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Reuben Robertson, at 91, a legend

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  • Roaming The Mountains Reuben Robertson, At 91, A Legend By JOHN PARRIS TOWN MOUNTAIN - A legend in his own time, he is a man to match my mountains. He walks tall and he casts a long shadow. He is big by any yardstick- big physically, big mentally, big in heart, and big in achievement. He is the man who built Champion Papers, Inc. into a giant in the pulp and paper industry. His name is Reuben B. Robertson, and today he is 91 years old. The years have plucked away at his snow-white hair, but his eyes shine like a bright, new JOHN PARRIS dime and his mind is as sharp as a woodsman's ax. When he came into the mountains of Western North Carolina in 1906, this was still a land where folks made their own legends. And, with ax and saw and brains, it didn't take him long to become a legend, a living legend. Over on the Pigeon, in a wilderness of tall trees and singing white water, he built a model logging town and took the lead in forest conservation at a time when little was known about good forestry practices. Down stream a dozen miles or so at Canton, he supervised the building of a paper mill that turned a sleepy, mud-mired village into a prosperous town. "This,"'he recalled a few days ago, "was the first mill in the world to make white pulp from chestnut wood, the first in the South to make spruce sulphite, and the first to produce high quality white pulp from Southern pine trees." In the years since the building of the Canton mill, the man and the legend have grown. And both are true as Scrip- —Turn To Page Fivt Reuben B. Robertson
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Canton Champion Fibre Company

When it opened in 1908, the Champion Fibre Company was the largest pulp mill in the world. For 60 years it was under the leadership of Reuben "Mr. Champion" B. Robertson and was a...

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