Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-08-07
LUMBER BUSINESS TAFTON7HECHINESE fired WRONG MAN f
In The STATE OF WASHINGTON Is
YET IN ITS INFANCY
Says Secretary r1CCOrmiCk, of the
WeyerhaeuSer Timber Company,
in q Recent Interview. Value of
Cut Over Lands for Agricultural
Purposes is Not Yet Understood.

Cut Over Lands for Agricultural
Purposes is Not Yet Understood.
A staff correspondent of the Milwaukee
Sentinel writes his paper concerning
Wisconsln's interests in Washington, as
follows:
Secretary Mccormick, of the Weyer-
haeuser company, formerly Of Hayward,
and well and favorably known in the
business and political circles OF Wiscon.
sin, in reply to the question if numbering
in Washington was not big mans
game, said:
"Don't make that mistake, for it is just
as much poor mans business as it is
that OF the big concern. 1t follows froE:
the great stand of our timber that any
man can becLme an owner and can build
saw or shingle mill with reasonable
capital. During my residence here !
have known many small manufacturer
to make his start, and constantly adj to
his timber holdings. One does not have
to own many acres here to have timber
holding to supply any reasonable sized
mill for years TO come. The smaller lum-
herman has just as g, cd chance here
as the big COZ Germ with its mills on tide.
water and railr ads reaching out into
the timber. 81 far as the question OF
rates is concerned, the railroads all give
the same rate to the eastern market, re-
gardless OF whether the production OF a
mill is five million annually. or one hun.
dred miI'ion."
In the numbering OF the state, Wiscon.
Sin plays an important part, for thou.
sands OF it's citizens and millions OF its
money have found employment here.
One OF the first men from Wisconsin to
engage in the timber business in Wash.
ington was Henry Hewett, Jr., formerly
Of Menasha, and in early days large
timber holder in the vicinity of Marsh.
field, north along the line of the Wiscon-
sin Central. Mr.. Hewitt was practically y
first on the field and commenced to gath.
er in immense holdings Of this timber.
Many OF the men who came from the
Badger state have managed to secure
timber land and will hold it until stump
age values increase. With all this timber
supply, the damages from fires appear to
be less than in the east. Though the
entire section traversed by the writer,
covering several hundred miles through
the timber belt, the timber of only one
mountain side had been destroyed, and
this was over in the mining region re.
mote from sawmiils.
Only the best and most available tim
ber is being cut, for the vast areas must
await the time when the poorer grades
will be utilized as we'll as the upper
grades. The railroads are the greatest
consumers of saw mill timber tor car
building and bridges. The principal
shipments by rail are to the east and to
California points. The vessel shipments
90 to the Orient, to South America and
to Africa. The largest Cargo Of lumber
ever loaded was put on shipboard at Ia.
coma two years ago, when 5000, l56 feet
was carried by one steamer to Manila,
loading at two mill wharves.
Enormous as the present production OF
lumber is, 1t is small in comparison with
what must be the ever increasing output
OF the future. AS the supply in the Mid.
die West grows constantly less, Wash
ington lumber will take it's place to a
constantly increasing extent. The export
trade is ever proving larger, and with
the building of the Panama canal the
claim is made that Washington lumber.
men will supply the Atlantic seaboard
with their product. For building pur
poses fir is claimed TO be superior to oak
in strength and weighs far less. This
will always insure it a market in the
building centers.
Amazing agricultural results are OBJ
tanned from the cut over lands here. The
production is not alone limited to grains
and grasses, for, as fruit growing Sec
tions, the timber region has no superior.
Not infrequently a peach and apple Or
chard is seen among the stumps and,
where the land has been cleared, highly
productive vegetable gardens are found.
The land from which the timber has been
taken affords excellent pasturage, and
the future dairy section of the Pacific
Northwest will he upon the lands once
covered by immense forests growths.
To Cure . Gold in One Day.