Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1921-03-31

ing Jaw clenched a bit, unconsciously,
that's not what is going to happen
to Bogalusa. We're building this
city for our children and our chill
dren's children. And the minute it
became clear that we could put our
| finger down on q point in the calen-
dar and say: Here's where the
lumber gives out why, that minute
we began to work on plans to make
! Bogalusa permanent. And paper was
the final solution. Paper and refor-
estation.
Cut and Reforest
eve learned from Henry Hardtner
up at Urania and from the United
States Forestry Service, that loblolly
pine big enough for paper pulp can
be grown in IA years. We've got
enough virgin pine 20 keep the big
mill going for the next Is years. So
there, you see, we've got an eleven
year margin in which to plant lob
Jolly, watch against forest fires, and
fence against razor-back hogs. And
fast as we cut We'll reforest, which
means that with that 11year mar
gin we can keep swinging around the
circle of our 100000 acres eternally.
And beyond the reforested trees we'l
grow ourselves, we are launching a
plan to have all the farmers in this
section grow loblolly as a crop. We're
offering prizes for boys clubs. We're
doing everything to encourage the
growing Of the best paying crop on
cut-over pine land-and that crop is
pine itself.
cts on paper that we're depend
ing to make Bogalusa permanent.
The profits are in paper, too. If I'd
used all our pine trees cut during
the past year for paper instead of
lumber the profits would have been
seven times what they were.
"We''l build five big additional
units Ike the Bogalusa Paper Com
pany. And Bogalusa, instead of be-
ing a 'sawmill town will be a per-
manent city. That's why we've Just
put up a 100000 High School.
That's why we pay our Bogalusa
school teachers more than they're be-
ing paid anywhere else in Louisiana.
That's why Bogalusa is laid out four
miles square, with building regula-
tions that give no possible chance for
congestion if the present population
of $4,000 grows to 100000.
"We're out to make this a perma- |
nent city for American folk who will
want to come here and rear their
here and own homes. That's |
why we're building and selling mod |
ern residences at lower rate than |
anywhere in Louisiana-andb building |
a new house for every house we sell. |
We made this city the biggest saw
mill town in the world. Now we're |
going to make it the biggest paper |
manufacturing center in the South
and one of the biggest in the world"
And with the characteristic Sulh- |
van energy, those plans are already |
under way. Bogalusa may soon be |
a great paper city, but it won't be
"city on paper" Work is now in |
putting 5000 acres of cut
over land under fence. Already 800 |
acres are fenced against wandering |
logs-that bane Of small growing
pine saplings-are patroled against /
fire hazard; further protected against
forest fires by broad belts of naked |
ploughed ground, and planted With /
pine seed after the best reforesta ton
methods Of Col. W. B. Greeley, chief |
forester of the United States.
For J. X. Johnson, head forester
Of the Great Southern Lumber Com |
pany, is an ardent convert to the |
Greeley plans Of reforestation.
years ago, when thought I knew
more than I'll ever know" he smiled, /
4 wrote a book on the wonderful |
,rops you could grow on cutover pine
ands. Now I know that the best and /
most profitable crop you can grow
IN it is reforested pine. And Pm |