THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST 
A COLOSSUS MOVES WEST 
A MERICA has an amazing appetite lor wood. We 
_ use two-fifths of the total world consumption. Our 
annual ration is 40 billion feet of lumber, 87 million 
railroad ties, 5^ million cords of pulp wood, and no 
million cords of fuel. We have $5,000,000,000 invested 
in plants that make lumber, wood products and paper. 
These 75,000 establishments employ 1,350,000 workers. 
Nor is that all. Every industry, no matter what, is 
dependent in part on the forest. 
Wherewithal shall this colossus be fed? The timbered 
regions of the eastern states, of the Great Lakes region, 
of the South, which have borne the brunt of our timber 
demands, must have support. They cannot supply the 
increasing demands. The great forest reserve of the 
Pacific Northwest must become the nation’s primary 
source of supply. 
The lumber colossus turns to the West. It will not 
be disappointed in the prospect—nearly 1,000 billion 
feet of virgin timber in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, 
Montana and Wyoming! Half the forest resources of 
the United States! Lumber experts and logging engi¬ 
neers are busy with plans. New plants are being built, 
and established mills enlarged. Logging railroads are 
extending and new ones penetrate virgin forests. 
Operators are assembling vast quantities of equip¬ 
ment. Much of it must be new and adapted to the big 
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