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SECTION D PAGES 1 to 8 MEDFORDtfig&TRIBUNE Med ford. Ore., Thun., Oct. 10, 1963 Timber Industry Recovering from Columbus Storm OLYMPIA (UPI)-As the first anniversary of the violent Co . lumbia Day windstorm ap proaches, the Northwest timber industry apparently is winning its fight to come back from the worst natural disaster it About. 3.5 billion board feet of timber felled by the storm in Washington and Oregon has been salvaged by loggers rac ing against fire, insects and time. The job is far from completed. The storm toppled an estimated 17 Billion board feet in the two : states. Some of it was a total loss and will be removed from the woods as the effort to sal vage the valuable trees goes on. i On Oct. 12, 1962, winds from j the trailing edge of Typhoon rreiaa nit Washington, Oregon and Northern California, killing 19 persons and doing $10 mil lion worth of damage. Gusts as high as 160 miles an hour were recorded. Timber Industry Hardest hit was the multi million dollar timber industry. W. D. Hagenstein, executive vice president of the Industrial Forestry Association of Port land, said the storm "laid down Tnnra Hmhar than amr nthi. corded forestry catastrophe in J the Pacific Northwest." j He said the 17 billion board , feet of downed timber was "a year and a half's supply for the ! giant Washington-Oregon forest industry." I ; Foresters, looking sadly at the damage a year ago, predict-1 ed the side effects of the storm , would be worse than the blow ; itself. I . For instance, thev said the felled timber would dry in the summer sun and would be ready to go up in flames as soon as the first spark was dropped. But, possibly because of a cool summer and stringent fire protection precautions, damage from forest fires was lower this summer than usual. Another potential trouble cited in the wake of the storm was the threat of insects such ! as the Douglas fir bark beetle. ' That is still a major danger, officials of the State Depart ment of Natural Resources claim, although damage from bugs has been light so far. Depress Prices It was also feared that the large volumes of timber dumped on the market would depress prices. However, Washington State Land Commissioner Bert Cole said so far state-owned timber has been sold for prices well in excess of its appraised value. The state has sold 272.1 mil lion board feet of blowdown timber so far for a total price of $9.4 million. The appraised value of the trees was $7.5 mil lion, Cole said. The storm felled 422.6 million board feet of state-owned tim ber. However, in order to sal vage the blowdown, an addi tional 314 million board feet of standing trees must be logged at the same time. Thus the state must sell 736.6 million board feet before the salvage operations are completed. 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