The Sugar Pine Lumber ComPanY

That there is a vast clifference in California Pines, especially in the manufactured product, is the positive statement of Nir. John Hemphill. Qeneral l\Ianager.of the sugar rrne L"*l"i Company, of Fresno and'Pinedale, and $9 11"" ;il;';;-r.$otit}ri. for the success of this rvonderful Pine oDeration, started just last year' -"in.-.rit.t""ai"g ie"t".e ihat one rvould be impressed "'i*-ln-" irip .thiough this company's oP€rati"":l tt,-t]t-' extreme care glven to the grading of the. dozens ot dttterent grades of stock that.they-are produclng'

Re"cently a representative of this-publication, in companv rvith Mr. L. H.-Stanton, who is selling an enormous qu?lii;;'"]^S"c"i "ttaWhiie Pine from ihis mill through his ;;p;";,-'E. J. Stanton & Son, and I\[r' L' I\'f' Rosenberg' ;-;;lt oi'a considerable amount, in the Hipolito 9ompany' ivere shown through the Sugar Pine Lumber Uompanl's .".*tl."t, from th.e highest logging camp u-P in the rvoods' dbwn to the loading platform and the box factory at rlnedale. -*Ein.i"tt.y is the big rvord i1-thl.org.anizalio1t. Vp.:!

Central Camp, rvhere NIr. C. H. (Cha.rley).Smtth rs the Big Boss, the logging operation noves like clockrvork' and th; ;;tp;i is if,ireised month bv .month. fromthe advanced methods used by this veteran. logger' -Central Camp is a model of cleanliness, is as modern as the center oI a i"ts" .itv, and one is particularly irnpressed rvith the ac."ti"a"ii."i given the men in thLe clTP'. A dining.,room that would dJcredit to a city hotel rvith kitchens spotlessl)' ;G; ;a manned by chefs'who surely "know their stuff"' ;h;h;;iconducted'on the same lines, and other features in the camp proPer that has attracted rvhat Mr' Smith de;i";;; i" ui itt"'cream of California loggers to his ca{P' They have an average of about trvo hundred men at the camp during the cutting season. --CJ"tt"t

C-amp has ma-intained a schedule of fourteen to fifteen million fiet of logs per month, for some time' th; Minarets & We"stein Railway, constructed at the same time that the camp !\'as installed, has branches into "it o"tt of the cuttings where the Sugar Pine Lumber Com"..i" n"t. eisht imt;ense electric logging and loading ma.ttin... All ivork is done electrically, after the falling an<l buckine. A huge poll'er line has been installed, with transil;il and air tondensers, with lines going over the mountains, follorving the loggersTh; railioad, abo-ut sixtyleight miles long'-rvinds dorvn the mountain, directly into the mill at Pinedale, where- the ."it t.. t"toaded into the pond. The unloading is all done bv machinery, and one large crane is kept at rvork conttnuoir.f " ior "sinkers." The-pond, filled in a natural- depres' ri""'oi ttt. ground, rvill hold about trvo and a half million i..f "f loes,-or about a five days run' so it is necessa-ry for C."ti"f i"-p and Pinedale to be working at a balanceci rate all through the season. --Tft.

-iii,-(Sescribed in detail in a former issue), electric "ll t-he i".i t'n-"gh and operated rvith porver develo-ped in ;h.il;;;'piant, ls cutting an alnerage ol 225,ffi feet .of r-u*f.r'"".[ .igi'tt hour sh'ift, and the comPany has maintained a two s6ift day for some time.

-- pi"- tit. t.ty ntit iook that is put into the log rvhere it is washed, to the last grading table, every stick ot lumDer

September 1, 1924

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT is_carefully watched, graded several times, and.then care- fully.stacked in the valt storage yards that will accommodate in the.neighborhood of sixty million feet. At the pres- ent.time they have about forty million feet in the piles, drying.

The yards at this plant contain just trventy-six miles of trackage, besides the standard guage tracks tb accomodate about forty cars.

Great care is taken in the sticking in the piles, it would be hard- to distinguish one pile frori the other, from their rdentrcal appea.rance. The pilingis facilitated by electric stackers, and this work is dbne 6v exDerrs.

Ext-ra .bigh foundations under the piles, the careful locat- ingof all stocked lumber, considering the wind, etc., ex_ treme care. in grading, and the verli fine qualiiy oi the stocks-produced, are but a few of the impreisive-features around this great plant.

-_Mr-John-P. Hemphill is Vice-president and General l\l[anager of the entire.operation. He is well knorvn to all California- lumbermen.

Mr. W. F. Baird acts as Assistant to the G. M., and is tl, ,man.directly in charge of sales promotion,;rd;ir.