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Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-10-02
West Coast Lumber Plans For Peace
BY Col. w. b. Greeley,

BY Col. w. b. Greeley,
Secretary-Manager West Coast
Lumbermen's Association
Editors Note:
We present here part of Colo
mel Greeley's article, which tells of
tree farms, emphasizing the need
for state conservation.
Free Enterprise
Longrange interest which we
are determined the war shall not
submerge is forest conservation.
We take the matter of timber
growing and the permanency of
our industries and payrolls very
seriously. AS matter of fact
public sentiment in the United
States would not let us do other
wise. There are frequent and
pointed proposals that our federal
government assume control and di-
rection of private timber cutting
practices. We have undertaken to
show that, in the Pacific North
west at least, better results can
be obtained by reliance upon free
enterprise. But it is folly for an
industry to take that position
without a lot of hard work in the
woods to back it up.
Exploitation Admitted
The West Coast timber indus
try is outgrowing its heyday of
reckless exploitation. With the
exhaustion of about half of our
virgin stumpage, the very eco
Monies of the situation are giving
men a longer point of view. We
are beginning to appreciate the
marvellous capacity of the Doug
las fir forest to reproduce itself
and what a tangible asset that is
to our lands and our business. Our
loggers can see around them
many thousands of acres of well
advanced growth. When they
realize that this junior forest, if
well stocked. is producing stump
age at the rate of 600 or 700 board
feet per acre every year; when
they see old growth timber values
increasing to $500 and $500 or
$500 per thousand feet, there is
something to think about.
Our industry has learned its for
estry the hard way, through the
control of the forest fire. 1t has
had a sort of practical instinct
for doing the first things first.
Out Of 40 years of cooperative eff
fort in creating and strengthening
the forest fire codes of Oregon and
Washington, has grown a gradual
recognition that we should tackle
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-10-02
Twenty Facilities Win
Army-Novy Production
Award

WASHINGTON. Employees of
twenty additional industrial plants
have won the Army-Navy PRODUCE
ton Award for outstanding rec
ords in war production. Under
Secretary of War Robert p. Pat
terson and Under Secretary Of the
Navy James V. Forrestal have an
nounced.
Each of the selected plants will
be privileged to fly the Army
Navy Production Award pennant
and their employees will be given
Army-Navy &c" pins.
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-10-02

timber growing in somewhat the
same fashion.
Active Association Committees
On Conservation
And so most of the Douglas fir
loggers were ready, in 1888, when
our code of self-government was
set up under the National Indus
trial Recovery Act, to accept the
obligation of leaving their cut
over lands in good coalition for re-
seeding. They were ready to carry
on this obligation voluntarily
when the codes were killed by the
United States Supreme Court. For
the past ten years we have had
active association committees on
forest conservation. We have had
an industry code of good forest
practice. 1t is fairly observed to-
day in the logging of probably 10
per cent of our total cut. Our
operators have, or did have, when
war broke, some $50 trained for
esters throughout their organiza-
tons; and they have exerted a real
force in shaping the course of the
industry. So has the cooperation
! of the United States Forest Serv-
ice, including the joint participa-
ton in fire control under the
Clarke McNary Act.
Registered Tree Farms
A number of large forest own
ers are moving ahead toward the
sustained yield type of forest in
dustry. We now have adopted
the term Tree Farm" to indicate
an area which has been definitely
set up by its owner for the per-
manent business of growing TIM
ber We now have twenty regis
tered tree farms, including a total
of some 100000 acres. There
are probably at least 21a million
acres of privately owned land in
the whole region which is identi-
fled with permanent timber grow
ing.
Nisqually Forest Nursery
The latest move in this pro-
gression came last year, when a
number of forest owners joined
with the industry associations in
financing the Nisqually Forest
Nursery. 1t will produce 5 mill
lion forest tree seedlings year;
and its output is contracted for,
for the next five years. These
young trees will be planted out
to reforest the old burns and other
blank spots.
The forestry movement in West
] ern Oregon and Washington is just
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-10-02
STATE-THE LAND OF PROMISE
To Grade And Scale West Coast Logs

/. BUREAUS - Puget Sound
Log Scaling and Grading Bureau,
Seattle; Grays Harbor Log Seal
ing and Grading Bureau, Aber-
deem. Wash; Columbia River Log
Sealing and Grading Bureau,
Portland. Ore 2. INDIVIDUALS
Graders and scalers. William A.
Arey. 9i1 Lowman Bldg. Seattle;
T. o. Carney, Lumbermen's Bldg,
Portland; j. V. Ediund Morton,
Wash. Frank Il. Evanson, olym-
pic Log Scaling and Grading Blu
reau, Aberdeen, Wash; Charles l..
Foster, Rt. 4, Eugene, Ore Free
man Fowler. 205 N. 9TH St, Tilla-
nook. Ore, Fred w. Fransen, SOi6
N. 18th St.. Tacoma.
]. +. Handler, Jr., and Roy Her
hhey. both of 237 Pittock Block,
Portland; w. C. johnson. Pacific
Log Scaling Bureau. 1924 s. w.
Macadam Ave. Portland; w. j.
Kinder, 237 Pittock Block. Port
land: II. C. Lamb, 1926 Nebraska
St, Salem, ore.
r.. W. Mcintyre, 406 Rust Bldg,
Tacoma; Griffith Morgan, $50 5th
St, Astoria, Ore; Henry J. os-
valid, William NJ Oswald, A. +.
schneider, and w. r. Scott. all of
237 Pittock Block, Portland; Clyde
b. Sheridan, p, o. Box l43, olyrn-
pia, Wash; Irving Smith, Jr.. and
Harold ]. Trattner, both of 205 w.
5th St, Tillamook. Ore. Henry A.
Waldner, 1926 N. L. 10th Ave,
Dnptlatnd
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Greater Lumber Production Urged

decking alone. An aircraft carrier
like the new Lexington requires
25O,0oO feet for its flight deck.
into each subchaser goes about a
quarter of million feet for keel,
frame, hull and decking.
THE fullest cooperation of the
lumber industry is needed II the
ships for the expanded Naval pro-
gram are to be completed. We
need every ship we can get for
the tremendous task Of fighting
and patrolling on all the Seven
Seas.
THE loggers and sawmill work.
ers of America have never failed
their country in time of crisis. We
know they will not fail now In
the time of its greatest need"
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-10-02

Three bureaus and % individ-
uals In Washington and Oregon
have been approved by the Office
of Price Administration and au-
thorized to grade and scale West
Coast logs, OPA announced to-
day.
Under the terms Of revised max
imum price regulation No. 16l
West Coast logsl, West Coast
logs must be graded and scaled
by bureaus or individuals who
have been approved by the Of
flee of Price Administration
In designating the scalers and
graders OPA said that the three
bureaus named in the order are
non-profit organizations and have
been long established i'm the re-
spective areas in which they OPP
crate"
The % individuals approved as
log graders and scalers, oPA said
"haye made appropriate applica-
tons, and have established that
they are graders and scalers of
considerable experience, All of
these individuals operate as In
dependents and are employees of
neither the buyer nor the seller,
but perform their services on a
fee basis, thus assuring independ-
ent and accurate scaling and grad
ing of logs. -
Those approved and authorized
by OPA through order No. 81,
under RMPR l6i, effective today
Sept. 25. 1e43l are as follows.
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NEW FRONTIERS
in the conquest Of
WANT =. INSECURITY =. IGNORANCE g. UGLNEss

to the Palouse and thence overland
to Spokane House, a trading post
of the Northwest Company. Stuart
continued up the Columbia until
he came to the mouth of the Okla
hogan, where the men built a
house of driftwood. During the
autumn Stuart and the rest of the
party with the exception of Alex
ander Ross, went on up the Okla
hogan exploring and got showed
in. Ross was left to spend the
winter alone-the winter of 1911
12-and history records that dur
ing that time he traded goods to
the Indians worth about $40 for
furs which were worth $4,000 in
the Canton market.
Ross Tells of Trip
In his book, Adventures in the
Oregon and Rocky Mountains"
Ross tells of a trip made to Spo-
kane in 1914 and of crossing the
Gfdnu COulee.
II set off for Fort Spokane. On
the way both going and coming
we made a short stay at a place
called the Grand Coulee, one of
the most romantic, picturesque,
and marvelously-fomed chasms
west of the Rocky Mountains. g.
No one travelling in these parts
ought to resist paying a visit to
the wonder of tie West.
The sides, or banks, of the
Grand are for the m ost part
formed like stairs to ascend and
descend, and not unfrequently
vaults, or excavated tombs, as if
cut through the solid rocks, like
the dark and porous catacombs of
Kief. The bottom, or bed, deep
and broad, consists of a conglom-
crate of sand and clay, hard and
smooth, where not interrupted by
rocks. The whole presents in
every respect the appearance OF
, the deep bed of a great river or
lake. now dry, scooped out of the
level and barren plain. The sight
in many places is truly magnifi-
cent; while in one place the solemn
gloom forbids the wanderer to adj
vance, in another the prospect is
lively and inviting, the ground be-
! ing thickly studded with ranges
of columns, pillars, battlements,
turrets and steps above steps, in
every variety and shade and color,
What is still more singular in
this arid and sandy region, cold
springs are frequent. Altogether
it is a charming assembly of pic
turesque objects for the admirer OF
nature. 1t is the wonder of the
Oregon"
In the War of 1912 Aston sold
out to the Northwest Company,
which a few years later was alb
sorbed by the Hudson Bay Com
pany. Thus the English controlled
the upper Columbia region until
the middle of the century when the
Oregon Question" was settled.
Next week we will follow new
explorers into the Grand Coulee.
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-10-02
By Margaret Thompson
Executive Secretary Northwest
Conservation League

LANtutltt btNEttdIN 4NbHAhNNHA
Conservation League
The story behind the ira n d
Coulee-Columbia Basin prof e C t
goes back to the morning of May
IL, 1892, when Robert Gray sailed
into the mouth of the great river
which he named after his ship, the
columbia, and to the spring of
1907 when David Thompson came
upon Columbia Lake out of which
the same river takes its rise. Gray
was an American, Thompson an
Englishman employed by tn e
Northwest Fur Company. b h
countries laid claim to the region
drained by the river-then better
known as the Oregon-and they
eventually arrived at a scheme
known as the treaty of Joint Oc-
cupation.
Discovery of KOOtenay
Crossing the Rockies in the
spring of 1907, Thompson came
on June 80 to that section of the
river which flows northward be-
tween the Rockies and the Sell
kinks. Because it seemed to be
going in the wrong direction he
did not recognize it and proceeded
to name it the Kootenay. Instead
of following it around the Selkirks,
he turned south, telling his Indian
guides that it was a south-flowing
river that he was looking for
They took him upstream to the
lake which constituted its source,
and from which they made a por-
tage across a low strip of land
to a river which did flow south.
This Thompson named Flat Bow,
but it is what we know today as
the Kootenay.
The Kootenay takes its rise in
the main range of the Rocky
Mountains, flowing within mile
and a half of Columbia Lake from
which the Columbia River flows
northward for 200 m es before
turning south. The divide between
Columbia Lake and the Kootenay
River is a level. gravelly flat,
which made an easy portage over
which Thompson dragged h is
canoes and came on down into
what is now Montana. Eventually
he established a trading post at
what is now the town of Thomp-
son Falls. Today the strip OF
land over which he made the port
age iy called Canal Flats, because
a company once conceived the idea
of connecting the two rivers by
canal. AS soon as they did so the
raging waters over-ran the area
in a great torrent that choked the
canal with gravel and made 1t
unfit for use.
In the spring of 1910 David
Thompson came down the Pend
O'Reille River to a point near Pend
OReille Lake, and the following
year he went down the Columbia
to it's mouth. There he found the
American fur traders sent out by
John Jacob Aston, who had estab-
lished the trading post of Astoria.
The Americans at Okanogan
When he was ready to return a
party of the Americans, under the
leadership of David Stuart, went
with him. When they came to the
mouth of the Snake River, near
which the town of Pasco now
stands, they parted. Thompson
and his party went up the Snake
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-10-02

These excerpts from letters and
kilograms show how our senators
and congressman from the three
Pacific Northwest states feel
about the immediate establishment
of an alumnia industry somewhere
in the area:
Office of Senator Bone (Wash.) },
who is ill: You may be sure that
Senator Bones views with regard
to the need for a permanent alum
ina industry in the Pacific North
west are in line with your own.
We are hopeful that the recent
Boeing wage increase will ale
viate the situation and cause the
VINO to change its decision"
Congressman Harris Ellsworth,
(Ore.): Establishment of such an
industry is of great Importance
now, and for the future. I assure
you of my cooperation in any
steps that may be taken"
Congressman ii. G. DwOrshak,
Ida.): II assure you l will CO.
operate with congressional rep
resentatives from the Northwest in
seeking approval of early con-
struction of an alumina plant in
the Northwest"
Congressman John NJ. Coffee,
(Wash): Count on me to keep
crusading for such an alumnia
plant as you advocate. / have been
persistent and militant always in
fighting against monopoly, parti-
cularly Alcoa, and affirniatively
for plants in the Northwest to
reduce alumina from local clays.
I feel very indignant about the ar
bitrary departmental rulings
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PATRIOTISM

Patriotism is not enough, l must
have no hatred or bitterness to-
ward anyone. Edith Cavell, on the
night before her execution in 1915.
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getting under way. 1t is far from
complete. But it does represent
what is certain to be growing
phase of management. The war is
Fastening the depletion of our
finest old growth of stumpage. 1t
is difficult to maintain all of the
forest practices in full force like
the falling of snags. But an in
creasing number of West Coast
forest owners are setting their
sights on this type of land man
agement. The movement will not
be stopped or blunted by the war.
For the long look ahead, it is one
of the most vital things we have
to do.
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timber growing in somewhat the
same fashion.
Active Association Committees
On Conservation
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-08-07
DEEP DRILLING
MAY FIND on.
ON GEBO DOME

CASPER. -Continenta Oil Co. has
started drilling on it's Tensleep sand
test on Gebo dome, Is miles north Of
Thermopolis. Development Of this favor
able structure was delayed for many
years by withdrawal by the government
Of 91,0sO acres on top of the structure.
One well was drilled ON state land
which had q show Of oil in the upper
Frontier at $500 feet, but this well was
off structure.
In 1925, Ohio Oil Co. and Midwest
Refining Co. drilled a joint test to
2902, through the Morrison, finding
water in the Frontier and Dakota sands.
A show Of gas was found in the LakOta
and it was abandoned.
Geb0 is broad anticline formed in
Cody shale and has closure of 500
feet. It is faulted and favorable for
production in the black oil series.
Manning & Brown, rotary contractors,
will drin to 1000 feet with rotary
tools
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-08-07
Big West Soles
Mcnuger Posses

AIMED Soderstrom, sales manager of
Big West Oil Company at Kelvin since
1925, passed away suddenly at his
home at Kelvin on Tuesday night from
a heart attack. He had not been i'll
and the first sign Of his attack came
when he awOke during the night and
declared that the air in the room was
bad. He passed away almost immediate
ly. He came to Montana from Mime
sofa where he was engaged In banking.
He Ii survived by three grown children,
including boy in the army, one in
Kansas City and daughter in Seattle.
Because Of his long experience be was
wide and favorably known in the Mon
tana oil industry.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-08-07

sand pool.
The Elk Basin discovery might not
have come for many more years ex-
eept for the enterprise Of Independent
operators. One Of the foremost pro
ponents Of Elk Basin over the years is
J. A. Henderson on whose leases the
discovery we'll was drilled on the
south end Of Elk Basin He also has
extensive holdings on the Montana side.
He personally financed a well to the
upper sands but was unable to complete
It to the Tensleep. o. =
Another pioneer prepayment Of Elk
Basin is John Wight Of Billings who
has been identified with a large num-
Der Of oil and gas development projects
throughout eastern Montana and North
ern Wyoming. Wight held leases on
government lands in Elk Basin and
has tried for Is years past to interest
an operator in a deep test. In 1912 he
entered into contract with the X & L
Drilling Co. Of Oklahoma City to drill
q TensIeep test. This contract provided
for the first well on the DengIer lease,
owned by Wight, but later he consented
CONTINUED on Page 81
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-08-07
Tribal Leases
VIII be Sold out
Public AUCTION

A return to public auction Of tribal
lands in the sensational new Tribal
pool Of Cut Bank field is indicated in
the announcement of public sale of
three tracts, together with 1868 acres
along the Montana Alberta border,
northwest. of Cut Bank oil and gas
field
A new participating interest contract
had been worked out by the Tribal
council whereby lands were to be sold
at private sale. The plan was approved
in Washington, d. c., but hit a legal
snag when allottees appeared to claim
preference rights. An the contracts
have been held up, as a result.
The Tribal pool tracts include:
Nellie Ashley allotment: Ell Sec.
6-31N -5w, $50 acres
George Champagne No. 4 allotment:
NwA, NJ ny NEA swA Sec. g.
31N-5W, ITO acres.
Clara Vielle allotment: NWA NWA,
s15 NWA, sWA See. 5-31N-5W, ESQ
acres.
Continued on Page 81
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this field. Like the Swazey No. 4 the
Holloway No. found quartz sand
at the base of the Ellis formation. In
the Holloway this sand was eight feet
thick, with slight saturation. The
Swazey No. was drilled but two feet
into the sand and was completed with
an initial of 1875 barrels. II settled 10
so barrels. The Holloway showed more
oil at the lime contact than above and
it was acidized with 500 gallons of
hydrochlorie acid. II began making 200
barrels per day and it is believed that
it will likewise settle TO around so
barrels
This was one Of two good producers
in Kelvin this week Kalbar-Fee No. 4,
on the east side of the field, came in
with an initial of 10 barrels per hour,
following acidization The peculiar fact
is that this well offsets a dry hole
completed last week by Coolidge &
Coolidge on the Wait farm. The Wait
B No. was twice aeidized, once with
1900 gallons, and it showed no oil so
was abandoned. Yet the direct east
offset is making 240 barrels per day.
The Kalbar is owned by Kalispell-
Kelvin and Barmae Oil company inter
ests, the latter headed by A. F. Ne
elaine Of Spokane.
On the west side Of the field, in the
high gravity pool above the rimrock
Cobb & Handbook completed a 25-barrel
(Continued on Paes -
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-08-07
Campaign OF
Wndcatters
Grows Daily

The start of two more wildcat wells,
together with the arrival Of geophy
steal crew Of General Petroleum Cor
poration of California, marked the past
week as one more milestone on the
road to new oil reserves for north Mon
tana.
A crew Of 20 is now operating out Of
Choteau, west of Great Falls, making
seismograph survey Of an area north
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-08-07

and south Of Choteau, extending out to
the Freezeout lake district and thence
toward the town Of Fairfield It is
little prospected area on the west flank
of the Sweetgrass Arch.
The Texas company started the see
ond wildcat of its 1912 prospecting on
Continued on Page 81
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-08-07
SECOND GOOD PRODUCES IN SuNBURST
POOL SHOWS INITIAL OF 200 BARRELS
Holloway Well Responds
To Acid In Lime Below Sand

discovery pool of Kelvin field this
week showed initial of 200 barrels day. bringing surprise to
operators thought this 23yard field depleted
The well Texas Holloway No producer which offsets
likewise well
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-08-07
Elk Basin Brings Re,Uatd 70
Billings Men Who PiOned5ed

BLIINGsDeveIOpm Of Tleep production Elk
o.
Of in by
Of
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-12-22

Prentice /. Frazer, Real Estate,
Bail Bond Specialist, 325 Lyon
Bldg.
Johnny Campbell, Tavern of Good
Cheer, 1915 Yessler Way.
Russell Smith. 314 18th Ave. ;.
Ruben's Cafe. 40 9th Ave. s.,
near King.
The Atlas Cafe, Ala Maynard,
Lucy Hill, Prop.
Honest Grocery, 1235 Jackson st.
Night and Day Fuel and Express,
1886 Jackson st.
Baptist Mission, Rev. Judson
Swaney, pastor, 1927 jackson
Street.
The Angelus Mortuary, s10 18th
ave.
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By E. l. r.

The wanton, cold-blooded murder of Joseph Romag-
nolio the Svoundng of his wife and aged with
intent rob- chs the heart of every law abiding cit-
zen of Seattle.
Already voluntary organization of citizens and bus
mess of the South End determined these murderers
shall escape offering their aid law officials
in their apprehension and weed the undesirabes
responsible for robbery, rape and murder.
The action of South End citizens is reflected in
similar appeal directed the local NJ A. A. C. P by the
Rev. F. w. Penick, pastor of the Institutional Baptist
Church. retiring president: 81 shocked by the
Der of crimes charged against Negro for While
the crimes charged to white men, they do not
have the effect of results"
The of indignation coming from Race citizens
all the city, leads the Northwest Enterprise
all law abiding citizens join this crusade rid Seattle
of undertakes
Since writing this editorial two have been ar
rested and signed statements admitting their particpa
the murder-each laying the blame the other
the quality of mercy is not strained, but in this
society has rights which the courts bound to
respect. Their complete elimination from the social
register for all time to come.