The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-03-08
MATCHES FROM OUR
IDAHO PINE FORESTS
LOGGING HUGE TRACTS
Ohio Match Company Cuts
Millions of Feet of White
Pine Yearly
LOGGING HUGE TRACTS

, n A ArCHESl Matches That's
MI the word to conjure with.
Every time you strike a
match; every time You light a
cigar pipe or cigarette: every
time YOU light the morning fire in the
kitchen range, providing you can beat
your wife to il, (Which is not at all
difficulty, you contribute to the worlds
wealth. You consume something that
requires the labor of man to produce
by burning a match You help the mm-
beriack, the river man. the sawmin
worker, the railroad employees. the
match factory workers the statesmen
and the retail grocers, or whoever
sells matches to the match burner
We never stop to consider the cost
of match. The price of single
match is so small that even a miser
would burn them with impunity Yer
/ if everybody in the world burned one
match "a day it means employment Tor
many thousands of workers to pro-
duce and market the matches. start
ing with the lumber jack ana winding
up with the grocery clerk
Few people in the Occur d'Alene
district realize the great magnitude OF
the white pine numbering industry
now being conducted within a
few miles of Wallace by the
Ohio Match company This com
pany is one of the largest con-
Germs of its kind in the world and re-
.quires in excess OF 10000. 900 feet of
white pine every year which is made
up into matches at the companN's
mammoth plant at Wadsworth, Ohio.
Having practically exhausted the
eastern supply of white pine. the com
pany decided to go into the numbering
industry in the west and selected
Idaho, because this state has the larr-
est stands of commercial white pine
in the world
The scene of this company's lumber
ing operations at present is on the
north fork of the Occur d'Alene river.
where they have for the last two or
three years employed at least $50 men
in the timber under Pearl Bailey. who
has direct charge of all logging opera
tiOns for the company
About four miles west of Coeur
d'Alene City at a camp called Hunter
the company has erected a huge saw
mill with a capacity of 10000 600 feet
per year and from the forest the
white pine logs are shipped or RATED
to this mill, where they are cut into
match blocks and shipped direct to
the Wadsworth Ohio. plant. where the
blocks are fashioned into matches and
prepared for the market
Every 1000 feet of lumber produces
in the finished product about $500 TO
$500 worth of matches at wholesale
prices
Last season the company logged
about 100000 feet of white pine out
Of Scott creek. 10 miles from EnavilIe.
On the main North Fork. They have
logging railroad up the creek for
about two miles, at the terminal of
which the logs are dumped into the
liver for transportation to the mill
The Scott creek tract is about clean
ID and this season the scene of oper-
'tions will be transferred to Prichard
lear which place the company has
purchased an extensive stand Of whit,
,ine
The company does not conhne it's
ource Of timber supply to it's own
ogging operations. but buys white
line from anybody and everybody
Who has it for sale delivered at the
liver or railroad They buy in large
n small lots and pay top prices. and
his part of the industry provides
eady income and employment for
arge number of men who would 9th
rwise be unable to realize anything
n their timber holdings
Last year the company paid $50 and
p per thousand for white pine deliv-
red at the water, and this year they
re paying $27 per thousand
The United States forest service
las direct charge OF all tracts of white
line in the state and the Ohio Match
ompany is governed by the rules and
avs laid down by this department
Recently the forest service sold 16-
100000 feet of white pine and $50 600
eet of white fir on Orens creek.
of the North Fork to the
Rose Lake Lumber company for $3.50
er thousand, stun mage price the
highest price eves paid for stumpage
n the history of the Occur d'Alene
ational forest
The forest service advertised for
ids on this timber from the NIissoula
flee, stating that the minimum price
hat would be accepted would be $3.50
er thousand feet
To show the keen competition in the
BUSINESS. a number of big firms APP
cared as bidders. including the Ohio