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THE NORTHWEST

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NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANYW..l.HUNT,Editor . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . ................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..St.Paul,Minn.

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IF YOU WISH INFORMATION regarding The Northern Pacic Railway, or about industry, . .

agriculture and other resources in the territory which it serves please address one of the following iiie ladder and iiie picker with a bot"oicers (depending on the information desiredl- lIOII1-Oplllllg piCI(iI1g bag strapped OVCI‘

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"Ia,/i'4k@4,/at ; to settle on a satisfactory way to re-place manpowerwhen it comes topicking t h e i rfruit from treesin the fall whenit is ripe. Auto-mation has beenintroduced i n t 0

many phases ofhandling the cropafter it is oli thetrees—such as

the use of tote boxes, straddle trucks.lift trucks and machines to size, brushand wash the apples-—but in the orchard

his shoulder still are familiar. Such areGEORGE R. POWE, General Mgr., Properties and Industrial Deve|opment..St. Paul, Minn. the subjects of our picture on the coverW. J. LUCHSINGER, Vice President—Trai< . . . . . . . . - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . St. Paul, Minn. of this issue of Thg NQr[hwe5[, photg.GEORGE M. WASHINGTON, Vice President—Oil Development . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bi|lings, Mont. graphed in the Yakima valley of WaSh_

ROBERT A. JUBA, Manager, Industrial Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .St. Paul, Minn. ington the man an interestinc cameraM. H. NIXON, Western Manager, Industrial Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Seattle, Wash. ii . . D

slIl1(l\' in himself as he laces a ladder5. G. MERRYMAN. Manager, Timber and Western Lands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Seattle, Wash. i ' F IF 1 1 k hERNEST E. THURIOW, Manager, Mineral Development and Eastern Lands..St. Paul, Minn. near a ree' or a ver a 00 _ai t e

i S H ACOON Alt). Director Aarirultural Development Department. . . . . . . .St. Paul, Minn. iliiliiii‘ for ihe apple business iii ihearea. and, yes. the entire fruit industryof the state. turn to pages three and

New Kaiser Mill Will Operate on July I, I965 i°‘"'A time schedule for the installation produce aluminum sheet for the build-

of a ve-stand cold rolling mill (which ing industry," a Kaiser ofcer said, “andis one with ve sets of rollers) at the it will be sold to can-making com- Omcers in charge of northwestTrentwood works of the Kaiser Aluni1- panies. The use of this metal in cans. - f

. . . . . lions 0 the company.num S Chemical corporation. near Spo- many with tear-tabs, increased in 1964 '

kaiie. Wash.. calls for the new facilities about 45 per cent over 1963. Our mill The reactivated Plant will iifqiiiie 300

in this large plant. where aluminum will make sheet on a wide range of emPl°Yee5- “ho “ill he Paid '?2+'300=hO0

sheet and plate are rolled. to begin op- gauges up to widths of 51 inches.” 3 Yeah ii c°mPahY release Sahi-

iiialillg Oh -liily i‘ i9i_i5‘ ii ieiieili ah' Housings for the new mill, installed P°“'ei was iliiheii Oh at 12:01 Phi-iiouncement at the rms olce of nortli- in an addition to Kaiserts main buildin“ on Qctober 21_ but it was about a week

“est Oliiiliiiiioili said‘ at Trentwood. were put in during D; iolloiiihg this date that one “Pot line”Foundations Oi the I16\\' the I‘Sl cember and other components of the .5-ioi iiiio production‘ The iiiieiiiiii was

niultistand at Tl‘Cnl\\‘O0(l TOI‘ COl(l new inultimillign-dollar expansion are required ioii iiliiikihg ihii carbon liningsrolling. went in during the late summer expected to arrive at the site in January Oi iliiiiiiiciii A second “Poi liiieii “'35and fall. Included was a "looping pit“ and February. i started up at Tacoma in December and

T5 feet deep, which is a pit in which a third and nal line is to be put intovariable rollers accumulate extra alu- [)f0(ll1(‘ii011 this year, Kaiser Olhcefs

. s .minum so lthe mill can continue to op Fu" Production Due lalederate at ful speed while a new coil ofsheet aluminum is being welded on. KGISGI’ TQCOITIO Plqnt

Th . H f Clay Products Factorye new equipment capaie o run A H d t 1 t fth K

ning 2,000 feet of coiled sheet through Alumsiirjm rg léchggliiclgfiijo? eti aislei HOS BEEP! LGOSOEI_ _ ‘ ‘) ‘a on o

the rollers every minute, will restore a d -I

ing to information released recently by

cate on Taylor Way in Tacoma The Dic Kota Clay Products com any.high Polish lo the metal and will level Wash.. which can roduize 4-1 000 tons which wasiorvanizedi 1958 d iih' ihit. Also it will r duce the Q Q l- - i - P - i C‘ n an ii icthough ’t0 “mites vauve’ a of ingots in a year but which has been subsequently built-a factory at Dickinson,

closed since 1958, Wlll be operating N. D., has leased its plant to a new rm,“The cold-rolled coil will be used to again at full capacity in 1965, accord- the Bison Clay Products company.

THE NORTHWFST, January-February, 1965

Doubled Production oi Washington Fruit ls ForeseenRed Delicious, Goldens, Cherries and Pears Are on the Way Up but Winesaps, Rome Beauties, Jona-thans, Peaches, Apricots andPrunes Have LostFavorwith Growers, According to Results ofa$urvey

Population explosion. a term usuallyapplied only to large increases of hu-mans, is occurring now in the importantfruit industry of the state of Washing-ton.

Literally, an explosion in the numberof fruit trees in central counties of thestate has taken place. Planting at a fastclip still is in progress.

Production of apples by 19TO. onlysix years from today. in the state lnayexceed 60.000000 bushels a year. au-thorities have estimated, or more thandouble the annual ayerage of Z2.00().0O()bushels in the past 10 years.

Translated into carloads, the estimatescould mean something like 70.000 cars

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L“ _ APPLES ARE MOVED in packing warehouse in the Yakima valley on rubberized0f 3PPle5 In 3 Year “hen 3 full CYOP 15 conveyor belts. In equipment having padded cups of di'erent dimensions they areproduced. or 50,000 in an average year mechanically sorted into sizes required and are ready for storage or immediate sale.compared with an average of some25.000 in the past 10 years. GoldenDelicious alone, it is said, which now plums and apricots are thought to be March-April. 1962. based on the 1959total 4-.500 carloads yearly, will expand declining rather than increasing. U. F. census of agriculture. now can beto 10,000. In fact. 51 per cent of the The estimates are based on a c0m_ drawn.Goldens that have been Planted still are |)f6lI6I1$i\'8 99115115 Of Wee fflliis during lt has been known that there has beento come into bearing. 1( 6] (1 1(6 ' W nJ an )_21n as in:-'10" initiated a resurgence in planting for the pastInformation from the same by the Washington Hate Horticultural Several years of currently nonnlar kindssources indicates that the volume of association, the state department of ag- of apples. pears and cherries, For ox.pears in 1970 will be 40 per cent great- riculture, the U. S. department of agri- amp]e_ the Red Delicious and the Gold.er than at present and that an increase culture and Washington State univer- ¢_-ii Delicious have gone ahead of othersof 20 per cent in sweet cherries will sity. in numbers The chain saw has been a- P-come about. Qonolnsjons in addition to [hose plied to many old trees. A large num-

On the other hand, peaches, prunes, enumerated in The Northwest for be? of §'°""£~’ trees no“ in cemfal Wash"

41EQUIPMENT OF THIS KIND, made especially for the job, is used often in ware

ington will continue to increase inproductivity for several years. Further-more. a catastrophic freeze in 1955 elim-inated many trees cl old ages and. too,some young ones. This unfortunateevent in itself was sullicient to add a cer-tain impetus to the tree-planting trend.to make replacements. lndeed. a fewknowledgeable persons in the Yakimavalley. in central Washiiigton. have es-timated that the loss of young treesalone as a result oi the freeze nine yearsago was as high as T0 per cent and that64 per cent of all apples in the statehave been planted since that time.

When the count was nished inl‘)(1'?. Yakima county had 5.084.000l"uit trees. When the same agenciesmade an inventory in 1949. there were4-.334-.000. Benton county had 433.100.

houses of central Washington It picks up apples all of one size from a conveyor Compared with 332000 in 1949' Theand places them in a tote bin, where they are held in storage until they are sold. 5PeCle5 were divided 35 f0ll0W55

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Golden Delicious apples 30Winesap apples 1

juice can be shipped almost anywheresuccessfully. More capacity for process-ing Concords is being added in thevalley.

A Northern Pacic agriculturalagent said recently, in summing up thenew trends:

“The potential volume will necessi-tate increased storage capacity. whichmany observers feel will have to bedoubled, particularly in the areas be-tween Grandview and Zillah. The antici-pated production will also make morerigid requirements necessary as togrades for fresh-market shipments. thusincreasing the need of processing as a

market outlet. The apple markets in theEast and Midwest undoubtedly will con-

FROM SIZING MACHINES apples in modern warehouses of the Yakima valley roll tinue as the principal destination foron a soft surface to circular revolving bins. As packers, usually women, sit at these Washington apples in spite of inei-easedbins to wrap each apple and lace it in a sh‘ ' b th I h - - -p lppmg ox’ 8 supp y moves to l em’ competition from apple-producing areas

1%?3si§i':;ip‘:if trolled in Washington. Therefore, plant- tron’ khowh as the Columbia river treat)?Trees Trees ing of peaches soon may show a few was ratied rooohrlY Whehashrh totahhi‘:-'

Species Planted Removed signs pf new iife_ it has been Observed’ $254,400,000 was paid to Canada.Apricots 1 8 tep_ that aprieet trees have been pulled The difference between the paymentSweet Cherries __i4_ 1 pnt faster than perhaps they shenld have and the funds borrowed represents “in-

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moth but that this insect can be con-

been and that the market probably just-ifies some larger planting of this sum-

prunes. A few orchardists have faith inRed Delicious apples ....13 new varieties of nectarines and have put

in trees.

It has been estimated also by ersons familiar with local conditions, that

Yakima Bmn licious, it has resulted in a lowered (le- Cl0ser.t0 the. pOpul0uS.cemers' If theCoungy (joungy mand for Winesa potential fruit production becomes a1962 194-9 1962 1949 P ' reality, all domestic, export and proces-

Per Cent Per Cent Many recent plantings have occurred - ' -sing markets will have to be exploitedApples __5()_6 34__3 233 __ on land newly irrigated in both Yaki- more aggressively to maintain a pricePears 26] 14,_6 __ ma and Benton counties. vCherries 4.8 4.6 17.1 19.2 Top Red, a new strain of Red Deli-Peaches ...... .. 8.8 20.3 15.6 35.9 cious, with apparently a very desirable Inyesfmenf Fund; PqyPrunes Plums 52 74 241 265 red color is in heavy demand now forApricots ...... .. 1:8 6:2 5:3 18:4 planting.,A nursery which has exclu- for Canadian Power

The shift as between species, men. sive sale of the trees of this apple has Bonds totaling $314,100,000 have beentinned in a foregoing paragraph, is well been pressed to ll all orders. Spartan, sold by the Columbia Storage Projectillustrated in the table above The rnest a Canadian apple. also is being planted. Exchange, made up of three countydramatic change is found in the current All may not be hopeless for the peach public utility districts in Washington, topreference for apples. Additimlal 6vi- industry, however, despite the current PaYrheD°miI1i°"°fCaI1adaf01‘it5$h3Tedeuce of the trend is seen in a table gloomy picture for this iruit in Wash- or _2=8oo_-000 kilolfatts °f hYdr° P°W°rpiepai-ed by state_fe(leral statisticians ingtpn_ Experts at Yakima have said which will accrue in the United States atwhich shows rates of planting by enuin_ that ipeai growers wit] prot by the 11 dams on the Columbia river as a result6l'3tiI1g young U665 PM in during 1962 fact that California peach producers or three storage dams which are to hecompared with trees removed are in trouble with the Oriental fruit r’"ih°"rhe5"eami" Canada-

level acceptable to the producer.

An agreement covering the transac-

terest during construction, reserves andother costs,” according to a news releaseD

Bartlet pears 1 mer fruit. The same may be true of rhado hy ohloors of the Cohrrhhra StorageProject Exchange.

For a number of years most of the elec-tricity will be resold to purchasers inCalifornia. Not only public power agen-

Jpnathan apples 1 . . . ’ . .’ P - eies but also private ones are participat-

Rome Beahtl’ aPPle5 1 2 the acreage of grapes will double in mg‘Controlled atmosphere, a new devel- Yakima and Benton counties where, it ALFALFA SEED 50 YEARS

opment in storage, which was discussed is claimed, wonderful results can be 0b- OLD GERMINATED AT FARGOfully in an earlier issue of The North- tained with the Concord variety be- Alfalfa seed stored at the North Da-west. is inuencing the fruit industry of cause “nights in the area are cool and kota State university 50 years was ger-the area profoundly. For one thing, in days are warm, but not too hot.” It has minated recently, with normal healthyprolonging the marketing season of De- been pointed out that concentrated grape sprouts.

4 TIE NORTIIWI-‘ST, January-February, 1965

Thousands oi Rotions Tested at Nutrena’s Research FarmA Division of Cargill Completes 800 Experiments Yearly at Location Near Elk River, Minn., toDevelop Not Only Feeds but also Systems of Feeding and Housing Cattle, Hogs and Poultry

To keep up with rapid changes II] ag-riculture, Nutrena Feeds, a major man-ufacturer of livestock and poultry feedsand a division of Cargill, Inc., of Min-neapolis, opened an 820-acre researchfarm early in 1958 three miles south-

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east of Elk River, Minn., on highwayr

10 bordering the main line of theNorthern Pacic Railway. In six and ahalf years since that time literallythousands of animals and hundreds ofrations have been tested. Some 800 ex-periments are completed each year.

Sixty acres of the farm are utilizedfor buildings needed to carry on thecompany’s various research programs.with the remainder, which is in cropand pasture, mostly being rented to aneighboring farmer.

The primary purpose of the property,called the Cargill-Nutrena researchfarm, is to broaden and improve feedsales for Nutrena. Through this pro-gram the rm’s researchers, they have

pointed out, are striving to l-levelop live‘ THE HOLSTEIN HEIFER CALF is ready for dinner at the research farm of NutrenaStock and poultry producnon Systems Feeds, near Elk River, Minn., where a ration of starter pellets is being measuredand feeds that hell) the farmer do bet‘ after it was formulated by nutritionists who use a computer to speed up their work.ter and more economical feeding.Of course, the better the product is to an actual practical farm operation. tion, a research director also is a nutri-

from the farmer’s standpoint, the more Almost all of the grain used on the tionist. These are the people who de-feed sales Nutrena should make and farm is purchased from local dealers, velop and set up various feeding tests.this has been described as the ultimate depending on which ones have the par- Fred Nordstrom, manager, and hisgoal—more sales through higher de- ticular ingredients on hand that are re- assistants, Walter Swanson, Ralph Teh-mand for dependable, proven products quired for the many programs under benkamp and Ernie Goldenman are re-and ideas. way. A mixing plant on the farm pro- sponsible for the operation of the farm

Varigug research P1-()je(§[g0n hogs, duces more than 4,000 tons of experi- and must see that labor, equipment.poultry and cattle are performed on a mental diets annually-scale large enough so they are compar- The staff that is necessary consists ofable with a commercial-sized unit, there- two nutritionists—one for beef, dairyby providing results that are applicable and poultry and one for swine. In addi-

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THE ANIMAL POPULATION at the research farm of Nutrena Feeds, above, close ONE OF MANY chores at the researchto Elk River, Minn., includes hogs, dairy cattle, beef cattle, turkeys, broilers, pullets farm of Nutrena Feeds is dental work onand laying hens. A feed mill on the farm mixes more than 4,000 tons of diets. a small pig, cutting olf his needle teeth.

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TEST BARNS FOR BEEF at Nutrena’s research farm include closed-in service islfs Smalll‘ than El C0lT1m€I'Cil-lll'\it-Size Of

per bird, down to four-tenths of a

square foot each. Also. difierent hoursof daylight have been tried. For exam-ple, in one trial it was indicated thatsix hours daily of light increased slow-ly until growing pullets were receiving18 hours of light daily brought about asaving in feed and delayed sexual de-velopment in the early stages so thatthey didn’t begin laying too soon butthat when they did start, eggs werelarge, with no peewees. The brooder isdisinfected and fumigated.

The Cargill high-density layer houseused for research studies is designed fora capacity of from 8.000 to 9,500 birds,depending on the current experiment.lt is 38 x 196 feet. which is slightly

and automatic feeding of silage. Feed formulas, growth e'ccts of chemicals, sti- 4() X 24_0_ The Commercial unit handlesmulants alid medicants are evaluated here, where 325 range-raised cattle can he fed. 10,000 birds and costs approximately

Q33 400 with e ui ment la d ll dlivestock and feed are available to carry accurate answers within minutes, thei'e- '“ ’ Y q P ’ _ _n_ ’ we anout the exieriments Qome 30 €I‘SOI1'S by keepin" the feed-mixing combiiia- the standby power facllmes‘ It hasin all areirimployed i K P tions nutriationally correct but in tune mechanical egg collection and m1l'a“'ay'. . . . . t.t' -lk- ll'h' clEach program carried on is created with constant ingredient changes. “es 5/ lme?0f‘ control ed tmg anas a result of the coordinated efforts of Poultry l'e593l"-‘ll 31 Elk Rive!’ is an/suiomagg ne,st dofleiout Syéteg dthe feed sales department of Nugrena and done in seven buildings. including an S atte hoorligouggo 0‘ (Elf 3 Pltf e

. . . . - - - - ~ or * .the staff nutritionists. Through their lI1l10\’at@d Nlltfella h1gh'd@"51I)' la)’6Y “It mmet an '_ ‘Ia Onso “atContacts with livestock men sales peo. house and brooder house. The brooder err Called an hidraullc d15P°5al Systemple recommend feeds that are needed house is 3 P°le‘tYPe building, 38 feet for manure’ Tnals have, been conductfxlto meet market demands Qnce this has b\' 196 feet. A commercial windowless at the Nutrena farm wlth smaller umtsbeen determined. it is then up to the "nit of this WP‘? slightli’ largef 40 X mhfrom1net0lf0urfeet_0f“:ter’ an:staff of the research farm to put togeth- 210 fe@t- 905$ 3" ‘tlmated 3524900 0; er tests év? een_ mmmug. to Ssefer and test various rations that meet fully equ'l)l)‘fd-_1"clud1"{—' if nega_t1_Ve' t e most e Clem “ai to lspose Othe demand and a]50 produce the kind pressure ventilation system, in addition mam1Te-

of results that make a farmer a satised to the Cost of land l)1'el)arat1°n= 3 well The facllmes were u_uhzed_ dunng theCustomer and stand-by power. The house has a farms rst ve years III testlng 250-000

An example of the result of the work caPacltY of 10-500 bi1"d5- broilers. turkeys. pullets and layers onis a pig Starter no“. being sold as Creep For test purposes. pullets have been 1,411.3 Separate Tall0I1_§» Wlth each one20 Speciap To develop this feed’ the housed at three-fourths of a square foot r6pllC8l€d at least W166-farm staff carried on 16 major tests andran 125 comparisons. With this type ofstudy and actual use. they explained re-cently, they were able to place on themarket a product the company can sellwith condence.

In the preparation of the feeds thatare being tested, literally thousands ofdifferent combinations of ingredientsmust be considered. Fred Nordstromtold visitors recently. And added to thiscomplex problem. he continued, is theprice of the ingredients. which is chang-ing almost daily. A tremendous amountof calculation is required in tting thesetwo factors~ingredients and price—~to-gether in order to obtain the best feedpossible at the lowest expense. Thearithmetic required would take a crewof mathematicians weeks. To jump this

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. T v IN A LAYING HOUSE such as this at Nutrena’s research farm, near Elk River,hu]d,le' Autrena S researchers use Cleo‘ Minn., 10,000 hens do their work well when given very few square inches of spaceHome C0mPuter5» Qabllng them to gel for each bird to live in. Two persons can care for 30,000 layers in such a house.

6 THE NORTI-IW'EST. January-February, 1965

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THREE S“’lNE EXPERTS from Argentina viewed an isolit unit, a method ofproducing hogs, at Nutrena’s farm. With the visitors are, second from right, Dr.Francis Wiingert, Nutrena hog specialist, and, right, Robert Bartikoski, Nutrena ofiicial.

EGGS ARE COLLECTED from an assem-bly-line conveyor in a 10,000-bird layillg . . . . . .house at research farm of Notreiia Mt||s_ quire from seven to eight days less to trons, speclc studies are made on

reach market weight. Nutrena people drugs, antibiotics, trace minerals, av-The hog division includes facilities still are working to improve both sys- ors, various pelleted rations and com-

for two types of commercial operations tems. Peiiiim ieeding Pi°:‘:’iani5-—conventional central production and The isolit is a unit that measures Faiieniiié’ hniis ioi heei-ihe Eiiiolieaiiisolation. The conventional system has seven feet and six inches by six feet and “hi? “'35 iiied» and “hiie hiiiis gaineiicomplete facilities and equipment cap- 11 inches at its base and is ve feet rapidly and made good meat. a Nutrenaable of producing 1.000 market hogs high in front and two feet and six man Cnmmenied that ihe Piihiic Seemsannually. The isolation system is inches high at the rear. Attached to the lust naiiiiaiiY in Prefer Sieei Sinai“-equipped for an annual capacity of isolit is an exercise pen which is eight FOP ihe feeding 9-Xpeiimnnis 0" ¥°°‘i1-400 market h0{IS- Each system has 30 feet by eight feet and seven inches_ quality cattle, Swanson who buys theso“-s and 10 boars with fariowings The pigs, curiously’ keep tho isolits livestock, has purchased calves fromScheduled at tilt? Pale of 5iX and I1iI16- clean, as they go to the outside area to g°°(i- “Peiienced ian('iiei'5-tenths times annually. urinate and dcfocatc_ A sow is placed This is a brief story about the Nu-

The newest idea developed in this in an isolit seven or eight days prior trena farm. It necessarily touches onlyOperation is the isolit farrowing house, to farrowing and remains there until 0" higi1iiSi1t$- For those @$P@¢iaii)' in"“-hich is used in the isolation systcm_ “.eaning_ Not only is she acquainted terested in agricultural research, staUsing the isolit, the isolation program with the area before farrowing and, ineinheis at Eik River ai“'aY5 aie in‘at the farm required an initial int.-est- thus_ is less excitable! hut also she terested in showing the farm. They doment of $20,000, Or about half that builds up antibodies against organisms ask: h°“'e"ei» ihai ih9§' hn give" ad‘needed for a central system of compar- of the locality and can pass them on to vance notice of a visit so they can haveable $iZe- A150, pig Weaning weights 3“ the pigs when they are born, experience 3 siaii ineinhei” a"a1iahie-erage from five to seven pounds heavier at the research farm has shown.in the isolation system and the pigs re- Finishing units with open-front l)uild- STEP UP EFFORTS T0 GET

ings have been developed for both swine CHEMICALS FROM WQODShingle-Making Flfm systems.

- , " ' - r r er ' r u owi° Add ° "°'° "'°"' .-aii’ln1:"i~li~'laiiii§f'ii§I*1§§§i Iiffégii being-iii-0 bi-iii:-eitiroii-Ii) iiellidnhThe Saginaw Shingle company, at inclusive. The beef operation consists corporation at Caiiiasvwiasih ii is an ex‘

Aberdeen, Wash., is installing a chip- of two units. One for studying nishing iensihie Packaging PaP°i= Caiied ociepeiiping machine to make wood chips, and rations is housed in an experimental exiensihie Paheie which “'35 invenied Tn‘an industrial track for chip cars is be- barn 34 x 264- feet. It includes pens 36 CeniiY and which is said in have iiniisiiaiing built. The company will put in a x 16 feet. with 10 head per pen. The Siiengih ioi a Piodiici Oi this kind-pole plant. Poles and logs will be stored other unit is for a feed lot operation The Times-Mirror, a daily publishedon four and a half acres leased recently and includes an open barn 40 x 250 at Los Angeles, and the Longview Fibrefrom the Northern Pacic Railway. feet, with an open pen 32 x 250 feet. company, Longview. Wash.. are experi-

Richard Murchy is vice president and These two operations have a capacity of menting to determine whether residualgeneral manager of the Saginaw com- 325 head at one time. wood from sawmills can be used eco-pany. Charles G. Rose is president. ln addition to tests of various ra- nomically to make newsprint.

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Five More Tree Farms Formed with Railway Timber LandHalf of the Company’: Forest-Growing Area Now Committed to Sustained- Yield Program

Today one-half of the timber-growing Largest of the new tracts is the Lewis farm program in 1945 by establishingland owned by the Northern Pacic River Tree farm, which comprises 44,- three tree farms in western Montana,Railway is in ll tree farms totaling 862 acres in Clark and Skamania bringing 200,000 acres under sustain-690.866 acres located in Washington, counties. This is followed by the Mount ed-yield management. Since then, newIdaho and Montana, all areas volun- Rainier, 27,237 acres along the western units have been added as their adminis-tarily committed by the company to boundary of the Rainier National park; tration came to satisfy the requirementsthe continuous production of forest the North Cascade, 22,762 acres in of the tree farm program.crops on a sustaiiied-yield basis. northeastern King county; the Cowlitz

One of the largest owners of timber River, 21,771 acres southwest of Rainier , ,in the West. with 1.360,000 acres pr0- park, and the Lower Cowlitz River, 9,- |-lQl’Ill1 ls 0 KEY todueing trees, the Northern Pacic had 681 acres in western Lewis and Cowlita Industrial ExpansionUlllll recently 346,100 acres in nine counties. In south-central King countytree farms managed for perpetual yields 18,403 acres were added to the existing Forotolling a promising future forunder the principles of the American 4-1,000-acre Green River Tree farm. commercial chemicals made from wood,tree farm system. Other N.P. tree farms include the Edward (;_ Locke, director of tho U_ S_

On l)ecember 8, last, the Industrial Upper Yakima, in Washington, 130,646 Forest Products laboratory, of Madison,Forestry association, at Portland, Ore., acres; the Palouse Valley, 3,826 acres, Wis” said recently; “Wood can be oon.certied live new NP. tree farms and in Idaho; nd, in M0I1lI1- L010 Trail, verted cheaply to different kinds ofan addition to one previously certied, 50,033 HCFBS; Edith Peak, 13,548; sugar, and these can be either chemical-all in the state of Washington. Placid Lake, 58,338; SW3" Valle)’, 86-" ly or bacteriologically transformed into

This action bloughl 144-716 more 157? Thompson River: 58-525; and very interesting chemicals. Essentiallvacres of the railway’s timber into the YBll0W5l0I1e Pine, 103,775 we are really working with three chemi-tree-farm program. The N.P. actively joined the tree- ¢al(;omponent5_¢e]lulo5o,hemioolliilose,

and lignin.“Until now we have made a lot more

l NorthernPccicBuyingMorelarge-Sized l.igniteHopperCt.-irsl progress with the rst two than with.3, , oi . M, lignin; we don't even know its chemicali ~. ~ ’ T t“--' composition in wood despite many years

of study and experiment. We do know,however, that it has an extremely tanta-lizing potential, and so, around the worldthere probably is more research on lig-nin today than ever before. When wecrack that mystifying nut, which consti-tutes some 25 to 30 per cent of wood sub-stance, we will take a long step down theroad toward the kind of full and bal-anced chemical utilization of wood thatis essential for commercial success.

“When that happens, I can assure youThe Northern Pacic Railway will that some freight cars and tank cars are

purchase this year 150 more open-h0p- going to be needed to haul the productsper cars, each with capacity for 100 of the chemical plants that will be built.tons and each 50 feet long, to be used Those plants will appear in many areas,in general lignite coal service. Two including some that presently aren't veryhundred of the same cars were bought productive of forest products. That willin 1964- and are in service. This equip- be because much. . . . forest land is clut-ment is dispatched out of Mandan, N.D. tered with small and cull hardwood tim-

The cars each contain 3,884 cubic ber suitable only for chemical utilization.feet. The capacity is about 40 per cent In fact, these forests will probably staygreater than that of older equipment that way until wood chemicals with massowned by the company and used for markets are developed, because it won’tlignite coal. be nancially feasible to improve them

The pictures here of H Side View Of substantially without such markets forone of the cars and the interior indicate the existing timber,the large size and high walls These “What I have said for chemical utili-5P6CiflCti0"5 are wmpatible Willi the zation of lignin holds about equally forcapacity of the new hoppers. bark)’

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through dealers, is made for the chassisof any of the major builders of motorvehicles. The Comet corporation doesnot build chassis, but it does keep onhand at the factory a supply of differentmakes. Therefore, dealers can orderDelivans mounted on the make or makesof chassis requested by their customers.Perrigo has taken pains to point outthat dealers may, however, if they pre-fer, mount the Delivans on chassis them-selves.

The bodies come in various lengths.from 10 feet to 20 feet. The panels ofthe Delivans are laminated aluminumand are light in weight. Some will beinsulated by dealers. It has been statedthat no rivets or fasteners show onthe outside, a fact which is intendedto help add neatness and it is practicalin that a smooth surface is desirablewhen decals are applied, Perrigo said.

Another product which Comet makesTHE DELIVAN is A NEW kind er complete body for a lrllk for iltracity deliveries Md the" handles thmugh dealers, is 3by retail rms available for the rst time in January, 1965, at the Comet corporation, truck body kit. The aluminum body, thewhich makes it in a factory located in the Spokane Industrial park in Washington9 - part that ts onto the frame of a truck,

behind the cab, is “knocked down”when the dealer receives it as a kit butComet Firm Zoomed into Production is PM together in his Shoo It cémesin lengths ranging from nine feet toCompany a Year Old at Spokane Makes Bodies for Trucks 24 feet with end doors, side doors, high.. . . , . . d or or ‘ide doors and 't ca beVisit with a personable young man put into the rms plant. ]I1Clll(llI1°' 0 S “ 1 n

t S okane Wash named Geor e Per $250 000 worth of heavy machine tool; adapmd for roll-up doors Sales of thisa P a -1 0 ' 2 v V ' ', C’ product are made in all western states."go and you learn of a brand “Y” Pelngo wlll tell you’ loo’ about the as far east as Minneapolis. The North-Plodllct and Ol 3 c°mPanY that also ls truck bodies and trailers the company em Pacic Trans on Com anp p y as an"@“- makes and markets in a wide area and - ’example bought directly from CometThe company is the Comet corpora- particularly about the very new prod- eight of’ them for local bickup and de_tion, which has a comet on its trade- uct—0ne being manufactured for the livery of freightmark. Perhaps this mark signies that rst time in January of this year——call- A third Comet item is a semivanthe corporation is running a swift and ed the Delivni 3 C°P)’Figl‘1ted trade trailer which is made “from the groundtrue course because, organized only a name. ii ’ - - U -up at Spokane lI1ClU(llIl°' the runningYear 30¢ ll ls located lll a bulldlng 200 X The Dellvani as one may Observe from "ears. These trailers are for pirwybaek600 leel leased l-mm the Spokane ln' a Plclllle °l ll Wlllcll acc°mPa"leS this {work or for over-the-road servisezl Evendustrial Park, Inc., seven miles directly article, is a complete truck body in. the corruaating of aluminum used foreast °l llle c°lP°late llmlts Ol llle Clty’ tended lor lnlracll)’ dellverles bl’ rms the trailero anels is done in the Comet. . . . , _ Pand is building up a volume of business. such as bakeries, dairies ret 'l ' ' 'i 31 me?‘ factory. Each unit is 21 feet and two

Perrigo, vice president, sales, will tell C_lla"_(ll5e sufres an‘l_fl°_rl5l5_ aml for de' inches long. ldentical trailer bodies areyou with understandable pride that a llvellllg mall alld Plckmg ll uP- furnished either as singles or as doublesum approximating S500.000 has been The Delivan, being sold entirely units. These are sold directly to truck-

THIS BUILDING AVAILABLE at the Spokane Industrial park BODIES MADE AT SPOKANE by the Comet corporation, whichis 200 x 600 feet. It was remodeled by the Comet corporation went to San Francisco and Los Angeles via the Northern Pacicto accommodate its production lines and also the rm’s office. and its connections, could he mounted on trucks in 30 minutes.

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i $1,000,000 Seneca Plant at Prosserl Making Juices, Grape Puree and Apple Sauce in Factoryl The Seneca Grape Juice corpora- Furthermore, we wanted to expand to

tion, of Seneca, N.Y., is operating a the west-coast area with a line of prod-plant at Prosser, in the Yakima valley ucts.”of Washington, that cost in excess of The Port of Benton, of which Prosser$1,000,000 and additions are to come. is an integral part, is a public body em-lt went into production in September, powered to levy taxes. Proceeds from1964. bonds which the port issued were used

“This makes the fth plant owned to buy 75 acres two miles east of theand operated by our company,” said Northern Pacic depot in Prosser, be-George H. Wingert, the rm’s superin-

. . . F’tendent at Prosser, in a recent interview,“and our rst one in the West but,when we get it all geared up and fullyequipped, this one will be more di- ‘

COMET CORPORATION PUT in 8250“ versied than any of the other four.”. l

000 worth of machines such as this h_v- The corporation has four factories |draulic press, one of largest in the area. in the State of New York one making

apple sauce, one a freezing plant anding lines, including several major ones location for fruit juices in bulk form‘operating in the West, and are made Two make other products put out byafter written orders have been signed the c0mpany'The one at Prosser alreadyand placed on le with the Comet cor- has made grape juice and apple juice -poratiom and later will manufacture and pack

apple sauce and will make grape ureeA fourth cate"or' ma' come later - -p -cl 3 3 _li and foods from other fruits raised inerrigo sai not ong ago, w ic wi the area_

ll1\"0l\_’€ manufacturing containers ‘for It is the fth juice factory inshipping overseas. These will be similar the Yakima valleyto bodies of trailers but will have no “ ' _.-d f - E h 40 f t 1 th Our president, Arthur Wolcott, wasll" er.ramm‘f' ac . ee Ono’ e here last January to survey the situa- POINTING T0 A LABEL which “ha-‘-5’containers will be hoisted when loaded _ ,, W, .d “W d d “grape essence column,” George H. Win.to the deck of an Ocean freighten non, mgert 531 - e nee 5 3"‘ gert, superintendciit at the Seneca Grape

other SOUTCB Of supply of apples for pro- Juice corporation s factory in Prosser,At the present time Comet has from Cessing as production in the State of Wash; eXP18ll1@d lhal Yolallle 850138, 1'8-

. . . ' taine in essence, is remove uring60 to eml?:0l.eeS'h:dC(l10Sll2)ll (illnizd New York hadn’t kept "P to our need5- processing but is returned after that.corpora ion, i 1S e e y . .

Brown, who is president. N. T. Th0mp- """"***son is vice president in charge of man-ufacturing and G. D. deR0sia is vicepresident in charge of product develop-ment and engineering.

Seismic Clusters WillDetect Nuclear Activity

U. S. Senator Lee Metcalf, of Mon-tana, reported that the federal defensedepartment will put in two experimentalclusters of seismic instruments nearMiles City, in eastern Montana, to de-tect nuclear explosions. with each clus-ter being more than four miles in diam-eter and containing 20 instrumentsemplaced in shallow wells connected tocentral points by cables under ground.Nletcalf said that if a complete seismic

. . . . _. . ‘ an rst are was e an stemme e ore ot erslallon ls lllslalllrfd llllerl ll “lll mclude processing is begun at the new plant at Prosser, Wash., of the Seneca Grape Juice20 clusters Of thls k1n(l- corporation in the Yakima valley. It is the fth factory operated by the company.

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IN THIS NEW BUILDING put up by the Port of Benton on worth of equipment to process fruits and will add more. It isthe Northern Pacic at Prosser, Wash., the Seneca Grape Juice expected that the building, itself, will be doubled in sizecorporation, from the state of New York, installed $400,000 some time later to include more area for storage and freezing.

tween the railway’s main line and theYakima river.

This was divided in half and onabout 16 acres of the portion to thewest a 67,000-square-foot factory build-ing was erected by the port, includingoflices, landscaping and some 1,000 feetof industrial tracks for rail service, allof which was leased to the Seneca GrapeJuice corporation for 25 years. Theeastern half of the 75 acres was dividedinto four parts, which the port will offerto rent to other industrial concerns. Asettling lagoon already has been in-stalled.

The turnout from the rail lead toSeneca can be installed to make railservice available to the eastern part ofthe port’s property

some of the essence to be added totheir product.

When grapes were used up this year,the new plant was changed over tomake apple juice, which also was putinto 55-gallon drums. Making this prod-uct required additional equipment.

During the fall a large room in thenew factory was vacant but it is beingequipped as rapidly as possible to man-ufacture apple sauce. for which thecompany will use several varieties ofYakima apples, “to get a uniform prod-uct,” an oicer explained.

A large addition on the port-ownedbuilding already has been planned forfuture expansion. The size of the pres-ent structure eventually will be doubled.according to plans

The Seneca plant now contains $400.- IF NOT CAPTURE? ‘md Packaged’ ill” “In the addition,” Wingert said, “we. _' aroma of grape Juice would be lost 1n . . . .000 worth of machlnes and other @qu1p- processing, because it is highly volatile. W1“ have large tanks for 5tOnng lume-ment put in by the company.

“We use Concord grapes,” Winger; In making both juice and puree, vol-explained to recent visitors at the plant, alile aroma, which is wntailled in 95'“those we buy on the spot or those for $61106 Of H16 grapes, is removed to Pm‘

We then can make frozen grape con-centrate right here, which will mean.of course, we will have to put in afreezer and a below-zero storage room.

which we make contracts, Many new serve it. The essence is concentrated 150 Also we expect at that time to go intovineyards are being established and we fold and bottled in one-gallon containersmay do considerable eentraeting with and later is added to the concentrate ifgrowers, perhaps even on 3 ve.year this is used as juice. Makers of jellybasis,” who buy juice from Seneca are given

Ripe grapes delivered at the factory

single strength juice, which will becanned but not frozen. We have beenusing 17 employees, all hired locally.operating on a single shift.”

go rst into a washer and then a stem-ming machine receives them, from - -which they go to treating tanks where Distribute cement iromthey are heated to 140 degrees and POSCO GIICI Kennewickpectin is removed, which makes thempress better. After the grapes are press- Tw°_ compames re‘_:emly estabhshfided, juice is ltered and then it is COn_ points 11"! central Washington for the (I15-Cemrated under a vaCuum_ tr1but1on of cement. The Lone Star

At present, concentrated juice is ship- Cem_em _c0mpany’ of Portllmd’ Me" lsped to New York in 55_gaHOn drums’ putting 1n a $200,000 terminal on landwhere it is reconstituted, canned and owned by the port of l_)asC_0 on the northfrozen. As frozen juice, it is used by the shore of the ,C0,lum1_)1a nver’ near thehousewife at one part of frozen juice to Northern Pacic s bridge between Pascothree parts of waten and Kennewlck across the stream, to

To make grape puree_ the process is handle cement from its plants in Seattle

somewhat the same, except that the and Concrete’ Wash‘meat of the grapes is left in and is The Oregon Portland Cement com-ground up, although the seeds are re- pany, of Portland, Ore., has leased amoved. An evaporation process is used. site from the port of Kennewick, on

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the other side of the Columbia, for asmall warehouse for sacked cement,three 5,000-barrel cement silos and one3,500-barrel silo.

State Hired Specialist toAid Nuclear Industries

A specialist in nuclear engineering.Donald F. Koch, formerly on the staffof the Los Alamos Scientic Laboratory,Mercury, Nev., where he did testing onrocket systems, has been employed by thedepartment of commerce and economicdevelopment of the state of Washingtonas an assistant for nuclear and industrialdevelopment.

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They Added 3,000 lrrigcible Acres in the Columbia BasinBalcom & Moe, Farming Corporation, Investing $500,O00 on Leased Land in Block 17, Near Pasco;Some 550Acres Readied for 1965 Crops; Will Build a:Potc|to House for Sorting, Packing, Shipping

Balcom 3; Moe, lnc., a farming cor-poration that was formed 25 years agoat Ellensburg, Wash., by two enterpris-ing young men, namely Maurice Balcomand Eric Moe, will raise crops on 3,000acres in 11 diiierent new farm units inblock No. 17 of the Columbia BasinIrrigation project, in central Washing-ton, near Pasco, that never have beencultivated before.

This is “wild” land, or about as“wild” as you can get for farming inthis part of the United States. It hasbeen growing grass and brush.

lt isn’t a matter, though, of just sageand sand. A witness of that fact is a con-tractor who, putting down a well forBalcom & Moe recently on a headquarters

, i“nib reported than 5ta"i"s 0" the 511* PRIMING A PUMP ON A POND which serves 8 small pool for 8 sprinkling systemface, his drill Went through eight feet on land Balcom & Moe will farm near Pasco, Wash., is H. N. Conner, farm managerof “good” Soil before reaching other for the company. Water ows by gravity into the pond after going over screens.strata. What it needs is water, fertilizerand Cultivation to make it pr0du¢e_ McNeill 8; Libby, lnc., at Grandview place. The next step was cultivation

Balcom and Moe have said it will in 1965. A big start toward that objec- with a heavy disc, which was followedtake an investment of $500’000 to get tive was made last fall. by .llan'd-leveling machines. ('1l‘hen cameall of the units into production and The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, tert11Zmg__a out 700 Pom‘ 5 Per acrethat the land won’t all be producing which is building and operating the Co- °f_ 16‘2O'0 were Put °_n» Potash “'35 3P‘until three or four years hence. umbia Basin project, delivered water Phed sgparately and zmc and DDT “ere

Another interesting fact is that their 011 block 17 tot the rst ttme late in spmye 011'rm does,“ own an acre of the ground’ 1964-. Officials of the Bureau called it The DDT_was for _“'"e“'°Tm_$i Wt'l1_Chbut is leasing it on long-term leases. 3 “test” Yea“ are prtfsent m the S011 an_d wh1ch_ra15e

The staff of Balcom Si Moe, which Block-17 land which Balcom 81 Moe Ned lth potatoias but lllhlilh are nipped_ _ _ effectively by this application.grew 1,000 carloads of potatoes in 1964 will farm this year was gone over in Th h I 1 . .. . e w oe comp ement of soil addi-near Ellensburv, Kennewick and War- early fall with a rotocutter to shear oft . . .P . . . . tives was disced in and plowed underden, Wash., will have on block No. 17 native growth. Then, irrigation was . .. . . . _ or will be plowed under before planting450 acres in White Rose and Russet begun, with the equivalent of 12 inches . .. . . . time and then, at planting, 300 morepotatoes and more than 100 acres in of rain being put on to soak the S01l

peas for the freezing plant of Libby, and, incidentally, to help hold it in sggids of fertilizer in bands’ will be

Irrigation of land leased by Balcom& Moe in block 17 all will be done withsprinklers, with heads that deliver ninegallons per minute from four-inch alu-minum pipe mounted on wheels. Thepipe, with heads, is moved every eighthours when in use with three-horse gas-oline motors. One motor moves a quar-ter of a mile of pipe.

While water on block 17 is deliveredby gravity from the Bureau’s canal sys-tem, a series of ponds or sumps is be-ing installed by Balcom & Moe, in mostcases one pond per farm unit. A pump-tf ing station goes in on each pond. SoRAW LAND BElNG FARMED for the rst time by Balcom & Moe in central -Washington is gone over with a rotocutter and then it is sprinkled with the equivalent far’ f"f‘" have been Installed‘ Gougedof 12 inches of rain before it is cultivated, which is followed by leveling machine. out Wlth 3 bulldozer, the P0nd5 C05t

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7’ P Built Two Warehousesat Seluh, Wash.

On land leased from the Northern Pa-”’j" , cic Railway at Selah, Wash., in the

A /\ /" - . - Yakima valley, Hi-Country Processors.maker of apple juice. and the Alhambra“fine company, both managed by Low-ell Quinn. haye built two warehousestotaling 20.000 square feet of space.

Another Unit Planned byElectric Cooperative

. ‘ I ._A W'HEEL SYSTEM TAKES WORK out of moving pipe lines for sprinkler irrigation .lt has been .amlou“Ced Phat Basm Elaon land Balcom & Moe will farm near Pasco, Wash., in 1965 for the rst time. uilc Cooperatlve’ Inc" B15marck= N" D"Small gasoline engines supply the power to turn the wheels, once in eight hours. which is building a 200,000-kilowatt

steam-operated generating plant nearapproximately $800 each. With 1,800 vast operation when the growing and Stanton, N. D., may construct, beginninggallons per minute owing into one of harvesting have been completed. The in 1965,anothcr unit of the same capacitythe ponds. it holds enough so that from rm markets in just about every state, at the gamelocz-1[i0n_three to four hours are required to ll including Alaska and Hawaii.it if no water is being pumped out. Tl\GY Sl'IOW Devotion l'O

At the point of delivery into a pond,a set of two copper screens has been THE DICKINSON FIELD work on the Rangeinstalled in a concrete frame to take out The Continental Oil company is re- Something that rarely happens was re-trash_ At the opposite end of the pond, ported to have completed a three-quar- ported recently in Montana whena sheep-two electrically powered motors and ter-mile northeast extension in the Dick- herder pleaded guilty to a charge that hePumps force water into sprinkler lir1es_ inson oil eld, in Stark county, North abandoned a Hock. While among shep-At the four ponds operating at present_ Dakota. Two hundred and four barrels herds devotion to duty is legendary, atwo of the duel pumping units have 4.0- of crude oil were said to have been nine-month term in jail and a ne of $500horsepower motors and two have 50- pumped in 24 hours at the well—the are provided against the oilense in Mon-horse motors_ third one in the eld. tana statutes.

Thirty persons will be employed on

‘hi 3900 acre’ TW° d_“"’“i“g5 ‘“‘d a l World's Largest Livestock Car Huuled 81,000 Pounds of Hogs lmaintenance shop for implements arebeing built on the unit that will serveas headquarters. H. N. Conner, who isfarm manager, will live in one. Theother will be occupied by Ed Iohnson,foreman.

Balcom 81 Moe will build a newwarehouse at Pasco on land owned bythe Northern Pacic Railway. Thebuilding, 100 x 150 feet, will containgrading, sorting and packing equip-ment for potatoes. The company, whichraises asparagus and cattle in additionto potatoes and peas, also has a ware-house at Crandview for packing potatoesand another at Warden for the same Said to be the world’s largest live- the N. P., was nished it was loaded atPlll‘P05¢- A thousand 8-CF65 e35t Of stock car, a double-decker 85% feet South St. Paul with 331 butcher pigsKiona, Wash-, in the Kennewich High- lrng has been placed in service by the destined to the Pierce Packing company,lands lfrig8ti0n PT0j6Ct, leased by Bah Northern Pacic Railway. Made by at Billings, Mont. Their weight was 75,-Conl 31 M06, Will he farmed by the actually putting together two of the 500 pounds. with two sets of doors oncompany again in 1965- The rm 8150 company’s 4-0-foot, roller bearing “pig each side, the giant-sized car was spottedOperates 300 Cl'6S near Eller1$l>urg- palaces,” which were introduced in 1958, for loading at two chutes at the sameP0t8t06S handled by B8lC0In 81 M06 at not only was room in the older cars time. On unloading at the destination itWarden KY6 1‘iSBd by Othf growers in combined but also the space formerly was reloaded immediately with 197 sowsthat ar6- occupied by couplings between two cars weighing 81,335 pounds which were be-

Selling and shipping potatoes (all for was used. When the rst car, a proto- ing shipped east. While primarily fortable use) by this company comprise a type of 30 to be constructed this year by hogs, it can haul sheep or calves.

THE Nolrrnwl-31'. January-February, was 13

Container Service Evolved in Handling Alaskan FreightTransfer and Terminal Company Running a Receiving Station on Northern Pacific at Seattle

The newest wrinkle in the oldest serv- “ice in the Alaska trade is a new off-waterfront station. opened for the Alas-ka Steamship company on September 8,last. to receive and load into vans Alas-ka “raillielt shipiiieiits." This facility isprovided the Alaska Line under contractby the A.A.A. Transfer S Storage coni-paiiy. of which Ted Thomas is president.

A transit shed owned by the North-ern Pacic Railway at 558 Occidentalavenue. in Seattle. was leased and a

covered loading platform. 52 x l92 feet.was added.

There is nothing unusual in the ap-pearance of this station. an ell in shape.Shipments are recei\ed on either sideof the long section. which runs north

and South‘ and on the north side of thc 24-FOOT VANS PLACED on trailer chassis parked at a covered loading platformFllrl $€€‘li0l1- Tl1m1i"{I at 1‘i{-’hl angles, in Seattle to receive freight destined for Alaska represent a new way of movingeast and west products intended for points in the 49th state going by the Alaska Steamship line.

Em )l13.SlS has been )liiCC(l on eliiniii- _, _ , _ _min“ lred tape and uimecggsan hand_ hits the floor,’ Thomas points out with station crew s \\lll work around thelin"‘__reCei“in" Shipments asffasi they characteristic enthusiasm. his crews clock in three shifts during the sum-Car? be deliveridh Documents check often maintaining a flow of merchandise mer. At other llH‘€S. two shifts usuallyed at the point of delivery and from dfli\‘er1ng equipment directly into do.

chandise moves into vans destined to vans: Thigh freight we get” Thomas The term “rallbelt” i"Ci(lemallY* re‘A|aSka_ 13 of which may be marshalled C°"t1""ed- _Y""5 all ll"? Way from boxes fers to areas in Alaska tributary to theat one time at the loading p]atf0rm_ OIL bgiltfl ‘l13Per All)": to l?"li'1§' ma‘ Alaska Railroad. between Seward and

Fifteen boxcars can be worked at the C lneiii mcause as ans Sn ave to Falrbank5' a distance of Over 40‘) mlleS'.h 95 f ll <1 d h - -facility at once. In addition to rail cars. :15?” In per cent 0 a C00 S t By Whlle the Alaska Lme emPl°Ys 3piggyback trai|erS_ transcontinental ' variety of containers. those filled attrucks dra}. lines and private Carriers The sign over the building identies the ItCW‘fElC‘ll]ly are largely 8 x 8% xbring in the ShipmemS_ largely in less the facility as a receiving station for 24 feet in size. Of heavy weatherproofthan_car]0ad|0ts_ ' the Alaska Steamship company. Most construction. they are trucked to the

“Sixty of the freight refer to it as a vaiiniiig station. b-ut. vanning station on chassis, on which* whatever you call it. in its short exist- they remain until filled and returned

ence it has attracted considerable at- to the ocean terminal, Pier 46. Thereteiition. Open five days a week. the they are moved by straddle truck. with

MESSAGES ARE RELAYED to Ted PACKAGES OF FREIGHT ARE unloaded at the right and then lhev are movedThomas, who runs new freight handling across the oor to vans at the left parked for loading. Many kinds oflproduets areservice, at several points during loading. included. Once the vans are lled, they are moved by tractors to a shipside pier.

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two 50-ton gantry cranes lifting them in ships, and two ships capable of carry-and out of ship cells. ing 90 vans on the railbelt run, the

In addition to compatible steel need for special attention to vanning

l tf rm 8 x 24- are used for handlin became apparent’ and thatis Wherepa 0 s .

such commodities as lumber. transit A'A'A‘ Transfer came m‘' “Shi ers no longer need to wait in'.ltbddlod. .PP

PIPFB pills cl: olir an tp ytwliith AAA line to make deliveries of railbelt ship-e as a In? C03 racl “ ,' 'h' ments,” Thomas said. “We can handle

Transfer wasalogical eve opment int e h f h K -_ , t em as ast as t ey come nowing

orderly evolution of its container opera- that’ they don’t hold back until they,ve

non‘ begun m 1953 wlth conventional a full truck load, but make deliveriesships. First small 60-cubic-foot and 160- whenever Convenient That Spreads

Cu_bic'f0°t C(_mtainers _were employed’ work rather than concentrating it atwith fork lift handling ashore and deadline times,” he statedaboard ship, where the holds were paved In addition to four shi Serving theto facilitate movement. For shippers of - -P °

of it. Of course,” he added, “severalU.S. army posts up there in themselvesmake a large tonnage of cargo necessaryand the oil business is no small item,either. Drilling has created a need forpipe and other heavy oil-eld supplies.Crude oil comes back to reneries inWashington and California in tankers.”

Active competition exists for Alaskancargo. Sea-Land Service, lnc., does al-most completely containerized freighthandling, with two ships which are op-erated each week between Seattle,Anchorage and Kodiak. Another com-pany, the Puget Sound-Alaska Van

Al k , A h Anchorage-Fairbanks region, the Alaska Lines operates a railroad car bargeor l - ’ .gigigriraJI£)sllI::1g:oIE0 A1321aa gtearlzta Igagfe Line has 11 that serve -other areas of from geanre every thrrd day, called 3

’ H d dd d 40 f Alaska from Ketchikan in southeasternline is fami iar Y ca e ’ a e a ' 00 Alaska to Kotzebue in the Arctic.trailer van service‘ One freight man said just the other

The T6511“ °f this earll’ container OP‘ day, “where the Alaskans, knowing theeration was imPr°ved °utt“m~ Alaska total of their population, use all theLine officials have pointed out. Pilferage, goods they take into the state in a year,

loss and damage dr°PPed and Packagmg I don’t know, but there is a mighty pileand marking requirements were eased,

they said. ..

Later the 24--foot van without chassisevolved as a practical device for theAlaska trade (the Matson Steamshipcompany adopted this size for itsHawiian operation I and the Alaska Linemodied four of its 10.000-ton steam-ships for the “railbelt” so that they eachcould carry about 90 of these vans.

Continued growth in van service led toanother move-——the complete conversionof two 10,000-ton ships to full vancarriers, each capable of carrying from1T6 to 180 24--foot units. That conver-sion, which included the elimination of ‘

all masts and deck machinery, was an-nounced about a year ago. The rst l

full vanship in the Alaska trade sailedfrom Seattle on March 25. The second and . °-V m ers’ 3 “Sppliances, Ted Thomas left toldwent a short time later. With two van- S, G. Hayman, Alaska Steamship olcer.

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A POWERFUL STRADDLE TRUCK on a pier at Seattle lifts vans fl'0m trailerchassis and handily moves them to a shipside location to be placed on board one ofthe Liberty ships remodeled by the Alaska Steamship company for containers.

THE NORTl‘lW'EST, January-February, I965

“hydro train.” Barges hold 4-0 boxcarseach and it has been reported that twomore barges are being built for thiscompany. The Alaska-Trainship corpor-ation hauls loaded railroad cars fromDelta Terminal, in British Columbia,and what has been called an “aquatrain”is run by the Canadian National Rail-ways from Prince Rupert. B.C. ln ad-dition, various barging se rvices arechartered by individual companies forspecic duties.

GOLDEN PRODUCT MADEBY NORTH DAKOTANS

In T3 creameries in North Dakota48,700,000 pounds of butter are manu-factured annually. Thirteen and a halfmillion pounds of cheddar cheese aremade yearly in the state.

A GANTRY PICKS up a loaded 24--footvan unit on a Seattle pier and depositsit aboard an “Alaska Steam” freighter.

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Pronto Foods, Inc., Organized Recently, Will French Fry PotatoesA $1,000,000 company incorporated and processing rooms, cold storage, dry adjacent to Washington, which con-

recently in the state of Washington be- storage, boiler room, oices and facili- sisted of 155,420 acres.gan construction of a factory to manu- ties for employees, including a lunch- A general outline, with major blocksfacture frozen French-fried potatoes on room. designaled bY area llamas’ 15 sholma 20_acre site purchased from the North, An industrial track from the N0rth- here, Wlth. oshore regionslshaded. Bidsern Pacic Railway between Moses Lake ern Pacic’s Washington Central line, were rfcelved on tracts wlthm each ofand Wheeler, just north of the Wheeler at Wheeler, will f11111i$l1 SI-1806 enough the fna]°r_ b1°¢k5-road, for 15 cars at a time. Water is to be Hlgh bld Of the Sale ls “Ported to

The location is in the Columbia Basin obtained from a well that will be drill- have been made by_1h@ U111011 011 C0111-In-igatjon project ed on the property. Sewage will be P311)’ 011 3 tract lY1"g "ear C005 Bil?’-

Q_ R_ Lovins, president of the new handled through the sewer system of This offer was $37§ per acre B1115

rm, called Pronto-Foods, Inc., who is the Cit)’ Of M0535 Lake’ which will re‘ “"‘_g“’d d°_W{‘“""d to lust above the pre-a gmwer and shipper of potatoes at quire the construction of two _and a 501113811 I111111111l1111 Of $5 P111‘ 6016}-l_Raugust, “lash” said that the factory half miles of new 12-.lI‘lCl'l pipe line. M<_)5t of the acreage hes Wlt "1will be completed and equipped, ready The _Pr°PertY acquired _bY P_1' P n_t ° feet m depth’for operation, by August 15, 1965, in lijoods is a part of farm unit 81 in 1rriga- ‘Stime to use newcrop P0tatoes_ t1on_ block No. 42 of the Columbia \_\J,

Lovins added that the plant, to be B351" Pr°J°°t' W,180 x 300 feet, has been designed to '“""' W/_\5H|N(;TQNprocess 40,000,000 pounds annually of Bidding fgf Ngrlhwesfnished product. . 31*“!

Harry Masto, who operates a potato oshore O" Leases D.warehouse at Moses Lake, is vice presi- Eleven oil companies bid $35,533,- ’dent of the new c°mPanY- K3)’ K0bata7 700.64 for 101 tracts beyond the three-who 5hlP5 P°tat°@5 at StTatf°1‘d, Wash-, mile limit along the coasts of Washing- TILLAIOOKis secretary-treasurer. C. R. Holden, a ton and Oregon at a recent offering bygmwer and b"Y°1' at [(13110 F8115, Ida-, the U. S. department of interior, ac- I -it-emand 3 direcmr Of P101110 F00d$, h85 cording to Petroleum Information, a re-been appointed sales manager. Marshall porting service at Denver. The total of- I OREGONBurress, at Moses Lake, is a director. fering is said to have included 149 =°°’ '"

The design of the factory, supplied tracts off Oregon and 4'7 tracts oftby Frank Hawthorne of Seattle, who Washington but bids were received onearlier designed a potato freezing plant 74 of the tracts, or 425,433 acres, offat Warden, Wash., includes receiving the Oregon coast and on 27 of those

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