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I as though they were made of cheese-three re-saws<ne -.+horizontalandtwovertical_andamammothgang.All TAKES electrically driven. With a horde of supplementaiy machin- ery, that's all there is in that sawmill.

How much lumber that mill turns out, depends on the timber they are cutting, and the stuff they are cutting it into. It ranges from 4O,000 to 50,000 feet an hour. Think of that, you Southern Pine, and Redwood, and White Pine makers.

Over70 flHilkes" in Use in Pacific Coast Mills

The rest of the mill is built on the same basic plan to care for that great amount of lumber. Everything that human ingenuity can devise and money can buy for the ad. vantageous and efficient handling, transporting, dressing, drying, stacking, unstacking, shipping, etc., is in that plant. There are twenty of the finest of dry kilns. All of their uppers and part of their inch common, goes through their kilns. The planer, the line of great dry sheds, the big drying yard, everything is modern, and driven by electricity and everything moves with precision and efficiency.

They do a big business with California, and every day the lighters carry the lumber and timbers to the mouth of the river for loading for the South. I heard some mills of the North tell what a bum market California is. The Johnsons told me what a fine market it is for them. All in the way you go at it, perhaps.

Their rail service is over the Southern Pacific, and they are now shipping their lumber almost to the entire United States. Dean Johnson told me proudly of big shipments they have been making into his old home state of Arkansas, and into Texas, and Oklahoma, and Kansas, and Missouri, and into a dozen eastern states, and down into the far Southeast.

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