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West End Hoyt St. Sotem
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fesf Products Production in
Oregon Put at $700,000,000 a
Year; Payroll $250,000,000
76,000 Workers Employed; Fires the Big Threat to Thh
Great Oregon Industry; Help Keep Oregon Green the
Duty of Every Citisen
Bjr R. KENNETH EVANS
Residential
Drilling
Route 6
WELL DRILLING
MARION COUNTY'S OLD RELIABLE
"IF THERE IS WATER WE WILL GET IT"
Sludebaker Bros.
Industrial
Drilling
Phone 2-2120
Complete Electrical Installations
All Types of Buildings o 24-Hour Repair Service
Riches Electric Company
Ford & SlmK?Shr W'r'ni DlVMa ' w'" &- ,
Fire fi forfeit umv Kn 1
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ana during the live years from
1943 to 1848 an average of
65.000 acres wtr. hnrnrri in
Oregon. Almost one-half of
the state s land grows trees,
j These 30 million timbertand
acres has enabled the state to
keep well at the head of the
list of lumber producers in the
United States. Oregon's annual
production of forest products
is conservatively estimated at
700 million and almost $250
million is paid annually by the
wood working industries in wa
ges, to approximately 76,000
workers. Therefore, fire pre
vention is everyone's job and
every individual in the state
can join with others in help
ing to "Keep Oregon Green."
Public cooperation is develop
ing better protection practices
and reducing, every year, the
number of man-caused fires.
The first business in Amer
ica, established in 1608, was
the forest industry. It started
on the continent at James
town, Virginia, and has grown
and advanced since that time
to mammoth proportions. Old
records of the Virginia com
pany show that John Smith
shipped to England in 1608,
timber from the forests of Vir
ginia. Some 600 years before
area, which is growing trees
for everybody's use, Is owned
by thousands of every-dsy
people. The bslance is owned
by the public which means
federal, state and local gov
ernments. But, everyone,
whether he actually owns a
forest or not, has a big stake!
in the future of the forests. :
One-third of this forest land
is on farms and in Marion!
county the cultivated lands
nrovide an nnnnrtiinifv tnr
farm forestry in conjunction
wun tne production or agricul
tural crops. Fsrmers own
139.000.000 acre of American
forest lands which is more
than all the forests in Sweden,
Norway and Finland. There
fore, the farmers earn money
irom tneir farm forests by
growing and harvesting their
trees much as they do other
crops.
Forests keep working for
the DeODle livlnu In Marlnn
county. Oregon, and the na.
tion. all of the time, day and
nisht. That's whv thev fir.
called the most lasting natural
resource. Other resources
such as coal, iron ore, petjb-
leum ana otner minerals are
important to the nation a. a
whole, but when these miner-1
&uua. "JLMiit vuv years ueiore
John Smith came to America 'aIs replacing the old trees
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WARREN IS OUR
DRIVER-SALESMAN
fjni .tipe.r,innance of his 'ob- He h85 married daufjh
on nw??" ln hlrt schooL H" "me is spent working
on his home, except for an occasional fishinn or hunting trip.
COJHSClMTD FA6fTlYAYS
1435 E. Hoyt St. Telephone 3-9137
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at
Phone 2-4139
Dick Meyer Lumber Co.
Reliable Lumber & Building Material Service
One piece or a I ruck load
Located two blocks North of Salem Underpass, East 1 block at . . .
Lena pl iiooo
adventllmuK Vilcinir tnnlr fai-
' est products from Labrador
to Greenland and Iceland. But
the Vikings did not continue
the lumber trade. The colon
j isls of Jamestown, therefore,
must be given credit for start
. ing the first business in Amer
ica, viz., the forest industry.
These facts are according to
research made by the Ameri
can Forest Products Indus
tries, Inc., 1319 Eighteenth
street, Washington, D.C. This
is an organization of forest
owners, producers, distribu
tors and users of forest prod
ucts. An objective of thr
: organization is to perpetuate
I the supply of forest products
I through sound forest manage
ment, sustained yield opera
tions and to promote better
understanding of forest own
ership and enterprise. Other
similar associations have
worked consistently to this
ena, in America ana the Pa
cific Northwest. The never
ending effort for fire nrovon.
tion in the forest is everyone's
job.
Importance Is Exemplified
The importance of this In
dustry to the general economy
of the nation, the state of Ore
gon and Salem can best be
further exemplified by the
statement that one-third of
the United States is best suit
ed to the growing of trees. If
all of this tree-growing area
were placed in one piece of
land it would be a tract 387
miles wide and would stretch
nearly from coast to coast. It
covers 625,828,000 acres of
land of which 461,044,000
acres are called commrcial
forest lands. From this land,
equal to 15 states the size of
New York, is harvested the
annual crop of trees. There
are four acres of this land for
each man, woman and child
in the nation. There is enough
wood growing in each of these
four acre tracts to hnilH
boardwalk, one-inch thick, six
feet wide and more than 2,000
feet long.
Three-quarters of this vsst
which have been harvested
nu i-uiivcrica mio jumoer j
pruaucu. i
In Marion county and the i
Pacific Northwest manv fnr.
ests consist of trees of the same '
age and size. In this region j
the tree-farmer may harvest
blocks or Datchrs w ni,
then leave other blocks or is- i
lands of trees, which win .
seed the logged parts so that
they will erow more rrnn.
Many oi tne enmmerr a! for
ests are now being handled in
inis -manner on a sustained
yield basis to perpetuate the
industry for the future.
TOO Often. Uncontrolled fire.
prevent nature from helping
the tree-farmers. Fires destroy,
seed trees and sepHlino anH
can ven burn the ground so
that the seeds cannot get root
ed. Nature can do a good job
if fire is kept out.
Oregon's timbered land: aln
provide the finest recreational
areas in the entire Pacific
Northwest region. Thousands
of tourists visit Oregon every
year to take advantage of
these vacation regions. They
come from all sections of the
United States' and, in many
cases, they come from regions
where trees are not known for
their imDOrta.lce to the senaral
economy, and are considered
only as adapted to supply shade
or for decorative Durooses. The
tourist industry has, also.
grown to be one of Oregon's
major industries and, visitors
would, no doubt. annrriati
being advised of the import
ance of keeping fires out of the
forests.
Even wildlife anrh aa Hr
fleeinff for their lives. hav
been caught in forest fires. In
the 24 hours of August 24-25,
1933, the great Tillamook fire
burned 236.000 acres of Doug
las fire and other lumher tree.
Yet, when it started, a boy with
a bucket of water could have
put it out. Most of private and
public forest lands have inme
fire protection but, they need
more and losses would be less
if everyone were more care
iui.
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THERE ARE 30,000,000 TIMBERLAND ACRES IN OREGON. OREGON AN
NUAL PRODUCTION OF FOREST PRODUCTS $7000,000,000. ALMOST
$250,000,000 IN WAGES PAID ANNUALLY TO APPROXIMATELY 76,000
FOREST PRODUCTS WORKERS.
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