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Date Posted: 15:04:05 02/20/00 Sun
Author: Anonymous
Subject: a sawmill maybe?
In reply to: 's message, "City or Village?" on 12:10:04 02/20/00 Sun

You have preciously the right idea. I think that perhaps we try to move too fast in PNG...get too modern too soon and it fails. Perhaps a good place to model would be right around the time of the industrail revoluntion in AMerica. What would happen would be something like this. Pick any village to start that is close to a main highway leading to one of the ports. The first thing you would do is to get electric to the place. Next set up what in America is called a "Woodpecker" saw mill. It is usually a very small family owned operation set up in the rural areas. These are sometimes operated with diesel engines instead of electricity so maybe the electricity isn't necessary at first. It takes a lot of hard work but they make a living at it. You supply the villagers with the right equipment and teach them to cut the lumber to rebuild the village, replacing thatched houses with wooden ones. At some point one of them is going to figgure out that if they cut some extra boards they can sell them in town and get money in return and so on and so on....First thing you know, the only way Tiawan is going to get lumber out of PNG is to buy the boards from the villagers. No more logs for sale. Next thing you know they need to double their production to keep up and the entire village is employed. Just a thought. What do you think?

DAMN!!!! This sounds so good maybe I need to move back there and do it myself, except I am too old and lazy to do that kind of work.

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