Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-08-07
LAND PROBLEM
WORKING OUT
Prominent Men Named to
Handle Logged Off
Lands.
DEVELOPMENT BOARD
Bend Energies to Solving the
Logged-0f Land Question
Will Meet Sept. 4.
DEVELOPMENT BOARD

CHEHALIS, Aug. 5.-The plans of
the executive committee of the South
west Washington Development assO-
citation for the development of the
logged-off lands of this section. of
letter which n. B. Coffman, chairman
of the executive committee of the
Southwest association. has issued to
the men who are to handle the logged
off land problem, among them some
of the most prominent lumbermen,
millmen and timber owners in the Pa
cific Northwest. Their number includ
es the following: George S. Long Of
the Weyerhaeuser Timber company.
Tacoma; F. c. Mumby, Bordeaux; F.
B. Hubbard of the Eastern Railway &c
Lumber company of Centralia; H. W.
Leadbetter, Portland, Ore; William B.
Mack, Aberdeen; Ralph H. Burnside,
Raymond; L. l. Wakefield, Elma; and
George Mccoy, Vancouver.
Committee Takes Up Work.
At the Chehalis meeting early in
June plans were put forward for per-
fecting a permanent organization to
operate as holding company with
which to list for sale the logged-of
and unimproved agricultural lands Of
the Southwestern Washington for the
purpose of making them available for
settlement and productiveness. To
Nr. Coffman of Chehalis, as head Of
the executive committee, and perhaps
the most active man in bringing the
logged-off land matter to the fore
ground as one of the works of the
Southwest Washington Development
association, was left the selection of
the eight men who are to act with
him in arranging the details for the
future work.
The further study of this great ques-
ton is now up to the men constitut-
ing the committee.
The committee has been chosen
after great deliberation and careful
canvass of the district by Secretary
j. E. Barnes, acting for Mr.. Coffman
and the executive committee. The
first meeting of the committee has
been called for Chehalis, Monday Sep
tember 4.
Cooperation Promised.
The plans and purposes of the as
sociation have been very carefully ex-
planned to most of the larger lumber
men and land owners, resulting in as
surances of approval and hearty CO.
operation.
The plans of the organization under
consideration contemplate the incor-
poration of either the Southwest
Washington Development association
itself, or the committee that will have
charge of the logged-off lands matter;
the creation then of the committee
into a permanent commission with
terms of office to expire One-third an
nually and their successors to be
clSClcu Wy tut dSSOCldtlOIl. lie pau
would necessitate the establishment
of a head office, in charge of general
land agent, and the opening of branch
Offices with local agents in charge, in
each town where there is a club be-
longing to the association.
Railroads viii Aid.
The Weyerhaeuser Timber company
and most of the larger land owners
in Southwest Washington have signi-
fed their willingness to list their agri-
cultural lands with an organization
framed anlong these lines. Listed
lands could be offered either cleared
ready for cultivation, or partly i'm
proved, or unimproved and subdivided
into small tracts with roads opened up
and constructed, or otherwise made
attractive for settlement.
Assurances have already been given
by the Northern Pacific land depart
ment of any information in it's poses.
sion to afford a guide in the organiza-
ton of the proposed project. This is
of especial value, as it embraces re-
ports of surfaces, soils, etc, of granted
lands in this portion of the state.
Other large land owners have made
similar offers.