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Forest Products Unit Started

Placerville, Calif.-Forest By-Products, fnc., has begun", '--# the erection of what is said to be the first wood flour plarlt'-11 in California, on property leased frorn the Placerville Lurn.-+ ber Company at Smith Flat and it is intended that the unit:,', will be in operation about July lst. ,'i!.

This.isaccordingtoHarveyE'West,ofPlacervilleLumberCompany,whosaidtheunitinc1udesamillandwarehouse.

The company will manufacture wood flour and woodfibre from dry wood waste. The manufactured product.is... used in making roofing, flooring, explosives, insecticides and' .r moulded plastic products.

Mr. West said the approximate cost of the plant is $.+0,000 and that in twenty-four hour daily operation it ' will employ from ten to twelve men.

Forest By-Products, Inc., he said, is an Auburn, Cali: fornia,.corporation with Ray Carlisle, president; Bert Grif-i fiths, vice-president, and Gilbert Breckenridge in charge of: local operations. Earl Storrs is consulting engineer.

Mr. West said Forest By-Products has a long termlease on the Smith Flat site and contemplates shipment of its products by rail via the Camino, Placerville and Lake Tahoe Railroad.

Opens Lumber Olfice

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H. A. Page resigned his position as general sales manager of the Coos Bay Lumber Company, Coos Bay, Oregon,. effective July 1 after seventeen years with the firm. He has started a lumber business of his own u'hich he will operate as the Page Lumber Company with offices at 300 Hall Building, Coos Bay.

Howard spent a number of years with the Coos Bay Lumber Company in California, and is well known to the trade in this territory.

Trinity County Has New Mills

Trinity County, California, has a number of new sawmills. The.Pelican Bay Lumber Company is building a mill at Hay Fork. At the same point the Triangle Lumber Company is readying a new 40,000 foot capacity mill. A small nerv mill is being operated at Douglas City by the Butler Trinity Lumber Company. The Crowley Lumber Company, at Big Bar, is operating a new mill cutting about 75,000 feet daily.