Vagabond Editorials

(Continued from Page 6) trees, as you go north from the Redwood district. The Pine district of California you will miss on this route. You must go to Eastern and Northern California to see the Sugar and the Ponderosa Pine at their best.

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And if you are l,umber-minded you can see the world's biggest mills all along this route. There are giant mills in the Redwood district you drive through. In Oregon you can dodge off the highway for a short trip and see a two-band sawmill that can cut one hundred thousand feet of lumber every hour, when they want itto. Some mill. Or you can stop at Longview, Washington, the town the late R. A. Long built, and there stands a battery of mills belonging to Lo'ng-Bell and Weyerhauser that can cut about four million feet of lumber a day if they turn on the heat.

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Lots of other big mills all along the way. A mill that cuts no more than a quarter of a million feet of lumber a day isn't considered a major mill in the West. There are many California Pine mills, many Redwood mills, and innumerable Fir and Hemlock mills that cut more than that daily, and think nothing of it. I remember my first trip to the Northwest, many years ago. f was being shown through a sawmill that didn't look so terribly big to me, and I casually asked of the manager who was conducting me, what the mill cut. When he answered, "About a million feet a day" f nearly swallowed my Adam's apple. And he wasn't kidding.

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Of course, if you live where it's hot and you just want to go where it is reliably cool, try San Francisco. It is the coolest large city in America in the summer. Seattle is second but its coolness is not as thoroughly dependable as that of San Francisco. I have seen one warm day in my many years'visiti to San Francisco. But I have seen it get very warm several times in Seattle, and hot as Flouston in Portland. I used to think Duluth, Minnesota, was a close candidate for San Francisco's cool summer temperature honors. But a couple of years ago I was in St. Paul and Minneapolis, and it was hot. So I jumped into my car and set sail for Duluth. AU the way I told my family that when we dropped over the hill into Duluth, it would be cool. It always had been before when I went there. But we dropped over trhe hill into Duluth and it was still so hot we gasped for breath. So I immediately withdrew the application of Duluth from my summer comfort contest. ***

I recall my first visit to San Francisco. It was July. I had been enjoying the beaches in Southern California, and I barged into San Francisco on a night train, dressed up in a slick tan silk suit, two-tone shoes and Panama hat. It was exactly 68 by the thermometer when I got off at that depot. My teeth were chattering long befo,re the taxi man set me down at the Palace Hotel. From there I phoned Los Angeles for a wool suit, and a felt hat, and an overcoat. And I stayed within the confines of that hotel until the next morning when those winter clothes arrived. And I know many another who has been caught the same way. ***

But, Mister, that's a town that puts the pep in you. Stepping out of your hotel door onto the sidewalk on Market Street about five-thirty any summer afternoon, is something to remember. That stiff, cool wind catches you and shoves you along, makes you pick up your heels, builds up your appetite, recharges your batteries. Some town ! Now, I guess I'11 catch fits for being so dad-blamed restrictive in my recommendations concerning where to go vacationing. But I'll stick to my guns. I've tried the Great Lakes, and they are utterly unreliable. I've never got much kick out of the Rocky Mountain territories for summer use. Yes, folks, I still say-go to San Francisco, get well cooled off, and then drive north via the Redwood Empire to Vancouver. If that doesn't get the work done, then call in the undertaker and tell him where to send the body. All hope is gone.

Aberdeen Concern Large Producers of Old Growth Yellow Fir

Anderson & Middleton Lumber Qompany of Aberdeen, Wash., whose advertisement appears on another page of this issue, is one of the largest producers of old growth yellow Douglas Fir lumber in the Northwest.

The company was founded in 1893 by H. N. Anderson and A. W. Middleton.

A. W. Middleton is president and general manager. E. A. Middleton is superintendent, and for some time has been assuming the duties of general manager. G. E. Anderson, Jr, is sales manager,

The sawmill at Aberdeen has a capacity of approximately 500,000 feet daily in two shifts.

The company operates its own vessels in the California trade, the Cadaretta into San Francisco, and the Claremont into Los Angeles.

Anderson & Middleton Lumber Company is represented in,Northern California by J. E. "Eddie" Peggs, 1 Drumm Street, San Francisco, and in Southern California by Don H. Doud, Petroleum Securities Building, Los Angeles.