West Coast lumber wholesaler into chip export diversif ies

tTtHE JAPANESE freighter Honshu

I Maru, on her maiden voyage, was greeted by the Port of Sacramento, Calif. recently with a colorful luncheon, kimono clad waitresses and a menu in the Japanese tradition.

The occasion marked the loading of the first 12,000 ton shipment of wood chips destined for the Honshu Paper Co. of

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Tons of wood chips are destined for Asian market from western lumber firm via fabulous new loading facilities at port.

Tokyo which will be used in the manufacture of paper and paper products for con' sumption in Japan and its nearby Far East neighbors.

Key personnel of the Diamond National Corporation together with Ben Ward, manager of the export division of California Sugar & Western Pine Agency of Burlin' game, Calif., coordinated the long term wood chip export program.

California Sugar & Western Pine Agency in recent years has placed heavy em' phasis upon diversification and activities apart from the normal wholesale lumber function. The 63-year-old firm, the first to urccessfully wholesale glue laminated beams through lumber dealers, is headed by A. C. "Bo" Aherns.

The 535 foot-long vessel, constructed re' cently in Japan, will ply between the Port of Sacramento and that country, transport' ing about ten million tons of wood chips under a seven year contract with Mitsui & Co. of Tokyo, Japan's largest trading firm.

Visibly pleased with the smooth-running loading operation, Ben Ward noted that "to our knowledge we are the only lumber wholesaler in the chip business at the pres' ent time and what we are doing makes it possible for small and medium mills to get into this field."

Under the contract between Mitsui and the Port of Sacramento, the Honshu Maru will make ten round trips between Japan and Sacramento each year. This contract provides the initial tonnage justifying construction of the 3.I million dollar bulk loading facility at the port.

Ben Ward, a former lumber broker and log exporter, joined California Sugar & Western Pine about two years ago and since that time has spent the majority of his time at the port supervising develop' ment of the project and contracting supply programs with nearby sawmills.

WIIH AUI0MAIIC truck dump (top), driver merely oushes button and releases tail gate and lift does the rest. General manager Ben Ward (center) checkins with bis Wagner sco='op operator. Machines handle so-me 30 tiuck -& trailer loads of chips a day and also feed the hungry conveyors when it's-loading time. Perhaps heart of operation is transter unlt tOottom) wh'ere incoming chips from left can. be diverted to storage converter (foregroundl 0r stralgnt throush to ship-(center righ0. Lower of two con' veyori in center is loading belt.

CHIPS FLY below lef0 as the Honshu Maru, starts io tate on its first cargo of 12,000 tons of wood chios. Shioside conveyor unit (cente0 telescopes and iwivels tri allow fleiibility of loading. Note hopper in front of bridge which divides incoming chips. l0 convevor belts which run along each slde 0T snlp' Hieh ielocitv blower (righ0 "stacks" chips com-pactly in-holds. Ttie Honshu Maru's first cargo was loaded six hours ahead of schedule thanks to days 0f planning and futuristic engineering of the big 3.1 million dollar installation.

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