Bridge Lumber Co. Begins Op"rations

automatic trirnmer, band resaw, planer, and a live roll system and transfers.

The mill is expected to cut 75,000 feet each eight-hour shift and will employ about 75 men on its two-shift operations with another 75 or 80 woodsmen furnishing the logs. The log pond has a capacity of about three million feet of logs.

The burner is 60 feet in diameter at the base and reaches 104 feet to the top of the cinder protection screen. The dust collecting and blower system are of the latest design and an automatic sprinkler system has been installed.

The ofificers of the Bridge Lumber Co. are Edrvard Anderson, Olympia, Wash., president and director; Thomas I. Evans, Olympia, Wash., vice-president and director; C. A. Manschreck, Reedsport, Oregon, secretary-treasurer, director and manager; Karl Anderson, Olympia, Wash., and Ed Pratt, Woodland, Wash., directors.

The mechanical staff includes Victor Wickstrom, superintendent of construction; W. E. DeWitt, mill superintendent; Joe E, Anderson, yard foreman.

Roger Jayne is in charge of the sales.

The mill was designed by Carl S. Sundborn of Seattle. The mill building rvas built by Tom Lillebo, Reedsport, contractor.

Lumbermen's Hi-Jinks December 5

The Lumbermen's Hi-Jinks, sPonsored by Lumbermen's Post No. 403 of the American Legion, will be held at the Royal Palms Hotel, 36O Soutlt Westlake Ave., Los Angeles, FridaY evening, December 5, 1941. A sPeature will be the floor show, and the committee states that the show will be bigger and better than ever' The HiJinks is very popular with the lumber fraternity and there is always a large turnout. It is expected that lurnbermen from all sections of Southern California will be present'

The Arrangements Committee includes: Lloyd Cole, Hammond Redwood Company; Louis Fox, Blue Diamond Corporation; Russell Gheen, C' D. Johnson Lumber Corporation; Leo Hubbard, Hayward Lumber & Investment Co.; P. T. Lyons, Hayward Lumber & Investment Co'; William McCullough, McCullough Roofing Co.; D. J' MacDougall, MacDougall Door & Plyw'ood Co.; J. W. Mcleod, Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Inc.; George Melville' South Sound Lumber Sales, Inc.; Stanley Moore, Fir-Tex of Southern California; Val Nygaard, Blue Diamond Corporation; Carl Schreiber, Northwestern Mutual Fire Association; Theodore Stearns, Hayward Lumber & Investment Co.; E' M' Taenzer, American Hardwood Co'; Andrew Foster, California Portland Cement Co.; Waldo Gillette, Monolith Portland Cement Co.; M. A. Alexander, Paramount Pictures. Inc.; Fred Morehouse, Anglo California Lumber Co., and Stuart Smith, Fountain-Smith'

Tickets, which include dinner and the floor show, are $2.50 each, and can be purchased from members of the Committee.

"Tall Timber"-- New Boolc bv Stewart Holbrook

Washington, Oct. 18.-Reader's Digest for October says that Stewart Holbrook was still a Vermont school boy r,vhen he got his first job in a lumber camp and took part in river drives. The Digest editor makes this remark as a foot note to Mr. Holbrook's interesting article on the Forest Products Laboratory-"Jhs World's Greatest Wood Magicians"-in the pocket magazine's October number.

Since his log-driving days, Mr. Holbrook has followecl the path of the lumberman across the Middle States from Maine to the far side of the Cascades, and has turned from lumberjack to the Nation's leading literary interpreter oI the lumberjack-new and old.

His latest book, published within the last month by the MacMillan Company, is "Tall Timber"-a natural history of the American lumberjack and his industry, prepared for school use as a sequel to "Holy Old Mackinaw"-a gsneral-circulation history published several years ago.

"Tall Timber" will make interesting reading for any lumber man . as well as the general public, which has already published all of the first editions, proving that there is much general interest in America's forests. The book is available at all book stores-($l.50) or can be obtained direct from MacMillan Company, New York City.

O. V. WILSON VISITS ALASKA

O. V. Wilson of Central Lumber Company, Stockton, recently returned from a 3o-day trip to the Pacific Northrvest and Alaska. He called on friends at Portland and Seattle and macle the Alaska trip on the Canadian Pacific steamer Princess Charlotte, the last voyage of the season. He visited Juneau, Sitka and Skagway and was interested in looking over various defense projects at Juneau and Sitka.

From Skagway he went inland for 100 miles by narro\\'gauge railroad to Carcross and from there took a lake boat trip on Lake West Taku Arm, spending two days and a night on the boat. This is a splendid side trip, according to Mr. Wilson. who recommends a visit to Alaska to those who want something different in the u'ay of a vacatiou.