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Polron Lumber & Shingle Co. Hoquien, Veih.

Andenon a Middlaon Lumber Co. Aberdeq Vrrh.

Prouty Lumber & Box Company Vatrenton, Oregon hour, and he was keen to discover what particular system the darkey used for his exact identifications. So as he came out of the dining room he thought he would invctigate. The old man handed him his hat, and he asked: ttBecuz hit's de wun you handed to me, suh," was the placid reply.

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"Ah don't know it, suh," replied the old darkey.

"Then why did you hand it to me?" asked the puzzled professor.

A. E. MILLINGTON VISITS S. F.

A. E. Millington, vice-president and general manager of the Fir-Tex Insulating Board Co., St. Helens, Ore., was a recent visitor to San Francisco.

lnsular Lumber Co. New Mill Sta*s Operating

The Insular Lumber Company's new mill, which is situated on the old mill site at Fabrica on Ne6,'ros Island, started operations,on July 13. The plant covers an area of about one mile square and it required over six million feet of lumber to construct it. The new mill building is 150 feet wide and 540 feet long. The main mill floor is 20 feet above the ground.

The'company was cutting six million feet a month, largely specialties, and the new plant has been built with the object in mind of increasing these special orders and being in shape to give their trade prompt service of better manufactured lumber.

When the mill is complete, it will have four bands, two gangs, two horizontal resaws, two vertical resaws, two twin resaws, several edgers, two trimmers, one slasher, two hogs and several shingle mills. It is all electrically driven. The bulk of the lumber will go dirbct from the sorting chains on to the dry kiln trucks and from the dry kilns to the cooling sheds, where it will pass final inspection and be put in packages and then stored in the warehouses by cranes. One warehouse holding ten million feet of lumber is already completed.

The planing mill and box factory is 200 feet wide and 60O feet long. The lumber from the dry kiln trucks will go directly into the machines and from the machines will go to the sorting chains, where it will also receive its final inspection and be handled by cranes in the warehouse.

The machine shop, car shop and foundry ar! all under one roof 25O feet by 300 feet. It is said that this will be the largest hardwood plant in the world, and the company has started up with a big volume of orders on their books. They have large concrete docks with a locomotive crane that travels the whole length, so that they can easily load a half million feet of lumber every day. They have a large stand of timber, which warranted their building this large plant. They have eleven locomotives and ample logging cars and donkey engines, and sufficient railroad to furnish this plant with plenty of logs.

The plant was built under the able direction of the general manager, M. E. Grey. Mr. Grey is one of the most capable and experienced sawmill builders and operators in the United States and has organized a staff of experienced hardwood executives who, with his instructions, have been able to rebuild this plant r,r'ithout outside assistance. The plant is designed for the most economical operation and 'complete utilization of by-products so that nothing uiill go to waste, except the smoke fromrthe stacks. The company has their lumber well introduced in practically all the markets of the.world.

This mill and logging operation has built a town for 10,000 people in which their employees and families live. They have their big general store, hospital, club, motion picture theater, ice plant and four schools. The mill supplies electricity, and they have modern sanitary conditions.

The Robert Dollar Co., San Francisco, is western sales agent for the Insular Lumber Company. The Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and White Brothers, San Francsico, are the California distributors.

Returns From Vacation

Jim Farley, assistant Western sales manager of The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned July 27 frorh two weeks' vacation spent in Humboldt County. Jim is loyal to the Redwood Empire, and thinks there's no place like it for a vacation.

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