13-year Old Girl Writes Prize Winning Essay on Lumber Business

Eva Lammers, age 13, winner of a 4-H marketing essay contest with an article on the lumber business, is just one of the thousands of boys and girls who are finding new outlets for their energies and imaginations in 4-H Club work.

The work of this organization, and particularly of 4-H Builders' groups-boys and girls learning horv and where and why to use wood in home and farm construction-is of very real importance to lumber dealers. Competitions such as that won by Eva Lammers would stimulate interest in dealers' products in any community.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association has for some years cooperated with 4-H groups and 4H leaders as they iralre with school children and school teachers, by supplying information about the forests of the Pacific Northwest, ani about the selling of forest products through retail lumber dealers. In this program of educational material, the Association has just published "sawdust Trails," a students' digest of logging and lumber manufacture in the Douglas fir region.

Eva Lammers' essay indicates the informed interest these young citizens have in their country's resources and industries. It follows:

..FROM FIR TO FLOORING' r

By Eva Lammers

Lumbering is the chief industry of the Northwest' From the time a fir tree stands in all its majesty on some mountain slope until it is sold to the consumer as satin-smooth flooring, the processes it goes through are most interesting' Firsi an experienced man goes through a tract of timber and marks the trees ihat are ready to be made into lumber. A tree chosen for its location and size is saved to make into a t'sPaf tree."

Tllen follow the "fallers." They cut a notch in a tree to insure the direction of its fall. The fallers cut on the side opposite the undercut with a double-toothed saw' They arive weages in the cut from time to time to keep the tree's weight from pinching the saw. When the tree is felled, the

"$16fts15" follow and cut it into suitable log lengths. Then comes the "high rigger." His job is to climb the "spar tree" mentioned above, and to top it about a hundred and twenty feet from the ground and strip it of' all its limbs. This is for the purpose of attaching blocks and cables to it, to bring the logs in from the u'oods (caterpillars are also used for this purPose).

Follow A Log

Now we leave the tree and follow one of the twentyfoot logs. The "choker setter" puts a cable around one end of it and hooks it to the line leacling to the tree prepared by the "high rigger." By means of this line, it is pulled from the woods (by " machine called a "donkey") io the loading deck, located near a logging road and loaded on a truck or logging car which hauls it to the sawmill' At the sawmill it is dumped into the pond and the "pond monkey" takes it to the log well, which is equipped with chains that lift it to the log deck where it is placed on the carriage which slides back and forth beneath the band saw' The "dogger" operates the hooks that hold the log on the carriage. Then it goes to the sawyer who removes the barky slabs and the first cuts, which are usually used for wood. The remainder is then carried to the edgerman. He cuts the cants into smaller ones, about four inches wide.

The trim saw man cuts it into convenient handling lengths and the resaw man cuts it into the desired widths and thicknesses.

From there it is sent to the kilns, where it is dried by steam.

After this it goes to the planer, where it is planed, tonguedand grooved.

The end trimmer trims it into the proper flooring lengths and the dry chains (more revolving rollers) take it to the market where it is graded according to its grain and freedom ftom knots and blemishes. There are several different grades of fooring, 8., C. and D. vertical grain (the vertical grains are the best grade) and B., C. and D. flat grain (these are the lorver grades). The marker can tell at a glance under which classification a board falls.

Having been graded, the boards are put into bundles of six and tied.

So from natural beauty to manufactured beauty we have followed this tree where we leave it to its usefulness.

Newc Flashes

Bill Giles, Giles Lumber Company, Inglewood, spent several days fishing in the High Sierra.

Jerome Higman, Reliable Lumber Co., Rosemead, is planning a three weeks' hunting trip in Mexico.

Charlie Ditewig, West Oregon Lumber geles, has been spending a few weeks at mill at Portand. Ore.

Ten Ycrrs Ago Today

From June 15, 1931 lssue

Lloyd Harris was the principal speaker at a meeting of the Yuba City Kiwanis Club when he gave a talk on the various uses of Redwood and exhibited pictures taken at the operations of The Pacific Lumber Company.

Reprinted was an "rti.tG the Phoenix Gazette on John C. Light, Arizona retail lumber dealer, entitled "'Starting Out' at Sixty Years."

O. H. Carter, formerly manager of the Fresno Lumbel Co., Fresno, became associated with the Palo Alto Lumber Co., Palo Alto, as manager.

Carl Hornibrook, sales manager of the Ewauna Box Co., Klamath Falls, Ore., returned from an extensive business trip through the east.

R. F. "Dick" Hammett, for ten years secretary-manager of the California Redwood Association, received an appointment as Assistant Regional Forester in the United States Forest Service.

A Hoo-Hoo meeting and concatenation held at Livermore, Calif., brought out a big crowd. Ray Cox, president of the East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club, presided. Earl Johnson was master of ceremonies, and Vicegerent Snark Bert Bryan was in charge of the concatenation.

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W. W. Wilkinson, Oregon-Washington Plywood Co., Los Angeles, is back from a two weeks'trip to the Northwest. He attended the annual meeting of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association at Tacoma, and visited the plywood mills in Washington and Oregon.

Lloyd Cole, Hammond Redwood Company, Los Angeles, is back from a trip to the company's San Francisco office and the mill at Samoa.

The May meeting of the San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club was conducted by the California Redwood Association. President Jim Farley presided, and Winfield Scott talked on the history of the Calaveras Redwood Grove.

H. M. Schaur purchased an interest in the Good Lumber Co. at Tracy, Calif., and took over the management of the concern. George A. Good, former manager, purchased the Chase Lumber Co. at Pacific Grove. Calif.

D. G. MacDougall was appointed manager of the Wheel: er Osgood Company of California at Los Angeles, suc-ceeding Robert S. Osgood, who had been appointed sales manager of the Washington Veneer Co. with headquarters in Olympia, Wash.