THE BOOTH'KELLY I,UMBER CO.

One of the great lumber rnanufacturing firms of the Pacific Northwest, one with a national reputation for the production of Douglas Fir products, is The Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, of Eugene, Oregon.

This concern is one of the greatest timber holding concerns in the lumber business. It owns more standing timber lands than any other lumber concern operating in the State of Oregon, and ranks second in timber holdings in the entire Pacific Northwest.

The firm was organized in 1898. For a time it owned and operated four sawmill plants, at Springfield, Wendling, Coburg, and Saginaw, but the two latter mills were closed and dismantled years ago, and the two first named are left in operation, cutting slowly into the tremendous forest reserve held in fee by the company.

The Booth-Kelly Lumber Company product is very small in comparison with its great timber possessions. The two mills at Springfield and Wendling have a daily single shift capacity of 325,000 feet. They are reported to have enough timber to keep these mills running for centuries at regular single shift capacity, and their timber was selected carefully nearly thirty years ago from the finest stands of timber in the whole Northwest.

The mills at Springfield and Wendling are served by their own logging roads and equipment. Formerly they did most of their logging by river, but it rvas found more practical to build their railroads into the woods and bring out the timber by rail. The log trains come down the mountains from their camps to Wendling, where they are divided, half the cars being shipped over the Southern Pacific.to their Springfield mill, which is situated across the river from the city of Eugene. At each mill the logs are automatically unloaded into great log ponds, where they are assorted before manufacturing.

The two mills at Wendling and Springfield are both new and modern to the minute, being electrically driven, and , equipped with the most efficient machinery throughout that money can buy. Each plant has a large planing mill, remanufacturing plant, with dry kilns of ample capaiity. The company specially caters to mixed car business, and carries large and well assorted.stocks in yards and sheds for quick shipment.

The Booth-Kelly rriills are not of the break-down, timber making type that many of the large Northwest mills are, but are particularly well equipped for serving the retail lumber trade in all of its softwood needs.

The Booth-Kelly Lumber Company was organized. in !Q9S by Senator R.-A. Booth, and Major George"H. Kelly. Major Kelly retired from the firm sixteen years ago, but Senator Booth is still its Vice-President.

The active management of the operations of the firm is in the very capable hands of Mr. A. C. Dixon, who lives at Eugene and personally looks after the production and sale of the lumber. The President of the firm is Mr. Rav E. Daniher, who lives in Detroit, Michigan, but makes oicasional trips to the Northwest, and is very closely in touch with the affairs of the company. Both Mr. Daniher and Mr. Dixon have taken quite an active part in the councils of the lumber industry of the entire nation for a good many years, and are looked upon as outstanding figures in the lumber world. The ownership of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company is in the hands largely of Michigan lumbermen.

Mr. Dixon has been with the company for a quarter of a century. The General Sales Manager is Mr. L. L. Lewis, who lives and has his offices in Portland. At Eugene Mr. Dixol is assisted by Mr. H. A. Dunbar, who is Secretary and Treasurer, and by Mr. Ralph W. Martin, who is Assist-

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