Excerpts: Fiber flax is processed in the United States only in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Flax plantings there have varied from 18,000 acres in 1942 to about 1,000 acres in 1950. The 1942 crop yielded 2,000 tons of line fiber, which is about a third of the quantity imported each year. Nearly 6,000 tons of unmanufactured flax fiber and 35 million dollars' worth of manufactured linen were imported into the United States in 1948. The future of the Oregon industry depends largely on the ability of American farmers and processors to mechanize their operations so that high-grade fiber can be supplied at a price that will make competition possible with European flax fiber, which is produced with low-cost labor.