The Southwest Lumber Sales Corporation

Another indication of the rapid strides in the Lumber business being made in the Souihwest and of the progressiveness of $outhwest Lumber manufacturirs is the announcement of the organization of the Southwest Lumber Sales Corpo.ration of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

This selling organization was formed by a group of mills operating in the Arizona.New Mexico forests to market their. entire output of 300 million feet annually.

The mills cooperating in the organization are the Cady Lumber Corporation with mills at McNary and Flagstaff, Arizona; the White Pine Lumber Co,, with its mill at Bernalillo, New Mexico, and the Standard Lumber Mills, Inc., plant at Standard, Arizona. The Cady Mills produce a total of 185 million feet annuallv. the White Pine Lumber Cr.., 75 million feet. and the -Standard Lumber Mills operation, 50 million feet.

The officers of the new corporation are Arthur A. Hood, President; W. G. Ramshaw, lst Vice-President; R. B. Howell, 2nd Vice-President; Jas. A. Robison, Secy. and Assistant T"reas.; R. F. Lilley, Treas. The directorate consists of Frank H. Porter, Crairman,.4. J. McQuatters, J. G. McNary, Mr. Hood and Mr. Ramshaw.

The very closesQrcontact will be had between the operating, compahies ahd the new sales organization. A. J. McQuatters, of th0 directors, is chairman of the Board,. J. G. McNary is fresident and Arthur A. Hood is VicePresident of the Cady Lumber Corporation; Frank H. Porter is Treasurer and General Manager, and W. G. Ramshaw, an executive, of the White Pine Lumber Co., and R. F. Lilley is President of the Standard Lumber Mills, Inc, and Treasurer of the Cady Lumber Corporation, and James Al' R.obison is Secretary of the Standard Co. Mr. Hood, and Mr. Ramshaw, Mr. Howell, Mr. Robison and Mr. Lilley, wliile itt the management of the sales orgatization, will remain as officers and executives of the Cady Lumber Corporation, the White Pine Lumber Co., and Standard Lumber Mills. Inc.

The Cady Lumber Corporation, the Standard Lumber Mills, Inc., and the Southwest Lumber Sales Corporation will have joint'offices at Albuquerque, New M&ico, in the Occidental Life Building, while the White Pine Lumber Co.. offices will be but a few miles distant at Bernalillo.

Group selling is unquestionably the merchandising trend among the manufactur,ers of lumber and these operators have shown their foresight in being among the first to adopt this advanced policy.

Behind the cooperation of this group of mills, however, is a lumber story of unique and unusual interest.

Lumbtermen oll the, country, generally speaking, are scarcely awake to the extent and value of the great forests of. Arizcina and New Mexico.

Iri truth, thr, Southwest is the country's last great forest frontier. Eight great national forests in Arizona and seven great forests in New Mexico contain a total of 60 billion feet of Arizona White Pine (pinus ponderosa). The wood is very soft and fine textured, even for this species, as it grows at a very high altitude 'and has a short growing season.

The mountains of Arizona and New Mexico are said to contain the largest unbroken tract of virgin Western pine timber in the United States. The Arizona forests are the Apache, Coconino, Coronado, Crook, Kaibab, Prescott, Sitgreaves, Tonto, Tusayan, and the New Mexico National Forests are the Carson, Datil, Gala, Lincoln, (Continued on Page 30)

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Santa Fe and Coronado. The mills contract for the timber from the government in blocks of several hundred million feet at a time and these contracts are extended from decade to decade. '

True_ forest preservation and conservation is being prac- ticed throughout these forests, as only the trees-which are ready for cutting are logged. Every tree is selected by men in the government forest service before it is cut. In this way the mills of these forests are assured of a sustained-yield, a continuous supply of the forest timber and a perpetual-operation.

Three timber crops are growing at the present time. One ready for .cutting at the present time; a second, sixty- five years in age which will be ready in another half century; and a third crop five to ten years in age. Natural reforestation is going on all the time under the watchful care of government forest service men, so, barring disastrous fires, a perpetual supply is doubly assured.

Up to a few years ago, this great forest frontier was scarcely tapped. True, three or four fair sized mills were operating in the two states, but even as late as 1924 forests will total a half billion feet. which is the full amount that may be cut under best forest practice.

The Mills and personalities making up the group behind the Southwest Lumber Sales Corporation have a varied and extremely interesting history.

The mill at Flagstaff, Arizona, is the oldest mill in the group. It was taken over from the Flagstafi Lumber Co., by the Cady Lumber Corporation ln 1925. The capacity of the Flagstaff mill is 150,000 feet per day and besides having a lqrge planing mill and box factory in cohnection, the mill has in connection a forty-mile standard gauged logging railroad and storage capacity for ten million feet.

The Cady Lumber Corporation millat McNary, Arizona, is the largest of the group, being a three band mill with a daily capacity of three hundred fifty thousand feet. Though a comparatively new mill, in 1926 lt was completely remodelled and a battery of twenty of the most modern kilns installed, the kiln capacity being about five million feet per month. The entire town of McNary with a population of 3,500 is the property of Cady Corporation and in addition to the 75 mile Apache Railway, the government reports show but two hundred fiftv million tolel production in the entire region.

. There was a very good reasonlor the condition, as the bulk of these great forests are in mountainous districts far back from the railroads, and inaccessible without enormous investments in railroad construction to the timber.

However,.during the past few years the Cady ihterests, the Porter interests, the Breece -interests, "nd th. Rio.dan interests have, at great cost, construited railroads to tap_ this timber at several strategic points, and it is now estimated that the 1928 produclion- of lumber .on these corporation owns fifty miles of logging railroad in connection with the McNary plant.

The White Pine Lumber Co., mill at Bernalillo is the New Mexico operation in the group. This strictly m;odern brand new plant has a daily capacity of 200,00O feet and like McNary, a town of its own and 55 miles of standard guaged. railway tapping the company's ow'n timber land. The company owns several hundred millioh feet of timber, with large quantities of g'overnment timber tributary

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