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R. H. BAILEY 



CHAIRMAN STEIN: Well, we will do the best 

 we can. I think in this area our technicians are impec- 

 cable, and if it can be done I hope these can come out. 



These will appear with your testimony. 



(The aerial photographs referred to follow 

 on pages 315a and 315b.) 



MR. BAILEY: Mr. Stein and members of the 

 panel and ladies and gentlemen. 



My name is R. H. Bailey. I am Managing 

 Director of Citizens for Clean Water. I have spent 36 years 

 in the oyster business and have owned Padilla Bay tidelands 

 for 44 years. 



Scattered native oysters could still be found 

 in Padilla and Samish Bays in the 1920 's. These Olympia type 

 oysters disappeared in the early 30 's. Serious effects be- 

 came apparent in December 1934 when the emaciated condition 

 of the Pacific type oysters made marketing difficult. 



The pulp mills fought every effort to pass 

 pollution bills in 1941 and 1943. The claim was that 

 there was no known way to abate pulp mill pollution. One 

 of our leading producers^ pulp producers, the Weyerhaeuser 

 Company, eliminated this alibi by developing the magnesium- 

 oxide process J which regenerated and reused the chemicals 

 and evaporated 80 to 85 percent of the digester liquor. 



