The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-28
Public Spirit Wins Great Industry for
 Port Angeles.
(Pacific Pulp and Paper Industry0

Pacific Pulp and Taper lnduSCryJ
 When it comes to community spirit there seldom has been a simon pure chunk of 1t exhibited than at Port Angeles July 30. Nor is 1t entirely fair to confine this exhibition of spirit to that single date. On that day occurred merely the climax.
 The story goes like this:
 Port Angeles was told that it had mighty good chance to get group of wood using indus tries included in which would be some items such as a 500-ton pulp mill 0,000-foot sawmill and some other auxiliaries not quite so specific.
 The people who had in mind building this new payroll were well known to Port Angeles. One was E. M Mills President of the Washington Pulp x Paper Corporation, which already operates 270- ton news print mill there. He is also an officer in the Fibreboard Products Co. which operates a Cotton pulp and paperboard mill at Port Angeles also. Then there was J. H. Bloedel, timberman, who kept 1000 more men busy cutting logs just west of Port Angeles. There was Joe Irving, Puget Sound logger and head of the Port Angeles Western Railroad that runs west from Port Angeles down into some mighty fine virgin timber country-and is building on farther. And there were others.
 So Port Angeles people knew fairly well who talking. There was site on the waterfront at Port Angeles that these interests looked upon with favor. On it set of buildings built by the Federal Government during the war to cut Sitka spruce for airplane stock Not stick was ever cut This sawmill and the Port Angeles West ern Railroad both a part of the Government scheme which died with the signing of the Arms tice.
 Now these interests looked upon these varied assets, looked to the virgin hills of timber to the west beyond, and figured they would do something by knitting them together. So they Olympic Forest Products Company,
 They needed two things They must have industrial water for this large enterprise They need ed the public support of the community. And that is where Port Angeles stepped in. The Olympic Forest Products Company said to Port Angeles: We will need 20,000000 gallons of water daily for this enterprise If you will vote bonds to build industrial water line will contract for the supply" Subsequently the contract made, the company to pay the city $30O00 for the first years rental and $37 900 annually thereafter which would completely amortize the debt. The company was to maintain the line after building.
 The civic spirits then got busy. Here was chance to add a big payroll, that rested squarely upon the big, prime resource which covered the hills back of Port Angeles with green-tinted wealth. The committes got busy everybody boosted, everybody talked bonds.
 | On July 3O when the polls closed 2830 Port Angeles citizens had cast their ballots The 1928 Presidential election had pulled nightly for votes, but this bond election which much closer to home knocked that record way out. And out of that total of 2,83O votes cast there only Il cross marks after the word No. Do you wonder that Port Angeles citizens made whoopee that night and danced in the street and all that sort of thing?
 Immediately upon hearing the election results, MT. Mills wired to Port Angeles:
 We all greatly appreciate the splendid feeling indicated by the water bond vote and we hope to establish an industry entirely worthy of your fine city. Engineers are already preparing plans for mills and construction will be started within short | time"
 Thus did the Olympic Forest Products Company get the two things they after, the water supply and the communitys support.
 AS this issue goes to press it is officially stated to Pacific Pulp and Paper Industry that MT. V. D. Simons, consulting engineer of Chicago is work ing the plans of the mill units and construction is expected to start possibly time in Sep tember.
 I The completed mill will have a daily capacity of from 500 to 600 tons of pulp.