large-scale logging and production of wood prod- 
It has 40 percent of the installed sawmill ca- 
Prior to the depression 
ucts. 
pacity of the entire region. 
a large quantity of logs was put on the Puget Sound 
log market by independent loggers, but this has 
fallen off during late years. Puget Sound has ex- 
cellent harbors and has good shipping service—that 
is, it has enough volume of other traffic and enough 
sawmills and pulp mills so that boats plying at regu- 
lar intervals have an opportunity to get full cargoes. 
Location of both sawmills and pulp mills on tide- 
water makes it easy and cheap to move sawmill 
waste to pulp plants and hogged fuel to points of 
Logs can easily be 
imported, also, from British Columbia. 
The Sound district is served by three transcon- 
tinental railroads to the east and three to the 
south, and by an _ excellent 
Wood-using plants are scattered up and down the 
Sound from Bellingham to Olympia, including 
sawmills, pulp mills, veneer plants, shingle mills, 
The diver- 
sity of these plants allows maximum integration of 
industry and full utilization of different timber 
species and of different grades of logs. The com- 
munities on the Sound where most of the wood- 
using industries are located are modern, progres- 
sive cities with good facilities for the welfare of 
their inhabitants. 
consumption in the large cities. 
highway system. 
door factories, furniture factories, etc. 
Grays Harbor-Willapa Bay District 
The Grays Harbor-Willapa Bay district has 
some of the advantages of the Puget Sound district, 
but not to the same degree. Grays Harbor is an 
excellent port, but the Willapa Bay harbor, to 
date, is only mediocre. At neither harbor 
there other lines of business permitting good water- 
transportation small shipments of 
lumber or pulp; in fact, forest products constitute 
practically all the shipping in these two ports. 
Although the Grays Harbor-Willapa Bay district 
has sawmills, a pulp plant, veneer plants, shingle 
mills, box factories, door factories, general remanu- 
facture plants, cabinet works, and other wood- 
using industries, its wood-using industries are 
are 
service for 
neither so varied nor so extensive as those of the 
Puget Sound district. 
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Douglas-fir region 
In this district, considering timber in all avail- 
ability classes, the ratio of board-foot volume of 
pulp species to that of Douglas-fir is 3 to 1. 
Columbia River District 
The Columbia River district has excellent fresh- 
water harbors that will accommodate transoceanic 
