LONGVIEW FIBRE COMPANY
BRANCH PLANT HOURLY EMPLOYEES'
401(k) PLAN
To Participants:
Copies of the enclosed proxy material are being supplied to Company
shareholders of record in connection with the solicitation of proxies for use
at the forthcoming Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held on January 23,
2001. As a participant in the Longview Fibre Company Branch Plant Hourly
Employees' 401(k) Plan, the "Plan", you are entitled to direct the manner in
which Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company, the "Plan Trustee", votes the shares of
Common Stock of Longview Fibre Company represented by your interest in the
Longview Fibre Company Stock Fund under the Plan as of November 30, 2000.
The Plan Trustee will be pleased to vote your shares in accordance with your
instructions if you will complete, sign, and date the enclosed proxy form and
return it to the Plan Trustee in the enclosed postage-paid return envelope. The
Plan Trustee will hold any voting instructions it receives in confidence and
will not divulge or release any specific information regarding such to any
person, including officers or employees of the Company, except to the extent as
may be required by law.
If your proxy form is not received by the Plan Trustee, the Plan Trustee will
treat such as a direction: (a) to abstain with respect to each matter or group
of related matters to be acted upon (other than elections to office), and (b)
to withhold authority to vote for any nominee for election to office.
We urge you to send in your proxy promptly for receipt by the Plan Trustee no
later than January 16, 2001, so your shares will be voted at the meeting in
accordance with your instructions.
LONGVIEW FIBRE COMPANY December 15, 2000
