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P'ACIFIC LUMB'ER COMP'ANY.-
County, California, in the Heart of the Redwoods.
The dry sheds at Scotia hold about 20,000,000 feet of lumber, and they carry in the big yards from 80,000,000 to 100,000,000 feet of stock.
The lunrber is handled by a great monorail and crane system rvhich feaches every part of the sheds and yard.. and the hahdling of the stock is done as efficiently and systematically and economically as human ingenuity can arrange with every powerful facility for so doing. Great economies in production costs have been worked out by the thorough power system of handling lumber in every part of the plant.
They operate 28 patented Leaver dry kihls,at Scotia, this being a system devised and originated at:this plant, and they put over five million feet a month through these kilns.
Scotia has rail connection with every part of the United States and does a rail business of unusually large volume. They maintain salesmen all over the lumber consuming districts of the United States.
They also have the finest possible water shipping facilities. At Field's Landing on Humboldt Bay, thirty miles from Scotia, they own and operate their own lumber shipping deep water docks, with thoroughly modern shipping eguipment, big cranes, etc. Here they frequently load several ocean going lumber vessels at the same time, shipping in this way to California ports and to the Atla.ntic seaboard.
At Scotia they conduct for the use of their employees a well equipped club house, a movie theater, an excellent hotel, a bank and many other general conveniences.
The Scotia plant operates on a single shift basis, 9 hours to the shift.
The timber holdings of the Pacific Lumber Company wiil enable them to operate this big two sawmill plant for more than a generation to come.
At Scotia lives the executive vice president of the pacific Lumber Company, Mr. A. S. ("Stan") Murphy.
The resident manager of the Scotia operation isMr. E. E. ("Eddiel') Yoder.
Mr. Herbert Class is superintendent of production for both mills.
Mr. Louis Malone is superintendent of distribution for both mills.
I\{r. R. C. ("Rich") Richardson is logging superintendent for both mills.
At San Francisco, where spacious and beautiful oftices done in Redwood are sustained, the one and only p. C. ("Pete") McNevin is in charge. He looks after all the selling at home and abroad.
Mr. Hamilton is his right hand man, handling the sales in the domestic field.
Mr. Al. Nolan looks after the export sales under IVIr. IvIcNevin.
All sales in the east are handled through a subsidiary corporation, the Pacific Lumber Company of lliinois, with offices in the McCormick Building in Chicago.
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