New Weyerhaeuser Pine Mill

(Continued from Page 36) carried on for some months under direction of Lloyd R. Crosby, logging superintendent. A main line railroad has been laid for this distance together with necessary spur tracks. To lumbermen unfamiliar with conditions at Klamath Falls the query may arise as to why the new mill was built such a distance from the timber supply. Mr. Long explained this, and also authorized the publicalion of timber tributary to Klamath Falls to assure us of perpetual logging in this area.

"Our plant is situated on a commodious millsite with facilities particularly suited for the proper drying of lumber before shipment.Thissite is adjacent to the Klamath River, rvhich here is about 600 feet wide. The river is peculiar in that it is one of two streams that cross the Cascade range, the other being the Columbia. At the plant, this stream runs over a flat table-land at a rate not exceeding a mile an hour, which fact makes this an ideal space for the storage of logs. Later in its course it breaks through canyons and becomes a rapid mountain torrent; but at the point where the mill is located, theriver is

R' M a c a r n "' fl:::;:',rrz?iff{;,fli,.Lt o v d R' c r o sb v' several other statements of policy relating to the new lvorks in a recent interview.

"F'or 2O years," he began, "Weyerhaeuser Timber Company has been acquiring by purchase timber in the Klamath Falls region, rnnning largely to Pondosa pine and sugar pine. We are opening up 150,000 acres of fhis timberland, which has been consolidated into one single tract so as to be conducive to economic logging. The timber that will be cut first borders the extreme southern boundary of Oregon.

"West of Klamath Lake and in addition to this tract of 150,m0 acres. there are 200,000 acres of timber to the east of Klamath Falls, all of which can easily be made tributary to the new mill. The present plan of the companv is to conduct its logging operations onthe sustained-yield plan, selecting for immediate cutting onlv the trees which are entirely ripe, and leaving for the future those that will be better for lumber then. On this basis, there is sufficient remarkable for the uniformity of its flon', the range belyeen high-water and low water never being more than five feet. These facts were special considerations leading to the erection of the mill here.

"In quality, the products of this mill will rank as high las any mill-products in California and Oregon, and un'doubtedly will be better than the average in those states. iKlarnath Falls, therefore, will be a source of exceedingly 'high-grade Pondosa pine and sugar pine, for lumber deal-ers throughout the country, for an indefinite time in the Iuture.

"One special feature of the equipment is that it will include kilns, dry-sheds and other facilities for kiln-drving all of the products of the mills and for keeping all the kilndried lurnber under roof. In this respect, as inall others, 'the latest improved methods have been adopted and the ,equipment is consistent with these methods.

"One characteristic of oine manufacture as it is conduct'ed in this region is the conversion of the low-grade material

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