New Weyerhaeuser Plant atLongview

(Continued from Page 28) hemlock, and is expected to be ready for rvork within a few weeks. Mill 3 is intended to cut cedar chiefly, but also is arranged for hemlock or small fir. It and the shingle plant, in which 16 upright machines will be installed, have just been begun recently. The other parts of the establishment now running are the pump hodse, the power house, the stackers, part of the 5O kilns that will .serve the mills for the first few year!, the unstacker shed and sorting works, the largest single planing mill in America, the storage sheds that rvill house part of the 100,000,000-foot stock that will be carried at Longview, and the car-loading and vessel-loading facilities. was several days later before it and its subsidiary units were running on regular schedule.

One of the most interesting things about this property is that the great expanse oI land it occupies, two miles long and half a mile wide,'ivas largely filled by hydraulic dredging of the river. This brought the site up to a 16-foot grade and at the same time provided for ocean-going cargo vessels to call at the plant.

Along the rvhole stretch of river front, a dyke was built to a height of 30 feet. This has necessitated the construction of extraordinarily long log slips from the water to each mill. The "drag" is 700 feet long in each case.

Mill t has one large head rig, rvhich breaks down logs, most of which come in 48-foot lengths, into cants. These go clear to the rear of the mill. where they are graded and cut to the desired lengths. Then they are put to either one of two pony rigs-eight-foot, double-cutting bands-or sent to the gang.

In the back of this mill is more edger capacity and more trimmer capacity than in any other mill built so far, so that the lumber will be completely manufactured before it reaches the grading point. In each mill there are two long sorting chains so that, as nearly as possible, all clear lumber can be assembled on one sorter and all common on another.

Mill 1 saws long fir logs. Mlll 2 will cut short fir and

Nearby Mill 1, on the downstream side, is the wharf, 14O feet wide and. I7ffi feet long, at which four ships can berth at once. Adjoining it is a storage space with a capacity of 17,000,000 feet. This storage is served by two gantry cranes with double gantries extending on each side of the crane runway. From the storage runway to the wharf, high speed motor carriers of the type that straddle their loads will transport the unit packages to be put aboard by the ship slings. Shed stock will be brought to the wharf on a standard gauge railroad and rvill be lifted from the cars to the ship side by a great gantry straddling the track.

Above Mill f are the power house and pump house, the (Continued on Page 36)