World's Biggest Hardwood Sawmill Plant

The biggest hardwood lumber manufacturing plant in the whole world, according to all available figures, is located in the Philippine Islands, and has been in the hands of the Japs since Pearl Harbor. Since that date no news has come from that mill.

It is that of the Insular Lumber Company, at Fabrica, in the Philippines. It is not only the largest, but likewise one of the most modern in equipment.

Here are a couple of pictures of the Fabrica plant, giving some idea of its size, and impressive location. It is located on a bluff in the river bend, as you will notice,

Ties and the architecture of the mill looks unlike that of any American sawmill.

The Fabrica mill has a normal manufacturing capacity of about 75,000,000 feet of Philippine hardwood lumber every year, according to the figures of its owners, the Insular Lumber Company, which has its general offices in Philadelphia, Pa.

The sawmill at Fabrica is equipped with trvo 9-foot band headrigs; one 8-foot pony rig; two 6-foot resaws, a slicer; a gang trimmer; two edgers, and other equipment, making a whale of a mill. The planing mill is modern in every particular, and very large. The dry kilns are a battery of 13 Moore Cross-Circulation kilns that take this wonderful cabinet wood green from the saw, and season it perfectly.

This mill was cutting from one of the finest tracts of virgin hardwood timber in the Orient when the Japs moved in. With this story will be found a picture showing what the butt of a big Philippine hardwood tree looks like. No other species of hardwood in the world produces so large a percentage of straight, clear lumber as these Philippine trees.

J. Raymond Peck, of Philadelphia, is president of the Insular Lumber Company. H. C. Pope was general manager at Fabrica .rvhen the Japs took possession.

Will Attend State Legion Conference

Fred Morehouse, Anglo California Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Benj. Ostlind, California Panel & Veneer Co., Los Angeles, and Milton Taenzer, American Hardwood Co., Los Angeles, expect to attend the State War Conference of the American Legion in San Francisco, August 16, 17 and 18.

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Lumber Industry Declared Essential ln Southern California

In accordance with the authority of H. R. Harnish, Deputy Regional Director for Southern California, \Arar Manpower Commission, the yarding, warehousing, remanufacturing and the wholesale and retail distribution of lumber and lumber products are hereby declared to be activities essential in Southern California.

This declaration was effective July 26,1943, lor the Southern California area, which includes the following counties: Santa Barbara, Ventura, Inyo, Mono, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, San Diego, and Imperial, except that this declaration shall be effective in San Diego County only after approval of the San Diego War Manpower Committee.

War Housing Construction Standards

Study of recently built residential structures throughout the Southern California area discloses some excellent examples of housing built under the current War Housing Construction Standards as promulgated by the War Production Board, which is in distinction to the unwarranted impression, in some localities, that cheap, sub-standard, undesirable housing must result, is was announced today by Wilson G. Bingham, Southern California district director, Federal Housing Administration.

"Su,ch housing, when built under FHA inspection, meets the critical requirements of war conditions, complies with required savings of critical materials, and yet produces an exceptionally comfortable, modern, desirable home," says Mr. Bingham.

Construction

In cases r,r'here specific WPB authorization is not required under Order L-41 to begin construction, CI\[P Regulation No. 5 procedures may be used to obtain required materials and products up to $500 in cost, the War Production Board pointed out.

However, CPM Regulation No. 5 procedures may not be used to get materials or products for any construction work of the type which requires authorization under Order L-41, unless the authorization specifically states that CMP Regulation No. 5 may be used.

These points are brought out in Interpretation No. 9 to CMP Regulation No. 5, issued July 29,7943.

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