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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1922)
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX. PORTLAND. AUGUST 13. 1922 NEW LQNG-3ELL LUMBER CITY 15 BUILT FOR PERMANENCY Longview Is Destined to Find Important Place on Industrial Map of Northwest in Two Years Early Preparations by Giant Lumber Corporation Involve Expenditure of Approximately $10,000,000 Cut Large. -if x If.. ' :jf-y4-X WA JPTffl-."- 1!"' If' iivvm ww 4 -SSI 4 Jrrs77yz?So'j' J7rsr-jyjmiT &S"r7rl&J?jy!"-T sVZsv ??jr 'sr4r ' BT HARHT B. CRITCHLOW. BOOM TIM hi have produced their j Virrlnia citiea. PlacerTiilva and Putch Klats. Strikes or pay ilrt were made by pronpectors In I .'soUled dlntrkt. Almost overnlnht j thouaands have moved la to the ' scenes of discovery and have made cities. These places temporarily oc cupied prominent places on the in dustrial map of the country. Then cam the days when the mines "petered out." Inhabitants moved on to o:her field, and" now those cities re but mere skeletons of more prosperous times. The story of the building; of bis: lumber enterprises in this period of the development of the northwest's timber resources is not one akin to those of bonaitsa. days. No tempo rary structures are belnft made, lor a century to come lumber develop ment will be the -water of life" to the industrial northwest and before there is a "petering out" of resources other enterprises will have come to preserve the structures that have been erected. lew te Be City. Within two years the city of Long view will find for itself an impor tant place cn the industrial map of the northwest. Located In Wajih-, insrton. within 4S miles from Port land and at the confluence of the Columbia and the Cowltts rivers. It win be the home of the Ixnjt-Bell Lumber company's northwestern op erations, the greatest of their kind' ever attempted. Few persona in Portland have realised the importance of the Lone BeU plans for operations. The early developments thut are being carried on y a corps of highly trained en gineers and 300 workmen are not the result of a boom condition hut are the foundations, being; laid at expense of more than 110.00.000. for the erection of plants which Will turn Into the markets of the world (00.000.000 feet of lumber annually. The piana of K. A. Lonsr. chair man of the board of directors of his company, and his officers, call for . the development of 10.000 acres of fertile farm lands, the cutting: of 9.000 acres of vircrln timber, the erection of three mills which will run ntglu and day,nd the building of a own which within five years will house IO.OvO inhabitants. flaaa Set Preeedeat. The care that has been exercised in the makina; of plans for the de velopment of the bis; timber area which has lis eastern terminus 15 miles from the proposed town and mill site, has never been duplicated by any lumber concern. A year ago engineers undec Wesley Vandercook. chief engineer of the concern, were sent Into the timber. Almost every foot of the entire area was surveyed and topographical maps were drawn with the distance between contour lines representing but ten feet in the timber. From these topographical maps the entire tract was bu.lt up In re lief. One of these relief maps was shipped to Kansas City, the home office of the Long-Hell company. There the officrs of the concern can plan future developments with an accurate knowledge of their tim ber stands, elevations and topog raphy of the entire CO. 000 acres. Hill road surveys were made, and within a month work will be start ed constructing a logging road over the lS-mile stretch between :he mill sites and the place where the first camps will be located. laveetaseat Be Haare. It will be approximately 12 months before the first mill of the concern Is constructed and ready for opera tion. During the Interim millions of dol lars will be poured into the develop ments of the big project. One of the greatest undertakings o the 'A L ' r n ia M ; v : . lJ- - V. lilt $ tfr'? I Cif.?i.'v -rM ; -r-H ..II --mS HLdPJ if. te it ilii Long-Bll company Is the diking and draining of the 10.000-acre tract west of Kelso, which In time will furnish the garden vegetables, grains and fruits for the Inhabitants of Longview. Until recently the property in this area vu owned by scores of farmers who owned tracts of from 20 to 200 acres. The agents of the Long-Bell company purchased these holdings and now have con trol of the entire district. At the present time there are sev eral drainage districts in the area. Plans call for the consolidation of these districts Into one main organ ization- Through this the lands will be surrounded by a 30-foot dike which will be at least three feet above the highest water mark of the Columbia river ever recorded. When the development of the property has been completed it will be sold back to Individuals who de sire to make their homes In the valley. ISaglaeer Plaaales; City. Knglneers are now busily . en gaged making plans for the future city of Longview. A water system Is being planned Which will Incorpo rate the taking of the water from the Coweeman river, which, flows into the Cowltts near Kelson This sys tem will be constructed on such scale that it will be able to supply water to a city of SO.OOO inhabitants. A sewer system of the same volume is also being planned. Preparations are now being made for the erection of 300 dwellings in the mill area. These will house the employes who are to carry on the construction of the mills, drainage system, docks and other develop ments. These houses will be lo cated In what will probably be known later as "Mill Town," and they will be In time but a part of the main city that is to be erected. Plans for the new city are com plete in detail. AU streets will be built around a main square, and the plana are not unlike those of Wash Ington. 1. C. Streets will be suffi ciently wide to insure no crowded conditions in years to come. Build ings will be constructed for perma nence. Park strips will line the streets, and the entire city will be constructed with the Idea of devel oping home-loving tendencies in the hearts of Its Inhabitants. Inhabitants Get Welcome. The Long-Bell Lumber company will welcome inhabitants to Its town. The grocer, hardware merchant or retailer of any kind will have the opportunity of establishing himself in business in the city. Schools will be erected, street cars eventually established and everything will be done to make Longview as modern as possible. We are not planning to make a closed corporation out of "our c'ty," declared Mr. Vandercook a few days a ko. "People will be invited there. We want to make K permanent but we want the right kind of people. In time, perhaps, if other lumber companies want to buy property from us and start developments, we will accommodate them." The plans for the city take in the territory between what Is known West Kelso and the Columbia river. The main portion of tne town will be about half way be tween, and "Mill Town," which wi'l house many of the laborers of the concern, will be located nearer the river. The first two mills that are to be constructed will be located on the bank of the Columbij. river. They will be placed side by side. Back of them, with water supplied from the Cowlitx river, will be a 25-acre pond in which logs for immediate use will be stored. Another pond covering approximately 160 acres will serve for storage purposes.. The mills will be made for the express cutting of fir timber. The thrd mill, which the plans now include will be used for the cutting of cedar. spruce and hemlock. , These mills, running day and night, will cut approximately 600, 000.000 feet annually or about 100, 000.000 feet more than the 11 big mills now owned by the Long-Bell SLIP COVERS FOR CHAIRS DECLARED TO " KEEP. WOODWORK IN GOOD CONDITION By CLOTILDA. LIP covers for chairs will often prolong their usefulness. as adding to their att as well ractive- ness. Take the straight-back small charis one bedrooms, for instance. A rocking and sees in bright cretonne cover will do wonders for them and will not be a tedious piece of work, either. The material is held in place with pins or thumb tacks, so that one end of it goes straight across the back of the chair at the top. First pull a thread to get the material straight. and let this edge extend about one Inch above the top of the chair. Un less there is some design that you wish to have come in the middle of the width, of the chair, tack. -the cre tonne across the top so that one selvedge extends Just a good seam's width beyond the chair at one side. Bring the cretonne down to the sest and pin a quarter-Inch-wide tuck in straight across. Then lay the cretonne smoothly over the seat, pinning in another tuck at the front edge. Decide how deep the box or fitted section Is to be three or four Inches will be about right and after letting the cretonne extend below the edge of the seat that depth and a seam's w'dth besides pull a thread and cut off. The piece that covers the back should be pinned to the front section across the top and then allowed to go down the back to the same depth as the front. Straight straps are cut to form the fitted sides. After the cover is pinned together, slip it off the chair and baste together. . There . should be the quarter-inch tuck at all seams; these are, in reality, just the ordinary French seam,, but instead of. putting together as one ordln ar'ly does the French seam the first stitching is done on the right side, where the seams are basted together and then the edges may be turned in, basted together, and the second stitching put in exactly on the edge thus holding the edges firmly to gether. . A straight, gathered ruffle is set on the bottom of the four-inch-wide box, so it will just escape the floor. Sometimes these covers fare made to open down the back and are lapped there and fastened with snaps or small shield pins. It is all a matter of which is the easier for one to do. Sometimes the ruffle is box plaited, but the gathered one is pretty, and a little easier. company. In the pine areas of. the south, are cutting. . Everything in the mills will be eleccrically driven. This i3 not an innovation in mill operation, but it demonstrates that the large lumber operators of the country are con vinced that a plant driven by elec tric power is more successful than one dependent upon steam. Electricity- to Huu Railways. . The railroads that are to be con structed and operated- by Long-Bell company also will depend upon elec tricity for their power. Practically all of the lumber that is to be turned out from the big mills of the company will be put through dry kilns .imthediately, al though some of it will find itssea- soning in the yards. : The concern nas a water frontage on the Columbia of 6000 feet. Over big portion of this preparations are now being made for the sinking of piles upon which docks will be erected. Up to these docks can be tied the largest steamers that float. The water is at least 35 feet in depth there all the year around and peculiar conditions make it unneces sary for constant dredging, as is the 'case at many points along the Co lumbia, At Rainier, whichis direct ly opposite irum me uucks ana mill site, of the Long-Bell company, the tides from the Pacific meet the cur-j rent of the Columbia twice each day. This insures "dead water" at least twice each day. The width of the Columbia at the site for the mills is 3000 feet- Draw Bridge to Be Built. Three trunk line railroads, the Union Pacific, Great Northern and Northern Pacifio, pass through Kelso. A draw bridge will" be con- sawmills which are manufacturing structed across the Cowlitz river and these railroads will distribute the Long-Bell products to all parts of the United States. Three years ago the' Long-Bell Lumber company Inaugurated the policy of branding each stick of lumber turned out from its southern pine mills. This policy will be adopted at the, Longview plants and each stick of lumber as it comes from the saws will be branded 'Long-Bell." The Long-Bell Lumber company was organized by R- A; Long in Kansas in 3 875. Two years prior to hat time Mr, Long had conducted a butcher shop in Kansas Citx- After one year he sold out his interests and went to Columbus,. Kan., where he started in the hay business. A hort time later Mr. Long started in the lumber game and took Victor B. Bell as a partner. By 1884 the con cern, which was then known as R.. A. Long & Co., had gained con trol of several lumber yards and It was Incorporated under the name the concern now holds. , . Today the Long-Bell Lumber com pany has holdings and operations in Louisiana, Texas. Oklahoma,, JUissis- ; ippi, Arkansas. California and Washington. ' Among those companies that it owns are:' Calcasieu Long Leaf Lum ber company. Lake Charles, La.; Hudson River Lumber company. l)p Itidder. Tex.; King B-Styder Lumber company, Bonami, La.: Longville Lumber company, Longville,-. La.; i i-.uddington Lumber company, Lud : clington. La.: Lufkin Land & Lumber 'company, Lufkin, Tex.; Long-Bell company, KJuitmas, Miss.; Rapides Lumber company, Woodworth, La.; Fidelity Lumber company,. Douch ette. Tex.; Arkansas" Short Leaf Lumber company. Pine Bluff, Ark.; Weed Lumber company. Weed, Cal.: ; Long-Bell Farm Land corporation Kansas City; Minntonka Lumbe company, Oklahoma City, Okla. Long-Bell company of Texas; Long Bell Naval Stores company, Dou cette. Tex.; Globe Lumber company, Tellow Pine, La,; Long-Bell White Pine company, Kansas City; Missis slppl Eastern Railway company Louisiana & Pacific' Railway com pany; the Sibley. Lake Bisteneau & Southern Railway company and the Woodworth & Louisiana Central Hallway company. In addition to these the concern owns and occupies one f the largest office buildings In Kansas City. ' ' 90,000.000 Bonds Sold. Ten days ago the Long-Bell Lum ber company placed an issue of 19,000,000 worth . of first mortgage 6. per cent sinking fund bonds on the market. It gave its capital stock as 330,000,000 and listed its assets at 396,640,380.62. The concern owns 127 retail yards over the United States. These yards for many years have depended upon the .products of the southern pine areas for their sales. The Long-Bell company's holdings in the south are rapidly being consumed and in a few years will have been, denuded of timber.. It was the realjzation of this coming condition that caused the -company to purchase the exten sive holdings it now has in the northwest. Eventually all of it3 lumber operations will be located in the west and the yards that are now using southern pfne will be depend ent upon fir. The company also owns 11 modern 00,000,000 feet of lumber annually. With these mills are 12 planing mills and 61 dry kilns and eight rash and door factories. In addi tion it owns and operates 22 general merchandise stores, located in its various mill towns, and one whole sale grocery which does an average annual business of $1,000,000. . Also listed as a part of the Long Bell assets - are 21,000 dwelling houses, 363 miles of railroad and more than 1,000,000 acres of land. Long-Bell Is Family. Most of the officials of the Long Bell Lumber . company have- been with the conaern for a long period cf years. They have started with mediocre positions and through gradual stage-s have been promoted until they . have become important factors in the organization and have voice In its affairs. It Is the history of the company that a man must remain with , the concern for a long time and demon strate his real ability before pro motion comes. Until a little more than a year ago Mr. Long acted as the president of the concern. Then he withdrew and took the chairman shipof the board of directors'. F. J. Bannister, who has been a member of the organization for 30 years and had climbed the ladder through various grades, became president of the company. The employes of the company ,are known as the "Long- Mi family" and those who have been more than 10 years on the pay rolls wear badges denoting their length of service. It goes almost without saying that the plans of the Long-Bell Lumber company, when completed and In operation will mean a great deal to Portland. While theopera ' Ions of-the company are to be lo cated just across the Columbia river from Rainier, in state of Washing ton territory. Portland will be the big merchandising center and thou sands of dollars from the concern's payrolls will be spent here each month. Lumber shipped by water wyi go into the. Columbia river and when this stream is benefited from a shipping standpoint Portland is gaining. Much of the lumber passing out from, the mills for domestic trade will be routed through Portland. There is not much to be seen on the -site of the Long-Bell plant to day. Engineering crews are busily engaged making surveys for the new town, for the sewer system and the water main;-. Others are at work mapping out the right-of-way where the railroads are to be con structed. Gangs of workers are making preparations for the build 'ng of the 30-foot dike which for a distance of seven miles will stretch around the 10,000-acre area and pro ject the future inhabitants from the high Water of the Columbia river. Recently the Long-Bell Lumber company opened a public ferry be rween Rainier and its millsite. Each day this ferry carries approximately 500 -machines and it is making shorter and less expensive the route between Portland and Puget sound. This ferry Is but temporary and In time a new one will be constructed for permanent use. Longview Is to be a permanent city; Two years of planning are not spent on a "mushroom" town. Millions of dollars - will' be spent before one dollar is taken from the virgin timber on the 60,000 acres the company owns back of Kelso. But when operations do start they will provide employment for not less than 4000 persons who will be add ing to the development of the northwest. The Proverb Maker. There once a fellow whose name was Tom Tasser His name's been preserved, but his memory's dim: An old, sixteenth-century rhymer and gasser And that's all I ever heard about him. know tha-f the gentleman really ex isted. I know that posterity -mourns not his loas: 4 Yet he wrote the wheeze (which we quote somewhat twisted) 'The stone that is rolling- can gather no moss." Concerning htm. History hasn't been gabby I never encountered his -name till today. They - didn'-t enter him in Westminster Abbey Where other great geniuses molder away; The trump of his fame hath had no one to blow it. r He's fallen, where lesser inventors have stood Yet he was the first and original poet who said, "It's an ill wind blows no body good." Tom Tasser: I swear that your name - shall not perish! I'll build you a fane where admirers ' may weep; For these noble bromides your fame shall I cherish, . For these and that other one, "Look " ere you leap." man who has three lines like that to his credit Has earned him a monument stronger than brass Again I repeat it. who often haveeaidit. That Fortunes a hussy, and Fame is an ass! Ted-Kobinson In -Cleveland Plain Sealer.
