THE PACIFIC LUMBER COMPANY

Great Redwood Manufacturing Plant of Pacific Lumber Company at Scotia, Cal.

HE biggest Redwood manufacturing plant on earth is that of the Pacific Lumber Company at Scotia, California. Scotia is located in Humboldt county, 30 miles south of Eureka, and the Humboldt Bay Harbor, and 265 miles north of San Francisco. It is on the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, and the whole town of Scotia is the Pacific Lumber Company property.

The Pacific Lumber Company is one of the oldest concerns in the Redwood business, having been first organized in February, 1869. It has today a capital stock of $12,500,000, and owns a tremendous acreage of Redwood timber.

There are two very large sawmill units in the Scotia plant, located at opposite ends of the same huge log pond, in which there is ampie log storage room for many days' run for both mills.

Mill A is equipped with three band headrigs and a Wickes Gang of very large caliber. 'fhis entire mill is electrically equipped and each machine is driven by an individual motor. They manufacture an average of. 225,M feet of Redrvood lumber in this mill in a single shift operation. In connection with mill there is a small re-manufacturing plant.

Mill B is the larger mill of the two, the largest single unit sawmill in the Redwood area. It is equipped with four band headrigs under one roof, and a horizontal resaw. This sawmill is steam driven, the headrigs being driven by shotgun feed, and they manufacture an average of 275,000 feet of Redwood lumber daily. The combined capacity of the two mills runs over 150,000,000 feet of lumber annually.

With Mill B they operate a very large and splendidly equipped re-manufacturing plant, planing mill and factory, that covers five acres of ground. Here they turn their Redrvood lumber into a variety of commodities such as mouldings, balisters, guttels, newels, billboard stock, columns, casket stock, casket boxes, incubator stock, tank stock, kitchen cabinet stock, window and door frames, chests, ice cream cabinets, refrigerator stock, flooring blocks, etc.