Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-07-31

One OF : the chest announcements a
Libby audience has listened to for some
time was that made Tuesday night at
the dinner given by the Libby Com
mercial club in honor of prominent Of
ficials of the forest service and Con-
gresham John M. Evans who were in
the city. At that time Walter Neils,
general manager of the j. Neils Lum-
Der company, publicly stated that its
sawmill here would be in operation for
MANY years to come it present plans
of the company materialize.
Speaking at the close of the meeting
regarding his company's policies Mr..
Neils said, 1T is with no small degree
of satisfaction that can announce that
our company has for the past two or
three years been operating in harmony
with the modern theory of getting a
continual yield from its timber lands.
We have changed our logging methods
and are leaving the young growth for
a future cutting. This means that we
are looking to the future and laying
our plans for continued operations here
at Libby for many years to come. 1t
is true that our personal holdings are be-
coming pretty well cut out, but Libby
is the logical place for the manufacture
of the timber from the extensive ter
ritory lying south of the town and it
should come to this place for cutting
into lumber. With the cooperation of
the forest service and also the coop
Grafton of the general public, il will
be possible to procure supply of tim
Der in this district that will insure con-
tinued operation Of the sawmill at Libby.
| If this cooperation is secured, if the
| forest service will refuse to fritter its
timber away in small sales to small
purchasers it will be feasible to make
the sawmill industry at Libby permit
anent one
While the substantial interests of the
city and community have long believed
the sawmill industry here would be a
long Lived one, yet there has always
lurked in the back of mems minds the
fear that perhaps Libby would be called
upon to face the same unhappy condi-
ton that has come to other communi
ties when the timber crop was cut out
and the sawmill moved to other fields
/ This fear was a natural one and has
had deterrent effect on the growth
of the community For that reason MIR
Neirs announcement that they prob
ably will be operating here in the
distant future means great deal t.
this entire community and will allas
whatever fears people may have hac
in that regard.
Tells Of Improved Logging Methods
4 George Neils, logging superintendent
: of the company, had spoken preceding
the remarks quoted above. He said
Some criticism has been made tonigh
of the old time methods of logging
, whereby the prime timber was Gu
out and the young growth destroyed
, The old idea was to get out the goot
! timber, cut out the field, make one
: profit and move on to other fields whel
the old one was cut out, That was
! common practice and we practiced
: the same as other lumber companies
l However, for the past two or tire
;. years we have entirely changed GU
Y logging methods. We are taking grea
a care to save the young growth, an
= we have contract with the state where
by it handles all our slashings. TIL
a state now piles and burns our slash
S ings and anyone who takes the troubl
!, to visit our operations in the Pip
creek district will see that loggin