Constru ction B e gun on Longview Docks

about fifty miles from the Pacific Ocean, is expected toq become one of the largest ports on the Pacific coast.

The progranr, calli for-the ultimate construction of three export,docks, each with a berthing length of 1,800 feet and each 350 feet in width.

The first unit, now under construction. which will serve the west fir unit of 'Ihe Long-Bell Lumber Company,s lumber manufacturing plants, is rising rapidly. 11 will have a berthing lengih-of 1,8ffi feet indwiti Ue of the 1re-av-iest tyqe of dock construction, being designed to carry 1,000 pounds per square foot. The dock will have both shipside and inshore railroad tracks.

Lumber rvill ,be handled, on the docks entirely by elec- tricity. Traveling hammer head electric cranes, fifiy feet in height having a working radius of 100 feet, will liand'le all the lumber as it is received from the mills and will also serve the ocean vessels moored at the docks.

Construction of immense docks on the Colurdbia River, at,the new ind-ustrial city of Longview, \Mash., is now under way. The dock section will be one of the largest undertakings on the Longview project, for the city, located

There will be a minimum of thirty-five feet of water at the face of the dock at the lowest stage of th( Colum'bia River. The largest steamships now entering' the river draw 27 feet of water when loaded to capacity. The Co lumbia River is 2,80O feet wide at this point, which is ample space for ocean.going vessels to turd around in. Another advantage of the Longview harbor is the fact that it is at tidewater, making it particularly desirable as a stopping place for vessels after their cruise through salt water.

The export dock, now under constructiqn, will have a storage capacity of forty-five million feet of lumber and sufficient berthing 'length to accommodate four 12,ffi dead-weight ton vessels at one time, the largest vessels now making this harbor a port of call.

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Some idea of the immensity of this project is shown by the fact that the unit now being built will require approximately 6,300 piling, @ to 110 feet long, four million feet of lurd,ber, 30,000 cubic yards of rock rip-rap and a half million cutbic yards of hydraulic sand fill.

The first unit is expected to be com.pleted within from six to eight months at which time the west fir unit of the Long-Bell mills will probably be ready for operation. At present four huge pile driving rigs and two rigs for the sinking of submerged bu{kheads are busy on the site an,C a 30-inc6 suction dredge is engaged in the work of filling.

Longview has received cargo ffom ocean-going vessels for the'last year at a temporary dock, near the site chosen for the permanent docks. Railroad tracks have been laid to this dock, making it possible for trains to transport construction materials to all parts of the city.

Howell Baker Entertains Brother

Mr. Howell Baker, of the California Panel & Veneer Company, Los Angeles, is entertaining his brother, Mr' Reid'Bafter, of SanFrancisco, who is visiting in the southern part of the state for t'wo weeks.

ir{i'. Re;a Baker, is chief engineer for the Santa Fe Railway Com'pany, and makes his headquarters in the northern city.

Oak Lumber Duty Dispute Resumed

A ten-year fight waged by importers for the reduction of duty on plain Jawn oit tum'Uef was resumed, recently before ;ud!'e William Adarnson of the United States Appraisirs'-Court at the custom house, San Francisco.

' Importers are chiefly Pacific Coast dealers engaged in the Oriental timber trahe, who say plain sawn oak lurdber, now under a 10 per cent tariff, should bet regarded as common lumber at 3 per cent.

The im.porters and the Government have fought over the question of these duties for ten years.

HENRY D. DAVIS LUMBER COMPANY CLOSES LOS ANGELES OFFICSS

The llenry D. Davis Lumber Company, of Portlandi has closed'the offices in the Stock Exchange Building, Los Angeles. Mr. Parcher was in charge of this Southern California Division.

JEROME C. GRIPPER GOES NORTH

Mr. Jerome C. Gripper, Los Angeles wholesaler of hardwood flooring, panels, doors, etc. is in the northwest on a business trip tliat will take him away from Los Angeles for about two weeks.

He will visit San Francisco, Portlan'd', Seattle, and numerous other lumber centers, calling on his mill connections.

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