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R. H. BAILEY 

 Post Point to Lummi Peninsula as the report recocntDended, 

 The above primary treatment is recommended for all 

 sulfite pulp mills in Washington, but a more detailed 

 analysis of the Bellingham pulp mill operation is as 

 follows . 



This sulfite pulp mill was built in 1926, 

 with the first full year of operation in 1927. It has 

 maintained an increase in its pulp production every suc- 

 ceeding year. 



The Bellingham Pulp Mill produced 8,075 tons 

 of pulp in 1927. Production doubled to 16,561 tons in 

 1928, tripled in 1929 to 25,858 tons, increased fourfold 

 by 1934 to 32,899 tons , Increased eightfold in 1938 to 

 47,682 tons, increased twelvefold in 1940 to 100,839 tons, 

 increased eighteenfold in 1942 to 146,000 tons, and 

 increased twenty-fourfold at the present time in 1966 to 

 192,000 tons, which means that every 20-month period 

 since 1927 we have had the equivalent of a new pulp mill 

 of the original capacity built at Bellingham with a 

 corresponding increase in sulfite liquor pollution. 



There was no reduction in the discharge 

 of millions of gallons of sulfite liquor until 1945, when 

 the alcohol plant was built. This plant operates on the 

 fermentable sugars which noake up 2 percent of the total 



