THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST 
forest crop, worth $350,000,000 a year, moves eastward 
throughout our own country and to foreign lands. And 
the world, in a frenzy of belated building, calls for more! 
Timber! 
The world demands more of it to build and grow. The 
Pacific Northwest can supply it. On the slopes of the 
Cascades, the Coast Range and the Olympics of Oregon 
and Washington!, in the Coeur d’Alenes, the Bitterroots 
and Rockies of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming is half 
the timber in the United States. Here is America’s great 
forest reserve. A vast storehouse of natural wealth 
measuring 970 billion board feet! If these great forests 
should now stop growing, and cutting should proceed at 
the present rate, they would yield 10 billion feet worth 
$350,000,000 every year for 100 years. But growth con¬ 
tinues at a rate that adds to the supply more than half 
the amount annually cut. And cutting must shortly 
increase to two or three times the present amount, in 
the opinion of the United States Forest Service. Experts 
agree that within the next fifteen years the burden of 
supplying the bulk of the country’s needs for lumber will 
rest upon the Pacific Northwest. 
What a great Tomorrow for the Pacific Northwest! 
No wonder it is growing at a rate five times as fast as the 
nation. No wonder farsighted men are building there 
a great new empire of industry. Lumbering itself, 
based on a vast natural wealth that is secure, almost 
would support it. But other great industries are keep¬ 
ing pace with lumber. Shipping has had a tremendous 
growth, increasing in volume and value several times in 
the last two decades. The great ports of the Pacific 
Northwest now are the principal western gateway to an 
increasing trade with three-fourths of the world’s popula¬ 
tion. Immense oil fields, coal and mineral mines in 
Montana, Wyoming and Idaho are yielding a million 
dollars a day in new wealth. A big fishing industry 
centers in the world's largest fisheries of Washington, 
Alaska and Oregon; huge water-power plants more and 
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