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-

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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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