Reminiscences of Arthur Priaulx and James Stevens : oral history, 1953

Biographical Note

Journalist

Scope and Contents

Background of lumber industry in Washington and Oregon; effect of business cycle and railroads on lumber; early Weyerhaeuser activities: evolution of timber holding policy, influence on forestry and conservation, criticisms in Washington, tax problems of company; Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot, conservation programs; evolution of state forestry codes in Pacific Northwest; labor in lumber industry from 1900

Subjects

• Conservation of natural resources.
• Interviews.
• Link, Wendell, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Lumber--Transportation.
• Lumbermen--Interviews.
• Lumbermen--Labor unions.
• Lumber trade.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Priaulx, Arthur--Interviews.
• Stevens, James, 1892-1971, interviewee.
• Stevens, James, 1892-1971--Interviews.
• Weyerhaeuser Timber Company.