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  • Vol. XXXV ¢ S 0. 3O|ympia, Wash., Grows lndustria||y - - - Page 9

    N Talc Mining Expanding in Montana - Page 3

    Opportunity ls on Their Doorstep - - - - - Page 12%@;, ¢?¢'§6.m;/we///nzéwér MAY-JUNE, 1961

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    tr YOU WISH INFORMATION regarding The Northern Pacic Railway, or about Industry, the Sierra Talc company, of South Pasa-agriculture and other resources in the territory which it serves please address one of the following dena’ Calif” at its Yellowstonemineofficers (depending on the information desired)

    property.P. D. EDGEl.l., General Manager, Properties and Industrial Development.....St. Paul, Minn. At the extreme left Ore hauled fromW. J. LUCHSINGER, Vice President—Tral¥ic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . St. Paul, Minn mines is unloaded from trucks. In theGEORGE M. WASHINGTON, Vice President—Oi| Development . . . . . . . . . .Billings, Mont next Secliom Screening Occurs_ Them twoF. C. SEMPF, Manager, Industrial Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .St. Paul, Minn . .J. T. MOORE, Western Manager, Industrial Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Seattle, Wash

    waste bins for ne material are locatedS. G. MERRYMAN, Manager, Timber and Western Lands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Seattie, Wash. 3“ the_l-St porno" tO_ward the_left hav-GEORGE R. POWE, Asst. Gen. Mgr., Properties and Industrial DeveIopment..St. Paul, Minn. mg w1nd°w5- Next’ In the wlde- veryzmssr E. THURLOW, Chief Mining Geologist........ . . . . . . . . . ..st. Paul, Minn. deep Section, OTB goes inl Surge bills-l.. S. MAcDONA|.D, Director, Agricultural Development Department. . . . . . . .St. Paul, Minn. from which it moves over a conveyor

    belt in the area at the right having threewindows, where hand picking is done to

    Production Conrmed in New Monarch Pool """°".“ Wm’ ‘°°"' T“""’.S“?"g" “"5

    en-tenths barrels of oil per hour on test drilled in the new pool. The third one

    are situated below the picking room.A conrmation in a new pool in the The conrmation is diagonally south- Since the Picture W35 made, metal Sid-

    Monarch eld, in Fallon county, south- east of the discovery. It is expected that 1115 has been aPPl1ed 0" the bl1lld1".‘Z-eastern Montana, owing nine and sev- a total oi six or seven wells will be

    through a twenty-two-sixty-fourths-inch has been spudded.. Northwest for the six months betweenchoke and designated as Shell-Northern

    Pacic N‘ P’ M23_15 reported * * " July 1, 1960, and December 31 amount-May 1 by the She“ éil eld Exports of wheat (shipments by water ed to 70,701,000 bushels, one of _the

    . .tf dtt if thPl tttl dfth d.and the Northern Paclc Rall_ 0 oreign GS lll l0l1S P0111 6 8C1 C 3I‘g6S O 3 S OII T600!‘ OI‘ 6 P6110way. nonoperating working-interest part-HGT.

    Explaining that the rate approached240 barrels a day, petroleum engineerssaid they considered the well a “realgood” confirmation. They stated that it"probably will be put on pump beforelong.

    The discovery well in the pool, Shell-Northern Pacic N. P. M12-15. wascompleted in March. pumping 369 bar-rels of oil a day.

    Located between the Cabin Creekeld and previously established produc-tion in the Monarch eld but within halfa mile of a dry hole, the discovery, in-

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    pretatlons of the Subsurface geology of the shutter of his camera with it aimed at the plant of the Sierra Talc company whilethe 3Tea- it was being built and machinery was being installed last fall at Three Forks, Mont.

    2 THE NORTHWEST, May-Juno, 1961

  • Talc Industry in Southwestern Montana ls ExpandingThree Companies Operate Mines; Talc Is Ground and Sacked at Plants, Including One Built atThree Forks, and Then Shipped to Users, Such as Makers of Paper, Paint and Ceramic Products

    The talc industry of Montana is onthe verge of signicant expansion. Al-

    until recentlythough the volume wasonly a small percentage of the total pro-duced in the United States, M0ntana’sshare of the output should increase.

    Three companies are engaged in thetalc business in the state, all in thesouthwestern area. While the Tri-StateMineral company centersnear Dillon, the Sierra Talc company, of

    its operations

    South Pasadena, Calif., and the Ameri-can Chemet corporation, of East Helena.Mont., operate talc mines south of Nor-ris and Alder and ship crude ore, aftersorting it, on the Northern Pacic from‘hose P°int5~ STRIP MINING REMOVES tale from deposits in southwestern Montana. The locationThe Sierra Talc company recently put pictured is the Yellowstone mine of the Sierra Talc eompanv. This California concernimo operation a plant for grinding and grinds and packages the ore at Three Forks, Mont., and at Grand Island, Nebr.bagging at Three Forks, Mont., withnew machinery in a new building con- Forks went during March to pulp and nation bag, talc and all are dumped intostructed on two and nine-tenths acres paper companies located in Wisconsin, the pulp. Where white grades of paperof leased Northern Pacic right of way. Ontario, Washington and California. are made, bags of white paper are usedNine persons out of 10 think of While paper concerns have taken com- for the talc.talcum powder when talc is mentioned. paratively little in the past, increasing “Our company,” a Sierra oicer re-As a matter of fact, this outlet requires amounts now are being sold as ller, as ported recently, “which has a full-timeonly one or two per cent of the annual coating material and as a means of research department, made an extensivevolume consumed in the United States. counteracting or controlling pitch in the study of the possibilities for the success-There are, literally, scores of other uses, production of pulp. At Three Forks, talc ful use of talc in the paper industry.”all of them requiring greater amounts going to paper mills is packaged in paper The Sierra rm, which owns 31 minesthan cosmetics and other toilet prepara- bags (4-0 pounds per bag), made with and which sells in Europe, Latin Amer.tions. water-soluble glue and not Stitched ica, Canada and the Orient, as well as in

    Indeed, the rst four carloads of n- Printing ink on these packages also is the [hired States, has two ral¢.gi-indingished talc shipped by Sierra from Three water soluble. Therefore, at the desti- l -

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    p ants and a cla) plant in California anda talc-grinding plant in Nebraska in ad-j dition to its new installation at ThreeForks. In Montana. while it owns sev-eral mining properties, all but one are! inactive at the moment. lts YellowstoneM‘; mine. an open pit located 4-7 miles south

    ' of Norris. is being operated. Removal of\ ore was initiated in 1949 at this location

    and the work was expanded in 1958..‘_ Since that time. a completely new ore-

    cleaning plant has been built at the mine.Carloads of cleaned. practically pure

    crude talc are shipped from Norris tothe Sierra company at Grand lsland,Nebr.. and truckloads go from the mineto Three Forks.

    Montana talc has been describedas soft bluish-white. greenish-white andgray bodies of steatite occurring in dolo-- . ‘ . : . “

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    ORE IS SCREENED in a cleaning plant of the Sierra Talc company, in southwesternMontana. Processing occurs in the building shown on the cover of The Northwest. Adouble-deck vibration screen is at the upper right. The material drops into bins below.

    PRETTY SCHOOL TEACHERS make extra dollars in the summer picking rock fromore in a cleaning plant of the Sierra Talc company at its Yellowstone mine south ofNorris, Mont. The ore falls into bins and then is moved to Norris or Three Forks.

    time, a matter of some 1,600,000,000years ago. lt consists predominately ofsilicon and magnesium and has smallamounts of other elements.

    It is expected that the Sierra plant atThree Forks will employ 12 local peopleand will operate 24 hours daily, reduc-ing the crude ore. which comes fromthe cleaning plant at the mine in chunks.to a very ne powder. with average par-ticle size of one-fty thousandth of aninch.

    It has been estimated that 20,000 or

    the AmericanThe American Chemet corporation,

    at East Helena, Mont., began producingtalc in 1953 at its Ruby mine, 25 milessouth of Alder, Mont.. on the west ankof the Greenhorn mountains. lt subse-quently operated three other mines butlate in 1960 opened one called the .lohn-ny Gulch, on property leased from theNorthern Pacic Railway adjacent tothe Yellowstone mine of the Sierra Talccompany.

    About 1,700 tons of crude talc weremined by this company in 1960 andhauled to Alder, Mont., where the ma-terial was cleaned and loaded intoNorthern Pacic boxcars for movementto the companyis grinding plant, whichis located in East Helena. AmericanChemet Ollicers have said that they ex-pect to mine more talc this year than in

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    A TRACK-SIDE WAREHOUSE on Northern Pacic property at Norris, Mont., stores TNTENT ON DISCUSSING the handlingtalc ore from Yellowstone mine, south of Norris, before its shipment. A. M. Wells, of zinc fume and talc is W. H. Porter,local hauling contractor, was pictured loading a boxcar for transfer to Nebraska. Sr., of the American Chemet corporation.

    4 THE NORTHWEST, May-lune, I961

  • more tons of crude talc may be removed D. Mulryan, general mill superintendent should be clear that talc has several un-this year from the Yellowstone mine for and assistant general mining superinten- related uses. Others within its widegrinding at Three Forks and Grand ls- dent. Ed Stevens is mining superinten- range of application include polishingland but that the location contains re- dent in Montana and James Poore is rice and making crayons, inks, soap andserves for many successive years of plant superintendent at Three Forks. putty. ln common with talc from else-operation in the area. In addition to supplying its product where, that mined in Montana has a

    Formed in 1919, the Sierra corpora- to paper mills, the company sells talc quality described as slip. which makestion is headed by Henry Mulryan. presi- for use in paints, electrical insulators it useful in dusting rubber products.dent. Other officers include Otis Booth, an(l other ceramic and pottery items, roong, candy, chewing gum, linoleum.vice president and treasurer: W. W. and for use in agricultural insecticides glass, leather, nails, corks and oilcloth.Caskins, vice president; Henry T. Mul- (as a carrier), in rubber, plastics, phar- It helps control gloss and sheen in pro-ryan, sales manager; Don Kempfer. maceuticals and textiles. tective coatings and contributes to thegeneral mining superintendent: James From the foregoing paragraph it durability of exterior paints.

    Chemet corporation producing talc and leaded zinc1960 at the Johnny Gulch property, in Chicago. it was moved to Montana nearby Chemet factory in open hopperwhich will be forwarded to East Helena early in 1947, where its present plant railroad cars.for processing. was started in a small building. The When the company began producing

    A general reconnaissance geologic original business of the company, and talc, the plant at East Helena was en-survey made by members of the staff still its major one, is the production of larged to accommodate machinery forof the geology division of the Northern a lead and zinc product, known as lead- grinding and bagging this mineral.Pacic revealed that talc-bearing rocks ed zinc oxide. which is used chiefly by which goes to the paint industry as wellexist on company lands in the Johnny manufacturers of paint. Some of the as to several other types of users. Chem-Gulch area. Photogeologic study indi- large and better-known paint companies et carload shipments of zinc fume andcated favorable geologic conditions for in addition to several small ones are cus- talc last year were sent to 17 states andthe existence of sizable deposits and fol- tomers of the rm. to two provinces in Canada from Eastlow-up eld observation disclosed sever- The leaded zinc oxide, curiously, is Helena.al areas having an abundance of small obtained from fumes which are emitted Ollicers of the Chemet corporation ex-chips of talc on the surface. The land by a smelter operated in East Helena by ude an inspiring kind of condence inshowing accumulations of surface talc the Anaconda company. which smelts the future for their products. Recently.was then explored by making several slag resulting from the smelting of c0p- looking years ahead. they acquired an-bulldozer cuts which exposed commer- per and lead in an adjacent plant by the other talc property. This one is locatedcial lenses of the material. American smelting S; Rening company. near Spokane. Wash.

    The American Chemet corporation Collected in a bag house and called zinc “It will serve as insurance.” one ofhas an unusual history. Founded in 1946 fume. the material is transferred to the them said recently. (Turn to page six.)

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  • AFTER TESTING A SAMPLE from a batch of zinc fume in a laboratory furnace atthe American Chemet corporation, in East Helena, Mont., Glenn Porter makes a reportwhich helps guide procedure when the product is processed in company’s plant.

    the International Smelting S: Rening pany—Chemet—was derived from twocompany, at East Chicago, lnd., a sub- words, chemistry and metallurgy—rath-

    CLEANED AND GROUND ‘ale, from sidiary of the Anaconda company. They er appropriate for the program of theJhlllfy CHM’! mine» is Placed i" bags in were W. W. Shropshire, of Chicago, corporation.Amcrmm Chemo‘ plam by John T“'s'°h' who is president; W. H. Porter, Sr., The plant at East Helena, employing

    Helena, vice president: L. H. Larison. 20 people, currently is going full tilt.Already in operation is a Chemet sub- Helena, secretary-treasurer, and S. W. Already having been expanded once, its

    sidiary, the Columbia Paint company, a Stockdale. On the death later of Stock- prospect is that it will be still biggermanufacturer of paints at Helena, Mont. dale, his share was acquired from his in the future.

    When the American Chemet corpora- estate by the other three. ln the mean-tion was founded 15 years ago, the mo- time, W. H. Porter, ]r.. has become a 20° Gmnet Bouts Bum,mentum was supplied by four men who junior partner and a director. ‘ S I F. h.previously had worked as employees of lncidentally. the name of the com- or a mo“ ls "lg

    ln advance of commercial shing forsalmon in the Pacic Northwest 200 gill-net boats costing S10 000 each when

    l Trimotored Jet tor Short Hops in the Works at Renton l fu1,yeq1;;ppe;, were huh, this yean The\, 32.000000 construction program wasWK“ the largest since_1951. The boats. all 3?- / footers, were shipped to Bristol Bay. in

    Alaska. in anticipation of a heavy runif in June of sockeye salmon. At $1 a sh.- many shermen may gross $25000 or

    '“‘ “""""'I Z) *-~- more in about 20 days of work. Thiskind of money. they say. makes up forpoor years. when only a few hundreddollars are taken in. A shipyard at Ev-erett. Wash.. had orders for 80 boatsand one at Seattle completed TO. Otheryards in the Puget Sound area builtfrom four to 10 each. Nearly all arepowered by gasoline but some have Die-

    A new jet airliner bein roduced b orts sold for $350,000,000 t two con1- Se] engines‘ Wooden hulls predominateg P y p 0 but a few were made of berglass.

    the Boeing Airplane company in its panics are scheduled to begin late that 0 iitransport division at Renton, Wash., year. Named the Boeing T27, the newnear Seattle, designed to carry from 70 jet will have three enginces, all mounted METALS PROCESSEDto 114- passengers at 600 miles an hour at the rear of the fuselage. The length of AT ALBANY’ ORE‘on short-haul routes ranging from 150 the cabin will be 72 feet and two inches, Vanadium, zirconium. titanium, tung-to 1,700 miles. with many stops, will be compared with 111 feet and four inches sten and molybdenum are processed byflying by 1063. Deliveries on orders for in Boeing's intercontinental 707. Its the Oregon Metallurgical corporation. of80 of the short-to-medium range trans- wing area will be 1,650 square feet. Albany. Ore.

    6 TIIE NORTHWEST, Hay-June, 1961

  • Steam Both for Large Logs Improves Plywood ProcessLong-Bell Plant Has IO Steam Tunnels; 23.58 Miles of N. P. Branch Sold to Lumber Company

    A room 75 feet long and 12 feet widefor a steam bath is big enough to try Iyour imagination.

    A new plywood plant of the Long-Belldivision of the International Paper com-pany, located at Chelatchie, in south-western Washington, has not one, but 10steam rooms that size. They are calledtunnels.

    Steaming large logs (known as peel-ers) is common in making plywood.They are kept in the tunnels saturatedwith steam 24 hours, or less, dependingon the species. As Long-Bell oicers ex-plained in recent press releases, steamingsoftens knots, adds to the life span of theblades in peeling knives, makes peelingeasier and better, reducing rise of thegrain in the wood, and it helps produceveneer which, to nish it, requires less

    sanding.

    Starting from scratch in the sum- 'mer of 1959, the Long-Bell division built la multi-million-dollar industry on 220acres which It purchased at Cl'l6l3tCl1I€, A FORK LIFT TRUCK with a capacity for 15,000 pounds places logs, known as peel-42 miles southeast of Longview, Wa5h_ ers, in one of a battery_of' 10 steam tunnels at Chelatchie, Wash. Each tunnel is 75The largesized operation’ includes, in feet long and 12 feet wlde. Logs are steamed in tunnels for 24- hours, sometimes less.addition to the plywood plant, capableof producing 72,000,000 square feet of for full-scale production, having been and six-tenths miles to Rye. From thatproduct annually, a sawmill which can put through preliminary testing runs point to Yacolt, 23.58 miles of line for-cut, dry and plane some 4-8,000,000 during recent months. They will employ merly owned by the Northern Pacicboard feet of lumber in a year and a 315 people in two shifts. but sold last year to the Internationalchipper house in which it is expected The complex at Chelatchie is served Paper company, is being used in addi-that 14-0 “units” of wood chips for mak- by rail from the Northern Pacic main tion to six and a half miles of rails, alsoing pulp will be produced daily. line at Vancouver Junction, Wash. A owned by the paper rm. from Yacolt to

    The Chelatchie plants now are ready Northern Pacic branch extends three the new plants. Operation between Rye

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    TWO PLANTS IN ONE recently were put into operation by the long building is for handling and loading lumber. Planer, kilnsLong-Bell division of the International Paper company, at and cooling shed are on the near side. Sawmill is in the rear andChelatchie, in southwestern Washington. In the foreground, the big plywood plant and wood chippers are located at the right, rear.

    Tlll-I NORTll“'EST. May-June, 1961 7

  • BAND SAWS USED on head rig at (ihelatchie are 10-footers. l'L\'“'OOD PLANT l5 CAPABLE of manufacturing 72,000,000They get their teeth sharpened in plant's ling room. Mill can square feet annually of board. \Vhen strapped packages arecut, dry and plane 4-8.000.000 board feet of lumber in a year. loaded into railroad boxcars, rubber air bags serve as dunnage.

    and Chelatchie is handled by the Long- wide. for cores. ln the lumber mill the kilns and two single ones, with a total\'iew, Portland & \orthern Railway, a head saw is a 10-foot band which is capacity of 5U(l.U()l)board feet. are used.common carrier owned by the lnterna- driven by a 300-horsepower motor. A An 800-foot crane shed, or lumber-tional Paper company. four-block riderless carriage with a 60- handling building, which is 112 feet

    The paper rm acquired logging inch opening is operated by steam. wide has room for 4,5()().()()Ul>oa1"d feet.rights on Northern Pacic timber along Cants are moved from the band mill to Six railroad cars can be parked for load-the Lewis river. Railway land is inter- a 36-x-24-inch gang saw. Two double ing ata 301)-foot inside shipping dock.mingled with timber of the L. 5. forest

    “i"“‘“"' Th‘"y'“'° """'°" Mt "f 1°55 Electronic Doto Processing Comes to Aid of Farmersare stored on 33 acres at Chelatchle.Thgy are Segregated into Seyen groups; Electronic data processing now is be- a prot or losing moneyiand howDouglas r peelers, hemlock and white ing used by dairy farmers in North l)a- much in each case. /\n attempt is beingr peelers. Douglas r saw logs, l1em- kota. Cow production and performance made to develop a system of predictinglot-k and white r logs red r, (~e(la1‘ data gathered in herd testing programs electronically the future prot for eachand white pine. are run through high-speed processing heifer calf when it is born. Success in

    The plywood plant covers ve acres. machines an(l out come recommended this ellort would lower the number ofall under one roof. There are two lathes rates for feeding grain as well as the replacement animals needed. thus reduc-—one a 10-footer, and another, ve feet answer to whether each cow is making ing expenses.

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    lll§.~\VY EQUIPMENT PEELS heavy logs, as shown in this view LUMBER-HANDLING BUILDING 112 feet wide and 300 feetof a 10-foot lathe at Chelatchie. Lathe charger mechanically long has room for 4,500,000 board feet of material. At the rearpositions another log by means of a target, seen at the end. a 300-foot inside shipping dock has room for six rail boxcars.8 Till-1 NORTIIWI-‘.S'l‘, Hay--Julie. 196!

  • Two Companies Build Manufacturing Plants at OlympiaLand Acquired for Factories Near Washington’: Capital City from the Northern Pacific; RailwayHas Purchased Four Additional Tracts, Increasing Its Ownership of Property for Industries

    begun operating near Olympia, in west

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    THE INDUSTRIAL FUTURE of Olympia, “'ash., was discussed w'ashington Natural Gas company, the Puget Sound Power 8:at a dinner given in the city by L. E. Dawley, of Dawley Broth- Light company, the Georgia Pacic corporation, the St. Regisers Construction company, fth from the left at the head table. Paper company, the Olympia Brewing company, the St. Paul &and “I C. Jackson, third from left at the same table, for city Tacoma Lumber company, the Seattle-First National bank, theand county otcials and presidents and vice presidents of region- Northern Pacic Railway, the Simpson Timber company andal and national rms, including. the “'1-yerhaeuser company. the Lamliuth 8' Sill coinpziiiy. which has its ollice in §eattle.

    THE NORTIIWI-IST, May-June, 1961 9

  • Georgia-Pacic building houses an 87- Since that time, other purchases forinch corrugator and other container ma- tl1e same purpose have been made bychinery. It cost $1,500,000 to build and the railway company. Sixty-six acresequip the plant, which now is using were added in 1960 to two parcels ac-“liner board” and corrugating material quired earlier southwest of Olympia,from Georgia-Pacic’s paper mill, locat- near Tumwater, a suburb. Forty acres ofed at Toledo, Ore., to make standard this additional land, located on the rail-paperboard boxes and specialties for way’s branch line leading to Aberdeenmarkets in the Pacic Northwest and and Hoquiam, were purchased fromCalifornia. John Bennett. Twenty-six acres were ac-

    Construction of the factory at Lacey quired from Carl J. Chatwood. South-is a major milestone in the company°s east of Olympia, on Chambers Prairie,history, since the plant is a step in the fronting on the railway’s main line be-further integration of the rm’s opera- tween St. Clair and Tenino, and southtions, which received a push in 1957 of Patterson lake, 208.5 acres obtainedwhen the paper mill of the Georgia-Pa- previously have been supplemented bycic corporation was built at Toledo to 33 acres bought last year from L. J.utilize chips made of waste wood from Wyckoff. Near Lacey. bordering land

    . . . ' . AN 87-INCH CORRUCATOR i the n wlumber and plywood IIllllS of the com- sold to Georgia-Pacic, two and e1ght- facmry at Olympia of the (;em.;ia_p,,cii;;cpany. In 1960, an expansion program tenths acres have been obtained from Paper company measures 260 feet long.at Toledo resulted in doubling the ca- L. P. Cole.pacity of the paper plant. Now, in turn. An article in this magazine in early Progress In Olympla and near It’ totalthe new factory near Olympia will con- 1957 described purchases in the area by $4‘0’000'O00'vert paper from the mill in Oregon. the Northern Pacic and pointed out L001‘ at the Paclc Telephone col?‘

    pany’s gures which show that Olympiahad 21,231 telephones in 1960 com-pared with 17,4-96 in 1956. The com-pany’s forecast shows that its officersanticipate that 1,000 additional phonesmay be required annually in the future.In fact, during the past eight months1,000 were put in. It is expected thatdirect distance dialing for Olympia willbe available in 1962. On an averagebusiness day in the city, 80,849 callsare originated but back in 1956 there

    IN A ONE-FLOOR BUILDING with 120,000 square feet of oor space the Ge0rgia- ‘me f‘*“"" °°““"s““°“s—$°"‘° 5900Pacic Paper company is making paperboard shipping boxes, using stock furnished fewer-from the rm’s paper mill at Toledo, Ore. The plant is located on land sold by N. P. The Qlympia Brewing company has

    become one of the barometers of growthThe building at Lacey was put up why officers of the railway believed that ill the state’s capital city. In 1960, offi-

    with products produced in other G-P Olympia had advantages as an industrial cers announced recently, this companyplants. The walls, consisting of plywood area. It can be assumed that they still nished the fflllrteenth Consecutive yearoverlaid with a resin-soaked paper feel the same way, in view of the sale in Whih it lnereaeetl its lmlll Sales.which, for practical purposes, is said to in the meantime of three parcels of Last year 1,496,000 barrels of beer werebe almost indestructible, are unique. the land as sites of new plants and in S0l(l, all iI101'eaSe Of ve and eight-tenths

    This plant, also using natural gas and view of the subsequent purchase of ad- per Cent Over 1959- Five years h@f0Ie,receiving water from the city of Olym- ditional property. in 1956, the yearly sales came topia, is situated just across a surfaced Increases of population can be 1,016,626 barrels. There were, too,road from a factory of the Continental taken as a guide to current industrial ex- 54-,27l visitors who dropped in at theCan company, which was completed and pansion at Olympia. Thurston county, in plant that year compared with 65,568 inopened in 1959 at Lacey. which Olympia is situated, increased 1960. This company sells its product in

    The three plants, the two new ones 21.4 per cent in number of residents Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho,for containers and the can factory, sig- between 1950 and 1960. Olympia itself California, Nevada, Arizona, Alaska andnal an expansion of Pacic Northwest went up 14.1 per cent and suburban Hawaii and exports go to Pacic pointsindustry into open spaces, away from area boomed, as indicated by Tumwa- outside of the United States. Capital ex-crowded, conventional industrial sur- ter’s jump of 41.4 per cent during the penditures for improvements from 1957roundings. All three were built on prop- 10 years. The total population of the to early 1961, inclusive, amounted toerty that was a part of a total of 448.77 county in 1960 was 54,476. $7,011,000.acres acquired in several tracts near Forty-two projects, including public Another measure of growth is theOlympia by the Northern Pacic Rail- and private building and highway con- expansion of service of the Puget Soundway for industrial uses in early 1957. struction either recently finished or in Power 81 Light company, which invested

    10 rm: NORTHWEST, May-June, 1961

  • rcstaurant and four business places ren- dustrial complex of the area promisesovated and enlarged. Three modern greater demands in coming years.medical centers are in operation. New The Washington Natural Gas com-oices have been built in Olympia by the pany has invested more than $500,000lnternational Business Machines corpo- since 1957 in the expansion of facilitiesration, Sunset Life lnsurance company in downtown Olympia, in the newly de-and the Seattle First National bank. In veloped Olympia port area and in otheraddition, banks have been established in commercial and industrial developmentsLacey, Tumwater and Tenino. Three iii the Lacey and Tumwater regions.shopping centers serve the suburban Mains have been extended to growingarea and there are plans for a fourth. residential tracts in the Tanglewilde

    Two office buildings are under con- community. Present plans call for anstruction for the state of Washington. investment of nearly $250,000 in addi-The U. S. Forest service has moved into lional mains to serve new industrial,an ofiice and laboratory. Total cost of commercial and residential customers inthese facilities is in excess of $7,750,000. 1961.

    The total cargo shipped from the Completed in the spring of 1959, nat-TYPICAL OF CONTAINERS weyer_ port of Olympia, on Puget Sound, dur- ural gas mains in the Olympia port areahaeuser factory at Olympia is producing ing 1960 was approximately 320,000 began service to the Simpson Loggingis iii“ °°i'i'“5iii°‘i PiiPei'ii°iii"i i’°X iii’°"°' short tons. including 174000.000 board company’s plywood plant. where approx-

    feet of lumber. imately 500.000 cubic feet of gas per'ii4‘=500=000 in aiidiiions iieiweeii 1957 St. Martin’s college in Lacey c0m- day are used. primarily in the com-anii 1900-The iiiiiiiy ieceniiy Conipieieci pleted a $400000 modernization pro- panvis veneerimr process Nearby the3 new $350,000 division Oinne at OiYin' gram. St. Placid high school for girls. Cascade Pole conipany also converted topia and a $400,000 line headquarters.

    Residential growth has been increas-ing at a rate of about three and one-half per cent per year, with 1,200 newhomes in the past three years. Morewere built in the Olympia-Tuinwater-Lacey complex than elsewhere. In thisperiod 12 apartments and two modernmotels, along with eight trailer courts,were constructed. ‘_i_‘i';

    Commercial growth is evidenced further by the addition of ve new supermarkets, with two more under con- ~struction. three drug stores, one new ' ' “

    Bggks ouf Q‘ Dqfe; QUAD-LOK_PRODECTShCOME_ from this new factorybof the Weyterhaeueiei} comtiang,Barley Equal to Corn 11:35ii1i§“,i§.i?i’u::.isa{iilipffiniiilpiiiiiiieciiiiiii'§.°?o§§iiefJf'iv§'§iif§'l.i.i'§I,§ingii‘l'i§, 52.;

    ' ' b okshafl/elyiliiis iiiiiitililitiiiflytigggmrjitesri 2:: oi) the under construction at Lacey, will cost natural gas when it became available invalue of eorn for feeding beef cattle, $750,000. Three public grade schools the port area.that waan’t true in reeent experiments have been completed. Addition of four The gas rm’s statisticians estimateat the North Dakota State uniyerSity_ classrooms to one Olympia junior high that a 20 per cent increase in popula-at lI‘argo_ school his been niad. (})llyn]iqpial hai1com- tsion gill occur ll the g:-c03ntyPPuget

    ln a 25().da North Dakota test with pleted a ..3,000.000 ig sc oo an con- oun area in t e next eca e ierce,50 head of 5i(i)()-pound Hereford steer struction is underway on a junior high Lewis, Thurston, King, and SnohomishcalvpS_ harley in different forrna was school in the Lacey area and a new sen- counties). This would be an additionequal to cracked corn in pounds of gain l0T high $011001 in TUl11Wt6I‘- Of 242,000 PeT5°n5» or equivalent i0 an’produeed daily_ l)ry rolled harley with Total expenditure on public school other city larger than Tacoma for thefrom two and a half to three pound; construction the past four years anioi1nt- Puget Sound region.daily of alfalfa hay gave the Cheapest ed to $6.179.123. Student enrollment in- To accommodate the normal growthgains hut pelleted harley with hay pro- creased from 11.472 in 1957 to 13.242 of the company’s service area, which ex-duced slightly larger gains per da_v than in 1960. tends from Chehalis, 30 miles to theother feeds. Daily gain was the lowest In Olympia alone, since 1957. of- south of Olympia, to Marysville,. 70on dry rolled harley fed with no hay, cers of the Washington Natural Gas miles north of Olympia, the Washing-

    There was yery little difference in the company said recently. this company ton Natural Gas company will invest ap-market grade ofithe eattle at the end of has increased peak capacity by more proximately -456000.000 in new construc-the trial. than 20 times and. they added. the in- tion and facilities in 1961.

    THE NORTHWEST. May-Juno, 1961

  • School Troins Young Men toServe Their Home LocalitiesNorth Dokotcins Need Not Go For Aeld to

    Find Opportunity and Lifetime Work

    Nineteen serious young men seated on high stools werebending over drawing tables in a well-lighted room. None ofthem paid the slightest heed when a strange visitor entered.Absorbed in the straight lines and angles they were sketchingon paper in front of them, these persons were students inarchitectural drafting at the North Dakota State School ofScience, at Wahpeton. N.D.

    Members of the class were tting themselves for jobs ascontractors’ estimators, preliminary designers, managers oflumber yards and job foremen, all of whom require muchmore than a mere speaking acquaintance with blueprints.

    Like the other 1,23‘) students last year at the Waliiietoiischool, they were what G. W. Hayerty, president of the stateinstitution, likes to describe as “mature” persons. Ninety percent were raduates of hi h school, although to enter 111311’ “HOW GOES IT?” President G. W. Haverty, right, asks Delg_ g *= 3 . . . . .of the vocational courses offered eiirollees need not be. Nearly R“-" 5“"d°"~"’ “ *'“‘l‘f"‘ '" l"""“"g 3' ‘he schfml °f s°'°“°°' Tw"all 20 Old other students working on a press are seen in the background.

    In other words, as members of the taiia and bordering areas long sincefaculty often point out, science school agreed that means of teaching morestudents think it over awhile after high young people how they can assumeschool before appearing at Wahpeton to places of responsibility and be gainfullyenter a short course of a few months or employed within the region. near theirto sign up for two years of instruction home environment, are one of the greatin a technical course, a trade. or in the needs. lt has been said that far too manvschool’s junior college or in its business feel they need to go elsewhere to ndschool. their life work. After visiting its campus

    Educators and leaders of industry and witnessing its program. no one canin North Dakota. §outh Dakota. .\lon- logically say that the North Dakota State

    School of Science is not an effective in-strument to help in remedying the situa-tion.

    If you live in that area and your air-conditioning unit goes on the blink, whowill repair it? Or. who can do yourplumbing, x your car, print your localnewspaper. keep your refrigerator inworking order or renew the eaves onyour house? The odds are that someonetrained at the school of science will doit. The institution has been runningsince 1903 and since 1922, when its yo-catioiial aspect was introduced, it hasbeen training people qualied to enterthe trades.

    Take Jack Simoiiitch as an example.Sinionitch, who nished a course indrafting and estimating in 1950. said. "lwas looking for something when l enter-ed at W3llpCll.>l], but l didiiit know what.After trying architectural drafting. Iknew it wasn’t houses l wanted to build.but when Itook my rst squint througha transit. I felt that engineering had mehooked.”

    Unfortunately for home folks.Simonitch, now working for the Healy-Tibbits Construction company. of SanTRYING VERY HARD to do well are Betty Hagen, McLeod, NJ). and. right, fore- -ground, Linda Richardson, Brooten, Minn.. students in 12-month dourse in practical Francisco, didn't stay in North Dakota.

    nursing. taking a lesson from Mrs. Nola (Ioghlan. registered nurse. in making beds. but man" alumni dO- This is shown 1“12 Tlll-I .\i()RTllWl-IS'l‘. .\lu_\'-Jum-. I90!

  • “YOU MADE A PAIR of metal shorts,”Spencer Hakenson, instructor in the sheetmetal, heating and ventilating depart-ment, told Student Lyman Chase, Onida,S.D., who cut a pattern for a ventilationtting in the Wahpeton school laboratory.

    only a partial review of last year's grad-uating class. Fourteen who nished inthe printing course. for instance. gotjobs on North Dakota newspapers orwent to work for other kinds of printersin the state. Three went to printing shopsin Minnesota. one to an Iowa newspaperand one to Nebraska. Five men whotook work in rebuilding auto bodies im-mediately got positions in shops in theirhome towns or near them. This was true.too. of several who studied auto me-chanics. Twenty graduates in architec-tural drafting were hired by lumber com-panies and other rms supplying build-ers. The Soil Conservation service. statehighway departments. engineering rms.city and county governments and con-tractors. all in the Dakotas and Minne-sota. hired engineering-aide graduatesfrom the science school. The CollinsRadio company. Cedar Rapids. Ia..which takes from 20 to 30 graduatesevery year at Wahpeton. the Northwest-ern Bell Telephone company. Reming-ton-Rand Univac division and the Inter-national Business Machines corporationhired members of the 1960 class whonished their work in radio and elec-tronics. Forty-two who completed acourse in business went to work forbanks. hospitals. insurance rms. tele-phone companies and power concerns inNorth Dakota and Minnesota. Whileschool authorities do not guarantee jobsfor graduates, there are opportunitiesfor those who attend at Wahpeton.

    THE NORTHWEST. Mu)-lune, 1961

    The school of science, as President course in electronics. First employed byHaverty often has pointed out, supplies the International Business Machi-nespersonnel for a space that exists in a corporation. Trapp later joined the Sim-layer populated by technicians, foremen plex Time Recorder company. of Gar-and other supervisors situated above drier, Mass., as its manager at Fargo.skilled workers and below university- N.D. Then, among other examples thattrained professional specialists and com- could be named. there is a colorful char-pany oliicers. But. President I-laverty acter. John Simonson. a North Dakotanever fails to add. Wahpeton graduates resident who owns lling stations incan rise to the top. Grand Forks, Fargo. .\linot and Grafton.

    Currently an illustrious alumnus is but “'h°- as all a\'0C3li°"- C°mPete5 sue‘the new governor of M0mana_ Donald cessfully in big-time automobile races.Nutter. who was graduated in 1935 from "°lablY at DaY_t°“a_Beach- in _Fl°1:ida-the school of science’s junior college. and at Bonnevlue >3“ Flats’ 1“ Limb"following which he continued his educa- Simonson was i" the 1954 Class in auto

    mechanics at Wahpeton.Herbert Pease was in the class

    of 194-O. Now he is sales manager for, the consumer products division of the

    Kaiser Aluminum company. at Oakland.Calif. Willard Grazer. a native of Bordu-lac. N.D.. took secretarial work and ac-counting. beginning in 1935. Grazerfashioned his own career near home.Since 1954 he has been manager of theCass County Electric Cooperative com-pany. with his otce at Kindred. N.D.One of the sch00l’s prize “alums” todayis general manager of the Western News-paper union. with headquarters at Far-go. selling supplies to the graphic artsindustry in North Dakota. South Dakotaand .\linnesota. Gorman Jacobson is theman's name. In 1940 he went to Wahpe-

    TALK ABOUT CONCENTRATION’ Jeri-v '°“ {mm C'°sbY’ ‘md °"“.’“ed inFillmore, Minot’ NJ)" looking for Q shop‘ the trade school s printing and lmotypecircuit in the. winding of a mptor while division.gfvigi wgrtxlg 131:6 d';§£§:‘?£o:a‘::; The science school perhaps is betterpicture has being taken until bulb ashed. 3PPl'@Ci3t€'d "he" it i5 brought to allell‘

    tion that last year every county in Northtion elsewhere and obtained a degree in Dakota except one was represented bylaw. In 1947. Charles Trapp nished a the enrollment. North Dakota had 90f)

    BUILDINGS, LAND AND EQUIPMENT at the North Dakota State School of Scienceare valued at $5,606,044. In the campus scene above a portion of a student union isseen at the extreme right. It is equipped with many facilities for the school’s enrollees.

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    THE THEORY AND PRACTICE of arc welding are learned by doing laboratory exer- more room than equipment fol-me;-]ycises at W'ahpeton. Members of the class in the picture are nding out about fusing d d . . h .dmetals for automobile bodies. Students often get jobs near home after graduation. me ' a mlmstralors ale Sal '

    ger machine shop and room for sheetmetal work. electrical arc welding andoxyacetylene welding. Two new dormi-tories have been completed. A $4-50,000student union nished recently has roomfor bowling. a book store, mail room,lounge. dancing, a dining room and asnack bar.

    Next on the program is a buildingfor administrative offices. science, class-rooms and more space for libraries. Ad-ditions and improvements have made itpossible not only to admit more studentsbut to serve the enrollment with modern-ized teaching facilities. which require

    One of the most useful courses atyoung men and women attending, with bone up well on their English gram- Wahpeton and perhaps the least known358 from other sources, including one mar,” said W. M. Nordgaard, registrar is general farm mechanics. A ve-monthfrom Alaska and one from Switzerland. and director of the business school. winter term consisting mostly of labora-President Havert ccasi na]l' dy 0‘ 0‘ y tin er- Be that as it may’ practical work in tory periods, it is designed primarily forlines the point by taking visitors into a the laboratory Still takes half or more young men who plan to work on farms.elassreom Or lab°1'3l°TY ahd ihte"uPt' of the Sllldemis daYlh"e- Indeed, the It trains students to overhaul tractors,lhg hliey to ask each student '0 can 01“ mono of the school, “W/here Students including the motors. and to weld and

    ' bearn by Doing,” appears on all of its maintain _othe_r eld machines. A’ pre-ere s °“ asl Fear s st“ ehls “ere lite;-alum, liminary in this course is a grounding in

    the name of his home town

    divided among departments: business_* At thi t- th h - I 1 d the care and use of shop tools, includ-140; junio}: collegei§;9; guto pod)‘-_6i: equismgae ewshgztsl ggrltaligd ing small items. such as les and chisels,auto mec anics, : iese mainte- || as heavier one5_

    - _ - - _ - at 350.606.0411 com ared with onl $1.- as wesane‘? aflmecmrhl drafting’ 52" mi 336_691 back in 1843 Much of tie in_ Few students ever are asked to leaveustria ra ting. 38, electrical trade.

    _ - ' , - 0 ¢_ crease is represented by new buildings, WahPel°h heeause of ‘harks Wheh Ohe89’ mhchmhdshofglnd heldlme" 1hd' .6“ imp,-0‘-ed equipment and remodeling of d0esn’t do well. often some other courseglghegzllieiloigmicgti:g§ri0_mTma;:j’ Old bui]dingS_ A $45()_()()() Oneoor is found which interests him more or23: tactical nurgin 47i_ riistin Mug: trade-technical building was completed his his eaPahlhhes belle‘ ahd- "s"allY,

    l P 4-9 d' 0 lg’ 9 P g last vear It has larger uarters for the he does hhPr°"ed Well‘ after changing-tvpe. ; ra io. eectronics. television ‘ - ' ‘ 1‘ q- - - - - . - h d 1 ll d. ' th-and communlcauons 119; refngerauon schools automobile repair shop a big T e ays are not a a grin notwi

    and air conditioning. 26: sheet metal.heating and ventilating, 33. In addition.night classes in several subjects wereheld.

    “We will teach any subject for 12 stu-dents or more if we have the stall and ifwe are not duplicating facilities alreadyexisting in the state,” President Havertydeclared recently. “Our classrooms arebusy from 8 a.ni. to 8:30 p.m. daily.”

    To administer a varied curriculumand handle the teaching. it takes a teach-ing stali of T5. The employees on thecampus total 145. Classroom work andburning midnight oil. toiling over books.are an integral part of a student’s life atWahpeton. “bnlike students in the jun-ior college, those in our business schoolmay not learn much history or earlyEnglish literature or foreign languages.but we insist that they (we can't turn

    °“‘ "@*"'Y °"°"f—'*‘ "f "“‘"‘ *0 ‘mt ‘he §'iE.'.l{§§..§i§ii:f'§).il1ilC.'i$ifli.k§."§ilL'1‘lI.‘Z,.§i"Ji°.1'ii§.l'JZ‘ii?i§I.'iI'p‘.Z§'o.‘1"i‘l$..l‘§.§§°§b'L‘I.'I‘iiidemand) learn lo spelh and they have l" repair of automobile bodies is Student Paul Ubert, whose home is in the 4-9th state.14 THE .\'()RTll'XE.\'T. .\la_\'—II|n¢-, 1961

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    standing what has gone before in thisarticle. The school has a program ofathletics and, although girls are in theminority in numbers. social events com-mon to a coeducational institution are apart of campus life. There are bands, aschool newspaper and an annual year-book, which also count as extracurricu- "lar items.

    How much does it cost a boy or a girlto attend for a year? It may seem in-credible in this day and age, but a resi-dent of the state can get along on $650 ,for fees, books, food and housing. Acomparable gure for out-of-state en-trants, due to higher fees, is about $750.

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    -New Kmd °' P°'°'° IN A TELEVISION SERVICING laboratory at Wahpeton, Robert Martins, Coteau,Has Special Qualifies N. D., air-force veteran and a member of the school’s student cabinet, and WesleyAllen, instructor, formerly in the U. S. arm_v’s signal corps, are aligning a receiver.

    Potatoes are more specialized todaythan heretofore. The familiar westernRusset has been known for baking qual-it)‘. Processing prior to sale to the house-wife and the restaurant chef, however,still more or less a new practice but onethat is gaining favor rapidly, hasbrought about a need for varieties withother qualities. Thus, the appearance ofSnowake, a new white-skinned one de-veloped at the North Dakota State uni-versity, furnishes a potato bred especial-ly to make chips with an attractivelight-brown color and dried flakes whichcan be reconstituted into fluffy, whitemashed potatoes. Some varieties prO- --duce dark-colored chips and, the]'gf()re_ ‘A USEFUIB COU_RSE Tl;\U_CI‘TThin ve rnontlas is calld genelral mjckanicls. ltnhenddare not popular for that use' The skin p(i-ldpcfi-n¢:|re0i‘1T"tli3rf1n%"e:i3?:;anodwrdgaii-iflgofrzftwbrrb:|1¢(il:)t'l?:rsmaa'chin::ar:inilfidedfof Snowake is thin, the eyes are shal-low and surface knobs and growth put_of 38 of the 64 varieties that werecracks are rare. So, the varietv has an Mlnnesota Farmers cerued was larger tha" _m 1959- Theadded virtue: that is’ it isnvt wash.‘ Plan vqcqfion Trips biggest increases were in Kennebec. Red

    ' Pontiac and Norland. all among theA survey made by the statistical staff _ _ _ _of The Farmer ru'ral magazine pub more popular varieties m the Red RiverS|'y|i1ed App|e New Mark . . _ ' P ' vallev of North Dakot 1 lvlil S ¢lished 1n St. Paul. shoued that 50.()()() Th -f H la a_"( me 0,?‘for wu5h|ng'°n Fru" farmers in Minnesota will take Vacation e OI mung ta) e Sums Comparame

    . . . gures for production in northwestShippers of apples in the irrigated trips m 1961. most of them n1 the sum-.. - . .- .1..1““° ._‘-‘EH-“S °f Wif}“'}gt°" hm‘ 3 i'E§'3af1§§1ii..if7“.§‘l§T»§lll.liTf.i§i1»“"iii>l§“‘

  • Peavey Factory Located at Hebron, N.D., Making Laminated RaftersHebron rafters, logically enough, are A

    made in a factory in Hebron. a town inwestern North Dakota. F

    Owned and operated by Peavey Lum-ber Yards, a part of F. H. Peavey & LCompany, of Minneapolis, the factory.established two years ago, employs sixworkers from winter until late fall mak-ing 35 standard stock sizes of three-plylaminated arches for dealers in easternMontana, North Dakota and westernMinnesota.

    Built in widths varying from 28 feetto 50 feet, the arches are made of 1 x 6and 1 x 8 r or larch boards six and

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    eight feet loll? The material is not bent A RAFTER AT HEBRON plant, in western North Dakota, foreground and left, is pass-but is cut Wltll a band saw on an arc. ing through a nailing machine. Glue also is used in making three-ply product. At theQ ‘ ' right, workman is operating a band saw, which cuts 1 x 6 and l x 8 r and larch.Two re_ult1ng pieces are reversed. That

    is, the top portion is placed below theother and flush with it. Then three thick-nesses are glued and nailed and the nailsare clinched while under pressure.

    The rafters are delivered as half arch-es. The carpenter or do-it-yourself build-er puts them together with nailed pur-lins. Generally the rafters are placedfour feet on center but in the widestbuildings two-foot spacing is common.

    Farmers using Hebron rafters buildbarns. machine sheds. workshops andwarehouses for storing grain. A fewhave gone into commercial buildings.such as one at Langdon. N.D.. 180 feet

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    THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAYST. PAUL ‘I, MINNESOTA

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