Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1917-04-13
WHY MILLS WANT DEEPER
WATER BEFORE BUILDING
ON YAQUlNA BAY

Many people do not understand why
mills have not already built on va.
quina Bay as we have the timber, q
railroad into 1t, and Bar over whicn
small lumber schooners can easily pass
In The summer months.
There are number of conditions
surrounding the marketing of lumber
which effects the price received and
1t is these reasons that prevent timber
owners from cutting the timber here
under the present conditions.
Firstly there are numbers of yarie.
ties and grades of timber coming out
Of the mill as the product Of every
acre cut over.
The clear lumber out of the Old
Growth Fir logs is made into flooring,
ceiling, finish lumber and stepping
mainly, the rough knotty part into the
large timbers and common lumber.
Now the kiln dried flooring, ceiling
and finish lumber is shipped by rail
back into the Middle West, the timbers
also go into that country and in some
cases Of fine quality timbers clear to
the Atlantic seaboard. Australia takes
the best kinds of clear Fir, free from
sap, while the rough and sappy lumber
from the same trees goes into cargoes
for China. London and Copenhagen
and other shipbuilding ports take
clear fir ship decking and many car.
goes OF Fir go to the West Coast OF
South America. 4
Until the European countries began
buying Spruce for Aeroplane work, the
clear Spruce was kiln dried, made into
Finish lumber and shipped by rail, that
with some knots was shipped to tn q,
great Middle West Door and Window
! Sash factories to be cut up and take
the place of the fast disappearing
White Pine, while the very knotty
Spruce was used for cutting into short
pieces and making boxes for packing
Pacific Coast products.
Hemlock is being used to some ex.
tent for Finish lumber on the Coast
and the retailers in California put II
out as Oregon Pine with the Fir, but
the more particular use is for flooring.
II Is claimed to be the best flooring
made out of any soft wood and as such
is extreemly valuable on the Coast.
Hemlock withstands the Teredoes as
piling and is said to be the only wood
that will Withstand certain insects in
the PHILIPPINE Islands, where 1t is ex.
pected there will be large future mar.
ket for this wood
Lumber from all the small Oregon
Ports has to go to San Francisco where
II Is shipped inland or transhipped
onto the large transPacific boats for
Australia, China and other places. As
a consequence the profit OF the middle
man at San Francisco and the cost of
transhipping comes out Of the manu-.
facturer on the small Harbor. Say
that this would amount to $1.O0 per
thousand feet, which is q small esti.
mate, and deductfng that amount from
the standing timber tributary to va.
qulna Bay would mean a loss Of $50,
100000 to the timber owners, O,
enough to make our present improve.
ment forty times over. The man who
has five million claim would be
$4,000. better off with the improve
ment. This is why stumpage on the
Columbia River is bringing SO. to 81.
per thousand feet while It is begging
here at Soc. to 81. per thousand.
This will show any person why the
timber interests must have water sur.
hcient to pass the large lumber car.
riers who sail direct to the Ports OF
the world, and thus save to Lincoln
County this immense profit: to Lin.
coin County laborers the millions for
the manufacturing: and to Lincoln
County Farmers the markets for their
produce that this great lumber deyel.
opment will surely bring.
Publicity Comm. Port Of Newport
and Newport ComperoiaI ri,,k