Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company Will Manufacture 1,600,000 Feet Daily

The Chas. R. McCormick I.urnber Company, for many years a dominating force in the distribution and transportation of Douglas Fir, will, in another thirty days, become one of the outstanding factors likewise in the production of that commodity.

Within that length of time the new sawmill at Port Ludlow, Washington, will be completed and in operation. The entirely new milling plant at Port Gamble is already completed and in operation. With these two plants running night and day, as they are built and equipped to run, and the two sawmills which the company has been operating for years at St. Helens, Oregon, also running night and day, this concern immediately becomes a producing factor of huge dimensions in the Pacific Northwest.

The purchase of the milling and timber holdings of the Puget Mill Company in Washington have been several timis reviewed in these columns. They bought a billion feet of timber on the Cowlitz River not far from the junction of that'river with the Columbia. 'Ihis billion feet will give long life to the St. Helens mills, where it will be manufactured.

They bought two billion feet and two old sawmill plants up on the Peninsula, in Washington, north of Seattle and on the opposite side of Puget Sound. These two mills are located at Port Gamble and Port I-udlow, both located in beautifpl sites on Puget Sound, and some distance apart. The Port Gamble plant was old and antiquated. They tore it dowti entirely and built there a magnificent new sawmill plant. The Port Ludlow plant was equipped with two oldfashion'ed sawmills, but the remainder of the plant had recently tieen replaced with a most modern equipment of planer, sheds, kilns, re-manufacturing plant, etc. Here they tore away the two old sawmills that stood side by side, and built one big mill in their place. This will be operating in another month, and then thefirm will have all their mill units going.

At Port Ludlow, where they only rebuilt the sawmill, they installed two band headrigs, one resaw and a complete auxiliary equipment planned to cut 300,000 feet in a single shift.

At Port Gamble they installed in the sawmill two headrigs, one Pony and two resaws, and here also they plan to cut 300,000 feet in a single shift operation, or a total two shift capacity at both these plants of 1,200,000 feet a day.

At St. Helens they operate two modest sized sawmills, standing on opposite sides of the log pond from one another, and these two mills easily cut 350,000 feet in a. single shift, or 7O0,O0O feet double shift, giving the concern a mlximum daily capacity of 1,900,000 feet.

Mr. McCormick believes that they can consistently figure on nranufacturing 1,600,000 feet of lumber in their three plants, every double shift day the year around, thus putting them in the very front rank of Northwestern lumber producers.

A new installation of which Mr. McCormick is very proud is a giant Colby crane at each of their three planisf Port Ludlow, Port Gamble and St. Helens.

They have made a tremendorrs investment in logging camps and equipment in connection rvith their new mills and holdings. They have installed a camp in the Cowlitz River timber, and another camp of modest size on the Peninsula, and in addition they have built a tremendous main camp on the Peninsula which they call Camp Talbot, and which cost a million round dollars to equip. The camp is located in wonderfully scenic country, right on the State Highway, and also on the clear waters of Puget Sound. Here they have built 75 comfortable homes for their employees, and here they have installed what they claim to be the latest and best of modern logging equipment, in the shape of our new type Lidgerwood Skiddeis of great size. Each of these skidders is equipped with a'steel mast one hundred feet high, which mast takes the place of the spar tree in the regular logging operation in the Northwest. This great steel shaft is lifted erect by the power of the skidder, and is cabled in all directions just like a spar tree, and the logs are then brought right in. Each of these machines is guaranteed to skid 200,000 feet of logs daily, so that the four machines at this camp will handle 800,000 feet daily.

Both the new mills, as rvell as the St. Helens mills, are right on deep water, and the great McCormick fleet of ships will come right to the docks to load this great output of lumber for distribution all over the world. There are at the present time 36 great ships flying the McCormick flag, and hauling McCormick lumber.

Mr. McCormick believes that from now on they will be in fine position to handle rail shipments ofFir to all parts of the country in competition with the best firms of the Northwest and probably in better position than any other firm to supply the water route needs of the trade, regardless of where located.

Vastly has this McCormick organization spread. It still has itsbig California yards and distributing organization, itS big buying office in the Northwest, itsAtlantic Coast 4dvantages of distribution, and its efficient sales organization that covers the entire country, and with its great mills and fleet of lumber vessels it bids fair to write its name on the lumber horizon wherever Fir is used.

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