Coos. Bay Lumber Co. Issues / Artistic Booklet

,The Coos Bay Lumber Company has recently published and sent to all their customers and stockholders a most handsome booklet describing the company's operations. The information contained in this booklet was compiled by H. W. Bunker, president of the company. Printed on the highest grade of art paper the booklet contains a most interesting story of this large lumber operation. Photographs of the logging camps, the sawmill, the company's steamers, the big Bay Point plant, with its up-to-date lumber handling equipment, are splendidly reproduced throughout its pages.

Among the interesting figures given are the following: The company owns 80,000 acres of timber, estimated to contain 4,500,000,000 board feet of merchantable timber; the logging equipment includes many steam, gasoline and Diesel logging engines, and the railroad has 85 miles of track, 250 railway cars and 12 locomotives; the plant at Marshfield is t.he largest single sawmill ever built, and it produces over 65O,0OO feet in one eight-hour shift; normally 1100 men are employed, in addition to steamer crews, office and sales forces; an inventory of about 20,000,000 feet of lumber is customarily carried at the Bay Point yard.