Resource Survey
Of Fir Completed
James Earl Ladd
Who Opens a Series of Evangelistic Meetings in
Vernonia July 8
Experiment Station Record Show
Oregon Leader in Stand of
Wert Side Timber
(Forest Log)
The resource survey of the
Douglas fir region of Oregon and
Washington has recently been
completed and the figures show­
ing the stand of timber for Ore­
gon and Washington in this area
have been released by the Forest
Experiment Station. The total
timber stand of western Oregon
and Washington is lightly over
546 billion board feet, including
both the softwoods and the hard­
woods. Of this amount Oregon
contains 300,792,549,000 B.F.
and Washington 245,255,046,000
B.F. Douglas fir ranks far ahead
of any other species in the total
stand with nearly 231 billion
board feet in Oregon and over
99 billion board feet in Washing­
ton. Douglas county ranks first
as having the largest timber stand
with over 70 billion board feet.
Lane is second with nearly 60
billion while Linn is a poor third
with nearlv 31 billion.
The compilation shows only
basic inventory data as to sawlog
timber volumes and type acreages
and does not include data on de­
pletion and growth. These items
are to be covered in later re­
ports.
Timber estimates of private
lands were furnished by the own­
ers, with the provision that they
be published only in combination
with the cruises of other owners
and for large areas. This co­
operation was found to be a very
material aid to the project. Some
165,000 acres in western Oregon
and western Washington were
check-cruised intensivelv to ad­
just the cruise on areas for which
there were existing nsabi» data.
These statistics alreadv have
proved their value as a mode in
the administration of the nation­
al lumber code in the Douglas
fir region of Oregon and Wash­
ington. Their value is stressed in
other ways. Where no usable
data existed, either inside or out-
aide the national forests, the
field personnel carried on type
mapping and estimating, thus giv­
ing a complete coverage of the
forest area of the region.
A tabulation of the stand of
timber in western Oregon by
species is given as follows (the
figures are given in thousands
of fee board measure, Scribner
scale):
Douglas fir ............... 231.821,692
Sitka Spruce .............
4,956.880
Engelmann spruce ....
188,995
Western hemlock .... 24.587.190
^fountain hemlock ....
3,996.937
Western red cedar ..
4,567,193
Port Orford cedar ....
1,174.048
Alaska Cedar ...........
12,211
Incense cedar ...........
1,787.888
Dead cedar .............
120,616
Ponderosa and Jef­
frey pine ...............
4,839,083
Sugar pine ...............
3,553,094
Western white and
whitebark pine ....
1,321,804
Lodgepole and knob­
cone pine ...............
75,581
White fir and lowland
5,518,087
white fir ...............
5,917,376
Noble and Shasta fir
3,041,251
Silver fir ...................
65,441
Alpine fir ......... .......
Western and alpine
100,162
larch
57,380
Redwood
Total conifers
Red alder
297,702.909
1,469,343
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VERNONIA RADIO SHOP
Gene Shipman
We
FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1934.
VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
.'AGE FOUF
time during the two week’s ses­
sion.
Those present from Columbia
county are Irene Bryant, Marjorie
Everman, Ida Blann, John Olsen,
John Tolleshang and Dick Gal-
lien, Rainier; Dorothy Walter,
Dorothy Rea, Doris Walter and
Dale Cooper, Goble; Blanche Col­
vin, Deer Island, and Lawrence
Meier, Scappoose.
Leaders from Columbia are
Laura Uhlman and Mrs. Sarah
V. Case, home demonstration
agent.
Treharne
Oregon white oak ....
88,321
California black oak
63,635
Canyon live oak ......
3,344
Tan oak ......................
439,465
31ack cottonwood and
aspen ......................
106,659
Bigleaf maple ..........
488,325
Madrone ...................
247,127
'iregon ash ...............
30,851
California laurel ....
58,763
Chinquapin ...............
66,852
Western paper birch .... -------------
Total hardwoods ..
3,089,685
Grand totals ........ 300,792,594
In the above tabulation coni­
ferous species include all trees
which will make one 32 foot log
with a 12-inch top inside the
bark. Hardwoods include all trees
which will make one 8-foot log
with a 10-inch top inside the
bark. The table does not include
the timber killed by the Tilla­
mook and Wolf Creek fires of
1933.
TIMBER LAND TRANSFERRED
Deeds were filed recently at the
Clatsop county courthouse trans­
ferring title to extensive timber
holdings of the La Dee Logging
Co., in the Lewis and Clark dis­
trict of Clatsop county and the
Lewis and Clark logging railroad,
to the Crown Willamette Paper
company.
Crown Willamette company
crews have been busy for some
time, preparing to take over oth­
er holdings of the La Dee com­
pany.—Forest Log.
COLUMBIA COUNTY
BOYS, GIRLS ATTEND
4-H CLUB SESSION
OREGON STATE COLLEGE,
Corvallis—Among the nearly 800
club members and 60 leaders at­
tending the twentieth annual 4-H
club summer school on the cam­
pus here are five boys, seven
girls and two leaders from Col­
umbia county. This is the largest
clqb summer school ever held
in Oregon.
The boys are living in the col­
lege men’s dormitory, and the
girls are occupying two women’s
hals, Waldo and Kidder. They
spend their mornings attending
classes and their afternoons, fol­
lowing the daily assembly, are
spent in athletics and other forms
of supervised recreation. Their
evenings, too are full, with par­
ties, pictures local talent shows
and similar entertainment. A
number of new classes have been
added this year and are meeting
with great favor among the club­
bers.
Special programs, usually feat­
uring some prominent citizen or
citizens of the state as speakers,
are arranged for each assembly.
These programs are broadcast for
the benefit of parents and friends
of the clubbers and for the thous­
ands of members over the state
who are unable to participate in
summer school. Each county dele­
gation also broadcasts over sta­
tion KOAC between 7 and 7:45
o’clock in the evening at some
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A U. S. Geological survey crew
of three men under R. O. Helland,
associate engineer, is here for a
preliminary survey of the Nehal­
em watershed with reference to
power sites, etc. The survey is
said to have no special signifi­
cance but is a matter of collect­
ing data which the department se­
cures regarding other similar
streams.
The men are now staying at
the MacDonald.
part of the abdomen of the adult
female.
Martha Wells spent last Tues­
I Though roughly described as In
day and Wednesday with Glenda
! the shape of an hourglass, these
Rose in Vernonia.
; red markings may be in a num-
Mr. and Mrs. Al Webb went ber of different forms or may ev-
to Garden Home Sunday and,en be rather indistinct, warns
brought Dorothy home from Dr Mote. At times two triangular
! red marks may touch to iorm an
where she was visiting.
Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Baker and hourglass shape, while again there
family made a business trip to may be four spots instead of two
Portland on Saturday.
| or the two may not touch.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Wallace and
Though the ordinary spider
Johnny Tate from Mist were call- does more good in eating insects
ers on Mr. and Mrs. Charles Melis i than harm, it is a safe practice
in regions where the black widow
last Tuesday evening.
L. L. Wells went to Portland is known to exist to kill any black
last week to have an abscess on i spider, says Mote, but in doing so
to be careful not to be bitten.
his jaw lanced.
Mrs. N. P. Larson and son Joe | The bites of the black widow
are visiting with her sister, Mrs. do not prove fatal on humans so
H. M. Smith, from Dallas.
1 far as authentic records go,
Mrs. H. E. Schram and family though
___ _ there are some reports of
went to Clatskanie Sunday to vis- death in the southwest that may
it the Mark Aspinwall family. | be true. The distress caused by
Mr. and Mrs. H. Thacker and the poison is so great, however,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Melis made as to warrant every care to avoid
the trip through Camp 9 on the I being bitten. Several days in the
CCC road through to the Clats-' hospital is not an uncommon re­
kanie road last Thursday.
sult of the bite of the black wi­
Several from here attended the I dow. There is no specific treat­
dance at Strassel Saturday night. ment, according to medical men,
the only thing to do being to
“KILL ANY BLACK SPIDER
put the patient to bed and give
EAST OF CASCADES," MOTE supportive treatment.
The spiders are not known to
The sudden infestation of willingly attack man unless one
Black Widow spiders that have comes in contact with a web
been reported from many parts where the female has a sack of
of eastern Oregon has brought eggs. The spiders are found most
many inquiries concerning their frequently in outdoor toilets, old
identification and the effect of sheds, barns, and wood or rock
their bite to Dr. Don C.Mote, piles.
entomologist of the Oregon Ex­
periment station. In a recent in­
Try our classified ads. They
terview over the state owned sta­ bring results.
tion at Corvallis, KOAC, Dr. Mote
says that so far as he knows
these spiders are not found west
of the mountains.
The three distinctive features
for identification given by Dr.
Mote are the glossy black body
with a round abdomen about the
A. F. of L. LOGGERS
size of a pea; long, strong black
Local No. 18742 meets second
legs that stick up above the back
and
fourth Thursdays in the
somewhat like those of a grand­
daddy longlegs; and finally a dis­ month at Grange hall, 8 p. m.
tinctive red marking on the lower Visiting members cordially invit­
ed to attend.
Fred Lumm, president.
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A. F. & A. M.
Vernonia Lodge No. 184
A. F. 4 A. M. meets
at
Masonic
Temple,
Stated
Communication
First Thursday of each
month.
Special
called
meetmgs on all other Thurs-
day nights 7:30 p.m. Visitors
most cordially welcome.
J. B. Wilkerson, W. M.
F. D. Macpherson, Secretary
Order of Eastern Star
Nehalom Chapter 153, O. E. S.
Regular commu­
nication
first
and third Wed­
nesdays of each
month, at Ma­
sonic Temple.
All visiting sis­
ters and broth­
ers welcome.
Mrs. M. F. Wall, W. M.
Leona McGraw, Sec.
Pythian Sisters
Vernonia temple 61 meets
every fourth Wednesday in W.
O. W. hall.
Rose Fletcher, M.E.C.
Clara Kerns, M. of R. A C.