By BILL’ FLETCHER
‘Vancouver Bun’ Business Editor

Fear and ‘imminent danger hung
in the alr throughout Britiah Col-
umbia's remote Interior on that hot,
muggy first day of July: last sum~
mer, ~

Provincial forestry: service look-

lands ‘below them with. powerful
binoculars,

One minute it was quigt. The
pete like, mighty crescendo from

jinimer Forest Fires.

thunder rolled up the valleys;

Lightning streaked ‘out of the
Jeaden skies, Every time it hit there
was a puff of smoke followed by a,
flash of flame, In a matter of hours
450. fires were crackling through
the underbrush and jeaping from
tree to tree.

The air. waves were jammed
with talk as the lookout men rushed
to report on’.the new outbreaks,

; By nightfall, the sky over a cor-
ridor 200 miles long and 100 mies
wide, was a reddish glow.

8 thousand tympanes, the sound of

m@ “Horamed” crews raced ‘to meet
the searing threat. But they sl-
ready knew it was a case of too
Uttle, too Inte.

When the holocaust finally died
out toward. the end of August fores-

try. officials in Victoria. began tot-|.::

ting up the cost of fighting 3,708
fires hia ravaged zome 100,000
nores,.

‘The ‘pil came to $4.6" million,

“While ‘t:was slightly ire
than : the $44
disastrous 1958 the value of timber:
destroyed was far less this year.
‘losq''to ‘the’ govern-

feat y

eon
Important

. (continued from page 11)

developments .. . towards the ut-
ilization of waste will receive all
possible assistance from my depart-
ment,” Mr.- Williston .-noted that
“chipping operations normally pre-
cede the installation of a pulp in-

expenditure “.of about $1° million
would be minde ‘to’ install: barking
and chipy at each

. sides to double their capacity so

Chips

Factor

that each car will hold about 22
units, The CNR is using a modified
automobile car as its chip carrier,

‘The possibility of trucking the
chips down the Trans-Canada High-'
way to Vancouver was investigated
but, according to’ Tom Jackson, the

twice as much os the ‘rail hauls.”
‘With the exception of Holding
Lumber. (with .-2° “short ‘six-mile
truck haul), all the mills are on the
mainline of the CPR or ONR, +
Early in the planning stages,

mill and for storage facilities. How-

estimate the five mills rin up a
$2,500,000 bili in making the change-
over, 60")

‘The additional, expenditure went

increased general sawmill capacity |
and efficiency, for.

Scragg mills and the lke to utilize

smaller ‘timber, and: for a variety].

of expanded facilities,

“This” was e big. ‘decision but
one that, hid to be made,” said Mr.
Long. -“It' involves alot of money,
but it’s that. kind of a venture. It
sets a big pattern for future fol-
lowers.”

The cer and CNR “also made
changes in their rolling stock to ac-
commodate ‘the new situation, The
OPR, which’. willbe: hauling chips{
from ‘oll the ‘mills except, Fadear
Creek, is supplying 100 special cars
and the CNR 25,

- The CPR spent $200,000 to con-
vert gondola ‘rail cars to chip cars,
fitting them with steel extension

Castlegar. Street

ter8Keh, which fs: buying the’ chips
right at: the'sawmills,-are “18 or 19

most exclusively ‘spruce or Douglas

‘also was given to us-
ing. only one: central” chipper: at
Kamloops where slabs and ‘edgings
could be trucked for’chipping and
shipping. However, the plan was
dropped .when it was found the
jcost of this trucking would. in two
years amount to the price of a chip-
per for each mill.
Hope to Attract Pulp Mill
Despite the tendency’ of their
operations, the mills feel the co-
operative company. serves a ‘useful
purpose in bargaining with the B.c.
Forest Service, Crown’ Zellerbach
and the railways, But the principal
reason for the‘ co-operative’s farma-
tort! is to attract s pulp mill to the
area, with assurance a united
front gives that a firm flow of Pulp
chips‘ will be available. :
“Freight charges to Crown: Zel-

cents a hundredwelght. Although
the price being patd has not been
discolsed, it has been reported that
the mills will be getting about half
a. million dollars for 9 full year’s
chip production.”

‘The five mills, whose cut is al-

Is Named After
A Japanese Rose...

‘The naming of two new streets
in Castlegar posed a problem at

orks chairman
or it it his. duty?” asked Comm.
Ange Sylvest. “Tt's hia wife's,” Iau-
ghed Comm. Welter Thorp.

* screens
‘The problem before counci! was M aoih aiid = eociieatie Ob:
that of naming » new street in the niger Sin pated 5

Council decided to name: the
short street between Juniper. and
Larch, Kerrla St. (In botany, Ker-
ria is a genus of plants of the rose
family, native-in Japan and culti-
vated throughotit the world for iti
handsome yellow flowers) while the
street in the Landis subdivision will
be known ag Oak St. y

fir, average about 100,000 board feet
a day with Holding Lumber having
the top sawmill capacity of 130,000
feet and B.C, Interior Sawmills the
lowest at'75,000, «

chip production is.
from .8 to one unit per thowsond, 2
considerably higher than coast pro-
du gi FD OR MOA TER

supplied the barkers, chippers and

and the fifth, Nicola Valley, got its

in alphabetical order, difficulty waa| 2 Pcoye yes
enced.

“With relatively small logs, their
expected to be

in ‘elt: five’ mills, ' Rader

veyor systems for four of the mills
from Convey

‘The s stothedinig feature of this
20-ton barker js the degree of -pres-
sure control the-operator has over
the. five abraider arms. -While the
barker “is “in ~ operation, © pressure
applied by coil springs can be ad-
justed, from the maximum tension
to lifting the abraiders completely
off by. means of'a control-panel-op-
erated cable,

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“trucking would have cost at least |’

ment in value two years
ago‘is placed at $7.9 million and a
conservative, estimate in value of
timber. destroyed is 10 times that.
2. “We won't have an estimate of
the 1960 damage until mid-Decem-
ber,” says Deputy Forests Minister
R. G.."Gerry” MoKee, “but I would|
guess that. it won't. be one-tenth
what it was.in 1958.”

would mean around $7
million: worth of lumber

Cost Province $4.6.|

“Once fires’ stast,” ae McKee,
“we have permission to’ throw all
the resources we can’ get at them
but by ‘then it's too late.”

‘Why does the provincial govern-
ment. follow .. auch ‘a policy?

at knows that serious fire sea~
gons. occur frregularly... Some years
the cost, of firefighting is,45 low as

: Lands and Forests Minister:Ray
Williston -beliéves that B.C. is ap-

led in Propriating ‘all it can for forestry

$70,000. 80, the government gambles. |

‘protection, It is the federal govern-
ment that is falling down onthe
fob, he says. *

"yen though Ottawa iakea'stis-

ment’s contributions to fire pre=

vention are

the provincial, government Bays in
ti.

‘Fores. Andry.
Important’: Oglow

Endorsation of National Forest
Products Week recetved the fall
hieraabe of. Castterar council at its
last meeting.

“This; hp samy course enthus-
ports anything to do

with promoting forest prodcta,”
N.

was Jost, Add the cost of fighting
fires and the total havoc comes to

‘kT. Ogiow. “The economy of this
town Is to be greatly affected by
et prodagia

about $12 millon,

outbreaks. on this summer's -ecale,.

“We need three helicopters for ter,

Minister
. | access roads and truck - frais inte fw

the back country.

“Until we have all these facil-
ities these costly fires will continue.” | |

Since there are five foreat dis-| 15
tricte in the province this.means' a
total of 16 machines, At $30,000 ren-
tal per season the need adds up to
almost $500,000,

‘Ths year the department hod
one copter shared between three
interior forest Aistrists, Two, others

ty
becatize of - thelr, ability to: move

were, on, part-time service in the
Peace river.» Be goa

In addition to tls there were

seven other fixed-wing planes,

on, the. government had to throw. 14
peice 18 water bombers and up

crows to freak outbreaks, In a mat-

can, havea suppression. erew, on: the
site to smother the: fires. :Tt might

he says, but-this type of operation
dangerous and not as ef-

dielent. ay
"Trails for. four-wheel drive
equipment | ($5,000°'s mile against
$30,000 for forest development roads)
are also a must in accessible areas.
Next week: The question of fl-

naneing forestry protestion, |

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BUILDERS

ae

[SUPPLIERS

APHONE 5155

The Families of the

with the expansion of the Forest Industry in this area and with homes

they have built with products of the forest.

. Our forests have supplied the lumber to build our schools, churches,

and many other public and «

to enrich the economy of this wonderful district.

the

THE CORPORATION OF- oi OF

Forest industry in the

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Second lot east side of 4th ave-
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Phone | Jo! Landis at 5440. 3046
‘Baby buggy. Used only 4 mon-
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Medium-sized fridge only =
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‘A hunter's home on wheels, oe
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al-in, TV, also lnrgé wardrobe
1s. closet, Both in excellent condition,
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Phone 5167,

3 wand household = ef-
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an. Can be seen at eats
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40

Man's tweed ear coat, size 40.

Also, grey sult, as new. Phone 7241,

Modern walnut arborite buffet,

lke new; child’s 4-year-old crib;

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1284 Bay Avenue, Trail

Van Lines to Vancouver, van:
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landscaped Iot on main
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41
dresser or chest of draw-
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m, hall and room,:
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‘Mr, and Mra, William ©, Baker
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| the engagment of thelr only. Seva
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