Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1911-04-21
LOS ANGELES FIRM WRITES FOR
INFORMATION
MUCH RAW MATERIAL HERE
Conditions are Ideal for Power and
Water, with Plenty of Trees
Suitable for Pulp

Secretary H. L. Andrews of the
Commercial club has received a let
ter from legal firm in Los Angeles
stating that the firm has a client
there who believes that from what
he has read of Grants Pass and con-
tiguous territory that this region is
cne such as he is seeking in which
to establish a wood pulp and paper
manufacturing plant, and the attor-
neys ask Secretary Andrews to fur
nish all possible data regarding
quantity, quality and species of tim
ber, water power, transportation and
ether information bearing on the
subject.
The Los Angeles man, so states
the letter, is reader of The Cour-
Ter, and from this paper he has gain
&c much information, or enough to
lead him to believe that Grants Pass
is the proper place to establish
paper manufacturing industry. Sec
retary Andrews will gather the data
and forward 1t to the Los Angeles
correspondents; at the same time in
viting these people to come to Grants
Pass and go over this territory.
II would seem that this region Is
one certainly favorable to paper man
ufacture. While spruce is preferred
by manufacturers, yet this timber
does not exist in the west In suffici-
ent quantity, and other confer
species are used. This puts Grants
Pass in the midst of large area of
available wood for pulp Eastern
manufacturers working up spruce are
now confined mostly to the upper
peninsula in Michigan and to Maine
and 1t is long haul for the manu-
factured product from Maine and
Michigan to Oregon and to other Pa
cific coast states. Hence II no doubt
is argued by the Los Angeles cap
italist that plant established here
to work up pine and Fir and other
confer species would pay handsome
dividends, provided water and cheap
power were available, and both water
and cheap power are here and in
such quantity as to suit the most
exacting industry.
While It is true, as stated here
tofore, that not sufficient spruce ex-
lists In the .otern states to supply
paper mills, yet In the Leland, Wolf
Creek and Swede Basin regions con-
siderable spruce exists.
Vast forests Of confer species ex-
ist in the Grants Pass territory and
can be made easily available. Clim-
attic conditions also are such that
no industry will suffer on account Of
heat or cold.
There Is a paper plant at Oregon
City, the Crown mills, located on the
Willamette, and one at Camas,
Wash. Just across the Oregon line
on the north bank OF the Colum"
bia. These two mills are busy plants,
but they are not able to supply the
Pacific coast with the various grades
and kinds OF paper used, and the
amount shipped into Oregon, Wash
ington and California each year
amounts to vast tonnage. Not one.
but q number OF paper manufactur-
Ing plants are needed to supply the
heavy demand. including that in Ida
bo, Nevada and other western states.
All OF the available data regard
Ing the Grants Pass industry will be
forwarded to the California investor
and the matter will be taken up by
the Commercial club in earnest, and
every facility offered the Californian
In his investigations.
Facts on the Industry
Manufacture Of papor from wood
pulp dates back TO Only about 1870,
indeed It's general adoption may be
referred TO 10 years later. Varieties
Of paper manufactured are chiefly
Of the following four classes: ~
News and printing papers; t2) writ
ing papers Of various kinds; t3)
wrapping or packing papers. brown