Biggest White Pine Sawmill Will Start About July First at Lewiston, Idaho

The biggest white pine sawmill ever devised and built by man, will be cutting lumber by July First, according to John Philip Weyerhauser, Jr., Vice President and General Manager of the Clearwater Timber Company, the Weyerhauser interest that is building the plant. It is located at Lewiston, Idaho, and is being constructed to manufacture the greatest stand of white pine left in the Inland Empire, a tract of 300,000 acres of selected virgin timber that the Weyerhauser interests have been accumulating. since 1900. The young man quoted is the son of John P. Weyerhauser, who is President of the company, and who is the son of the late Frederick Weyerhauser, the founder of the great estate of timber and mills that bears his name.

The sawmill plant will be enormous in equipment. The

ED. GARLAND VISITS LOS ANGELES

Ed. Garland was a recent Los Angeles visitor where he spent several days calling on his friends in the lumber trade. Ed has been connected with the lumber industry on the Pacific Coast for many years and prior to his coming to California, he was with the Silver Falls Timber Co. at Silverton, Oregon, for many years. He has a large acquaintanceship among the lumber fraternity of the Pacific Coast and his many friends in the Southland were glad to see him check in again.

main sawmill building is 159 by 366 feet in size, and houses five double cutting band headrigs, a 52-inch gang, five edgers and three trimmers. It is aimed to cut 400.000 feet of lumber every 8 hours of operation. Every machine will be directly electrically driven.

An interesting thing about this huge mill is that X)/o of the product will be kiln dried, showing how strongly the great merchants of lumber sense the demand for kiln dried stock. They are providing shed room for forty million feet of lumber, and yard room for twenty million feet.

Everything about this plant is huge. A concrete dam 1100 feet long and an average of 30 feet high is being built to house one end of the log pond. About 100 miles of railroad are being built all told to haul the logs and the lumber.

KAY M. GRIER APPOINTED GENERAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Kay M. Grier, Los Angeles, associated with the Blue Diamond Co., has been promoted to t[e position of General Executive Director of that organization.

W. H. Price, formerly advertising manager of the U. S. Gypsum Co. with headquarters in Chicago, has been ap- pointed advertising manager of the Blue Diamond Company.