THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST 
BIG TREES, BIG BUSINESS 
\ LL this means one thing—a tremendous new busi- 
ness awakening throughout the Pacific Northwest. 
It is not a boom, although the growth of this country 
has been rapid and will be more so. But there is no 
hypodermic kind of stimulation here; no mushroom 
growth. Its foundation is deeper—as deep-rooted as the 
great forests on which it rests. Has ever a country 
budded on a sounder, more substantial basis of natural 
wealth ? 
Gradually the Pacific Northwest—Montana, Wyom¬ 
ing, Idaho, Oregon and Washington—must assume con¬ 
trol of the nation’s great lumber industry. This must 
come within the next 20 years, according to Govern¬ 
ment experts. In that time, they declare, production 
of lumber here must double and possibly treble. That 
means 150,000 workers will become 300,000 to 450,000. 
Experts estimate for each employe in the industry four 
to five more persons in the local supporting population. 
An increase of 300,000 workers therefore means an 
increase of 1,500,000 in the population of the Pacific 
Northwest due to this industry alone. Likewise, the 
returns from lumber products must increase from $350,- 
000,000 a year to more than $1,000,000,000. 
That is not all. The increased tonnage to be handled 
by the shipping industry and the railroads will add more 
thousands of workers, more millions in wages. In 1919, 
10,000 sailors, long-shoremen, stevedores and others 
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