Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-05-15
OF GRAYS HARB0R AS TOLD BY
FRANK H. LAMB,
Extract From Response of Frank n.
Lamb to the Toast Climber Re.
sources of GrayS HarbOr" at The
Banquet of Senator Piles, at Alb
erdeen, February 4.

But. to return to the lumber of
Grays Harbor. l want to impress first
upon you that we are not simply dealing
with the timber Of Chehalis county,
which the United States Geological sur
vey has estimated at over 27 900 900, 900
feet, but as doubtless you are all aware
from ohoalwater Bay. on the South, to
Port Angeles on the north, Grays Har
Dor is the only navgabe inlet in 120
miles OF rock bound coast. Therefore
gentleman G,ays Harbor is not synony-
mous with Chehalis county, but in adJi.
tion to Chehalis county it embraces a
great portion OF Pacific, jefferson and
Clallam counties. In considering the
necessity for harbor improvements, it is
necessary therefore to keep this in mind.
have gone over government esti-
mates Of standing tim Der and am con-
vinced that outside of Chehalis county
there will be brought to Grays Harbor
for manufacture over 20 billion feet OF
timber. making the total tributary to
this harbor, whose welfare is as much as
matter of concern to the entire state as it
is to US, total of nearly 4S billion feet.
These estimates will all surely over-run
as they do include the hemlo k or great
quantities Of material that is even today
marketable.
Owing to the great size OF this timber
vt will all be brought to tide water, for
manufacture in our large mill plants,
rather than be cut by small portable
mills in the woods. Moreover the lum-
herman is not going to limit himself to a
strictly rail market when by locating en-
the world.
Statistics are dry subjects for such
gathering as this, and do not think the
champagne available would wash down
all the lumber statistics could give you.
1t is sufficient to keep IN mind that the
4S billion feet tributary to the Harbor,
and which must meet the markets OF the
world, either over it's waters or by rail,
would supply the entire cut of the mid.
die northwest. that great lumber produc-
ing area, for approximately six years;
would supply the present cut of the
southern states for some ten years, or
the preset cut of the entire Pacific coast
for about Is years. st ting these figures
in concrete form, the standing timber of
uo rhor 1,,, h.,
schooners of such size as .oi saw today
anchored at the wharves Of Grays Har-
Dor, or 2,350,O00 car loads of average
size, which would make a train $4,000
miles IN length, reaching around over
three.fif,hs of the circumference OF the
earth. If sawed into lumber 1.inch
thick it would floor an area nearly double
the size OF the state of Rhode Island.
Last year Grays Harbor manufactured
into lumber and shingles about 43O mil.
lion feet. This year we are assured Of
an output exceeding 500 million feet, this
would make q 800 cars for train 142
miles in length.
The lumber industry OF Grays
Harbor is only in its infancy. Where
there is now one mill, there will be doz.
ems some day. The available timber
indicates that here will arise one of the
great numbering regions Of the northwest.
In few years small mills have become
great plants, dreary tide lands have be-
come the home of a prosperous people,
small struggling villages have grown to
our present prosperous sister towns of
Cosmopolis, Aberdeen and Hoquam.
All OF this has been created from lumber.
Does it not stand in hand that we should
guard and conserve our forest resources
They can only be harvested once. Black |
ened stumps and denuded hillsides will
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