Heppner Working
Circle Timber
Situation Analyzed
By Boyd L. Rasussen, Forester and
Carl Ewing, Supervisor
Umatilla National Forest
So much for the privately owned
timber. Now what about that in
publiq ownership? Unfortunately
there is not sufficient national for
est timber .to supply all of these
mills without depleting the nation
al forest resources to a point where
all of the ponderosa pine would be
cut long before the second growth
is ready to harvest. Even though
national forest timber were to be
used in such a manner, widespread
shutdowns eventually would result
long before the second crop be
comes large enough to cut. Obvi
ously most of the mills, by reason
of this limited supply of timber,
must be expected to go out of bus
iness within the next decade and
some soon as a result of the war
having ended.
Instead of throwing the national
forest timber on the market with
no thought of the future, the For
est Service plans that it shall be
cut on a sustained yield basis pro
viding a continuous flow of pro
ducts to assist in maintaining a per
manent forest industry even though
the volume will have to be at a
average annual cut of old growth
level far .below that of today's pro-
duction from all ownerships. The
timber will be no greater than can
be maintained until the new growth
trees are reasonably mature and
large enough to produce sawlogs.
Such a plan provides for the har
vesting' of 9.5 million board feet
of ponderosa pine and 1.9 million
feet of minor species each year
from notional forest land in the
Heppner Working Circle
To summarize the timber situa
. tion in the Heppner Working Circle
it is evident, unless production of
lumber is sharply curtailed immed
iately, that during the next ten
year period a number of sawmills
wjill close down entirely or be
forced to proportion their cut to
the limited private timber avail
able. Within a very few years
thereafter total lumber production
from the Heppner Working Circle
11.4 million board foot sustained
will of necessity be limited to the
capacity of the national forest lands
plus such remnants of private tim
ber as remains or can be brought
from outside.
In this working circle, as in many
others, the greatest single obstacle
to the establishment of a perma
nently ' sustained forest industry is
the widely diversified ownership of
the timber. Such situations encour
age over-production and too rapid
liquidation. Unless forwarned by
previous experience elsewhere, bu
sinessmen are 4apt to welcome the
effect of boom conditions upon their
communities and to underestimate
or ignore the seriousness of the
"bust" which so surely follows
when the timber is gone. Under
"such conditions when rapid liqui
dation of private timber is in effect,
large or long-term sales of national
forest timber are not made. Instead
and more, especially where the ow
ner or owners of significant vol
umes of private stumpage are will
ing and financially able, an effort
is made to negotiate cooperative
agreements, whereby the rate of
of private cutting is retarded rather
than increased and the long-time
stability of the industry insured to
the dependent commodity by re
serving thrifty young timber on the
private land from the first cutting
operations so that it will grow larg
er for the next harvest. Here, where
a fairly large volume of timber re
mains uncut, such a cooperative
sustained yield unit is still feasible.
It should be remembered however
that even now the allowable annu
al cut of ponderosa pine timber in
all ownerships is only 20.8 million
feet, less than a third of the amount
cut in 1944 and that every year ov-er-cutting
continues, the volume of
cut that can be sustained is corres
pondingly reduced.
The 1944 study indicates that if
the present rate of cutting contin
ues the private timber supply will
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be approaching exhaustion in 13
years and it is expected that more
and more pressure will be exerted
to force additions! national forest
limber on the market in order to
keep the sawmills of Wheeler and
Morrow counties cutting to capa
city. Since the present mills require
a great deal more timber each year
than will be replaced by growth,
that pressure must be withstood if
the complete collapse of the local
lumber industry is to be averted.
It is confidently believed that for
ward looking leaders will insist
that the national forest timber be
used for the longtime benefit of
the people and that the plans of
the Forest Service to handle the
public timber on a sustained yield
basis can be carried out
LOST Bill fold containing Leave
papers, identification card and rail
road ticket. Finder please notify
Albert Edwards ARM 3c, Lexing
ton. 50p
VOLUNTARY REMITTANCES
ASKED IN RED CROSS DRIVE
Mrs. Vernon Munkers, chairman
of (he I cxir.r ton- district, is urging
the people cf her community to
send in their remittances for the
Red Cross membership campaign,
either to herself or to !rr aacisiant, I
Mrs. Kennet'' 'M-.xaiL.
Mrs. Munkers points out that
it will save much time and much
running around for the volunteer
solicitors if contributors will mail
the funds to the chairman or as
sistant. Of course, if this is not
done, the solicitors will call but
vshe believes if the people , under
stand the situation they will co-operate.
Several have sent in their
contributions, not even waiting for
the drive to start.
Swanson
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of spun glass for insulation. The
lockers are four tiers high, of wood
construction with one-half inch
metal cloth for partitions which al
so allows ample circulation.
"Tlie entire design of lockers and
grocery furniture are Swanson's
r'"" vcrk not patterned after I
anything seen elsewhere. His de-
: u 1 i !
cug.li 111 iiic luuaei j-uiu lias uevn
to have a compartment that he
could close and not lose over six
degrees of temperature in a week's
time. In other words :'n event the
machinery should fail for any un
forseen reason the temperature
could not change more t'vin six de
grees in a week's time. While it is
almost impossible for the machin
ery to fail for that length of time,
it is well to have insulation enough
to hold the temperature at a safe
point.
"The compressor is a 4x4 ammo
nia type, while the meat cooling
room will be of the cluster coil
type. The locker room temperature
is controlled by a McQuay cooling
unit with fan-forced circulation.
"The grocery department furni
ture is unique in design. "Cot
planned this furniture so that one
vill be able to see over the entire
room from any location in the room
thus enabling the customer to lo
cate purchases at a glance. The is
land type storage was designed by
"Cot" and certainly makes the gro
cery room one to marvel at.
"The vegetable storage space is
of the very latest, being equipped
with a cooling coil which is im
mediately under the vegetables,
thus insuring fresh and crisp vege
tables at all times."
Monday was moving day for us
ers of the Swanson lockers, trans
porting their supplies from the old
plant ' to the new. Mr. Swanson
stated that 130 users made the
transfer on that day and others
were busy Tuesday utilizing the
new plant. Transfer of grocery
stocks .will begin as soon as a few
unfinished items of furniture an
disposed of.
The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
and Subsidiaries
Southern California Telephone Co. - Bell Telephone Co. of Nevada
$400,000,000 Five-Year Expansion Program
Excerpts .from the 1945 Annual Report
LTHOUGH it expe
rienced an exceptional
growth throughout the
ynt years, our company
did not profit from the
War. The tabulation . . .
(Comparing the year 1945
the end of the route to
1 Tokyo Bay with 1939
I the year in which ominous
war clouds cast their im
pending gloom vividly
j portrays, not only what
; our company's expansion
has been throughout the
years of its war effort, but
. also the impact of this ex
pansion on its major oper
ations. "The phenomenal de
velopment of the Pacific
Coast with its tremendous
strides in commerce, in
dustsy, military and naval
activities has placed, and
will continue to place, ex
acting demands upon our
company. With the nation
, wide interest in this far
i flung section with its rap
idly expanding markets
and its outstanding growth
. potentialities, our com
pany will experience in N
the immediate years ahead, as they are now
visualized, an unprecedented expansion.
"Our immediate task ahead is to render
service to all who want it and to restore
and to take our service to new heights. As
It announced December last, in the imme
diate five-year period our company will be
required to make expenditures for new con
struction aggregating $400,000,000 and, as
a consequence, extraordinary amounts of
new capital will be required. The execution
and speed of this entire program are de
pendent upon the flow of available man
power, materials, money and the level of
' business conditions. The consummation of
! the program for 1946, now well under way,
will require, it Is estimated, an all-time
i high expenditure of upwards of $90,000,
' 000 for new construction. This compares
with the $33,800,000 expended in 1045. In
clusive of materials re-used, the gross plant
additions for 1946 are estimated at well
over $100,000,000. This expenditure will
be more than double the 1945 gross plant
additions of $48,791,000.
', To do all the things wa hare In mind
FROM PEACE TO WAR AND FROM WAR TO PEACE
Telephones Owned 1939 1945 lncr.ai. tocr.a".
andOperatedf. . 1,948,062 2,702,686 754,624' 39
Toll and Long Dis
tance: Total Calls ... . 129,190,340 346,892,535 217,702,195 169
Longer haul calls
(originating in
and destined ,
beyond our ter
ritory) 650,570 11,766,999 11,116,429 1709
Plant Investmentf . $493,360,850 $678,550,991 $185,190,141 38
Operating Revenues $122,168,305 $248,870,088 $126,701,783 104
Local Service
Revenues . . . 85,703,890 131,179,676 45,475,786 53
Toll Service
Revenues . . . 33,156,914 109,735,931 76,579,017 231
Operating Expenses
(before taxes) . . $ 82,163,244 $167,291,874 $ 85,128,630 104
Operating Taxes . . $ 17,579,987 $ 53,364,072 $ 35,784,085 204
Total Payroll: ... $ 56,023,205 $124,689,994 $ 68,666,789 123
Employeesf 29,998 51,282 21,284 71
Men 12,091 15,745 3,654 30
Women 17,907 35,537 ' 17,630 98
Income Available
for Interest and
Return $ 22,560,834 $ 24,215,173 $ 1,654,339 7
Average Invested ,
Capital ....... $355,293,069 $412,344,160 $ 57,051,091 16
Return on Invested
Capital 6.33 5.87 .46 7
Per Common Share t
Earnings .... $7.87 $6.78 $1.09 14
Dividends .... $7.25 $6.50 $.75 10
Taxes $9.74 $21.68 $11.94 123
f At D.c.mb.r 31. (Include! construction payroll. 'D.crcai.
will take men, materials and money. Our
program will offer employment opportuni
ties to many men and women not only la
the manufacture, construction and installa
tion of the added plant, but also in the
maintenance and operation of a continu
ously improving and expanding service.
Our vast undertaking will require for Its
accomplishment earnings that are sufficient
to attract the huge sums of new capital
needed. Expressing as It does a fundamental
significance to every city, town, village and
hamlet throughout the Pacific Coast, the
consummation of our unprecedented pro
gram will result in increasing the plant in
vestment of our company by almost 50 per
cent, bringing its total plant investment to
an amount aggregating upwards of a bil
lion dollars.
"The era of tremendous expansion that
our company has now entered places re
sponsibilities of the first magnitude upop
our management We go forward with
firm faith that a telephone service rendered
well will continue to be well received. la
our company's following out its established
policy to furnish the best
possible service; to rendea"
the service as economically!
as possible; to charge fof
the service only an amount
to keep our company finan
dally vigorous it is of
vital importance that its
earnings be such that they
will continue to attract tho (
necessary amounts of new
capital needed to accom i
plish these objectives
Earnings that are adequate;
are in the public interest,
because earnings that are)
less than adequate neces- '
sarily jeopardize the effi
ciency and the scope of the
service. Thus, our com
pany and the public it J
serves have a common in
terest. In full recognitioa
of that interest, the charges
for the service rendered
should reflect a fair treat
ment policy expressed in
rates which, at all times,
will be such that sound
economic considerations
will prevail in the interest
of all parties the patrons,
the employees and the in
veutors.
"A successful nation is a prosperous na
tion. In order to increase and to sustain the
production which is vital to that prosper
ity, business and industry must, of neces
sity, prosper as must their personnel who,
through the dedication of individual effort
contribute to the forward march of Amer
ica. This fundamental concept, the recognl .
tion of the dignity and worth of the indi
vidua! and the value of free enterprise,
with equal opportunity for all the Amer
ican way of life has produced the highest
standard of living among all peoples. Prog
ress has been the measure of the welfare of
our great Nation it will be the earnest en
deavor of our company, as it has been in
the past, to render a communication serv
ice, which through its scope, efficiency and
dependability, will continue to make its
full contribution to that progress." '
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