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Brush lndustrial Lumber Co., Division

7653 Telegnph Rd.

Montebello, cA 90640

(213) 723-3301

930 Ashby Ave.

Berkeley, CA 94710

(415) 843-4390

1576 South 300 West salt Lake city, uT 84115

(801) 484-7616

Main 0ffice

2150 Oakdale Ave. San Francisco, CA 94124

(415\ 647-0772

The latest record-wrecker is this dual barge shipment containing 8.5 million board feet of lumber. About one million feet is hemlock, the rest Douglas fir and all is framing lumber. It has already been sold through All-Coast Forest Products of Whittier, Ca., a division of Hampton Lumber Sales Co. in Portland. It will be used to build homes mainly in California, Arizona and Nevada.

The lumber is from Doman Timber Industries, Ltd., of Duncan, British Columbia, situated on Vancouver Island. It made its 1134 mile voyage from B.C.'s Cowichan Bay to the Port of Los Angeles in about 6r/z days,loaded aboard two 300'x 66' barges pulled by a lO-year old ocean-going tug. The 126' tug has 3500 brake horsepower, delivered by two engines, and is manned by a crew of nine.

The camera really doesn't do justice to the sheer size of the barges, which weigh 4100 tons empty. The carrying capacity of each of the barges shown is 9000 tons, but only 8700 tons of cargo are carried for safety reasons.

For curious and sharp eyed readers, what appears to be snow on the edge of the barge in the top left photo is in reality salt. The barges also carry bulk quantities of rock salt, some of which seems to have somehow survived a sea voyage. On this round trip, the barges were scheduled to stop in Redwood City, Ca., (near San Francisco) on their way north to pick up another load of rock salt to carry home.

Among those dockside to greet the arrival of the record shipment were Daryl Bond, the head man at All-Coast Forest Products, Capt. J. S. "Jim" Lafdk, Seaspan's asst. supervisor of vessels and traffic services who arrived from Canada to coordinate the shipping and unloading as did George Robbins of Westcan Stevedoring who flew in from Victoria, B.C. The skipper of the tug is George Hovell.

Story at a Glance

Old records tumbled as this 8.5 million foot double barge of Canadian lumber arrived in Los Angeles Harbor all framing lumber and mostly Doug fir, at will find its way into homes in at least three Western states.

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