Low-Cost Stacking and Drying of Lumber at Rosboro Lumber Company's Ne* Mill

The lcrge piclure shows loqdE ol lurnber under lhe u'ide and l0 feet high, and are transferred to the dry kilns with electric power transfer car having pulling attachmeut for loading and unloading the kilns.

After the lumber is kiln dried, it is transferred by the same power transfer car to the Moore Automatic lJnstacker, rvhere the dry lumber is pulled off onto dry chains 'rvith automatic rake-off attachment.

The unstacker is located adjacent to the stacker, and the stickers are transferred from the unstacker to the stacker by means of overhead conveyor chains. It will thus be seen that only three men are employed for stacking and unstacking.

The Rosboro plant is equipped 'with six Moore CrossCirculation Kilns, each 14x104 feet. The buildings are of tile construction. These six kilns have a daily drying capacity of 90,000 feet of Douglas Fir. By having six dry kiln units, the company is able to segregate the lumber as to grade and thickness and dry to any moisture content desired.

Each kiln is ecluipped with a Moore Autographic NIaster Controller, u.hich controls and records the drying conditions at each end of the kiln independentlv, ar.rd also automatically controls the ventilation.

The complete ecluipment, including lumber stackers and uustackers, and dry kilns, ll'as designed and manufactured by Moore Dry Kiln Company.

On the dry chains, the lumber is double and trimmed and then sorted as to length and grade, and delivered by carrier unit packages either to the planing mill or to the rough dry shed.

Both green lumber and kiln dried lumber is housed on kiln trucks under shade to protect it from outside rveather. The dry storage shed is located between the kilns and planing mill and is 110 feet wide by 2X) feet long, and has a holding capacity of six million feet.

T. W. Rosborough, president of Rosboro Lumber CompanJ', purchased a large body of old growth fir timber, south of the McKenzie River in Western Central Oregon about two years ago. Last year he supervised the building of this new mill. This strean,line operation rvill produce 25 million feet of lumber per year, running on one shift. The mill's output r,vill be sold principally to the retail lumber yard trade in the Middle West and East.

Before coming to Oregon, Mr. Rosborough rvas general manager of the Caddo River Lumber Company, which he organized in 1906 witih W. E. Cooper, M. R. Smith of Kansas City, and others. The first sarvmill r,r'as completed at Rosboro, Arkansas, and mills were later built at Glenwood and Forester, Arkansas. Only the Forester mill is in operation today.

Other officers of this company are W. E. Cooper, vicepresident; B. S. Cole, secretary-treasurer; Charles G. Atkinson, sales manager. R. T. Watts is plant superintendent; Vernon Williams, logging engineer and O. K. Epperson is kiln operator.

Convention Dates

J"r. l4-16-Northwester.n Lumbermen's Ass'n, Xfinneapolis, Minn.

Jar. fu22-\[ountain States Lumber Dealers Ass'n, Denver, Colo.

Ja.. 2l-23-Kentucky Lumber & Supply Dealers Ass'n, Louisville.

Jan. 21-23-Northeastern Retail Lumbermen's Ass'n, New York.

Jan. 28-3f-'Southwestern Lum b erm en's Association, Wichita, Kan.

Jan. 29-3l-Ohio Association of Retail Lumber Dealers, Columbus.

Feb. 4- Li\{ichigan Retail Lumber Dealers Ass'n, Gran<l Rapids.

Feb. 5- 7-lowa Retail Lumbermen's Association, Des Moines.

Feb. 1l-l3-Illinois Lumber and Material Dealers Association,Chicago.

Feb. l8-ZG-Wisconsin Retail Lumbernren's Association. Milwaukee.

Feb. ?0-Z?-Western Retail Lumberrnen's Association. Seattle.

Feb. ZG8-Nebraska Lumber Merchants' Association, Omaha-

Mar. l2-14-Louisiana Retail Lumber Dealers Association. New Orleans.

April 8-10-Lumbermen's Association of Texas, Galveston.

Captures Holdup Man

Ernest Hemington, employe of Eureka Sash Door & Moulding Mills, San Fiancisco, had a fortunate escape when a jewel thief he was attempting to capture took a shot at him in dorvntown San Francisco recently

Mr. Hemington, who gave chase when he saw the gun in the robber's hand, was unhurt by the shot, grappled again with the robber, a two-time loser from Texas, and held him until policemen arrived.