Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-09-07
Lumber Interests of the Two
Harbors May Be Con-
solidated.
WILL SAVE MUCH WASTE
To Build Ships and Organize
SellingsAgencies Through
out the World

A meeting, at which was represent
ed over 80 per cent of the lumber in
terests of Grays Harbor and Willapa
Harbor, was held in this city yes
terday to consider the proposition sub
mitted by Henry J. Pierce, of Spo-
kane, representing heavy eastern
financial interests, with view of
forming a company which would take
over the mills, timber and logging
interests belonging to the lumbermen
OF the two districts.
Plan Outlined
w. B. Mack, manager of the S. E.
Slade Lumber company, presided at
the meeting. Mr.. Pierce outlined his
plan of consolidation, which met with
a hearty reception by those in attend
ance.
Former United States Senator Sam
H. Piles, and James B. Howe, of the
law firm of Piles & Howe, of Seattle,
presented the legal features of the
proposed company, to the lumbermen.
$4,000, 900 Investment
In brief the plan contemplates an
investment of between S30,OO0,O0 and
$5O,OOO,000 of eastern capital. with a
view of securing sufficient timber to
insure the operation of the tidewater
mills of Washington and Oregon,
which may become members of the
organization, for period of not less
than twenty years.
The plan further cOntemplateS the
purchase and building of vessels to
transport the product to domestic and
foreign markets, in anticipation of the
increased business which will follow
the completion of the Panama canal.
Utilize By-Products
1t is the expressed belief of Mr..
Fierce, who organized and was for
twenty years president of the Wood
Products company, with headquarters
at Buffalo, and which practically con-
trolls the output of wood alchol char
coal and other by-products manufac-
tured from beech, birch and maple,
effected in the cost of mar
keting the lumber products and
at the same time insuring a large
market through scientific and aggres-
sive salesmanship, which is not pos
sible of Obtanment by individual con
Germs. The saving of by-products
attention of the contemplated COM
pany, such as the manufacture of pulp
paper, etc.
Will Save Waste
At the present time, and under the
conditions which have existed in the
manufacture and sale of lumber, a
very large proportion of the lower
grades of the tree must necessarily
be left in the woods to be either
blown down or destroyed by the ele-
ments, and producing a constant fire
menace, which yearly becomes more
grave
1t is the hope of the contemplated
company to practically utilize the en-
tire tree, and to practice reforesta-
tion, thereby obviating the present
waste and realizing profit which 10
now not attainable, and practicing
conservation along sound economic
lines.
Tentative Agreement
Ninety per cent of the firms repres-
ented at the meeting signed ten
tative agreement. and another meet
ing will be called at an early date to
perfect an organization.
There was probably never time in
the history of the lumber business on
the Pacific coast when conditions
were more demoralized than at pres
ent This depression has existed
since early in 1907, with but little
hope of betterment in the near future.
The lumbermen realize the urgent
necessity for safeguarding their re-
sources, and the plan presented by
Mr.. Pierce was deemed feasible and
practical.