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(Continued from Page 32) in the woods in Texas, he was in the lumber business as an owner, having helped incorporate the R. L.Trigg Lumber Company, and moved to St. Louis, Mo.

The Frost-Trigg Lumber Company was the next change of, this corporation, and of this concern Mr. Johnson was vice-president and general manager. They were large producers of lumber in Arkansas and Louisiana by this time, and were also interested in abig mill at Lufkin, Texas. Then the Frost-Johnson Lumber Company succeeded the Frost-Trigg Lumber Company, and was then, and is now, one of the biggest Southern Pine lumber producers. A few years ago Mr. Johnson sold his large interest in this big concern, and sought the Pacific Coast, where he began looking for the sort of western investment he had long had in mind.

He invested first in the Davies-Johnson Lumber Company, at Calpine, California, manufacturing California pine. He sold this interest to invest all of his world's goods in his present affiliations, the Pacific Spruce Corporation, and its sales corporation, the C. D. Johnson Lumber Company of Portland and Toledo, Oregon.

And when you consider these mighty possessions, and their undoubted close relationship with the building world, you will probably infer that in this case, at least, Providence worked hand in fist with the intelligent mind of C. D. Johnson to help him corral and put into operation the mighty properties that he now dominates.

During the great World War, when the production of airplane stock made the demand for Spruce lumber more than the then existing mills could possibly supply, the government looked around for a dependable source of supply of this character, and found in Lincoln County, Oregon, what they believed to be the greatest Spruce forest in the world, wonderful in the size, quality and stand of timber, aqd tremendous in volume.

So the Spruce Production Division of the government bought a great stand of this timber, which is about onehalf Spruce, and the other half old growth Yellow Fir, they built a splendid railroad into the timber, and a mammoth sawmill plant in a marvelous location on the Yaquina River, just a few miles inland from the Pacific. No expense was spared. A huge sum.of money was invested in the mill, which was one of the largest individual sawmills ever built.

In the midst of the preparation to start this operation, came the Armistice, and the government dropped its operations then and there, bnd never resumed them.

So when C. D. Johnson looked over this mill, docks, railroad, etc., which had cost the government many, many millions of dollars, he decided that he had reached the end, of the trail. He got busy with his financial arrangements, and enlisted with him a number of powerful capitalists of lumber fame, chief among which are Robert H. Downman of New Orleans, La., Cypress king and one of the world's richest lumbermen, and H. B. Hewes of Louisiana, also big in Cypress history.

And they bought those great timber holdings, and that logging railroad, and the unfinished sawmill plant at Toledo, and all the other physical possessions of that government built institution. They got this property for only a small part of the actual cost of installation, giving them a flying start in their endeavors, and they proceeded to complete the milling plant and logging arrangements, injecting such of their own ideas as they saw fit, into the completed operation. And now, for four years, they have been operating the entire institution, and by the distribution of a great quantity of as fine quality lumber as the finest of western forests can produce, they have carved for themselves an outstanding place in the world of lumber affairs.

To attempt to describe the equipment and organization of the Pacific Spruce Corporation and of the C. D. John(Continued on Page 36)