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One of the most modern sawmill plants in the entire Southwest is the result of the rebuilding and remodernrzing job done by the Saginaw & Manistee Lumber Company on the plant formerly operated by the Atizona Lumber & Timber Company, at Flagstaff, Arizona. The mill is equipped with two band headrigs and a band resaw; there is a modern planing mill; and a highly efficient box factory. The saymill today will turn out about 135,000 feet of Ponderosa Fine in an eight hour shift. The box factory will handle about 50,000 feet of lumber daily, and sells its entire output in local Arizona territory for crating and boxing fruit, vegetables, and melons. The remainder of the output of the sawmill is all sold to the trade in Arizona and New Mexico. There are no dry kilns at this plant, but special arrangement of yard for air drying. Lumber rs handled around the plant by carriers, and piled by an automatic stacker. They employ two Willamette Hysters also. This company operates the only steam logging road lelt in Arizona, and hauls logs for its own plant and also for the plant of Southwest Lumber Mills, Inc., of Flagstaff. Both Saginaw & Manistee and Southwest manufacture Ponderosa from Government timber, and are reported to have a twenty year supply in that territory. J. M. Bedford is manager for the new plant.

Can Handle More Custom Mi[ing

M. O. Parrick of Western Mill & Moulding Co., 5841 So. Western Avenue, Los Angeles, reports that his firm is busy on orders mainly connected with the war efiort. A large part of the business is custom milling, and they are willing to take on some more of this kind of work. Their equipment consists of the latest type of motor driven nlachines, and they are fortunate in having some of the best mechanics in the business.

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Back From Mexico

Carl W. Watts, Oregon Lumber Sales, San Francisco, on a recent 30-day trip to Mexico went off the beaten track to look over some property in Palenque. He flew by Pan-American Airways throughout the trip wherever possible. From Mexico City he went by Pan-American to Villa Hermosa, and took a local plane from there to Palenque. After completing his business he decided it was safer to take the nine-hour horseback trip back to Villa Hermosa.

In Minatitlan, Vera Cruz, he met H. B. "Chad" Chadbourne, formerly in the retail lumber business at Salinas, and now with the Mahogany Division of the Office of Economic 'Warfare, at that place. Chad asked to be remembered to his friends in the lumber business in California.

On the way back from Mexico City the Pan-American plane made a detour westward to circle the new Paracutin Volcano, which has killed every green thing in an area of 100 square miles. Incidentally on this part of the journey three of the passengers were the well-known movie figures, Walter Pidgeon, Hedy Lamarr and her husband, John Loder.

Tourist traffic to Mexico by plane is very heavy, and it is necessary to make reservations far ahead, Carl says.

New Lumber Se[ing Methods

One of the wholesale lumber yards in Los Angeles swears and be doggoned that they were offered Ponderosa Pine by a California sawmill, as follows: 1 inch and thicker; 4 inches and wider; 10 to 48 inches long; No. 4 common and better; at $25.00 a TON. "That will give you an idea," said the manager, "of how Pine is selling in Southern California."

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