White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-04-02


J. J. DONOVAN
across to the Orient in order to fur
nish loaded Westbound cars which
would return lumber Eastbound. The
increasing lumber movement through
the Panama Canal.has been, and re-
mains a large factor in the income
and prosperity of the American trans
continental railways. Production Of
pulp and paper Of certain kinds of
saw mill waste has passed the expert
mental stage and we now have re.
sultant commercial product of value.
Presence Of gums and resins in GER
tain woods has retarded this develop
ment.
According to the United States CEN
sus of manufacturers in 1923, the pro-
duction of lumber for that year in
he Pacific Northwest was IL, 1886 900
board feet. California and Nevada
in that year produced 2,118,094 900
board feet The forests of the Pacific
Northwest can maintain this produc-
tion for the next sixty years without
encroaching on the u. S. Forest Re-
serves which have greater area
than the privately owned forests.
Other Raw Materials
Americas great coal producing
areas lie in the Appalachian Noun
tains and East of the Mississippi. The
West has uncovered no coal resources
in excess Of the requirements of the
region. The million tons of coal
mined in the State of Washington for
instance, is negligible in comparison
with the 400 million tons produced by
the United States as whole.
The mining of metals throughout
the mountainous West, moves to local
shelters. in the form of concentrates
and passes into national or world
trade as a refined or semi-manufac-
tured product.
Petroleum from the California fields
has vast export from that state,
evidenced by the great tankers on the
high seas as we'll as the long lines
of tank. cars outbound on the rail high
ways.
Livestock, great in the aggregate,
sheep, cattle, horses, and mules, hogs,
cannot be efficiently carried the great
distance to seriously compete with
livestock production in the Mississippi
Valley moving to market on short
lines Of communication. Hence from
the export standpoint, livestock
products and not livestock them
selves, appear in the long distance
trade movements-wool, hides, refrig-
Grated beef and mutton, hams, bacon,
butter, canned milk, canned fruit and
canned vegetables.
The great fish resources Of the
North Pacific Coast, notably salmon
and halibut, with growing trade in
herring and other varieties, has at
tanned worldwide distribution Of great
proportions nancially. Canned salmon
from Alaska supplemented by the pack
of the Columbia River and Puget
Sound aggregates something like $751;
100000 Of annual value, and like the
canned milk produced by the condens-
cries established in the evergreen val
leys of the Pacific slope, have become
a staple commodity, now found in all
parts of the world.
These commodities have an advan-
tage which perhaps no other of our
products have. Here, at prices which
do not put 1t in the luxury class, is
highly nourishing food, free from de-
terioration, concentrated in containers
which permit 1t being packed over
narrow trails, lofty mountains and up
rivers to interior points, furnishing
meat to natives of practically every
country.
The transcontinental shipment in
refrigerator cars of Alaska halibut to
Boston, has long been comm onplace
and even before the world war enter
prising steamship traffic men were
weighing the possibilities Of carrying
fresh fish in refrigerated holds Of
motorships to Holland and British
ports.
The great business OF canning fruit,
vegetables and berries, we'll financed
and established in California has pro-
duced another non-perishable staple
out of highly perishable agricultural
product. The business Of canning,
and the export of growing SURPRISES
from the warm and prolific valleys
throughout the Pacific Coast will
probably insure Pacific Coast fruit
parelleling salmon and condensed milk
as staple throughout the world.
The export of fresh fruit, notably
apples, first winning It's way in the
markets of Eastern American cities,
foreign apple markets via the Panama
and now flowing in ship cargoes to