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Reuben Robertson, at 91, a legend
Reuben Robertson, at 91, a legend
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Item 2 - Reuben Robertson, at 91, a legend
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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In his June 11, 1970 edition of Roaming the Mountains, John Parris gives his reader an overview of the life of Reuben B. Robertson. Robertson came to Western North Carolina in 1906 for a 50 day stint to help his father-in-law finish building the Champion Paper plant and get it back on its financial feet. In 1907 he decided to drop his law career to try his hand in the relatively new paper industry. At the age of 91 in 1970 he is honorary chairman of the Board of directors of Champion Papers, Inc., occasionally visits the plant in Canton, and has an office in Asheville.
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