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Wclt auortcd rtockr at our Lor Angeler yard or d!-rcct carload rhiP' nantr f:om rnill. Ofica end Yard ness, which rvas the initial step in the founding of the present Chas. R. I\{cCormick Lumber Co., and since that time every year has seen awell worthwhile step in the development of the business. The company early rvent into the business of building steam schooners for the coastwise lumber trade and has h1d an enviable record for operating these vessels. The establishment of the St. Helens Mill Co. at St. Helens, Ore., in 1912, marked the real beginning of the company's lumber manufacturing business. Steadily the acquisition of creosoting plants, terminal docks, timber, steamships and all necessary equipment for conducting the business has gone on until the present finds the company in the enviable position where it can guarantee and deli'r'er the best of service to the largest of buyers as 'lvell as the smallest, controlling, as it does, both production and transportation with facilities that reach from the stump to the yard.

And norv a word as to the new properties thus acquired. The Pope & Talbot operations are among the oldest operations on the Pacific Coast and date back some 72 years, rvhen in July, 1853, the schooner "Julius Pringle," commanded by Captain W. C. Talbot, entered Port Discovery Bay, Puget Sound. The purpose of the visit of this ship u'as the establishment of a sawmill on Puget Sound for W. C. Talbot & Co., which organization was composed of W. C. Talbot and A. J. Pope of San Francisco and J. P. Keller and Charles Foster of East Machias, Maine. After careful consideration of timber and shipping facilities of various locations, the company's first plant was located at Port Gamble, where one of the company's mills is still operating. The first building put up here was constructed of lumber brought from East Machias, Maine. The machinery was brought out the following fall. A mill at Port Ludlorv, the site of another of the present-day plants of the company, was ourchased in 1878.

Thus it is seen that the holdings of Pope & Talbot in the state of Washington, l'r'hich have been operated for many years under the name of the Puget Mill Company and rvhich comprise the property just transferred to the McCormick company. were acquired at such an early date that it is evident the founders of this business had full opportunity to choose the most favorable timber holdings in rvhat today is the state of first importance in lumber production of the country. The quality and accessibility of these vast holdings is unsurpassed on Puget Sound.

Another fact may easily be pointed out, namely, that Puget Sound is the most favored location for timber on the Pacific Coast today. It furnishes protected waters that may be entered at all stages of tide or weather and in the intercoastal trade which has assumed first rank in importance for Pacific Coast woods, it is the last American port of call for discharging westbound cargo and thus the vessels all discharge the last of their cargo at Seattle and are

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