Pacilic Lumber Co. Buyr Dolbeer Carson

One of the most important sawmill and timber sales in ipaiifornia history was announced on December t5 in the l'-fo[owing brief manner: "A. S. Murphy, President, announced today that The Pacific l-umber Company has 'purchased the timber holdings, plant, inventory, and other ,. important assets from the individual partners of Dolbeer '. & Carson Lumber Company, and intends to continue the operation of both woods and the mill without any material ii"changes in methods of production, present personnel, wages' '' or workingconditions. The Eureka plant'will operate under I the general supervision of G. J. Manary, Manager; Scotia."

. The Pacific Lumber Company, with headquarters in San Francisco, thus assumes greatly entarged proportions in li' ttte sawmill world generally and the Redrvood industry in particular. It operates at Scotia, located close to Eureka in Humboldt County, one of the world's biggest and most modern sawmill plants, with two sawmill units each containing four headrigs, and a vast number of supplementary ' units for manufacturing and preparing for market the ' products of their Redwood forests.

It has now added through the purchase announced above, another modern Redwood sawmill, equipped with two band headrigs and all supplementary equipment including brand new dry kilns, and located on tidewater on the Eureka ocean front. The Scotia plant cuts above 100,000,000 feet of Redwood annually, and the Dolbeer Carson plant cuts 40,000,000 feet, giving Pacific a total annual production now of at least 140,000,000 feet of Redwood. The entire production is now being marketed through the sales department of the Pacific Lumber Company. The sales offices of the Dolbeer & Carson Lumber.Compairy are now being closed. A. L. Hoover Company represents Pacific Lumber Company in Southern California.

, The amount of timber involved is close to a half billion feet. In addition to the timbered land purchased the deal also included 9,000 acres of cut over land which will be used for a tree farm.

'' The Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Company started business at Eureka on April 17, 1863, and has been manufacturing and selling Redwood products continuously since that time. William Carson and John Dolbeer were the original founders of the business, but for many years pre- vious to the organization of the company, William Carson had been logging and lumbering in Humboldt County. He is reputed to have cut the first sawlog ever cut in that county in 1850.

Henry M. Hink, president and general manager of the Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Company since 1941, made formal annouhcement of the sale to the lumber world. Mr. Hink has been with the company for forty years, and is the third president of the concern in its 87 years of existence. Another veteran employee of Dolbeer & Carson is E. J.'Stewart, plant manager at Eureka, who has been with the company more than fifty years.

Indurtrirl Lumbcrmcn'g Club Meeting

The Industrial Lumbermen's Club of Southern California held a dinner meeting for salesmen and key personnel of an interesting report on the meeting held recently in St. : Louis, Mo., which was called by the Army Engineers in ' tend.

J. M. Dean, secretary-manager of the Building Material Dealers' Credit Association, Los Angeles, gave an inforrnative talk on Credits.

The Western Pine Association sound motion picture, "Harvesting Western Pines" was shown the gathering.

Scrn locquin Hoo-Hoo Club

Ladies Nigrht lcnucry l3

The January l3 meeting of San Joaquin Hoo-Hoo Cllt 11 No.31 will bethe Club's 2nd Annual Ladies Night. It will:'r.$ be held at the Sunnyside Country Club. and a big atten-:--'; dance is looked for by Willard LaFranchi, attendance "*t , r',tfi mittee chairman. r"'i,;.';l'i;'