,7. MAIL .TRIBUNE, M!forf, Orwi, SunIy, Jinatry II, 1939
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Fuller Utilization of Waste
Products Needed to Cut Costs
By JOE COWLEY
Mail Tribun Staff Writer
Lumber outlook for 1959
is good, but fuller utilization
of waste products Is needed to
cut costs, Jackson county lum
bermen said.
A number of lumbermen
Interviewed were enthusiastic
over the future for lumber
during the new year. The ma
jority of them thought es
tablishment of . at least one
big-pulp mill in . this area
would reduce operating costs
by iising raw materials which
the mills cannot convert into
lumber.' However, there were
some who disagreed strongly.
"It might look like a good
year, but stumpage and logs
cost so much that the picture
won't improve greatly by any
means," one lumberman re
marked. Utilise Chip Material
This same lumberman be
lieves that a pulp mill here
would utilize chip material
resulting from lumber produc
tion and would cut costs. It
would also - prevent much
burning of waste materials
and air pollution which some
people are complaining about,
the lumberman said.
"We certainly don't want a
pulp mill here," another lum
ber manufacturer said. "A
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce investigation re
vealed that the amount of
water available in Rogue
river would support only one
100-ton capacity pulp mill
and provide jobs for only 120
men. Such an industry here
would create a pulp mill
smog, pollute the entire val
ley air and ruin this area as
the ideal place to live."
"One of the problems of
complete utilization is lack
of markets and the long trans
portation costs to markets
now available," :" a ; lumber
manufacturer said. v ;
Sale For Material -
"It isn't merely a problem
of talking someone into being
utUizatiajp-minded.", the lum
berman said. "We can't find
a sale for chip material in
this area. It would make us
harmv tft pet chin material
in a product which would en
able us to break even."
"Mention a pulp mill in this
area and people wrinkle their
noses," the lumberman saiL
"Trouble is people might
wrinkle their noses too far
and we never will get a pulp
mill in here."
"A pulp mill is one of the
main keys to utilization of
raw material," he said. "More
such material is utilized the
less the lumber industry will
continue to smoke. Actually
what is pollution? Nobody has
been able to define it to my
satisfaction."
Burn Material
"I'm forced to dump a lot
of good chippable Douglas fir
material into the burners. It
pains me to have to do it. This
material should be worth
something in an economic
sense."
To ship to the nearest pulp
plant we would lose money
for every car. I investigated
the possibility of shipping fir
pulp to Walla Walla, Wash.
It would cost $13 a unit. It
costs $15 a unit to ship to
pulp mills in Springfield or
Albany. Sawmills in those
areas can ship chip material
directly to the pulp plants.
"I do not believe that the
present technology permits a
pulp mill of even 100-ton ca
pacity without serious pollu
tion resulting to the Rogue
river and damage to wonder
ful fishing. "At the time the
chamber study was made, it
was decided our cue is to pro
mote a mill in Roseburg or
Klamath Falls or some other
point where we could still
ship our chips at a minimum
freight charge. This way we
would get the benefit of the
mills without the pollution
Mills will be established at
Roseburg and Klamath Falls
in the not far distant future,
it was reported.
- The lumberman quoted
from a statement of the cham
ber's chairman of the tourist
and convention committee
made . when the pulp mill
study was completed. "What
are we thinking of to want
to ruin $12 million of recre
ation business for only 120
permanent jobs?"
The lumber outlook very
good, the lumberman added.
He predicted continued ex
pansion in this area along the
lines of more refinement of
product. More dry lumber,
more surfaced lumber and
packaged lumber will be pro
duced.
This same lumberman pre
dicted establishment of at
least two more plywood plants
in this area. Elk lumber com
pany plans to start construe
tion of a green veneer plant
some time in 1961. Douglas
fir is the best wood for this
purpose, it was explained.
There is more of this variety
here than any other species,
the lumberman said.
Predicts Good Year
Anotner lumberman pre
dicted a Tretty good year
for 1959 in the lumber indus
try. Building stocks are up
with housing the main usage
for lumber.
"I hope I never see a pulp
mill in this valley," this lum
berman said. "A pulp mill in
the Roseburg area would help
Jackson county sawmills since
they could get good freight
rates for shipping chip ma
terial.
"However, since such ma
terial would have to cross the
California line to reach Klam
ath Falls, a mill there would
not be so good," he said. "Inter-state
rates would make
such shipment too costly.'
One large lumber manu
facturer said he thought the
industry is generally. optimis
tic. A pulp mill would help
the industry of this county
considerably, he said. Pulp
manufacturers will find a way
to cut pollution economically
eventually, he added. A fil
tering plant takes a lot of
water.
. It would take more than
one mill to take care of all :
the waste produced in this
area, he said. It is not a ques
tion of whether raw product
is here, he said. Surveys snow
ample material for pulp is
here.
Another lumber manufac
turer said the lumber business
is Dickine up and forecasts "a
pretty fair year." Many new
homes are being built, he saia.
However, stumpage prices and
log prices are still high.
A firm which produces
manufactured lumber also
predicts a good year. Some of
this firm's customers are in
creasing inventories.
Nationally the lumber in
dustry recovered from the
1958 recession in mid-year
and the forest industry of this
state regained its status as a
billion-dollar contributor to
Oregon's economy.
In Douglas Fir Region .
Lumber production in the
Douglas fir region, at just
under 8 billion board feet
diDDed to about 1.5 per cent.
However, prices average sev
eral dollars higher, inven
tories were cut by a small in
crease in sales volume, and at
year's end mills had a bigger
order file and smaller stocks
on hand than a year ago.
Plvwood production has
climbed 13.6 per cent to a
record 6.2 billion square feet
in Oregon. This makes the
12th continuous year of unin-
terruDted expansion for this
phase of the Oregon forest in
dustry, according to reports
from the industry.
Plywood brought .better
nrices most of the year, espe
cially in the third quarter.
Then a market upsurge car
ried prices as much as sio
from the year's low and ply
wood plants produced over
time to meet the demand.
More Jobs Created
More jobs were created and
value added to forest products
durinjr 1958 with expansion
of re - manufactured lumber
and plywood into various
building materials. Larger
growth is expected in this
phase of the industry. Basic
output of pulp and paper
tilants will nrobably be con
verted into cartons and other
finished products, industry
spokesmen predict.
The state's 1958 log harvest
was estimated sX lVi billion
feet, down about one-fourth
billion feet from 19o7, accord
ing to statistics from the in-:
dustry. Logging operations
moved from a low to a -near-record
level in the fall.
Rogue River National for
est sold 178 million board
feet of timber during 1958,
compared to 107 million board
feet of timber for the previous
year for an increase of 71
million board feet, according
to Carroll Brown, supervisor
of Rogue River National for
est. .
BLM Sales
Bureau of land manage
ment sold 197,934,000 board
feet of timber during the 1958
calendar year compared to
113,612,000 board feet during
the previous year; an increase
of 84,322,000 board feet, ao
cording to BLM officials.
This is in keeping with the
state trend which saw record
sales of government timber.
National forest timber sold
for harvest just about doubled
when government timber
agencies responded to the
cries of the log-hungry mill
operators.
Archilecf Finds
Tooth, Uranium
Wsi-alnn - AT T TTPHAti arfTii-
tect digging a foundation for
a new home here found a
shark's tooth about 100 to
150 million years old - and
uranium. . .
When Russel J. Horner, 47-
year-old architect and con
struction engineer of Liberty
Harbor, found the fossilized
tooth, along , with clam and
oyster shells, also fossilized,
he sent them to the archeology
department at Rutgers University.
. He also sent: along a speci
men of rock to the American
Smelting and Refining Co. at
Perth Amboy for analysis.
It turned out to be urani
um and the assay report indi
cated a rich deposit-the loca
tion of which Horner is now
keeping secret.
RED-FACED POLICE .
Los Angeles -UPD- Embar
rassed police yesterday were
looking for one of their prowl
cars that was stolen from the
police headquarters parking
lot.
Reference Books
Added to Library
During Past- Year
More than 150 new refer
ence books, including two 20
volume encyclopedias, have
been added to the Jackson
County library in the past
year, according to Library
Director Helen E. Webster.
About one-fourth of the la-
brary's budgeted funds for
new books was utilized for
these essential materials.
"With the addition of the
new volumes the library will
be able to do a quicker and
better job of answering re
quests for information," the
librarian said. "The demand
for facts and statistics is in
creasing every day, and ques
tions come in to headquarters
from every part of Jackson
county, and occasionally from
other states."
Important Fields
Most of the important fields
of human knowledge are cov
ered in the central reference
collection. Included among
the new reference works are
up-to-date yearbooks, direc
tories, atlases, handbooks and
encyclopedias.
Some ofi these are "The
Abbreviaton's Dicti o n a r y,!
and "The Encyclopedia of Am
erican Facts and Dates." Year
books and directories repre
sented are "The Statesman's
Yearbook," "The Encyclope
dia Britannica Year Book,
"Ayer's 1958 Directory of
Newspapers and Periodicals,"
and "Polk's Medford City Di
rectory, 1958."
Brief information on many
topics can be found in several
almanacs and "fact" books
such as the "World Almanac,"
"Information Please Alma
nac," and the "Rapid Fact
Finder."
Several new biographical
aids are "Who's Who, 1958,"
"Who's Who in America,
1958-1959," "The Internation
al Who's Who, 1958," and the
"Cyclopedia of World Auth
ors." Reference books in various
subject fields include the
"Book of Flags" "Law of Mar
riage and Divorce,'-' "Harper's.1
Topical Concordance of the
Bible," and "The Concise En
cyclopedia of World History."
Others are Monro's "Index to
Reproductions of European
Paintings," Brucker's "Sub
ject Index to Poetry," and
"The Musician's Guide."
Commonly Used
The most commonly used
reference books and those of
a general nature are available
not only at the headquarters
library but in the several
community branches. Among
them are the "World Alma
nac," "The Rapid Fact Find
er," and "Lincoln's Library
of Essential Information."
Branch libraries also have
the "Consumer's Bulletin An
nual," the "U. S. Government
Organization Manual," "The
Dictionary of Holidays," and
"The Oregon Blue Book."
Each community library is
equipped with an atlas, a dic
tionary, and an encyclopedia,
and most branches have in
dexes to quotations and an
thologies of poetry.
The best reference "service
to an area such as Jackson
BACK SEAT DRIVING
Derby, England -(OPD- Sid
ney Brown, 35, charged with
speeding, told the court Fri
day that while driving he was
having an argument with his
wife. "I decided to put my
foot down firmly and it went
on the accelerator," he ex
plained. The court fined him
$14.
county requires that the basie
collection of factual materials
be sheleved in a central loca
tion and administered by a
professionally qualified refer
ence librarian. , ; - -
Any resident of the county
may consult them there or
may telephone his request for
information in to the head
quarters library, where the
services of Miss Joyce Marlin,
assistant librarian in charge
of reference work, are avail
able to him. ,
Hatfield Approves
Plant Industry Chief
Salem -(UPD-Gov. Mark Hat
field Friday approved the ap
pointment of Hugh Taylor, 62,
as chief of the division of
plant industry of the state ag
riculture department.
. The appointment was rec
ommended by Director Frank
McKenuon, whom Taylor suc
ceeds. Taylor has been an em
ploye of the department since
1934 and has . been assistant
chief of the plant industry di
vision since 1941. .... ...
CHANGES MIND
Newark, N. J. -(CPU- Poet
Carl; Sandburg telephoned
President Evald P. Lawson of
Upsala College Friday to tell
him.'he was ready to accept
the honorary degree he turned
down 10 years ago because he
was too busy. .
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