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Crown Zellerbach Dedicates
21-Mile Forest Road Saturday
Officials of Columbia county and
the cities of Vernonia, St. Helens,
Scappcose and Columbia City joined
Crown Zellerbach in dedicating the
company’s 21-mile Columbia forest
road last Saturday.
The private logging road stretches
from the company’s Stamm Tree
Farm headquarters near Vernonia to
the Scappoose log delivery point on
the Willamette slough.
The new road follows closely the
travel on public roads. The overpass, part of a county
road, was built by Crown Zellerbach and then turned
over to Columbia county.
LOAD of 85-foot poles heads under the overpass at the
start of trip downhill to the Scappoose log boom. Co­
lumbia Forest Road removes these long loads from
CROWN Zellerbach’s Scappoose log boom on the Columbia River is the
eastern end of the Columbia Forest Road. Loads of logs are lifted from
the trucks by a stiff-legged crane and lowered into the river.
LOADS of logs and poles and pilings arc lined up in
the transfer yard at the E. P . Stamm Tree Farm Head­
quarters waiting to be hauled across the Columbia
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Forest Road. The transfer yard is at the western ter­
minus of the road.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1964
route of the old Clark and Wilson
logging railroad arxl parallels for
some distance the county road from
Scappoose to the junction of Highway
47.
The Columbia forest road is the
first key private log transportation
artery extending out of the Nehalem
Valley since trucks replaced logging
railroads.
Clarence Richen, Crown Zeller-
bach’s Northwest Timber Operations
manager, said the road was con­
tracted to assure continuity of em­
ployment and relieve log truck traf­
fic on public roads.
“In addition to the public safety
factor,” Richen said, “the road per­
mits more efficient transport of
logs from the Stamm Tree Farm to
Columbia River points.
“Hauling 120-foot poles and piling
on public roads many times presents
problems which are solved by the
private road. Also, we are able to in­
crease the size of our log loads as
in the case of the double trailer
truck haul.”
Richen said the rock road elimi­
nates the hazard to log truck drivers
caused by frost on paved roads.
“This means a year ‘round haul,”
he said, “regardless of freezing wea­
ther.”
Richen says the new road gives a
real sense of permanency to the
company’s 80,000-acre tree farm in
Columbia county. Crown Zellerbach
in 1947 began purchasing this prop­
erty, most of which was cutover,
having been logged since the time
of the Civil War.
Old growth timber from the Ne­
halem valley was transported via
railroad. Today the harvest of the
new forest is moving over the Co­
lumbia forest road and Richen be­
lieves the lush growth of the Ne­
halem area and intensive forest man­
agement practices of tree farmers
gives promise of a perpetual supply
of logs from Columbia county for fu­
ture generations.
In 4-H club work, a comprehensive
system of awards is provided by
scores of donors convinced that 4-H
is an investment in future security.
FOOT BILL
VERNONIA
BANKS
please check your listing
Tonight - 8 P.M.
Greenman Field
No. 75 TERRY SMITH, right end, 2-year let­
terman. Fair speed. Has caught 8 for 77 yards
and one TD pass. Defensive safety.
No. 73 TERRY LARSON, left end, 2-year let­
terman. Has caught 5 for 59 yards. Plays de­
fensive end. Good hustler and hard worker
All league offense and defense as junior.
WE RE BACKING THE LOGGERS — WE HOPE YOU DO ALSO!
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