Dolbeer

A reinforced , concrete refuse burner will be constructed and thus eliminate all possiblity of trouble from that source. The new planing mill will be placed between the old mill and the old dry kilns.

New dry kilns will be constructed which will be capable of handling 500,000 feet of lumber. The present kilns at the mill have a capacity of from 100,000 to 120,000 feet. The type of kilns to be used havq not yet been decided upon but they will probably be patterned after the ones now in use. They will be built next to the old kilns.

The entire drying yard and wharf will be rebuilt on the level of the present drying yard and will add materially to the swift handling and sorting of the lumber.

I-arger sorting tables are being installed to expedite the segregation of the various types of lumber. At the present time the mill uses 800 different segregations.

The machinery which is going into the new structure is being assembled from all parts of, the United States and is said to be the last word in mill equipment. Included among the new machines to be'installed are: 1 seventy-five horse power motor driven log haul; 1 ten foot band saw ; 1 nine foot band saw; I seven foot band saw; 1 sixty by ten inch edger; I seventy-two by ten inch edger; 1 forty-two by .1 inch edger; 1 twelve inch Simonson log turner; 1 10 inch Simonson log turner; forty eight sections of roll casings transfers and conveyors; 2 deck stops and log leader: Z I kickers. The power equipment will include: 6 seventy-two

Steam Turbines to Generate Power For Mill Motors

inch by eighteen foot H. R. T. boilers; 1 1875 K. V. A. turbo-generator; I l2O K. V. A. turbo benerator; 2 duplex pluger boiler feed fumps; 1 feed water heater;1300 cu ft., air compressor; 1 15 K. W. motor qenerator set; 1 circulating pump; l steam jet air pump and 125 motors from 3 H. P. to 300 H. P.

Egineers who are assisting in the construction of the mill and its buildings include: A. J. Lustig of Portland Oregon, mill builder and designing engineer; Frank Green of Eureka, construction engineer; George S. Stafford, master buildel in charge of all contsruction anil Dade Russell of Portland, Oregon, drafteman.

The foundation under the structures is probably the best to be found anywhere under a mill. Large piles have been driven through the mud to the compact strata of sand which is immediately under the mud flat. The piles were driven down into the sand strata some ten feet and then cut off at the level of the surface. Concrete piers were then poured on top of the piles in such a way that they are entirely air tight. It has been proven by experience that piles scaled'away in this manner will never rot. There will be no wood below the floor except the piles. After the piles were put in place and the concrete pieri had been constiucted the ground which is all overflow iancl was filled in with filling from Brainard's Point Filling was put in to the same level-as the basement floor which will be m-ade ofi concrete poured over the filling.

J. C. White an electrical engineer has been added to the foice of the mill. He is in charge of the installation of the electrical equipment and after the completion of the plant will remain with the company as chief engineer.

Contrary to the common belief the plant although electrically equipied will not receive its power from the local power .o-pan1 but will generate the power- for the running- of the ptanis it the powi house whiih is being constructed. The bo*.t house ii being constructed of re-inforced concrete and its equipment will include turbines, boilers and all other oo*.i equipment needed. When completed the plant will be bne of the -best equipped for its size in the state.

The sawdust and slabs in the mill will be conveyed directly from the saws to the boiler room where they will be automatically fed into the fireboxes. The boilers will produ.ce the steam whiih will be conveyed to the steam turbines which in turn will carry it to the generators to develop the current required bv the -oto.t in the mill. The plant will be equipped with reniote control throughout and automatic control panels.

.The refuse hurnei which will be constructed of re-inforced concrete will be lined with fire brick and so constructed that all possiblity of danger from that source will be eliminated'

The smokestack which is 150 feet and 9 inches in height above the seven foot base is the highest structure in Eureka.. From a diameter of nine feet at. the base the smokestack tapers to a dianaeter of seven feet at the top. It is built of radical brick.

A large brick tank with a capacity of 75,000 gallons will be constructed. The mill and. all the other buildings will be equipped with a sprinkler system throughout. The water tank will be set on a steel tower 109 feet high. The height from the ground to the top of the roof of the water tank when in place will be approximately 138 feet.

A log pond is being constructed by the Mercer-Fraser company which is dredging out 20,000 cubic feet of mud to complete the pond.

Although the present mill is capable of turning out good Iumber at a moderate rate of speed the management declared that it was too slow and ,also to hard to work in.

The lower or basement floor of the new mill structure will be devoted to a machinery room where a large number of the machines for the operation of the machinery on the sawing floor will be installed

The logs will be pulled from the log pond by means of a large endless chain up the slips. They will the4 be kicked from the slips by means of electrically controlled niggers to the skids for either saw. Large steam turbines controlled by an electrical system will furnish the power for the niggers. The skid deck is supplied with retainers which will hold the logs until the sawyer is ready for them. When the sawyer wishes to place a log on the carriage he energizes his log loader and the log is thrown upon the carriage.

Simonson log turners will automatically adjust the log on the carriage. After the lumber has been sawed it will be carried away from the saw by means of automatic rolls to thc edger where it will be cut to the desired widths. By the drop ping of a bumper the slabs will continue on the rollers and ttren dropped on an endless chain and carried to an 8 saw gang slasher. "

The lumber will be carried to the remanufacturing room by a system of endless chains where it will be distributed by the sanie system of carriers to trimmers re-edgers and re-sawers.

The standard practice in the remanufacturing room is to handle the lumber by means of gang trimmers and a nest of saws. The company has discarded this practice in their new mill and instead the unfinished lumber will be distributed to a battery of single saw trimmers. In adopting this- practice officials of the company stated that this method would enable them'to obtain beitei r6sults and at the sime time save lumber

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(Continued from Page 41) and secure better grading. From here the finished lumber is carried by a system of endless chains to the grading tables where after careful selcetion it will be taken to the drying yards.

By the newly installed equipment and system followed out a minimum man power will be necessary and in many cases the log will be so handled by the automatic equipment that it will not be necessary to handle the log or lumber by man power at any time.

"We live in deeds, not years; In thoughts not breaths;

These imrnortal words of Festus the ancient Roman historian and writer came to my mind after the history of the famous Dolbeer and Carson mill which in the vernacular of the newspaper world has gone through several banner editions and is about to launch forth on another one, with the most modernty electrically equipped mill on the Pacific Coast, had been repeated to me by a number of the "old timers" of Eureka.

William Carson and John Dolbeer the two founders of the mill who formed the partnership of Dolbeer and Carson by which the mill is still known formed the partnership in 1863. In 1886 the partners incorporated under the name of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., to perpetuate the policies that made the original firm so successful.

William Carson of the original firm was a native of New Brunswick an{ arrived in San Francisco in the early part of 1850 during the gold rush. One of his first operations in this State was as one of the men whd constructed the building of the "Arkansas Dam" which played an interesting part during the pioneer history of C.alifornia. Not being con- tented with the mines. Carson came to Humboldt in the latter part of 1850 and engaged in the lumber business. William Carson and l-erry W-hitmore in November of that year cut the first tree for a sawlog that was ever cut on Humbbldt bay, lccording to one historian while another gives the credit io Geo. Car:son brother of Williams and Alexander Gilmore.

_ Jq-hn Dolbeer was a naitve of New Hampshire and came to California in 1850 and to Humboldt county in 1851. He went to the mines on Salmon river remaining ihe.e otte year and then returned to Eureka in 1852 where he went into the lumber business with Charles Mcl-ane, who was drowned on the "Merrimac" on the bar in 1862. Shortly thereafter the firm of Dolbeer and Carson was formed.

Around these two rugged pioneers centers quite a little of the history of Humboldt county especially of the lumber industry, mu,ch of which has been forgotten and the little that is known is fast dying out with the old timers. There are very few histories or other books which give an accurate account of those early days in California upon which the foundation of the wealth and orogress of the Dresent seneration is present generation built.

Many of the early pioneers who came rushing across the continent in'49 and '50 found vertible gold mines but not in the accepted sense of the word. Gold mines which their children and grandchildren and descendants for many generations to come will be able to work and without any fear of the pay streak giving out.

An attempt to discover just exactly how many mills had stood on the present Dolbeer-Carson site proved futile. Mill after mill was burned only to have the rebuilCing start again before the ashes of its predecessor were cold, so to speak.

The present mill was built in 1878 with the building probably started on April 27 ol t'nat year as histor/ records that the old mill which stood there before it was burned to the ground on the night of April 26, 1878. According to the most accurate information obtainable the mill that stood before that one was built in 186O as there is a record of another mill which stood on the site from 1853 to 18@. This mill was also burned to the ground.

On one thing the histories and the old timers agree however and that is the fact that William Carson shipped the first cargo of redwood out of Humboldt Bay in its history. Pine its srSv vr rLuwws and spruce had been handled before that memorable shipment but no attention was oaid to the redwoods as thev ment no was paid they were thought to be of but very little value.

As that first calgo of Lumber shipped from Humboldt Bay marked a new era so the mill that is at present being constructed marks another new era. It is the first complete electric mill constructed on the Pacific Coast for the exclusive handling of redwood. The new mill will have practically double the capacity of the present mill and to prepare for the experienced men who will be needed for the new mill and to supply the increasing demand for the redwood lumber a. day and night shift is being tmployed by the company. The night shift however will be eliminated as soon as the new structure is com,pleted and the men used to make up the increased personnel of the new mill.

Untike its ancestors the old mill is expected to meet a different fate as it is ti be dismantled and the ground of present site used for additional drying yards. Not a single piece of thc old mill is to go in the new structure which will be equipped with the mosi modern machinery throughout. With the installation of the electrical equipment in the new mill many of the elements dangerous to life and limb will be entirely eliminated and others will be so constructed that they will be entirelv safe. The old fashioned belts will be eliminated with the direct application of power from the motors to the machines. There will naturally'be better response in the action of the machine and thus cut to a minimum the possibility of accidents due to carelessnass.

Not only will Eureka benefit directly from the increase in the size of the new mill but it will derive indirect benefit flom the increase at the Carson woods where a number of new cabins will be constructed and an additional cook house built. New Washington donkeys will be added and additional railroad equipment including forty flat cars will be installed. With the increased amount of sawlogs that will be handled bv the mill the woods will have to increase their output in -order to keep up.

LONG BEAEH CLAIUS WORLDS RECORI) FOR HOME BUILDING

Here's anther claimant to a world's tecord.

Long Beach, California, claims to be the world's champion in point of homes built during the year 1922, as compared to poPulation.

Not only does Long Beach claim it, but the Department of Labor of the Urited States Government indorses the claim:

Long Beach built 7061 homes inlVZZ.

In ratio to population the numrber of houses erected was l27oJ to each 10,000 population. Los Angeles where an intensive building program is going on had a ratio of 486.1; Pasadena 77O and San Diego 254. Tirese cities led the country in per capital building, the report shows.

Taken throughout the entirb Nation the ratio of building was but 1O2.6 for each lO,00O persolrs' giving Long Beach a lead of 1200 per cent above the general average.