Red River Organize Operations For The Winter Season

Organized for the season's logging and milling operations The Red River Lumber Company is going into the winter prepared to continue the present rate of production or to increase on short notice.

The saw mill has been operated on 45 per cent of capacity during 1930, cutting around 300,000 feet per day. This is the minimum that will supply fuel for steam requirements. Closer utilization of the log is continually cutting down the supply of wa.ste for fuel and steam for power, heat and gleam vats is a growing problem even with the addition of 10,000 Hydroeleitric hoirsepower.

The box factory is running one-half of one shift at the present time; the sash and door factory at 60 per cent of capacity, and the molding department at 5O per-cent.

The plywood factory is cutting 200,000 veneer feet (oneeighth inch thick) per day.

The log supply for winter is being accumulated and every indication is for continuance of piesent production. _ The logging and railroad departments of The Red River Lumber Company are operating on a very flexible basis.

Camp 57, fifteen miles west of Westwood, is a base camp and concentration yard. It is the western terminus of thi electrification and logging trains made up here are hauled on schedule by two 65-ton Westinghouse electric locomotives of Westwood.

An.all-electric equipped kitchen supplies the boarding camp. _Individual cabins are provided for families or singlt men. The men are transported to and from work in rail coaches motor-equipped in the Red River shops. The distance to the logging operation is from one to eight miles.