Major hunks of the West go on the auction block - Portland Business Journal:

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Nearly all of the properties haveminimum bids, and will be decided through a sealed bid process. But 19 properties--1q2 in Oregon and seven in Washington--will go by oral auction on November 1 at the Holiday Inn in Six of those will have nominimum bid. The Oregon ranch on the auctiojn block is theLP Ranch, a 16,000-acre elk huntinyg and timber tract in Umatilla Counth with a minimum bid of $11.9 million. Ownexd by Pioneer Resources of Eugene, it is one of the largestf private Eastern Oregon with some 25 million boare feet of mature Ponderosa Pine andDouglas fir, and 600 elk roaminb the property.
During the last 20 years, the propertt has served as a corporate hunting retreat for public andprivat companies. Acquisition provides the opportunity for developmenyt of a hunting club with a commercialotimber operation. The Mendocino County, Calif. ranch, owned by and also used for timbe r andcorporate retreats, is the largesgt property in the auction at 26,000 Minimum bid: $15.5 million. There is an estimatec 16,204 acres of productive timberland, and an estimatefd 52 million board feet ofmerchantable timber, also mostly Douglas fir and Ponderossa Pine.
The auction includees a number of properties ownedby Louisiana-Pacifif Timber Company that LP considers The properties are in Idaho and Colorado. A free color auctioh catalog may be obtained by calling faxing (503) 242-1814, or e-mailing . com. To Metro, or not to Metroo Pollster Tim Hibbitts is conducting a statewide survey of registered voters thisweek that, give or take a few percentage points, will reveal if Oregonians really want to abolish the regionalo government called Metro. Results of the poll will be revealerdon Thursday, October 16, at the Oregon Conventionh Center during a live luncheon debate betweeb would-be Metro killer, Bill Sizemore, and the voice of Mike Burton.
The event costs $75 and is beiny advertised like a heavyweight bout byoft at-odds sponsors the Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association and the Homebuilders Association of greater Portland. In additiobn to Metro's abolishment, it will revealo how Oregonians feel--and where they assign blame--about a number of planning including the urbangrowth boundary, affordability, density, "andd all those scary words," said Rich community development director for Oregon City and member of the statewide planning "Land use planning is coming up on its 25th and nobody has done a statistically valid survey of how people feel about the planning in this Carson said.
"We wantexd to find out if they thinit works." Free beer...probably Just in time for a fully-operational, 13.6-MW coal-fired cogeneration power planrt in Baoding, Hebei China is being marketed by Pacificv energy Systems of Portland. The plany is owned by San Miguel Corporation of the Philippines and its Chineswe jointventure partner, the Bada Group. The partnershipo built the plant to supply electricity and steam tothe partnership'd San Miguel Bada Brewery and to a malt housed owned by Malteurop and the Bada The cogeneration plant has two operating 35-ton-per-houtr boilers. But wait. There's more.
The partnershipp will continue to purchase electricity from the new owner undee longterm contract, and a thirx boiler is nearly complete. In addition, the successful purchaser will be give n first right to participate in the development ofa 2x200-MW coal-fired power plant that the Bada Grouop is planning on the same location. If you stil l have any doubt that this is the foreign cogenerationb plantfor you, an offering memorandum is availables under a confidentiality agreement through Pacificd energy Systems president John Martin at