Big fir in an Oregon forest
Image Description: “According to the Industrial Report on Commercial Woods of the Pacific Northwest by the Portland Chamber of Commerce in 1926, the Pacific Northwest has a stand of 420,874,000,000 board feet of Douglas fir. More than half of this is in Oregon.
Other important commercial woods in Oregon are Western white Pine. Yellow Pine, hemlock, red cedar, and Sitka spruce. In the southwestern part of the state Port Orford cedar stands to the amount of two billion feet. In 1925, Oregon mills turned out ninety million feet of Port Orford cedar which is used largely for battery insulators, wings of aeroplanes, boats, furniture, etc. The mills of the five states of the Pacific Northwest produced eight billion feet of lumber from Douglas fir in the same time”
Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides
Item Number: P217:set 035 002
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Big fir in an Oregon forest
Image Description: “According to the Industrial Report on Commercial Woods of the Pacific Northwest by the Portland Chamber of Commerce in 1926, the Pacific Northwest has a stand of 420,874,000,000 board feet of Douglas fir. More than half of this is in Oregon.
Other important commercial woods in Oregon are Western white Pine. Yellow Pine, hemlock, red cedar, and Sitka spruce. In the southwestern part of the state Port Orford cedar stands to the amount of two billion feet. In 1925, Oregon mills turned out ninety million feet of Port Orford cedar which is used largely for battery insulators, wings of aeroplanes, boats, furniture, etc. The mills of the five states of the Pacific Northwest produced eight billion feet of lumber from Douglas fir in the same time”
Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides
Item Number: P217:set 035 002
You can find this image by searching for the item number by clicking here.
Want more? You can find more digital resources online.
We're happy for you to share this digital image within the spirit of The Commons; however, certain restrictions on high quality reproductions of the original physical version may apply. To read more about what “no known restrictions” means, please visit the Special Collections & Archives website, or contact staff at the OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center for details.