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Planing Mill Erected Recently Uses Fir Cut in the Blue MountainsA modern planing mill recently tains. which are itt Wasliington and Orc- Walla Walla Valley Railway. a subsidi-

erected and equipped on a seven-acre gon. east of Walla Walla. ary of the Northern Pacic. to serve thetract at Sunnyside, Ore.. near Milton- The new plane-r's production which new planing mill and a concentration

lFreewater, by the i\ebraska Bridge Sup- consists principally of yard stock, in- yard operated in connection with it byply & Lumber company of Oregon can eludes 2 x -l-'s and 2 x 6's. which will the Nebraska concern. The local plantplane 75,000 board feet of rough lumber total about l5.t)0().lN)0 feet annually. manager is Vvallace Scales. Henry Bur-daily. Material is acquired principally Planks and railroad ties. amounting to dick. at Portland. is general managerfrom a sawmill owned by the Inland Fir 3.()()().0()() board feet on a yearly basis. and sales manager.Lumber company located on seven acres are turned out. The lnland Fir Lumber company isjoining the property of the Nebraska A 230-foot spur was built from the managed by Ted .\Iudr0w Jr. I

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iIN THIS ONE-FLOOR FACTORY building, covering 133,000 equipment which is sold nationally by 30 distributors locatedsquare feet, at Tacoma, Wash., the Educators Manufacturing across the country, even in such distant areas as cities along thecompany emplo_\'s 250 people who make classroom storage Atlantic coast. It is one of l0leading makers of school equipment.

Tacoma Has a Leader in School-Equipment ProductionEducators Company, Occupying a Modern, One-Floor Factory, Hiring 250 Employees, MakesI50 Items of Storage Furniture, Using Local Raw Material and Some Coming from Other Sources

Robert M. Thorpe has a startling wayof demonstrating his implicit condencein the classroom furniture made by theEducators Manufacturing company. atTacoma. W'ash.. the firm which employshim as general manager.

Escorting visitors recently through a

showroom in the companyls $l.000.000one-lloor factory. which covers 133.000square feet and employs 250 persons.Thorpe. a tall. athletic young man.picked up a piece of hardwood andsaid. "Look."

Wham! He brought the stick downsharply on a leading edge of a shinynew birchwood cabinet on casters sittingnear-by.

Nothing happened, except the thudof the impact. Nary a dent. No doubtwas left about the tough plastic corners.which are standard equipment on thismodern schoolhouse item. being able totake punishment.

Then Thorpe turned to a teachersstorage cabinet seven feet tall. whichcombines in one compact area seasonalstorage space, a personal wardrobe andadjustable shelves for general storage.with room enough for such odd but use-ful paraphernalia as a baseball bat anda catcher's mitt. Included. too. are a

plastic tray for ink wells and miscel-laneous supplies and two legal-size ledrawers for project folders and art work.The cabinet’s two doors are equippedwith double magnetic catches. with a

oating magnet. so even if a door hap-pens to be a bit off. there is a bond.lt is very unlikely. though. that thedoors will sag. Thorpe commented,

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WTIAM! NARY A DENT. To test its durability. Robert ill. Thorpe, using a stick ofhardwood, struck the plastic edge of a birchwood cabinet made by his rm. Theoutcome of this very startling but convincing demonstration was entirely satisfactory.

pointing to three specially designed |)an_\. an ll-year-old rm. makes 150wrap-around hinges made from the com- diflerent items of storage equipment forpany's own dies. classroom use in grade schools and high

And’ by way of t_mphasiS_ a condent schools. The rm also bids occasionallySmile on his face, he Opened one of the on large special requirements of nursingd(,Ur§_ grasped it at the [OP with bot‘, homes. dormitories and other institu-hands and pulled down with all of his llll-Rweight. The hinges did not budge. One has only to take a tour through

indeed. tests of strength and wearing ll‘? ('"'"Pa")'-5 l-a'3l°r§' Will‘ Generalquality are a part of regular procedure Manager Thorpe as guide where. inci-in the rm's plant. dentally, it seems that just about every

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THE STORAGE FL'R!\'lSlllN(lS in this spic and span new school were supplied by theEducators Munul'acturing company. of Taconm. \\'a_~‘l|.. which occasionally bids alsoon the larger require-rm-nt_~ ol' nursing homes. dormiloria-.~* and other such llIs'llllItl()Il.~‘.

HERE IS RAW’ MATERIAL for classroom l'urniture—hardwood logs cut locally anddecked outside a sawmill owned and operated by the Educators Manufacturingcompany to supply its own needs. Birchwood veneer and r plywood are purchased.

of recognition. to understand the really Some of the raw material is obtainedamazing extent of the evolution of locally in the form of alder and mapleschoolroom furnishings that has oc- logs, which are sawed. kiln dried. planedcurred since granddad studied McGuliy’s and cut in the Tacoma plant for use asreaders. structural members. Birch veneer is pur-

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and glued before it is applied to coresof r plywood, a western product. Thearrangement of the plant for the purposeof mass production, and the applicationof machines to do about every factoryjob can be described as in themselvesa worthy feat of planning and engineer-ing.

Writers reporting for trade journalshave said that the Educators Manufac-turing company is one of the 10 leadingmakers of school equipment. lts productsare sold nationally by 30 distributorslocated across the country. even in popu-lous centers as distant from the home

in the Tacoma plant not UM‘. has 3 skins! and then it is trimmed. jointed ofiice as the Atlantic sea coast.wide range of functional characteristics: '

it is attractive and, as we have said.durable. Moreover. it is made to accom-modate different sizes and ages of chil-dren—designed to t them. in otherwords.

The Educators company. as a matterof fact. has done practical research onthese very points in schoolhouses of thenation.

For example. a study of present-dayneeds showed the desirability of equip-ment ot permanent types that are, lione-Lheless, movable or portable. whichcould be used in temporary classroom

I A LARGE PIECE OF EQUIPMENT acquired recently for its new $1,000,000 factory.(uztfrs alld’ lhegi later‘ when new called a “Flo Coater,” increases the capacity for applying nishes on at panels used

"1 mgs “ere 793 )- could be m°"ed- in cabinets made by the Educators Manufacturing company. in its new building.4

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8'Unusual Features Aplenty in $30,000,000 Lloyd CenterPortland Shopping Center Big Enough to Handle 28,000 Cars and 70,000 People Daily

One of the nation’s largest shoppingand business developments, called Lloydcenter, costing more than $30,000.000_being built on the east side of Portland.Ore., has a whole raft of unusual fea-tures. some of them, indeed, are unique.

Located on 50 acres near the Willa-mette river, which ows through theheart of the city, it can be reached in a

drive of only six niimites from the city’smain business district, on the west shoreof the stream.

Portland’s metropolitan popula-lion. which recently was about 800,000,will he 900.000 in 1960. Of these poten-tial consumers, planning engineers havecalculated that 595,000 shoppers will bcfrom four to 20 minutes driving timeaway from Lloyd center where, when itis opened to the public on May 1, 1960,they will nd 100 or more retail storesand offices and a medical center with

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"WI" for 40 ‘l°¢l<>Y§- THE NEW LLOYD CENTER in the foreground, as it will appear pp completion nextFree parking facilities have been pro- May, an architecfs version, that is, has been superimposed on an excelle_nt picture of

jecled to hold 8:000 cars at one time on downtown in Portland, Ore., showing its proximity to the Portland business section.

three dierent levels adjacent to the _ .smreS_ Research swdies Show that the ve levels. Qther major tenants reported planters, pools, fountains and evencenter will be visited each working dav to be coinniitted to space in the area in- waterfalls, Iall covered to shut out theby from 20000 to 70,000 people in from clude Best s Apparel, lnc.. J. C. Penney weather, will connect the buildings.10.000 to 28.000 automobiles. C°"‘Pa">'- l"°-7 F- W- W°°""°"h °°'1‘" A wilrally located i'@ar-around ice

lt will take 5.000 emplovees to handle pany’ J’ J‘ Newberry company’ Pay n rink’ 76 X l80= 50 Per Gem larger thanthe anticipated yolume ofibusiness. save Drugs’ Inc" Safeway, Stores’, ].nc" the one in New Yorkis Rockefeller cen-Meier & Frank. of the largest Mannings, lnc.. Rosenhlatt s, the. I nited [err is expected to be adequate for gured0“,mO“.n deparmlellt Store in POrt|am;|_ States National hank and the First l\la- skating contests, curling and demonstra-wi“ establish another in the Lloyd tjgnal Bank of Portland, ilOrt l10Cl(€y. Demountable bleachers WlllQettter’ n()t qujtg $0 but still i||- BlC0l‘ll£‘S, and |)8(l6SU'iaI‘l Illll acconnnodate Spectators’volving 300,000 square feet of space on feet wide landscaped with owers, large Reslallranls will seal 19400 at 3

time. Neon and ashing lights will beb. t.All '0 t b ii h 'thWeyerliaeuser Company Dropped Part oi Its Name jtujlijling froziznzngrivili U; oy Egck

What was the Wey'erhaeuser Timber corporate group, reports have indicated. lighting.(‘°mPa"Y for 60 Years f°ll°“'l"g its F. K. Wey'erhaeuser, president of the lust across a street, south, Portland’sfounding has become the Weyerhaeuser rm, at Tacoma, Wash., said, “When new $6,000,000 nine-story Sheraton

the company began, it was exclusively hotel, containing 300 rooms, beganin the business of managing timberland. serving the public recently.Aweyerhaeuser Company But today, use oi ‘timber’ in our name . .does not indicate adequately our widerange of products or the ncw products This Year lhf’ acreflge ill col" 0" fa_m'5company. A new symbol, reproduced expect in the future ” of the Columbia Basin lrrigation project,l h . . . . . . . .lCl‘(_ as been adopted to identify the Th We rha mduceg in central Washington, wasincrcased 117

c°mPa"Y’5 Products and "5 °PeTati°n5- d e H {Ye be serl mld ylp i per cent over the acreage of 1958. TheOne headline writer for a trade an Se S um er’ p ywoo ’ P iiveneer’ area in grain sorghums went up 139 per

journal reporting the change quipped, pulpf paperboardf Shlppmg comamers’ cent and the acres planted to seed peas--Timber ‘felled’ by Wey(,rhaeu5er_” folding boxes, milk cartons. hardboard, were 91 per cent above the amount inActually what occurred went beyond a l)1"'ll('lP l“‘a"l- bark and ‘mod lter this crop last year. Some 257,000 acresrevision of the name. Certain subsidiary Pf0fll1Cl$, (‘hPmi(‘ls- illsulatioli and were irrigated on the project in 195‘)companies were consolidated into one Prestologs. compared with 235,000 a year ago.THE NORTHWEST. November-December, 1959 5

WHEN NOT IN USE, bins holding from 20 to 25 bushels of loose box in harvesting several million bushels each fall of theapples each are piled high in yards surrounding fruit warc- npple crop in Washington. Pickers ll the bins in the orchardshouses iii lhc Yakima valley. They have replaced the standard before they are transported to packing sheds and cold storage.

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’ " warehouses. Ordinary farm motor trucks also are used in many cases for this work.in place of the standard apple box, orloose box, for transporting fruit fromthe orchard to the warehouse where it ’is packaged and for holding it in cold but by 1908 15 per cent of all c°m' showed a further increase‘

shipper who harvested 50 bins of apples, warehouses. ln 195‘) the shift to bins

storage mercial apples in the state, about 5,000,- The grower handles the hlhs with 3In 1956 the method in Wash 000 bushels’ were harvested this way_ fork lift attached to his orchard tractor.

ln the warehouse they are moved withington was conned to one grower- using 165,000 bins and involving 45 . . .’ordinary industrial lift trucks.Some bins are transported from the

orchard by straddle carriers, haulingfrom 12 to 18 bins each. These carriers,reminiscent of straddle trucks seen inlumber mills, are equipped with hydrau-lically operated carrying shoes, whichsupport the bins stacked two or threedeep. Highway tractors furnish thepower. Ordinary farm motor trucks alsoare used for transportation from theorchard.

of a water-submersion dumper, illustrated here, has been proved a gentle method of _ g

It has been shown that a saving offrom 17 to 25 man hours of labor ismade for each 1,000 boxes in movingapples to the warehouse by changingfrom box harvesting to bins. There is :|

saving, too, it is claimed, in the costoi picking containers. The total of thesetwo items has been computed at fromve to six cents per box of fruit. in

BULl\ BINS FOR APPLES are emptied at warehouses in di'erent ways but the use favor of handlin in bins_

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HEARING A DE§(IRlI’Tl()I\ of Plum (Ireek products by llollister Larson, right.logging manager for the company, are, center, Montana Congressman Lee Metcalfand vice President E. I3. Stanton. of the N. l’.. when at the firm’s Pablo mill recently.

More Buildings at Plum Creek MillAdded Room‘ for Dry lumber and a Cooling Shed Included

:ig(3SdE dBOXES égiterallyr hundred? of The Plum Creek Lumber company is from other sources. Jack Watson is gen-§' 5 I‘ V 3' ' , - . - .

[he ha:‘.&_.:'§ece‘:15,fi|I Thaé ,":pa|‘,;p:,:ha:.?;: making additions at ll.S bl..‘)U0,()O0 saw- eral manager, Ill charge of both plants.

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mill and planer which it began operating Floyd Brown is manager at liidgeeld.at Pablo, in western Montana, only a

little more than a year ago. Emukier atA new shed for dry lumber, 80 x 300

feet, costing $35,000, has been co|n- carter Renerypleted at the north end of the companyis Recent additions of equipment at the

planing mill and shipping department. renery of The Carter Oil company, at

A cooling Shed is being a(|(|e(| for Billings, Mont., some of which were men-

lumber as it comes out of the plantis ii°"e(l P""'l"“5l§' l" mes‘: Columns’ in‘drying ki|nS_ clude an emulsier to make emulsied

Designed in out 200 U00 board feel asphalt ta mixture of asphalt, water and

daily the Plum Creek mill practically an emulsifying agent‘ Such as Soap or 3reached that gure in early fa“_ THC detergent) for use in highway construc-

" ’ ‘ ‘ ' T volume in September was 98,000 board "0""IWDRAUUC LIFTS "" f‘""“ ""‘c'°"’ feet of lumber per shift. There were twohandle heavy bulk bins loaded with appleson Wushingtori commercial fruit ranches. Shlfls per day‘ Enlarged Starch Factory

Forty per cent of the logs handled at qf Grqffgn, N, D.workers pick about 10 per cent more Pablo come from timber owned by the

apples per day in bins than in boxes. Nvfllleffl Pic liHi|\\'a)'. e p am _0 t e e wer Marc

Then too growers have demonstrated i jiif f 7* company, Wl1lClt makes potato starch at

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orchard and into cold storage more ed remli by the Hardel.Mmual Hi‘ -e summer. n a Hon’ X ee i. H I |- 1 - wood company, of Olympia, Wa5h_, 15 with concrete floor and steel walls and

1 u1c' " w 16!] >ms ar Q (— - '1 y P uie an ml being doubled through expansion of the frame, was made 0" the c°mPa")"5 stopportant factor, since it has been said

. . . factor and the addition of more e ui - age Wareh°u5e- one more door for load’tit - ~d'{ t~|t1 th I d X . qp - -

K1 Mira.’ 3} ‘gull he it .e Ortc lag ment, mcludmg a tray system to handle mg Tallroad Cars and more track wereii er pic gllgos; r en‘ ' S I e In S Grave veneer as it Comes from a four_f(,,,t included. Another addition, 40 X80 feet,

)y amum ( a)S' lathe, and trackage at the plant. Formerly glves the Compani’ 3 blgger Operatmgveneer was sold on the open market, but areav 3 larger space for 5h°P Work aml

cGpGCiiY Oi Ridgeeld now all of the output will be moved to more mom for its Pull’ storage Pit-

veneer |>|an|» D°ub|ed Olympia, where it will be used by the * * *Hardel rm in making plywood. Fir logs The December daily demand for

The capacity_0f the Ridgeeld Veneer are obtained at Ridgeeld from rafts North Dakota crude oil will be 58,825company, of liidgeeld, Waslt., purcl1as- brought in on the Columbia river, or barrels, 2,000 above the previous peak.

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EVERY WORKlNC DAY at Prineville, Orc., 1,000,000 board feel to Hurlspeth Pine lnc. To the right of the center two stacks andof lumber, nearly all of it pine, are shipped from local mills. ln a burller are at the plant of the Alexander Stewart Lumber com-this panoramic view of the city, stack at the extreme left belongs pany, now shut down. A little to the right and toward the front isto Pine Products, lnc. The next column of smoke is from the mill Clear Pine Mouldings, lnc. Dark smoke at the extreme right indi-of Consolidated Pine, lnc. The next two burners in action belong eates the location of the large mill of the Oehoeo Lumber company.

Central Oregon, the Foremost Producer of Ponderosa PineThat "Maiestic" Tree ls the Dominant Commercial Variety of the Western Pine Region and RatesSecond to the Douglas Fir in Quantity, Although Its Unit Value Sometimes Exceeds That of FirThe ponderosa pine is one of the

great trees of the West. Indeed, thename, itself—a Latin derivative—i|n- _,/ i 5

plies size. Pine foresters use "majestic" .\ 7 ' -

as the idiom. A _-4 , _ ‘I M l f1\Q§.i .- KAmong western trees, it is second onl}

to the Douglas r in quantity, but itsunit value sometimes exceeds that of the

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mercial tree in the western pine region.which extends from the Summit of theCascade mountains and the Californiacoast range on the west to the easternslopes of the Rockies, and from Canada i

—’ e ~*on the norm to Mexico on the South. TYl'l(I1.\L OF MUCH of central Oregon at the lower elevations, with junipers and othervegetation. is an area along the 19-mile right of way of the City of l'rim-ville railroadFurthermore, slnce international lmun- over which a trainload, mostly lumber, is moving out in the picture to another railroad line.

FROM HI? POFFIEF, |_C- C- d1ll¢G|¢'II_II» darics do not repeal the laws of nature, even if less plentiful, across the border inmanager o rlnevl e lne, ra los tram ,~_ _, - ~ - ~ ,crew, em-om‘, and his sumo" emp|oyees_ pines appear to he as much at home, (“"_‘a‘la ‘lb "1 ll“? blllled male”-

Seven counties of central Oregon haveii 5 1 {},3()(),()()() acres hearing largely pine timher.

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principally ponderosa, lrut some lodgepole,sugar. and ldaho white pines also are in-cluded. About 66,0()0,()U0,000 hoard feet ofponderosa saw timber are standing in cen-tral Oregon and eastern Oregon, mainly inDeschutes, Jelierson, Wasco, Crook, Kla-math, Hood River, Lake, Grant and Unioncounties.

ln 1958, the ponderosa pine harvest inOregon amounted to l,(I58,0()U,O0() boardfeet. In Washington it was 343,000,000board feet and California’s harvest totaled8~'i‘),()()O.()()O board feet of this species.

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-L- ‘ ,,_‘.:*:§1: 1-,, ; ,._',,;I ,.‘;,_,.-,-_ . ~. )roduction in mind. It is a fact authori*§.~~~ = "‘-' l ’., . ._ r .-».

‘ " ties have said, that the present harvesti i ' ol pine in the West and mortality from

disease, insects and re exceed growth.- Furthermore. this trend is expected to

continue until there is a better balanceEa‘ of young pine forests which are growing.

' Old-growth timber. which comprisesmore than ()0 per cent ol the stands.contributes very little in growth eachyear. they have explained, simply be-cause old trees naturally add little newwood.

Wllile much of the volume oi lumberoutput in central Oregon has been builtup in the past 12 or 15 years, some oithe |nills have operated longer. Resi-dents oi Prineville, Ore., in Crookcounty, for example have participatedactively in the lumber business for along time. They like to say that Prine-ville. a city of 6,000 persons, is the pon-derosa pine center of the linited $tates.and that every working day 1,000,000board feet of lumber are shipped from'

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IN A MEDITATIVE M001), J. E. Garrett, general manager, left, and Robert Sell, sales /__./J’ %~manager, Consolidated Pine, lnc., at Prineville, reect on 27,000,000 board-foot capacity ' J’ 'of the company’s sawmill. Nearly all ponderosa. much of the lumber goes to .\li|mcsola

pretation occur, that timber volume divided goes to just about every part of theby the annual harvest docs not indicate the lnitcd States. There are, too. in the P"lile of the resource. The data include only same area seven smaller plants whichtrees ll inches in diameter and they do not produce a large number of special-puraccount for timber growth, which in part pose products, such as mouldings andat least ollscts harvests. door jams, to name only a couple, using i

pomlm-053 is widely used for “-imlows’ pine lumber from the local mills. Some-doors, paneling, interior nishing, pattern llmes ll‘?! are "all"/ll '3“l‘uP l’l“"l~“, 3stock and siding and for boxes and crating. ‘l95lg"all"" “lllcll “"6 "Pelal"r in 3 ' ’

loo. The \\‘(m(l varies from nearly white to ivwli" 1"*>@<l <‘X|>l='i"<‘1l has Iwtllillg 11> Two MILLS ARE RUN at Prineville 1,,-pa|e yellow in the Sapw00(]_ ]t is reddish do with the deportnient of the persons ll|ie_‘:'iI1;_: l'I:01|ll?l§ ¢0_l'P0l'.li°"» _lll1ll‘1il'3' ll-

" brown or brownish orange in the heart- “ll” “‘°l'l‘ l" llle'"- an ’ "ms S8 es "mung", "Mme om.l wood. This pine is moderately soft, it is even Some 3,000 persons are employed di- Prineville mills, ln fact, 50 condent' grained and d0esn’t split when naile(l. lt rectly by the pine industry of central were they in early (lays Qf their place> machines well and seasons readily, staying Oregon and hundreds of others owe in the irirlusiry [liar they built a railroad

in place when dry with comparatively little their jobs in transportation and other 1') miles long, from Prineville to itsshrinkage. services to the needs created by the junction with the Oregon Trunk rail-

That's quite a pedigree for wood. Perhaps "lllls aml “'°"‘l laCl‘"l95- “'11); lwflll Of ll¢‘<ll11°"(l= lo llalll Oulit reads as though a copy man for an ad- Most of the sawmill companies in their timber. This municipally ownedvertising agency wrote it. People in central the region do all or a part of their own line is called the City of Prineville rail-Oregon, however, say such claims for pon- logging. Some, however, contract for road. ln 1916 a city bond issue totalingdcrosa are not exaggerated. There are oper- logging service and in a very few in- $240,000 was sold for the purpose ofating all told 12 sawmills, a plywood factory stances logs are purchased delivered at building the carrier. Until the end ofand a stud mill at Warm Springs, Tygh Val- mill sites. Much of the logging is done 1915. the road, which has 30 employeesley. _\laupin. Redmond, Madras. Prineville on a selective basis, with long-term. per- and two Diesel locomotives, never pro-and Bend. From these mills pine lumber petual operation as well as the current duced a prot but since that time it has

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STUDYING PRODUCTION FIGURES of the Tygh Valley Lum- CANT SA“’S AND RESAWS SPEED up work. Some ownersber company, at Tygh Valley, Ore., is C. P. Baker, sales man- have increased the capacity of their mills by adding gang cantager, at his desk. The rm produces 160,000 board feet daily. saws while holding labor requirements the same as before.

made money and in 19 years it has paid automobiles, 57; company material, general manager and Maury R. lsted isinto the city treasury in excess of $800; four. sales manager of this rm which plans000 in dividends—or four times as much The Pine Products corporation, which its production for shipping of straightas the citizens of Prineville paid in the has two sawmills at Prineville, has been carloads of one width and grade in a

same period in city taxes. ln a recent operating one of the plants in this city car, such as four-inch, six-inch, eight-year, when operating revenue was $346,- for about 4-0 years. The ownership of inch, 10-inch or 12-inch lumber. This041.71 and net railway operating income the company has changed during that kind of specialization makes the com-was $125,923.98, the City of Prineville interval, although it hasn’t been com- pany mainly a supplier of large retailrailroad hauled the following carloads pletely altered. The other mill formerly yards, which can handle straight car-of dierent commodities: lumber, 5,700; was in the woods, but was moved down loads and which have enough volumewood chips, l80; potatoes, 184: live- to Prineville. C. Howard Crawford, of of trade to absorb them.stock, 29; grain, one; fertilizer, eight; Walla Walla, Wash., is president. C. The Pine Products corporation 0],.cement, nine; petroleum products, 347; Ward Rhoden is the vice president and wins 75 per cent of its logs from U, S,

THIS IS A GOOD VIEW of the Tygh Valley Lumber company, with its mill buildings

forests and 25 per cent from privatelyowned land, some if it belonging to thePine Products concern. Eighty per centof the lumber it produces consists ofponderosa pine and 20 per cent is madeup mostly of r and larch. The 200employees of the rm include both millworkers and woodsmen. The companydoes its own falling and bucking, butskidding, loading and hauling are con-tracted.

Some 4-0,000,000 board feet of lum-ber yearly are turned out by Pine Prod-ucts mills. For the past two years woodenchips have been made, too, which aresold to paper manufacturers.

Another Prineville mill, operatedby the Ochoco Lumber company, a stockconcern owned principally by Oregonpeople, and managed by Stuart Shelk,makes chips as a by-product. Two car-

at t.he left and at the top, left, a log pond, and at the top, right, a 3,000,000-gallon loaids of r chlps pioducigd dally arereservoir to supply sprinklers. Lumber is loaded on the Oregon Trunk railroad. shlpped to the Longvlew Flbre corpora’10 TIE NORTHWET, November-December, 1959

lion, at Longview, Wash., and the Crown The Ochoco Lumber company, with a of lumber (almost all ponderosa) everyZellerbach corporation, Camas, Wash. total of 170 employees in its mill and year, Millwork concerns at StillwatefBark and leftover wood that isn’t suit- in the woods, cuts from its own land and Bayport, Minn., are a big outlet forable for making chips or as moulding and buys logs, too, from the U. S. forest this rm, J, E. Garrett, general manager,stock is burned in the Ochoco company’s service. and Robert Sell, sales manager, pointedown power plant, which produces elec- Consolidated Pine, lnc., at Prineville, out recently. One of the ways Consoli-tricity for operation of the sawmill has a different kind of operation. dated differs from other central Oregonmachines and. in addition, some power Formed eight years ago, the company sawmill outfits is in its purchase of itsis sold to the city of Prineville. runs an all-steel sawmill in which 90 entire supply of logs. It does none of its

It is an interesting fact that ll years employees make 27,000,000 board feet own logging, but buys from Hudspethago when he rst started his company, Pine, lnC.. which is owned by tW0 of thecalled Clear Pine Mouldings, at Prine- Hudspeth brothers who run a large millville, Carl Peterson used “rips” salvaged in Prineville and have others at otherfrom the Ochoco mills edger. Peterson locations in Oregon and Colorado, andstill uses edgings, a salvage material. \ Who do eXtcnsive logging.from the same source, but now he also While not unique, Consolidatedbuys wood from other local mills, too, Pine, lnc., is at least unusual in that itconsuming 150,000 board feet or more also owns and operates a moulding plantfrom each mill. in addition to its sawmill. This is located

Making 30_()()(),()()() hoard feet of lum. at Bend, Ore., not far from Prineville.bcr annually. largely ponderosa pine, TW6"l_\' 6mPl°Y6@5 1156 m01lldiglllml)6rthe Ochoco rm. according to Ed Wil- Wl1lCl"I is S6"! OVBI‘ I0 the factory fromson. sales manager. dispatches a large the Colllitlled Sawmill-voluzne of its output to the Great Lakes The Alexander-Stewart Lumber com-states, more than to any other area, al- pany. which ran its large mill for eightthough shipments are made, too. into years at Prineville, cutting 36.000000practically all parts of the country. From feet of timber annually. largely pine.25 to 30 per cent of the company’s 0ut- specialized in mixed carloads for the|)Ut is “shop” lumber. That is, it is made retail lumber trade. This company.with the millwork trade in mind and is which also had its own moulding factoryused for the fabrication of windows, that used “shorts” and other materialdoors, cabinets and other nishing mate- accumulated in the milling process, sus-rials used by building contractors. This pended operations not long ago and nois true also of the marketing done by a * longer is shipping lumber.number of the other pine mill concerns .1¥.lr2iIFIi:3o1;l::Ilf‘p1a2l(;,‘;‘:'ll3‘eI£?i: I::‘°na2';‘;5'l’,'; The Tygh Valley Lumber company.in central Oregon. M. M. Mathews, vice president, seen here, at Tygh Valley, Ore.. a small settlement

"A BEAUTIFUL PINE BOARD,” Ed Wilson smilingly com- A STUDY IN CONCENTRATION is this picture of Walter R.merited. Wilson, sales manager for the Ochoco Lumber com- Hansen, right, one of the owners of Cascade Forest Products,pany, at Prineville, makes frequent use of a wall map, left. lnc., at Bend, Ore., watching workmen cut pine for millwork.THE NORTHWEST, November-December, I959

"Dolling Up” Lumber Increases Its Retail Display Value

BRANDING LUMBER ON THE END and waxing or painting this area, both opera-tions licing done mechanically, is becoming popular. Tliis view of 2 x 4-'s freshlymarked “Mid-Oregon" was made at the Tile-Knot |’inc Mill, at Redmond, ill Oregon.

in Wasco county, has an unusual situa-tion. Located eight miles from the Ore-gon Trunk railway, the company haulsits nished lumber by motor truck to$lierar, 0re., on the bank of the Des-cliutes river, in a deep rocky canyon.where it is loaded into railroad cars.

““"e had good reasons for build-ing our mill where it is rather than di-rectly on the railroad,” C. P. Baker,sales manager, conmiented recently. "Forinstance,” he continued, “we have anexcellent supply of water on this spot,drawn from the White river. In a reser-voir up above the plant 3.000.000 gal-lons are kept ready for the mill’s spriii-kliiig system. which is used for re pro-tection. Then, in a log pond, whichcovers 20 acres. we need enough water

“OUR PLANT MAKES mouldings in 200styles, you know,” John S. Hanson, vicepresident, Ponderosa Mouldings, ]nc., leftand Kieran P. Madden, treasurer, said toone another wlien camera shutter clicked.

stain. giving the lumber a bluish color.Various ways of circumventing thiseventuality successfully have beenadopted by mill operators. The TyghValley Lumber company has met theproblem with its large pond. Logs donot stain in that season of the year whenkept submerged. Tygli Valley logs arehanded with steel into large bundles be-fore they are dumped into the water,which is deep enough to take them.

The Wariii Springs Lumber company.to cover 9,000.000 board fectrof logs. at Warm Springs. T)re., owned by .\lr.which ar St d h k l SALES MANAGER for the Jefferson Plye ore t ere to eep tiem wood which ‘urns out 5000 006 and Mrs. Ray L. Wilsoii and two sons.fresh and bright during summer months. _,-qua,-e fem pm: mumh, 5, ()_ |;_ “i'i||i;m§_ Robert B. 1' who is president) and

“Moreover. if one were to locate a Charles F. Wilson. is another pine pro-mill where we load on the railroad, it 200,000 board feet. Improved equip- <lll<?9f llll lltil l0('3lP(l "I1 3 f3llT"i"l-would take a prohibitive amount of ment receiitlv was added in the mill. For lllwvgll all Of ll-‘ lullllter l5 lYl1Cl<P(l ""1blasting to move rock to prepare a site. example. an automatic set works was Of llte Descllllles Tl\'PT (‘I1}'0"- 0" ill?That’s a valid reason in itself.” installed early this year. The “setter,” a Warm SPYlI1g5 lllfllall F@59T\'3ll°"- l"

The Tygh Valley mill Cuts 160.000 skilled worker who formerly adjusted railroad loading points. from which itboard feet in two shifts daily. Coming “settings” ton signals from the sawyeri, {I065 lo markets extending from Utah tofrom the eastern slopes of Mt. Hood has been eliminated. Willi the new llle 9aFl£‘I'" Fealmartl "l llltf Ulllll(the company has an 11,000-acre tree machinery the sawyer now sets the size Slams-farm and also other timber lands whicli by pushing buttons or levers. The Cascade Eastern Timber com-it owns). logs used at the mill consist Mills cuttin" ioiiderosa )iIl€ have )3I1\'. logging rm owned bv the \VarmH l l . an t .of the following: ponderosa pine. 30 several common problems. one of which prings Lumber company. cut last yearl)er('enl3D°l1§'las r. 00 ier cent: white is the need for usin" ll) “decks.” or 53,000,000 board feet of iine and r-1- lr and Nob] f . 1." : i le tr 1 per cent am pi es of stored logs. before summer ar- logs on the \Varin .Q])t‘iIigs reservation.ldalio white pine. ve per cent. rives. Ponderosa logs stored in “decks” The rm’s mill sawed 34.000000 feet

Dry kilns at the Tygh Valley mill hold (luring that season sometimes take on a and l6.000.000 were hauled to the Jef-12 THE NORTHWEST, November-December, I959

Wness, specializing in heavy timbers 18. manufacturing of plywood. Forty-ve20, and 24- feet long in 4-x6, 6x8 and carloads monthly of green r studs arel0x~l2 sizes for the heavy construction made, surfaced. end trimmed and endtrade in eastern and m-idwestern areas. painted. They are banded with steelSome mills could not cut such heavy straps and loaded into double-door carsmaterial. Their "head rigs" can not with lift trucks for shipment.

“swing” Pieces that big-. l" ll"? “'°Tds Phillip Dahl, Harold Barclay andof sawmill Pe°Pl'~’- meanlllg that the Samuel _lohiisoii. all of Rt‘(ll]]Ull(l. ownequillmem in some mills hasnil ellougll the Tite-Knot Pine .\lill. in liedmond. a

CaPac'lY to l‘a"d'le logs “'h'('h are l°"g major sawmill operation. and tliev own.enough to Produce timbers of those also. Dahl Pine. lnc.. which has la millsizes.

Madras and Redmond. in Jeffersonand Deschutes counties. respectively,surrounded by extensive irrigation proj-ects and located adjacent to centralOregon’s pine area. have become bothfarm trading points and lumber manu- 0

facturing centers. The Jefferson Plywoodcompany, at Madras. owned by theWarm Springs Lumber company and

4 the Tile-Knot Pine Mill. is distinguished‘ in several ways. The only plywood plant‘ in central Oregon north of Klamatli

5PE(;|,\1,],\' pA(;|(A(;|;[) ping paneling, Falls, it uses Douglas r exclusively. ()l)-six pieces ina berboard carton, featured t ' ‘ 11 ] f i ' _-g (L fat the Tile-Knot Pine .\iiii as Carton-Pak, a."""’f) mi: 'C°'“ d’ “E '" “ 3+‘. “I "_is shown here with Elton C. Mooney, the pme l l e PS“: 8 aster" ml W‘con|pany’s manager of sales of products. company and Tite-l\not Pine. The Jeffer-

son plywood concern. started in 1956.

ferson Plywood company. at Madras. makes 5,000.000 square feet of interior-.-\lso several million feet were logged type board monthly. computed on a

for Dahl Pine. lnc.. to be used in its saw- three-eighths-inch basis. according to O.

mill near the north boundary of the res- B. Williains, sales manager. C05-“X STEEL KN“/E5 of very hard,ervation. The company owns and operates it nely tempered metal,adi‘¢reni one for

With 230 men. some of them Warm stud mill. on the same location. which “ch .pa"em' need"! '° m““'f"°""°_ _ _ _ _ _ , mouldings, are stored in reproof vaultsbprings Indians. in the mill and engaged utilizes logs that are not suited for the simnar '0 ‘hi, one in ,.en".a| Oregon:

in logging, the company. which beganoperations in 194-3, makes factory lum-ber and retail yard items. Twenty-veper cent of its output. Harley V. Web-ber. sales manager, pointed out recently.goes for shop purposes. Furthermore.the company has specialized in panelinglumber. Indeed, Webber sold 3,250,000board feet of paper-wrapped pine an-

nually for this purpose in seven. eightand 10-foot lengths and in six. eight andl0-inch widths the last two years. "Tire-wrap” paper is used to enclose sixboards in a package, which keeps themclean and ready for the ultimate userto apply on the walls of his den or hisgame room, or wherever distinctive use Iof lumber is desired. About T5 per cent '

of the mill’s production goes to retail \ ‘yards throughout the country whosemanagers purchase through wholesale T‘representatives of the Warm Springs lrm.

The Mt. Hood Lumber company, at ‘S‘lT_ GOES ll;lKE THIS,” Harley V. Webber, left, sales manager for the WarmM - prings um er company Warm Springs Ore., said while explaining a lumber prob-

Plupm’ dore ’ oéithe Ortzgon Trunk lem in his oice to two II'l,lCl'8SlBd Visitors: R. L. McNutt, center, traveling freight andrm Way. 095 3 1 9"-mt 0f bl-Isl‘ passenger agent, and W. D. Miller, general freight agent, both of the Northern Pacic.THE NORTIIWI-ST. November-December, 1959

on the Warm Springs lndian reserva-

tion. where 2.) men work inside aml is the special packaging of pine panel-where 20 are engaged in logging. Some ing in heavy berboard cartons. eachcutting is done for the rm by contract containing six pieces in either sevenloggers. too. Mostly pine is used, but eight or 10-inch widths. Five carloads asome r is obtained. also. All lumber week of this packaged knotty pine. “runfrom the plant on the reservation is to pattern” on a 12-inch wood moulder,trucked down to Redmond, where it is a precision machine which does a gooddried and milled at the Tite-Knot Pine job of nishing. are shipped from theMill. This plant at Redmond has 112 Redmond mill. Three diflerent panelingmen on the job turning out nished patterns are furnished. Elton C. Moo-material. ln addition to the lumber ob- ney, sales manager. said not long ago

Products. lnc.. at Bend, Ore., where,using pine lumber. they make. among

. several wooden products. slats whichgo to a manufacturer of baby cribs inIndiana. lt takes 300,000 of the cribslats to make a carload, and that’s theway Messrs. Hansen and Rogers furnishthem to their buyer. lnside door jams.however. are the principal product thesemen and their 16 employees turn out.Window-frame stock is made. too, and

tained from Dahl Pine. lnc.. it has a that there are certain advantages. No toy stock and core blocks for flush doorslogging crew of T5 at work in the Sisters damage occurs in transit. he stated. are other materials which come from

the factory.

At Bend, also, is the Oregon Trail

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PINE LOGS ARE BEING DROPPED into mill pond from deck (storage pile) atBrooks-Seanlon, lnc., Bend, Ore., with one of three snow-capped Sisters peaks inthe background, above the logs. Extensive remodeling occurred at company's plant.

area, in timber obtained from the U. S. and, furthermore. the packaged materialForest service. The total production can be handled better in a retail yard.from the two mills amounts to 300,000 lt is less likely to pick up moisture, itboard feet daily, or 10 carloads. which can be kept clean and the random sortgo to New York. Washington. D. C., ing by purchasers that occurs sometimesMinneapolis and St, P3u]_ Pittsburgh Will] unpacked lUIIIl)et' is eliminated,Chicago and to other big centers. in- M00116‘ Opinimletl.

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that area and an euphonious one. too.This rm. managed by M, M. Mathews.vice president. employs over 100 work-ers.

The rm. whose president is WilliamNiskanen. of Bend. makes door frames.using ponderosa pine lumber. and othermillwork and mouldings. industrial "cutstock" of any thickness. width or lengthdesired for such items as cabinets. chil-dren's sandboxes and fences. and toystock for makers of toys located princi-pally in New York and Chicago and atpoints in Missouri. Much of the materialis cut into lengths and widths wanted bythe ultimate manufacturers for their owntrademarked products. Started in 194-6.the Oregon Trail Box company has beenexpanded gradually and almost con-tinuously.

Ponderosa Mouldings. lnc.. a rmwhich employs 60 workers in its mill atRedmond, completes a carload of mould-ings every working day. or 20 everymonth. Nearly all of the plant's outputgoes to Chicago and Milwaukee and tocities east of those two. The mill uses upl0.000.000 hoard feet of what olcers

~refer to as ‘upper-grade pine" in ayear. Actually in the past ve years.Kieran P. Madden. treasurer of the rm.

1 d_ , _ _ h S h ’ told visitors at the mill not long ago. theCu mg clues In I 6 out east “nollmg "PL other l"ml)@l"- I00, "35 demand for mouldings has increased

Recent improvements at the Tile-Knot undertaken at the Tile-l\'I10l mill dur'mg greatly. The Redmond rm’s productionPine Mill, a 25-year-old plant. include the past year. The ends are lriII1m6<‘l- of this material doubled in that periodthe addition of four tracks in the dry smoothed. branded "Mid-Oregon" andkiln to step up the capacity. Then. too. then waxed with a mixture containingproduction in the mill wag int-i-east-(I color. Ends trimmed and branded in-about 25 per cent without adding more Crease lhe display Value in the retaillabor by the installation of a gang cant yard. criperience has shown.saw. Logs slabbed on two sides in in'ti l

1 3 Walter R. Hansen and Melvin L.Sawing Ca_n be cut ‘mo several lmards Rogers hope the current boom in growth0" one tnp through the gang saw" of population in the United States

Another progressive step. rst taken doesn’t let up. lt helps their business.two and a half years ago at Tite-Knot. They own and operate Cascade Forest

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of time.

Trim for both exterior and interioruse is made at Redmond. As it was in-dicated recently by John 3, Hanson.vice president. who handles productionand sales for Ponderosa Mouldings.lnc.. there literally are hundreds of dif-ferent mouldings. The types. shapes andsizes desired tend to vary by areas. TheRedmond mill. which is owned by

THE NORTHWEST. November-December, I959

WMarsden Elliott, of Milwaukee, Wis..who is president, and Harold and Reo \_\Elliott, both of Chicago, who are vicepresident and secretary, respectively,manufactures mouldings in 200 styles.A different pattern requires a differentknife to form it in the wood. Skilledworkers at the Redmond mill make thermis knives from special steel. Theseare kept in a reproof vault, since theyrepresent thousands of dollars worth oflabor and metal. Sales offices, in ad-dition to the oice at Redmond, arelocated in Chicago, Milwaukee and De-troit.

One of central Oregon’s oldest andlargest pine milling concerns, Brooks -

iScanlon, lnc.. recently completed a re-vamping of its entire system of lumber i

handling. As one observer commented,the company switched from "horses to

, 77 - THREE FLOORS OF THIS four-story building contain 24-6,000 cubic feet, net. ofP0“ er Cranes‘ Reconstruction and re' low-temperature space which is available for storing frozeii goods at Fargo, N. D. Con-equipping extended over 8 period Of structed in 1930, the building is equipped with an ammonia expansion system.four years, but production went onnearly all of that time without a shut- nect with roads of the Y. S. Forest serv- L°w_Temperature Storagedown. Today, with 32 fewer men, the ice. Trucks hauling 12,000 board feet of S A .|renovated mill is turning out more lum- logs each travel at 45 miles an hour. pace val G eber than it did before. Eight million feet Hudspeth lumber interests in central Three floors of a building owned byof lumber are being shipped per month. Oregon are extensive. Hudspeth Pine, the Union Storage 8; Transfer C0mpatl_\'There are 280 men from the log pond to lnc., at Prineville, cuts approximately and located at Fargo, N. D., on the mainthe railroad car. T2,000.000 feet per year, of which 85 line of the Northern Pacic, have a gross

Here are eorne of the important ini. per cent is ponderosa pine. John Hud- area in cold storage space amounting inprovernente; trning up the niill_ result. speth is president and a brother. Fred, 3T-L000 cubic feet and a net of 2-I-6,000ing in more accurate sawing, with steel is vice president and treasurer. Ed Hehn cubic feet for low-teinperature storage.beanie replacing old weakened tirnbers; is sales manager. According to Hehn, The area which, B. L. Bertel, president“selectric” setworlrs added on all three the customers are located far and wide. of the company, has stated, will accom-of the rnill’5 three headrigs; resaw feed but many of the carloads from this rm inodate from 5,000,000 to 6,000,000redesigned; green-chain sorting and go to the Southwest, principally to Texas pounds of frozen goods, is available athandling division modernized; ve new and Oklahoma. The Hudspeths own the the present time for renting.drying kilns added_ with a total of new Bridge Creek mill, at Mitchell, Ore., some A temperature of 40 degrees belowdrying capacity of 300,000 board feet 45 miles east of Prineville, which cuts zero Fahrenheit can be attained in fourof lninber; overhead crane handling for 60.000 feet per day, all of which is truck- rooms equipped for blast freezing, ac-moving of dried and planed lumber; ed to Prineville for further processing cording to President Bertel, and read-radio communication between shipping and shipment. l_'nlike some of the other ings of from ve to 10 degrees belowoice and crane operator: new planers rms. the Hudspeths operate a mouldings zero can be maintained in holding rooms.and inatchers and sinooth-end trimmers plant at Prineville, which ships 12 or 13 Rail transit at Fargo is in effect oninstalled: lumber branded and waxed cars of finished mouldings each month either eastbound or westbound productson each end; loading done at one end of to customers. for storage at this point.planer shed 14- cars at a time: better A Hutlspeth sawmill also is located The building. erected in 1930, has fourre protection and handling of refuse. at John Day. Ore., cutting an estimated floors and a basement. Neither the rst

Brooks-Scanlon, lnc., owns 150,000 35.000000 feet each year. of which a llor nor the basement is refrigerated.acres of timber land in four central Ore- total of about ‘)0 per cent is pQn(ler()5a An ammonia expansion system. withgon counties and. in addition. it buys pine, nearly all York equipment. electricallytrees from the federal government. lt Among the newer interests added to Operated is Used.does nearly all of its own logging. One this timber empire is its San Juan Lum- * s *of the companies that formerly used ber company. at Pagosa Springs. Colo. The Dawn Mining company last yearrailroads in the woods. Brooks-Scanlon. Approximately 3-5.000.000 feet are cut produced uranium worth in excess oflnc.. abandoned that kind of logging in annually, with 60 per cent of the output $6,000,000 and net incorne of some1956. The company built some 56 miles being ponderosa pine and the remainder $1,300,000, according to recent news.of private highway 30 feet wide and well Douglas r and white r. Another aflil- paper aecounts of its scal affairs, Thesurfaced for high-speed travel of log- iated mill recently opened at Mancos. rm operates mines in northeasternhauling trucks. Some of these roads con- Colo., saws only Engelman spruce. Washington and a uranium mill.THE NORTHWEST, November-December, 1959 15

St. Regis Engaged in $30,000,000 Expansion at Its Mill in TacomaBigger Kraft Paper and Paperboard

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St. Regis Paper company will installa new kralt paper and paperboardmachine at its mill at Tacoma, Was/h.,implementing an already announced planfor expansion at that center. located onPuget Sound.

The new machine. which will have aninitial capacity of 350 tons of kraftpaper and board daily. will increase therated capacity of the mill to 250,000 tonsannually. lncluded in the expansion pro-gram will be additional facilities to man-ufacture pulp. and auxiliary equipmentfor the new machine. The machine willhave a "trim" of 236 inches and includea secondary headbox. Over-all expansionat the Tacoma plant will cost approxi-mately $30,000,000.

At present. St. Regis produces 4-00tons of bleached and unbleached kraftpulp daily at Tacoma. A large part ofthis pulp is used in the paper mill. whichhas a capacity of 230 tons daily ofbleached and unbleached kraft paper, in-cluding paper for wrapping, packaging,grocery bags. multiwall shipping sacks, 1

bleached cup stock and other papergrades. Part of the production is con-sumed in St. Regis‘ three west coast i

multiwall bag pl3l1l5, l0C8lt'(l at TBCOIHH, AN EYE-CATCHING PICTURE of Mt. Rainier and the productive Puyallup vallev hasand at 53" Leandro and L05 ,\nge|e5, in} "L8 t':reig‘rol_tnc:), on Puget Sound}; at Tacoma, Wash.,_a pulp and kl:8flbptlP8I;‘;]::::'llCam-_ The Tacoma multiwall bag plan‘ o t e »'e egis aper company w ere a l‘l‘l8_|0I' expansion program as een s .

is located adjacent to the paper mill.The new machine marks a further step gram which includes the company's re- and corrugated container elds in the

in St. Regis' West coast expansion pro- cent entry into the lumber and plywood western part of the country.

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