Plant

at 'Westwood under the direction of ith, General Sales N{anager, who has

Mr. R. S. Pershing as his assistant. In addition, they operate sal'es offices at San Francisco, I-os Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis, with large distributing yards and warehouses at Los Angeles and Minneapolis. At Los Angeles the plant is a big rvarehouse and windorv assembling plant which has been reviewed in these columns before.

These men all think, talk, dream and sell-California Pine. It is their religion, and when you talk to any of them, singly or in groups, you rvill gather that this great lvood was placed in the favored spot of th,e favored state of the country, to be madeinto literally thousands of usable things, for the world at large.

Their timber is truly beautiful to look at. Probably no larger than that owned by other California Pine mills, maybe no better in textur,e or grade, but nevertheless beautiful.

They own a vast quantity of acreage, all located in Lassen and Plumas Counties, and as other Pine men are now figuring, do not compute their holdings in numbers. o{ years'iut, but rather in footageof the present standing timber. Pine men in California have definitely established the perpetual operation idea, on the basis of the new growth furnlshing tre'ei and logs for all generations to come, right on the land that they are now logging.

Their logging operations are capably handled by a veteran in the game, Mr. Ted Wills.

Use Caterpillars

Without a doubt, the high-light ofthis story, and that of most of the Pine mill stories to follow, is the general use of tractors, in the ryesd5-"Qats", as they call them.

the cars, in a fraction of the time formerly consumed, at a less expense, according to their statisticians.

and

One of the four banils.

These mighty pieces of mechanism have practically displaced the faithful horse, who, for so many years, pulled the bucked Pine logs to the cars, swung between great "High wheels."

Now they lift their logs, pneumatically, chain them up between steel wheels of great h'eight, and carry them to

The accompanying pictures tell a much more graphic story of this part of the operation than could rvords.

These "Cats" come in various sizes, equipped to carry almost any believable load, bucking the grades and the ruts of the mountains. Red River has, at the pr'esent time, thirty-eight of these Best and Holt Caterpillars at work in their woods, all equipped with the necessary "high wheels", and they are probably the largest users of this kind of machinery, anyr,vhere in the world.

According to Mr. Wills and other oflicials of the company, Caterpillars have been firmly establishecl in the Pin'e business. They are practical, economical and have enabled the operators to increase their outputs.

Their logs are brought from the rvoods on their own standard gauge railroad, equipped in the most modern manner, and with standard equipment throughout. A. recent addition to this is a mighty Diesel motored, oil ioccmotive, weighing in the neighborhood of one thousand tons, and put into service for hauling the log trains.

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Red River Lumber

The sar'vrnill plant cut jtlst a fraction over i60,000,000 feet in 1925. The mill proper is ecluipped with four band head rigs, single cutting, trvo resaws and three double

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and seventy-nin,e electric motors, use them all day, in different parts of the various plants.

Twenty-four kilns take care of their drying requirements, modern drying apparattls that is under the direct charge of Mr. Walter Luff, Plant Superintendent.

An interesting feature of the Red River operation is their plan of winter storage of logs, mighty "decks" that are piled all through the summer and fall, enough to insure their continuous operation throttghout the rvinter, rvhetr the men have come in from the woods. Last year they stored better than sixty million feet in two of these piles, enough to run the plant from November to Mar-, the usttal shut-down period.

edgers, all operating on steam and electric power. The mill is lhoroughly modern, completely protected. by a sprinkler system, and-well set up to handle the specially large--logs tfiat they are bringing in at the present tim'e. Mr. Ervie Ferris is sawmill superintendent.

Then there is the Box Factory, a city in itself, the Planing Mill, also a huge operation; the Veneer Plant and the Door Factory.

An idea oi the size of Westrvood might be gained through the interesting thought that they use nine hundred