,000,000 bushels.

Terminals for almost 4,000,000bushels have been provided by two con-cerns at Jamestown, N. D., both ofwhich, in addition to having contractsfor the storage of federally owned grain l

taken over by the government as a re. PROBLEMS WERE NOT WEIGHING h 'l D D M l f- eavly on on e ersseman e t managersult of support loalis’ are buymg hjom Jamestown Terminal Elevator, Inc., and J. J. Flannery, president, lat tlie momenifarmers and handllng and mrl<et1I1g- camera clicked. Firm stores, buys and sells grain, and sells feed, seed, fertilizer.4- THE NORTHWEST, March-April, 1960

dent. Robert Melland, of Jamestown, ison the board of directors. Howard O.Hanson is resident manager.

Storage on farms has been in-creased, too. In North Dakota total farmstorage space (excluding cribs for ear 7'

corn) is estimated at 412,000,000 bush-els. Montanans have bins for 220,000,- -

000 bushels on farms and ranches, andin Minnesota the gure, for small grains,is 470,000,000.

Counting a 17,425,000-bushel capaci-ty for government-owned bins in thestate, Montana’s total space in all typesof storage will accommodate 282.541,-000 bushels.

In North Dakota, where governmeiitbins have a 45,000,000-bushel capacity.the comparable total gure is 582,616,-000 bushels. ‘"11

The following is 3 Partial ll5l~ of ele' LOADING SHELLED CORN into covered hopper cars at a new facility of the West-vator addirmg made in 1959; Farmers’ ern Farmers’ association, at Wheeler, Wash. Warehoiise and office are in the rear.Grain Company Embdem N_ D“ 12 bins The local factory of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company is at the left, in the background.

costing $11,400, 55,200 bushels; Occi-dent Elevator company, Hazelton, Val-ley City, Edgeley and Flasher, N. 1).. b‘ °$50,000, 184,000 bushels; Farmers’ Uii-ion elevator, Hazelton, N. D., $27,000, _ _ _

100,000 bushels; pa,,,,,.,s’ Elevator Western Farmers’ Association Builds at Wheelercompany, Woods, N. D., $18,000, 75,000bushels; farmers, elevator companies Recent construction of a‘ $100,000 cylindrical steel tanks with a capacityGlover Hastings Temvik and Rogers‘ multipurpose plant for handling grain, lor tons each,‘and a 65-foot. elevatorN D ’tOtal of £26 000 for ansiOn_' feed, fertilizer and general farm sup- leg with six gravity tubes running fromPin rise Grain cam ’an Pin rel; N D’ plies near Wheeler, Wash., by the West- the top of the leg, four of which are$5 500 Farmers, gnigg Elegvatér éonij erii Farmers’ association constitutes one used for lling the grain tanks. One

’ 12.1 h N D $5 000_ F _, of the latest additions to industrial prop- tube is for loading covered hoppers andwas er" ’th ’N zrmgga erty that have been provided to service boxcars and one is for loading feed

mpanl 00 wor ’ ' ' eastern Washiii ton s bl" Colu bia Ba- "THIIIS into farm trucks000; Farmers’ Union elevator, Drayton ’ g ° m D rt '

- sin Irrigation project. Storage at our new plant is purpose-N‘ D" $11900 and, 40’000 bushels‘ Located on a 10-acre tract along the ly small,” remarked Manager Bennett.Goldberg Feed & Grain company, West C - .. -

_ onnell branch of the Northern Pacic because we can load a car of grain andFargo, N. D., 500,000 bushels: Occ1- R -I h 1 - d ~ b h _h- - f 1 -

. ai way, t e new p ant 15 esigned 0t s ip it to one 0 our arger grain-storagedlml Elevator company’ Clrcle and Glen’ to serve existing needs of that territory and feed-manufacturing plants at Gran-dive, Mont., and Almont, N. D.. total of - -

, , ' and to meet future requirements as addi- ger, Portland, or Tacoma, for example.$19,000 for grain storage bins; Judson - - ~ . , -

, . . tional lands come under irrigation. when our smaller grain tanks here l)€-Farmers Umon Mercamlle & Elevator Included in the structures are a come full. This practice enables us tocompany, $12,500 for grain bins; Farm- genera] warehousg measuring 80 x 60. a serve all of our local members adequate-

ersi. Union elevator’ Brockway’ Mom" grain receiving and shipping facility and ly, with a minimum of expense for stor-grain annex, $10,000; Berea farmers’ - . - - -,

a warehouse for handling and storing gfi at lllls POIIILelevator’ Berea’ N‘ D" $9300‘ dry fertilizer. Liquid fertilizers are kept The Western Farmers’ association, a

in tanks located nearby. In one section cooperative with more than 40,000l'lOf$6 NUI‘|1b9l'$ Mdé of the general warehouse ofiice space has members and 50 facilities located atcirde in 0 century l,:§:lt1afIl11(l1'I1}llS.l'lC(1t féir Mdaqagegvi/1. Beg: Ztlrgttlzgich poirlits ip 0Washing:pi]i; Qregon

‘ is s a an or ur yco , i a o, g ew r ni a sma egmningI" 1359, Oregon had 4-0,000 horses the association’s district manager. Also in 1917 when it was organized for mar-

and last year, a century later, the nuin- there is a display room for farm har(l- keting eggs for poultrymen of westernber was the same. High point in the ware and production supply items. The Washington. Until recently it was calledstate came in 1917, when 300,000 were remainder of the larger warehouse, the Washington Cooperative Farmers’reported. The saddle horse is in the nia- about two-thirds of the building. is for association. Headquarters are in Seattle.jority today, including the Palomino. feeds, feed concentrates. salt. dry fer- Wllfe Harry]. Bevrllillk isgenral mali-Arabian, Appaloosa, Quarter horse, Teii- tilizers and other supplies. ager.iiessee Walking horse and Shetland and The structures and equipment for re- In the Columbia Basin project,Welsh onies. ceivin and slii ) )in rain include four 256.800 acres now are under irri ation.5 ll g g / g

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found in the situation by W. C. Smith, right, manager of marks are, left to right: Don I. Plummer, _Ir., general managertimber operations for the Vancouver Plywood Co., when he of Vancouver Plywood; David Difford, sales manager; C. B.explained to other officers of the firm where logging has been Percy, comptroller, James Hendrickson, veneer sales manager.started in western Montana for plywood mill of Van-Evan The sales division at Vancouver is employing 4-2 people.

This Firm ls Specializing in Selling Plywood and VeneerVancouver Plywood Company Supplies the Raw Material—Then Disposes of Finished Product;Soon to Manufacture Ply Panels Through Its One-Half Ownership of a Plant Being Built at Missoula

The Vancouver Plywood Co. in Van- products have been its major responsi- specially trained staff busy selling 25.- ‘

couver, Wash., a 25-year-old rm, con- hility. 000,000 square feet every month of thetrary to what is implied by its name. That will continue to be true in the year for nine major west-coast plantsdoesn’t, itself, at the present time manu- future but now, after ve years, the and it imports and merchandises ply-facture a square foot of plywood and it company again will manufacture ply- wood panels made in the Orient froml1asn’t since 1955, although it does make wood, which will be done, however, exotic woods, such as lauan (Philippineveneer. through a new rm, the Van-Evan com- mahogany), sen, shino, beech and birch.

Furnishing logs to plywood and ve- pany. Moreover, the company disposes of 25,-neer makers and selling the nished The Vancouver Plywood Co. keeps a 000,000 square feet monthly of veneer,

some of it peeled in its own veneer plantin Springeld, Ore., and the remainder

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company, in California.Not only that, the Vancouver Ply-

wood Co. makes daily 25,000 feet ofstuds in its own stud mill, again atSpringeld, Ore., and it cuts, using con-tract crews, in excess of 60,000,000board feet of logs annually for itself andfor some of the rms whose nishedproduct it sells.

If all that seems rather a load for onerm to lift and do it successfully, theconcern’s beginning under its presentowners back in 1935 was on the wholefar less complicated. We say “on the

A “BEFORE” PICTURE was taken on October 2 last, at Missoula, Mont , on the h, , >1

site for a $2,500,000 mill of the Van-Evan company while engineers explained plans W ole because only iwo days ah,“to a group of timber people when earth-moving machines were grading on the site. Frost Snyder: the Presldenta and W11‘

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liam W. Kilworth, vice president and kinds, the new company is branching expect that a part of the nished prod-treasurer, two Tacoma businessmen with into the use of species which only two uct at Missoula, which, incidentally, islong experience in manufacturing and other plywood manufacturers currently to be all sanded, will be used as tops forselling wood products, bought the are using. Fifty per cent of the output of desks, cabinets and tables and that itcompany, its principal tangible asset, a the plant at Missoula will consist of will be used in manufacturing luggage,plywood mill at Vancouver, was closed western larch, or tamarack. Larch logs, garage doors, railroad equipment and a

by a strike. Once that matter was set- unavailable in forests along the Pacic whole batch of other products.”tled, the plant was operated until 1955, coast, are found on extensive acreages A ring-type barker will be installed at

when it was sold to its employees, who in parts of western Montana. Twenty- Missoula. An eight-foot lathe which willadopted the name Fort Vancouver Ply- ve per cent of the nished product at peel logs in the main building will be

wood company and converted it into a Missoula will consist of ponderosa pine, equipped with retractable chucks, back

cooperative, which has been managed as

such since that time.The Van-Evan company was organ-

ized recently as a result of an alliancewith the Evans Products company, ofPlymouth, Mich. Owned 50 per cent byVancouver Plywood and 50 per cent byEvans, the Van-Evan concern presentlyis building a large plywood mill at Mis-soula, in western Montana, to cost $2,-500,000 and to have an initial capacityfor manufacturing 6,000,000 square feeton a three-eighths-inch basis per month.beginning in July, 1960.

Located on 46.6 acres just west ofh it l d f th N th P -he cl Y. ease mm ,6 9' eff‘ .3 THE LOCATION IN THE PICTURE at the bottom of page six was photographedclc Rallway’ the plant S mam bultdmg again on February 17, this vear, with Van-Evan company’s 500-foot main buildingis 300 X 500 feet, covering about three for plywood mill at Missoula well under way. Note the railroad spur inside the wall.and a half acres.

Actually one of the nation’s industrialgiants, the Evans Products company,while it fabricates and handles differentkinds of items, ranging from bicycles tostoves and railroad equipment, is nonewcomer in the plywood eld. lt ownsand operates eight plywood, hardboardand veneer plants. lncluded are plywoodplants at Coos Bay and Roseburg, Ore.,and Vancouver, B. C., a sawmill at CoosBay and a veneer plant at Gold Beach,Ore. Evans also has 14- plywood ware-houses located in important buildingcenters of the United States.

Frost Snyder is president of the Van-

Evan company and Edward S‘ Evans’ PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT d ' 1 r 11 vpresident of the Evans Products Com' Plywood Co.,are Frost Snyder left an:n“’il'lli:‘f1iu$r’l(ri‘l:vli)er‘ilivebbthoof‘ 'F(20::'l!:ol:rlfrPan)’, ts executive Vice Prestd'3l1t- Wit" established the rm 25 years ’ago. ,They are oicers, too, of new plywood companyiiIiam W. Kilworth is vice president and

treasurer and Den t- Plnrnrnerv -lr-1 gen‘ and the remainder will be Douglas r, roll and lathe charger. A tray system

erat manager or the Vancouver Pltwood white pine and spruce. 200 feet long to receive veneer from the

e°rnPanYv ts Vice President and general "The Missoula plant should open a lathe will consist of six decks. Two clip-manager Qt tne new nrm- The secretary bigger eld for us than we have had in pers will serve not only to cut the veneer

ts Enter)’ Moore» Vtee President or Ftd' the past,” General Manager Plummer into pieces; as a matter of fact, sortingdes'M°°re 8‘ CdrnPanY, 3 $'JbstdtarY or commented recently. and grading the product will start withthe Evans Products e°mPanY; Bruce “The species will lend themselves this automatic equipment. Two 16-sec-

Fnttnnr assistant Western dtvrston man‘ to industrial uses as well as to the build- tion, six-deck dryers are planned, withager er tne Evans Products e°rnPanY+ is ing trade,” Plummer continued. “We mechanical feeders and tipple-controlledsssrstant seeretarY- will set up machinery to make panels of unloader working on an automatic sort-

While heretofore the parents of the different sizes and thicknesses as con- ing system. There will be three glue-Montana edgling have been concerned trasted with the standard size on the Pa- spreading machines, two hot presses.

chiefly with r plywood and imported cic coast, which is a 4-x-8 panel. We automated skinner and cutoff saws, two

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sanders with feeders and slackers, patcb- a grandson of the late G. ll. Plummer, vision of Canadian Forest Products,ing machinery and a jointer and edge many years western land agent for the Ltd., Vancouver, B. C. Sales for the Mis-gluer. Northern Pacic Railway. He attended soula plant also will be handled as soon

Ultimately another processing line the school of forestry of the University as the Montana operations are farmay be put in at Missoula, headed by of Washington, and in World War ll enough along to supply nished prod-a 10-foot lathe. Space is being provided became a navigator in the air corps. Aft- ucts. The mills are capable of producingfor it now. lf such an expansion occurs. er that experience, he served in a couple about every type and size of plywood.the capacity of the plant then will he of logging and timber jobs before join- including hardwood on softwood cores.0,000,000 square feet of plywood 1nonth- ing, in 1956, the staff of the Vancouver Perry Dome is Sales consultant for thely. Plywood Co. He became general man- eoninanyi iooated at the Vaneonver

Auxiliary buildings will house a ager in 1957, with ve divisions under iieariontirtere Wei] known in the indus.steam plant. vats for steaming logs be- his supervision. tr,-_ Danie is asked iretnientiy for in_fore they are peeled. a small stud mill The plywood sales department of the forination on hiniher inarketing_which will utilize peeler cores, and a Vancouver Plywood Co., run by llavid The importation of foreign pi)-woot|chipper to make chips from leftover l)ifford. sales manager. does a mercl|an- and its Sale are handled by John Van-wood to be sold to a pulp nranufacturer. dising joball over_the United States and guarth a 3g_year_o]r] Hohandera now onAn 850,000-gallon I'6S€l‘VOtI‘ has been Canada. l‘our regional sales managers, Anierir-on citizen’ who has traveiet]

widely in Europe, bouth America, Can-ada and the Orient.

Forty-two employees work in thesales department in Vancouver. Theyhave at their disposal an l.B.M. systemwhich keeps tab on the monumental vol-ume of raw material and manufacturedproducts in the inventories of all therms for which sales are made and forwhich logs are supplied. The system alsois used for sales analysis and controland for ordinary accounting purposes.C. B. Percy is the rm’s comptroller.

James Hendrickson manages the ve-neer sales division. Donald E. Rupe runsthe veneer manufacturing division ofthe company. lts lumber sales division ismanaged by Leonard Moyer, who is as-sisted by Virgil Ryland.

VIEWING A SANDED PLYWOOD PANEL made for them by the Fort Vancouver Th ' b ' f ht t t V -Plywood company as a test of Montana larch are four executives, from the left, of e lm er Opel-adwiils £1 C esthe Vancouver Plywood company, of Vancouver, Wash., Don I. Plummer, Jr., general Louver rm’ manage y ' ‘ mu T‘manager; Perry Dame, sales consultant; David Difford, sales manager; John Van- HOW occupying seven crews, are designedguard, manager, import division. This product will be made in plant at Missoula. to produce abotit100,000,000 board feet

of logs for the following: The Tillamookplanned to supply water for a sprinkler located at Vancouver, who supervise a veueer c0mPany’ the Fort Yancouvelisystem that will protect the plant against eld sales organization and are respon- Plywood Comlmnyt the Vamhva“ C"""tire_ Sihie for how weii the product moves pany and the Vancouver Plywood com-

The Van-Evan company has commit- into users hands, include the following: Pa")"5 OW" Vener Plant-ments for the purchase of logs in west- Van Purdy, southeastern region: Tom Smith buys the timber, buildsern Montana from the Northern Pacic Saathofl, northwestern region; David roads in the woods, and supplies theRailway and other timber owners, in- Evans, southwestern; and Don Almy. equipment needed to cut logs and delivereluding the federal government. lt is northeastern. They sell for these con- them to the plants, He also disposes ofexpected that 30,000,000 board feet or cerns: the Fort Vancouver Plywood wood that ean’t be used to make veneer,more will be used annually. Logging al- company; the North Pacic Plywood The work itself is let to eontraet loggersready has been started. company, Tacoma, Wash.; the Southern who furnish the crews and see that the

Ag far as their own interest in (lo. Oregon Plywood company. Grants Pass. job is done. Thus, the Vancouver Ply-tails of the business of both the Van- ()re.: the Tillamook Veneer company. wood company not only sells for otherEvan company and the Vancouver Ply- Tillamook, Ore.: the Three Sisters Ply- rms, but for some of them it also fur-wood company are concerned, Snyder wood company, Albany, Ore.: the Hub nishes raw material. And, incidentally,and Kilworth both long since have de- City Plywood company, Albany: the frequently the risks involved are awe-pended heavily on younger men who Port Plywood company, Astoria, Ore.; some. Smith commented recently, forhave been chosen carefully and placed the Astoria Plywood company, Astoria; example, that sometimes it costs $225.-in management posts. the Rogue River Plywood company. 000 just to develop a logging operation

Take General Manager Don l. P]um- Grants Pass. Ore.; sales of bardboard of only moderate size so that a crew canmer, ]r., who, as a matter of interest. is ‘only. the Pacic veneer and plywood di- be put to work.8 THE NORTHWEST, March-.-Ipril, I960

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built on four acres adjacent to theNorthern Pacic’s main-line track inBismarck, N. D., Farmers Union Cen-tral Exchange, Inc., serves 50 associa-

tions located in the southwestern part (if A MODERN WAREHOUSE of Farmers Union Central Exchange, Inc , at Bismarck,lle 5l>ale- N. D. serves 50 local associations in the southwest part of the state with farm sup-

Whi]e 3 guwral inventory of farm plies and machinery parts. The one-floor building is 289 feet long and I20 feet wide.

and home supplies is distributed fromBismarck, the principal business is donein petroleum products, fertilizers, weedchemicals, machinery, tires and bat-teries, barbed wire, fence posts and oth-er iron and steel goods. In short, justabout any important item needed on thelarin is included.

The concrete block warehouse, 120 x28‘) feet, built in 1957, in addition tohaving room for storage, has ofiices and " ‘ ‘a farm machinery repair parts depotand, also, a shop in which alterationsare handled.

Just east of the Bismarck warehouse ‘the exchange operates a propane plant.Rwved from Ti°ga- N- D» alld fP°I_" GREASE AND OIL for farm machines IT TAKES A HEAP of car and tractorsouthern petroleum elds, propane is are large items handled at Bismarck tires to meet members’ needs, says Mar-Smred in 3(),000_ganOn mnks_ For use by Farmers’ Union Cooperative group. viii Hervey, local warehouse manager.

in home heating and cooking and forpowering farm tractors, this gas is de- U011 has H felail §l0l‘@; actually 11 {CW M01"-, 011 -lune 30, last Year, 10 D666!“-livered to consurners in the area on Or, havg jnofe than One, bet‘ 31, Ihe lll1ml')er OI Cattle Sold lOi8le(l

‘lers relayed by the associations‘ The exchange, extensively engaged it- 56’O00 head’Bismarck is one of several dist;-ibn- self in petroleum rening, gathers other

{ion points for Farmers Union Central products it merchandises from manyExchange, Inc_., whose general oiiice is suppliers. Ills! {OT xmplff, farm "la" Fqsf Wqfk Pu} Plqningin Si. Paul, Mlnn. In addition to its 0p- chmes come from Onlarw, Canada; M." B k I t Ad.er3[i()n§ in NQr[h Dakgig, the exchange W8C(l Cl1BI‘l]IC8lS are Ol)IlIl€(l in MiCl1l— I ac n ° Iondoes business in seven other states—— gang and tires made in Eau Claire, Wis.. O" Sunday’ January 17, the planer at

Wiscons M t S h D k fir S ld- -1"’ mneso 3’ ‘ml a "ta= e 0 the Rother Lumber company, Missoula.Washington, Idaho, Montana and Wyo- My b d | t 1 h- i

mi-is SOLD 56~""° CATTLE AT w.§lme.ii.§§i§n’.i igiiiioif B(i'sQlaiiu=ii\l"A - - MILES CITY IN SIX MONTHS ’n agricultural cooperative wholesale 28, 11 days later, a new building hail

concern, it is owned by 850 local asso- In six months, from the day the been put up, new equipment had been

ciations which, in turn, have approxi- Schnell Livestock company began oper- installed and it was running. turning outmately 300,000 members. Each ass0cia- atiiig an auction sale yard at Miles City, nished lumber.

PROPANE IS DISTRIBUTED from this plant of Farmers cook food and to power tractors. The propane comes fromUnion Central Exchange, Inc., adjacent to its warehouse at Tioga, N. D., and from southern petroleum fields. DeliveriesBismarck, N. D. Exchange members use it to heat homes, to are made on the orders of local associations directly to farms.

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Don’t Lock Up Resources In More Wilderness RegionsThe Public Domain ls Threatened by Politically Powerful Outdoor Enthusiasts;

Multiple Use Would Malre Federal Forests Serve All People Rather Than a Favored Few

Can America, growing country thatshe is, aiiord to lock up her naturalresources?

Should they be sealed off so they can'the used to create jobs for workers, orlumber for homes, or to furnish nativegrasses lor livestock and minerals andores to support the mining industry, orto impound water for power, irrigationand industrial and domestic needs?

Whether or not the nation’s economycan stand such a shock, that’s what onesmall but politically powerful segmentof the population wants to do.

The people in that group, mostlyoutdoor enthusiasts, making an eniotion-al appeal to the public, are trying tohave a lot more of the iiation’s publiclands put into so-called wilderness areas,cutting them o from other uses, re- ,

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authgrize such 3 program have been in 591.116 Of il visible in “I8 i-0I'0gl‘0lllld, (!0l.l.!d

°""g"‘SS d"'i"g the Pas‘ f°‘" Years iii ii'.ll.‘i§§'ll ‘ii iiT§lii.'§i'1l'l.Z"I'.1‘.'.il‘l'§'.$.li'Zii.i1?u§Z°.‘I.§‘:§l§;.L'§.i"I,'i..§i§ii.'L135; '31?Right n0W one of them is b6f0l'9 the prohibited iinder wilderness regulations, could be built. After removal of half thdU_S_ senate committee on interior and timber, now dead, the road could be used by vacationers to go into this region.insular aiiairs.

Opposing the kind of philosophy es-in national forests. The rst one was are not permitted in a wilderness.

[mused in these bins is vast number established in 1924, or 36 years ago. ]{e5£-rvujrs 1|‘, which {U 5[Q1-g‘w3‘[g1-‘fur

of people who advocate the multiple Proponents of the current legislation ‘l"'"e5u° aml mdustflal uses’ '“"gal"’"use of public lands—that is, making want to add at one swoop some 3(),000_- 01' {M ill" g"""a“°" "l P"W9r 3"‘them serve many purposes, including 000 acres of public land, making a total l’a“"e‘l~recreation. These persons believe that of 50,000,000 acres in wilderness areas. Control of tree-killing insects is dil"li-areas should not be locked up perma- . . ._ . cult, since no cutting to remove infestedI f .ld .1 . . A wilderness, according to their view-nent y or wi erness unti inventories . . trees may be done. Wilderness areas

. point. ideally must have no roads, only . .of the resources therein have shown that . now are being sprayed from the air forI foot paths and hoise trails Forestrytie areas are not primarily valuable for . . Y ' ’ the spruce budworm, the tussock mothmining. oil development and other coiii- . .other purposes. _. and other defoliators, but spraying frommercial use of resources must be excludBV Virlll Of <?X8Cl1liV Ofdf of lllt’ ed. Transport planes may not land in the airplanes lsni eecuile against biirk‘I f - 1 } U - I beetles. and forest-service eiitoiiiologists“TF9 31')’ 0 agrlcu lllf, 116 l1ll@( area. No motors of any kind (including

gtates already has 83 wilderness-type motors for boats) may be taken in. Ho- still are.umiertain about thg iesuhs ofreservations comprising13.983,934- acres tels, stores, resorts and summer homes

the application of sprays. lt is known' that areas sprayed in 1957 for the

spruce budworiii in the northern regionTHE later were heavily infested with spider

1. No need for the proposed law recreation and the motoring "fitfisi which Werel Presem bef°_re'_S°-has been demons“-ated_ publim killing one predator may have invited

2. It exemplifies bad govern- 5. Wilderness recreation is a anothenment because it gives prefer- limited type of recreation; In ghting re, it is impossible toence to one land use over an- therefore, vast expanses of move heavy equipment into a wilderness0lh8l‘- land need not be given to it. area. Dead, dry trees, killed by insects

3. It is “special interest” legisla- 6. Multiple use of public land, or disease but not removed, are a seri-tion. rather t h a n limited-purpose ous re hazard. They can’t be taken out

4. It would “fence out” family use, provides more benets. of a wilderness.

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A wildlife official at a hearing inMontana was reported to have remarkedconcerning a proposed mountain reser-voir to store water for benecial usethat it would ood a grizzly bear range.This is the kind of impractical reason-ingtypifying much of the case for morewilderness areas by their proponents.

They visualize vast regions “wherethe earth and its community of life areuntrammeled by man.” They speak inbroad terms of “conservation.” lndeed,it is diicult to understand preciselywhat advocates of more wilderness want.Their aims are couched in high-sound-ing. ambiguous phrases.

Oregon has 10 wilderness alid wildareas, none of whose resources, exceptgame and fish taken by sportsmen, maybe used. These areas in Oregon total754,653 acres, or more land than theentire state of Rhode lsland.

ln the state of Washington, wildernessalid wild areas occupy 926,091 acres.

The same kind of reserves in Montanaand northern ldaho exceed 3,500,000acres, or more than the 3,135,000 acresoccupied by the whole state of Connecti-cut. Minnesota has 814,4-56 acresin three areas designated as wilderness.Similarly reserved regions are located insome of the other states.

Does the public really want any moreof that kind of thing than it alreadyhas?

Apropos of that question, Virlis L.Fischer, eminent mountaineer and mem-ber of several conservation groups andoutdoor clubs, said recently in a publicstatement: “Between the wilderness por-tions of the national parks and the wil-

cent of the visits for that purpose in 100 prefer to pitch their tents near a

1959 were made to portions of the na- road, or at least not far from habitation.tional forests which were managed by Their numbers, already legion, are des-

the U. S. Forest service as inultiple-use tined to increase and their voice in af-areas, where there were not only visitors fairs affecting the public may yet reachgalore, but where, in 1959, 2,600,000 a crescendo. Wilderness areas do notsheep and 1,000,000 cattle and horses suit the needs of such citizens.were grazed, and where 8,300,000,000 The economy of the West is closelyboard feet of timber were harvested. linked with national forests and other

Results of indicate that public lands. ln 11 western states Uncle

taken in the wilderness almost all is Sammanages 402’315'00O acres’or 534killed within half a lnile or a mile of a P" “em °f ‘he ‘°“" “°“"‘=‘g‘* i“ ‘he “"r0ad_in other words’ around the gion. The business life and the earnings

fringes. One authorit has said that, of ,the people, of this vast area are m'y .

compared with closed-off regions, there mtely sensm_ve to any changes m thestatus of public lands.

* * * lndustries in the 11 states basedon natural resources employ 625,000persons whose annual wages total $3,-

MI‘. Sid I‘Il’OI\ SGYS-— 300,000.000. Receipts of the governmentfor grazing, mining and stumpage in thenational forests amount to approximate-ly $90,000,000 a year. However, 35.-

060,04-1 acres already are reserved forvarious non-industrial purposes. Currentwilderness legislation would take out an-

other big slice, which would amount toan astronomical 16.9 per cent of thefederally owned land in the state ofWashington, and in Montana, 14-.8 percent of the federally owned land wouldbe slapped into a deep freeze, out ofreach. except for limited use.

The people of Dari-ington, Wash.,and the surrounding area have had rst-hand experience with the problem. Theytestied not long ago on their own be-

half when hearings were held on a pro-posal to make, by executive order, a

wilderness of a vast region near them.

derness system of the national forests, 1 is on both sides of the Cascade range‘would say that no other segment of theAmerican public is receiving so muchfor so little. . . . No other group hasbeen treated so lavishly. And no othergroup is showing less gratitude.”

lndeed, the average vacationer rarelygoes into wildernesses for recreation—or, as far as that goes, for any otherpurpose.

“FOR THE BENEFIT of citizens in its called the Glacier Peak =="@a- 5°m<= 17lerrilorly; and also 1:1’ glebrrilway W2“ per cent of the proposed region supportspany t e Nort ern aci c e ieves in t e - -multiple of rand contrasted with merchantable, commercial timber. Lock

the selfish, limited-purpose wilderness ing all Of it Up perpetually, they said.idf and 15¢ 0011198117 Pl‘8¢_li¢¢§ ili_l00i” would deny the region over $1,056,000said Edward B. Stanton, vice president. annually in timber and lumber payrolls

. , . and would mean the loss of direct sup-port to 888 persons and indirectly would

is double or triple the game in cutover affect the pocketbook of 2,500 others.Recently Richard E_ MC/hdle’ chief’ districts, because ‘the feed grows more The allowable cut on a sustained yield

U_ g_ Forest service, reported that 81; luxuriantly. Rotating the game habitat basis. it was pointed out. would be re-

52l,000 recreation visits were liiade in1959 to the 181,000,000 acres in na-

as well as the timber itself has advan- duced 16,000,000 board feet yearly. Thetages. The same authority has described government would lose $4-00,000 yearlv

tional forests but that only 564,700 of wildernesses as biological deserts, which from stumpage, $100,000 of whichthis total were visits made to the 13¢ sustain little game and contain few birds would be lost to county governments.

988,984 acres preserved in wilderness. because there is inadequate feed for making a total of $1,456,000 in directThus’ wilderness areas’ totaling more them. income lost in a small area every 12

than seven per cent of the national for- The tourist or vacationer today who months-esls’ received only sevemterrths of one visits national parks or national forests ln 1956, while it was managed by theper cent of the recreational visits during wants to do it in an automobile. lf he U. 5. Forest service as a “limited area,”the year_ In other words, over 99 per and his family are campers, 99 out of only 2,872 persons——shermen, hunters.

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pack-train campers and hikers~visitedthe Glacier peak region, many of them,however, being people who lived nearby,and some of whom made more than onevisit and were counted, therefore. morethan once. Few travelers from distantpoints vacationed in the region. Assiiin-ing that no more would use it for recre-ation if it were a wilderness la safeassumptionl. the cost to the public inlost income per visitor would be $506.On the other hand, the total amountspent by visitors is a mere fraction ofthe income that is realized when theresources all are judiciously utilized.

“The people of Darrington were some-what less than enchanted b_y the wholeidea.” a Iumbermen’s magazine satiri-i-ally commented. They requested thatthe proposal be altered sufficiently tosave jobs and their industry.

Indeed, as we have seen above, fewtourists or vacationers utilize restrictedareas. Most people aren’t hardy enough.or i-an’t afford it. or haven’t the time.

It has been estimated that the BobMarshall wilderness area of I.000,000acres. in Montana, is used by not over3.000 yearly.

In Montana, too, striking examples ofthe inability to control insects in re-stricted areas have been cited. On oneoccasion the U. S. Forest service, tocontrol the spruce bark beetle. consid-ered the sale of 23,000,000 board feetof timber in the Bunker creek drainagearea of the Flathead National forest.19,000,000 of which were spruce heavilyinfested with bark beetles, located fromtwo to six miles outside of the BobMarshall wilderness area. The politicallyvocal Flathead Lake Wildlife associationopposed the construction of a proposedBunker creek access road necessary toreach the heavily infested spruce andpetitioned to extend the Bob Marshallwilderness area to include all of theBunker creek drainage. The timber salewas not made and the spruce bark beetleremained uncontrolled. Similar stands.containing dead spruce, now are rottingin the Selway-Bitter Root wilderness. inIdaho and Montana, and in the Missionmountain primitive area, in Montana.

That is a waste of natural resources.

A few of the organizations whoserepresentatives have testied in favor ofcurrently proposed wilderness legisla-tion are the Wilderness Society, the Na-tional Parks association, Smokey Moun-tains Hiking club, Sierra club, Defenders

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of Furbearers, Federation of Western the American Forestry association andOutdoor Clubs, the Mountaineers, Seat- the Chamber of Commerce of the Unitedtle Audubon society, Trustees for Coii- Slates.servation, the Cascades Conservation Curiously’ not by any means do a]|Cuuucth Nature Cdn5er"ancY= New York wildlife and outdoor enthusiasts favorState Conservation council, the National an increase in ]imited-ose wildernessWildlife federation, lzaak Walton League areas_ The Ski Association of Wyomingof America. Princeton Theological sein- carne out against it_ The Arizona Fisniiiary. the American Nature association. and Game connnission is onnoser]_ asthe National Council of State Garden are the National Forest Recreation as.

sociation, the Automobile Club of Wash-* "‘ "‘ ington, the Arizona Motor Hotel asso-

ciation and the Phoenix Chamber ofProf. Fritz Suys— C0mmerQe_

Speaking as a member of a panel inSeattle at an annual meeting of theWestern Forestry and Conservation as-sociation. Emanuel Fritz, formerly a

professor of forestry and now vice presi-dent of the Foundation for AmericanResource Management in San Francisco.gave a thought-provoking viewpoint. Hedeclared, “Wilderness areas are luxuriesfor a small group of people who havefunds and physical stamina to use them.Such areas usually are remote and in-accessible. As a matter of fact. if peoplegenerally used them. they would cease tobe wildernesses. Incidentally, a secondgrowth forest provides an excellentwilderness, with a beauty all itsown. However, there is no good reasonfor including commercial forests in wil-derness areas. Persons who are interest-

NO GOOD REASON EXISTS for including ed can go to national parks. where 5,-commercial forests in wilderness areas, 000,000 acres of forests are pi-e,according to Emanuel Fritz, now an .officer of the Foundation for American served from cuulng' Personally I am

5Resource Management. ‘ Pe rs o n s in- in favor of duly constituted wilderness

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the U. S. Forest service and the NationalClubs and the Natural History Society Park Service are all Wrong.”Of Eugene. OI‘8. In &(I(IIIIO t0 OIIICI‘ A convincing case fgr [he njuhiplggroups. a number of individuals have use of public land has been made bytestied. representing only themselves. W_ ])_ Hagenstcin, executive vice prcsi-

Among those who have offered oppos_ dent of the Industrial Forestry associa-tug testimony are the otnoers of the tion, at Portland, Ore., forester, outdoorUpper Colorado River commission, the ‘nan and eloquent and tdrcerut Weaker-Industrial Forestry association. The Hagenstetnv Whd Once hiked Wrth 3 com‘American National CattIemen’s associa- Panton through 3 Wilderness area andticn. the Bureau of the Budget, the U. S. Saw dnli’ one other hurnan herng duringdepartment of the interior. the National Seven duY5 required rdr the ldurneY- hasReclamation association. the Salt River Pointed out that land rs the ha5t5 or theVallev Water Users’ association, Na- economy °r the Western States-tional Association of Engine and Boat “Increasing population, it is predict-Manufacturers, Inc., the Western For- ed. will mean in 40 years 100,000,000estry and Conservation association. the more persons in the United States,” Ha-Amerii-an Pulpwood association, the genstein said recently, “making it a mat-National Association of Soil Conserva- ter of vital importance that every acretion Districts, the Uranium Institute of in the future contribute all it can to ourAmerica. the American Mining Congress. needs for food, wood and water as well

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land management emphasizes the high- son Falls, Pablo, Superior, Darby, Ham- land which is farmed intensively. Soils

est use for each acre but d0esn’t ex- ilton, Livingston and Belgrade. And, he in the forest have large capacity forelude other uses. Most of our land in said, these 2,000 jobs will create another water. They do not erode. Snow 12 feet

the West is capable of supporting two or 8,000 jobs in collateral elds—such as deep accumulates in winter. Shaded by

more uses simultaneously. retail and wholesale supply rms and trees, it d0eSn’t melt quickly and the“Man didn’t invent multiple n5e_ Na. strictly service industries. runoff is conserved during spring and

ture always has practiced it, but we can “That economic growth never would summer. Our Yakima Tree farm and the

praetiee it hetter than nature, which have been possible without the sale of adjacent national forest, comprising a

Often is wasteful of re50nrce5_ l arn total of 300,000 acres, are themselves the

thinking specically of wind, re, oods ii * i assurance of 3 good Water suPPlY ferand epidemies of plant and animal dis. 150,000 acres in the valley below. Thereeases" W|lderness—ior Wl'lOI‘l‘\? are, in fact, three major storage reser-

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have given us no assurance on these THE FAMILY RECREATIONIST and the Montana, large private owners of timberpoints. No doubt there are alpine areas molgfing publig sooner or later will want have established recreational areas forwhich are suited better for wilderness eeeess ii!’ °“i°ni°hiie ii "iiderness areas public use in tree farms without cost tothan for any other purpose, but the line :;if_e?Jdes3:;,l:,ge}an3::eiiaizsozs wit: the users. Sixty-two of these tree-farmshould be drawn where the economic put to only limited use is important. parks have four or more table and bench

strength and vitality of our nation clear- units each, for picnicking or camping.ly are jeopardized.” ' ' ' Improvements, in addition to tables and

Pointing out that the N.P. already timher from the forests of the area henehes, ineiude iireliiiieesi iirePirs-

has seven tree farms through which it is owned and managed hy the N_P_ and sieves» rest r°°rns and Waier sYsierns-

conserving forest growth for perpetual the federal government and these held Signicant comments have been

use by itself and others, Vice President in trust for Indian tribes,” he 5aid_ “In made relating to current wilderness leg-

Stanton declared: short, jobs stem from the multiple nee of islation by H. R. Glascock, _lr., forest

“Tree farms are tangible and convinc- land.” ¢0un5el f0f the Western F°resirY anding evidenee that pnhlie agerreiea do not Water also is an important product of Conservation association, of Portland.

have 3 i’n°n°P°iY en Conservation? that wise forest management, as everyone Ore‘benecial use of resources need not be should know, the railway nieer eom. Eight of his pertinent comments are

carried out according to some regiment- rnented, enumerated below:ed program, that free enterprise can “Take our Yakima Tree farm7 on the 1. No need for the proposed law has

practice both conservation and economic eastern slope of the Cascade mountains’ been demonstrated. Wilderness areas al-

use on its own initiative and that it is in Washington, as an example,” he COh_ ready have been established under the

doing so for the good of others as well tinned “The fabulous agricultural Yaki_ present program of the U. S. Forest

as itself", ma valley, lying to the east from 25 to service-Calling attention in particular to west- 100 miles, has more than 400,000 acres 2. lt isllit trlle that the bill l5 needed

ern M0I1l8Il8’S economy, the N-P- Vice irrigated with water which comes out of re “save” er “Preieei” iiiese areas Wii'president stated that in less than 10 years the Cascade mountains. Water service dc!-nesses7 Primitive regions and Parksnew forest industries have created 2,000 engineers have estimated that two acres are net in le°Per‘iY-additional jobs for that area, with a of well managed forest catch, store and 3. The bill exemplies bad govern-

monthly payroll of $1,000,000 in Mis- release i-n an orderly manner enough ment because it gives preference to one

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land use over another of equal merits.4-. It is “special interest” legislation

which would open the door to other“special interest” demands on federalforests.

5. It would “fence out” family recrea-tion and the motoring public.

6. The U. S. Forest service already isdoing a creditable job with a multiple-use program for federal forests.

7. Wilderness recreation is a limitedtype of recreation; therefore, we musttake care that wilderness areas areselected carefully and not made toolarge or they will all the sooner get inthe way of the family recreationist andthe motoring public, who will wantaccess everywhere. IN THIS BUILDING, LOCATED at position No. l at the top of page 15, paper-

- making machinery is being installed by Waldorf-Hoerner Paper Products company.Foresters never have sald that mul When the picture was made January 27, last, the structure was nearly nished.tip e use meant every use on every acrebut, rather, that an assignment should

d f f I I I13;; 301,; 53;‘; §b°‘f§“,,f§ ;;§,';*; twenty-one sawmills Wlll furnisheconomic and social benets for the pub-lic; such an nignment cannot be legis- By August, 1960, the capacity of a sumed as linerboard for corrugated|nted_it must be determined adminis. kraft pulp mill, located 13 miles north- boxes.tratively. West of Missoula’ In Western Multan“, An all-steel-and-concrete building, 700

“med am] °Perat°d by the Waldmf feet long and 70 feet wide whose con-Paper Products Company of Montana stmction was begun last yéar, has beenthe J9 l‘9Y since lift‘? in 1957’ ‘fhen the Plant was completed and the installation of mod-new, will have been increased from 250 em paper making machinery has been

Pine ll! MOl\lOI'lG tons t° 500 “ms of Pulp daily‘ started. It will be the rst paper mill inBy that time, too, a new paper mill Montana-

and the western-most portion of Nevada, Peing built °{' the same location will _g° In 1116 lllealllima 3 MW <30mP8-113%is being tesied in Montana within a 50. mm Productmn t° mfmufaffmre dalll’ the Waldorf-Hoerner Paper Products

The Jeffrey pine, native of Califomia

’ 4-00 tons of paper which Wlll be conmile radius of Bozeman, by foresters of ' comp8I1Y- has assumed Owefship andthe Northern Pacic Railway in the operation of the plant. This companycompany’s Yellowstone Pine Tree farm.

Three thousand two-year old seedlingspurchased at the California state nur-sery, at Davis, Calif., were planted lastyear by hand du-ring early spring innine experimental plots located at vary-ing altitudes and under different mois-ture conditions. Some are on cutoverland and others are in open meadowareas.

The Jerey pine, the foresters pointedout, is similar to ponderosa pine inphysical appearance and quality of lum-ber. It is hardy and is tolerant of awide range of temperature and altitude.Furthermore, it is resistant to the moun-tain pine beetle. No comparable speciesnow is available in central Montana.

Two hundred Jeffrey pine seedlingswere purchased in 1959, too, by R. L.

was formed by the Waldorf Paper Prod-ucts company, of St. Paul, Minn., andHoerner Boxes, Inc., of Keokuk, Ia.

Nels Sandberg, executive vice presi-dent of the Waldorf Paper Productscompany and president of the WaldorfPaper Products Company of Montana.is president and general manager of thenew concern. Three other executive as-sociates working with Sandberg in then'rm are: Paul A. Schilling, presidentand treasurer of the Waldorf PaperProducts company; Richard N. Hoerner,president and chairman of HoernerBoxes, lnc.; and V. D. Shuck, vice pres-ident and secretary-treasurer of HoernerBoxes, lnc.

The expansion will cost $6,000,000and the original pulp mill cost a similaramount. Thus, the total investment in

Koerper, Northern Pacic executive the Waldorf-Hoerner facilities in Mon-assistant, who planted them on his own NEdW MILL nea; Missoula waslengineered ttina will amount I0 $12,000,000.

in Hubbard county, Minnesota, for :;io::,';_5:':";'.= Sa‘:1"l]b‘::';s:hl:’r;i‘;‘i‘i"‘€7‘g‘l': Ever since the pulp mill, which. is thePurP°ses' dorf-Hoerner Paper Products company. only one In the State, began rllnmllg all

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COMPLETED IN 1957 AND OPERATED for the first time until 1959, when a building for a paper machine was begunthat year, pulp mill of the Waldorf-Hoerner Paper Products at the far side of the mill, at No. l, and an addition to providecompany, near Missoula, M0nt., appeared from the air as above more pulp-making capacity was begun at No. 2 on the picture.

wood chips for Montands first pulp and paper plantof the pulp, put into in bales, has been new pulp digesters, making a total of Pulp at the Montana plant is madeshipped to the plant of the Waldorf Pa- six; another rotary pressure screen. entirely of chips obtained from lumberper Products company in St. Paul. making three in all; a fourth pulp wash- mills in the area. This practice will beHenceforth, once the enlarged operation er; more horizontal ltrate tanks; a new continued. In fact, it is expected that byis complete, 100 tons daily will go to evaporator; a second recovery boiler, fall 21 mills, some 240 miles away, willSt. Paul and 400 tons will be used in scrubber and draft fan; a 200,000- be supplying chips. Three hundred thou-Montana by the Waldorf-Hoerner Paper pound-per-hour power boiler: a 1500- sand units of chips, the equivalent ofProducts company to make paper which kilowatt bleeder-type turbine: and a new 300,000 cords of pulpwood, will be pur-will be moved in rolls to 13 converter compressor, making four in all. chased yearly, President Sandberg statedplants of Hoerner Boxes, lnc., and to The paper machine resemly be_ recently.

P{mg Waldorf box gglams and to another ing assembled in the new building is a

un er contract to aldOrf' Beloit Fourdrinier, with a 1T6-inch wire , hMore square feet have been added to width and a length of 140 feet. There It 5 Not t e Potatoes;

the pulp mill to accommodate additional will be a pressure inlet and primary and GIOVY PUTS OI‘! l'l‘l€ Flequipment, including the following: two secondary head boxes. Are potatoes fattening. is it just

the rich gravy you put on them?Results of a recent experiment con-

ducted by the home economics depart-ment at Douglass college, in New Jersey.and nanced by farmers of North Da-kota and Minnesota in the Red Rivervalley and growers in 10 other potatoareas leave little doubt that gravy is toblame.

Twelve Douglass girls went on an

eight-week diet to carry out the college-supervised test. They ate potatoes twicedaily, with other foods. By the end ofthe trial period they had lost an averageof 14 pounds each.

Crude oil produced in Montana total-ed 29,857,226 barrels in 195‘) comparedwith 2T.‘)56,649 barrels in 1958. NorthDakota production last year was 1T.-

t“dliE§g":liiirl?llTdeldffeE 'ii,l:i§.i:iiiiaanhéiifgsiiititi-iiimitfaiiizciiiiigiif 861689 barrelsr While in the previous 12- s . - _ _

date more equipment, doubling the capacity of the plant, adding 250 tons each day. mmlths it “'35 14-239-2'31 barrels-

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Rail Rates Reduced on Wheat, Rye, Flax to Counter Truck CompetitionSharp reductions in rail freight rates for the Northern Pacic at Saint Paul. policy of the northwest lines of keeping

on wheat, rye and axseed to counter Walsh stated that the participating all elevators at all shipping points on atruck competition have been led with carriers not only hope to retain impor- reasonable basis of competitive relation-the Interstate Commerce commission tant grain traic through the reduced ships and permitting full utilization ofand with state commissions, oicials of rates, but also seek to help country ele- their facilities. The adjustments willve Northwest railways have announced. vators which have been unable to move grade evenly into the present rate struc-

The railways have made eective as grain by highway because available ture 8pPllC8lI)l6 from western North Da-of April 8 reductions in rates up to 13% trucks are operating only from points on kota points, ‘he added, and will not setcents per 100 pounds on movement of payed roads. up a broad‘ disparity at the westem edgeaxseed and wheat to rimary grain The rail rate adjustment, he said, of the region for which reduced rates

3 P ,7markets in Minneapolis and St Paul represents a restoration of the historic have been established.

and Duluth and Superior from railpoints in Minnesota, the eastern half ofNorth Dakota and northeastern South

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Dakom Railways participating in the I Livestock Auction Yard at Bruce, in the Columbia Basin I

rate reductions are: Northern Pacic, ~

Great Northern, Soo Line, Duluth Mis-sabe & Iron Range and Duluth Winni-peg & Pacic.

The reduced rates are applicable fromall country elevators in the aected ter-ritories, and participating railways per-mit sampling and inspection at interiorpoints in addition to storage in transitwest of the Twin Cities and Duluth andSuperior.

Movement of grain from country ele-vators in producing territories by high-way carriers exempt from regulation by j ~-the Interstate Commerce commission at Othello Livestock Auction Inc., of Northern Pacic Railway. The new fa-unpublished rates is responsible for the Bruce, Wash., constructed a livestock cility, under the management of J. W.railways’ rate action, said P. A. Walsh, marketing yard at Bruce, which is in the Saulls, will handle both feeder stock andrate committee chairman for the ve Columbia Basin Irrigation project and fat animals. The picture here shows thelines and general freight traic manager on the Connell Northern branch of the yard while under construction.

THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAYST. iPAUl. ‘I, MINNESOTA

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