Oakland Milf Celebrates 65th Anniversary

Eastshore Lumber & Mill Companv, Oakland, California, producer of "Elmco" Brand redrvood and douglas fir products and formerly operating under the name of The Pa,cific Tank & Pipe Company, is today celebrating its 65th year of business life. This pioneer California firm began manufacturing redu'ood tanks, pipe and similar products in the year 1888. at the same location "Elmco's" modern mill stands today. Through the years, the firm has gradually discontinued the production of redwood tanks and pipe and geared its manufacturing facilities to the production of standard lumber products for the distribution to retail lumber yards and wholesalers under the name of Eastshore Lumber & Mill Company. These changes, however, did in no \\'ay alter the basic policy of the company to prt.rduce a continuously improved product for the benefit anci service of its customers.

A fel'v years after World War II, Eastshore Lumber & Mill Company underlvent an extensive modernizatton program. The management of "Elmco" toured the Pacific Northwest gathering ideas for the modernization of their mill in Oakland. The materialization of these ideas, coupled with the purchase of several new production machines. installation of modern dry kilns with capacity of 400,000 feet BM per charge, the expansion of yard facilities for pre-air drying prior to kiln drying, and the erection of a TGfoot burner, narre ..rotded the "E,lmco" mill into one of the most efficient, compact plants of its type on the West Coast. The mill is now able to handle, through 6 production machines, 21O,UJO {eet BM per S-hour shift. They consistently maintain a well diversified inventory of over 5,000,000 feet BM of upper grade California red'ivood and douglas fir. rvhich together rvith a good stock of other yard items, would represent practically all retail yard needs-ready for immediate shipment by rail, or by the company's ou.n fleet of trucks. A rapidily grorving part of the business is the kiln driecl redwood bevel sicling and finish, largely marketed in the East and Middle \Vest under the "Elmco" brand name. In addition to standard inventory items, "Elmco" maintains a large stock of "unitized" packages of r.arious grades and sizes of pickup items, therefore making it possible to service retail yards on very short notice. "Elmco" is fully equipped rvith the latest milled-to-pattern knives to furnish all standard redwood and douglas fir patterns.

In addition to lumber produced in "Elmco's" Oakland mill, they are also the exclusive mill agents for several sawmills, rvhose products they ship direct to the purchaser. The latter f unction completes the 3-in-1 operation of "Elmco," namely as the producing sawmill, the established Wholesaler, arid the \\rholesale Lumber Distributor, maintaining a large inventory and complete manufacturing facilities close to the consuming market.

MANAGERIAT CONIROI of "Elmco" is in the honds of H. A. (Herb) Tildesley, owner, who storted his lumber cqreer qt lhis some mill twenty-four yeors ogo.

SATES DEPARTMENT is monoged by C. E. (Chuck) Johnson, formerly the Soles Monoger of A. K. Wilson Compony of Compton, Colifornio. Prior to thot, he wos Assistqnt Soles Monoger of Southwest Lumber Mills, Inc., oi Phoenix, Arizono. Chuck is well experienced in cqrlood shipments to the Mid-Wesi ond ihe Eost, ond hos o wide ocquoinionce in those morkets.

SAIES TO CALIFORNIA RETAII YARDS ore under the Direction of A. D. (Arr) Evons, formerly Soles Monoger of rhe [umber Division for Roddiscroft, Inc., Sqn Froncisco. Prior io his ossociotion wirh Roddiscrofr, Art monoged the lumber Division of Americon Foctors, Ltd., ot Honolulu, ond before thqi wqs with the Diomond Motch Compony lor 17 yeors, the lotter port of those yeors locoted ot Chico os Diomond's Purchosing Agent.

Here is q pockoge of "Elmco" produced, precision trimmed Douglos Fir Studs interlocked ond steel bonded to permit rolling off o lumber truck without domoge lo lhe pockoge. Note pockoge remqins intqct even though slocker hqs lifted extreme end off ground.

Ptecision Milling is mode possible by newly equipped tool-room in chorge of El Borgogliotfi (left) ond Mechonicol skill of Perry Arnold (righr) Mointenqnce Superintendeni, formerly serving in the some copocity for 9 yeors ot lhe Yosemile Iumber Compony sowmill in Moriposo County. Previously, Perry hqd been Mqintenqnce 5uperivsor or lhe Pinedqle Lumber Compony sowmill in Fresno, for mony yeors.

High-Speed, economicol milling is performed by the lotest Yqtes-Americon oll electric mqtcher in chorge of Mel Moen, formerly Ploning Mill Superintendent ot the E. K. Wood Iumber Compony mill ot Reedsport, Oregon. (5ee next poge)

Conlinuous, uninterrupted operolion is mqde possible by the Stetson-Ross tilting unlooder (bockground) ond olher mochinery which outomoticolly hondles lumber ot o soving in mon power to ond from the production mochines. Chorlie Joehnig, Generol Yord Superintendent, ir foreground. Chorlie hos been with "Elmco" since 1949, ond f ormerly wos with The Pocifi< Lumber Compony ot Scotio"

Multiple Milling is performed by this resow mqtcher combinotion which converts o single rough boord into two pieces of finshed Bevel Siding or T & G flooring in one operotion. Mochine is in <horge of Joe Ferreiro (left) on empfoyee of "Elmco" for the post 30 yeor:.

Coreful inspection by Bud E. Worrell (left), Groding 5uperintendent, qssures the uniform quolity of "Elmco" Brond Kiln Dried Redwood 5idin9 & Finish. Unril recently, he wos Superintendent of oll green choin groders ot Pocific Iumber Co., Mill "B," 5cotio, Colif., hoving been in their employ conlinuously for the post 20 yeors. During thot rime, Bud olso tought groding under lhe supervision of the Colifornio Redwood Associotion.

Moin choin receives finished lumber from six production mqchines qt the rote of 250,000 BM per shift. Note this unique twin <hoin conveys lumber of mony sizes ond polterns, dischorged on both sides.

"Unirized" pockoges of Redwood Guller, vorious sizes ond Pqllerns, ore individuolly rocked to ovoid domoge. The 70 foot burner in bockground wos instolled by Colifornio Centrol Blow Pipe Co.

Operotion of the new gos fired Dry Kilns is in the expert honds of Morton B. (Morr) 5mith, q registered Mechonicql Engineer, ond formerly Monoging Direcfor of the Cooling Tower Instituie, represenling q group of the lorgest industriol users of redwood in the U.5. Prior to ihot ossociotion, Mort wos Chief Engineer of the Technicql Division of Hommond Lumber Compony, where he directed exlensive reseorch in the drying of redwood.

Held Open House

E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Whittier, held an open house on Saturday, December 5, from 8:00 a.m. to l2 noor.r, rvhen Harry Abby, field representative for the California Hardware Co., demonstrated the line of Delta Home Craft Porver Tools. Refreshments were served. E. K. Bradfield is manager of E. K. Wood's Whittier yard.

Nomed Yqrd Monoger

After spending six montl-rs in Honolulu as sttperintendent of the Vinnel Corporation, James L. Froggatt l.ras returned to California and has been named manager of the Paso Robles Lumber Co., a subsidiary of the Homer T. Hayrvard Lumber Co. in Paso Robles. Before going to Honolulu, he was assistant manager of the Hayward yard in N{orro Bay.

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Vqcqville Lumber Co. Open for Business

Vacaville Lumber Company has oper,ed for business at Mason and McClellan Streets, \racalille. Calif., where they rvill carry a complete line of lumber and building materials. The partners in the business are lohn ^[. Zazrtvy and John A. McBride. They plan to hold operr house early in January. Both men have been associated Nith the retail lumber business for many years, Mr. Ztrzriry was a former branch manager for the Southen-r Pacific Milling Co., Santa Barbara, and Mr. NIcBride rt'as assistant manager of the Davis Lumber Co.. Davis.

Roy Stanton, Sr., E. J. Stanton & Son, Inc., Los Angeles, has joined Rotary to round out his service club activities.

Westhord Appointed Sqles Agents for Atlqntic

J. R. Jelleme, vice president in charge of sales for The Atlantic Lumber Company of Boston, Mass., announced upon his return to Boston from California that Westhard Importing Company, 552 Old Dock Street, Terminal Island, California, nov,r has the exclusive sale of Atlantic lumber in thc area from San Francisco to San Diego. \Aresthard's president, the popular Frank Connolly, and Sterling Stofle, Westhard's genial vice-president, along with Phillip Latasa and Herbert Coffey, will supervise the sale and distribution of Atlantic's lumber throughout California."'

Wirh Eckslrom Plywood & Door Co.

Ted Back has joined the sales staff of Eckstrom Plywood and Door Co., Los Angeles. He spent 22 years rvith Back Panel Company in charge of general sales and promotion for that organization rvhich discontinued business the end of 1953. Ted will cover the Southern California territory for Eckstrom calling on retail lumber dealers and industrials trade.

Hinckley'Advertises In "Frtrrin" Longuoges

Dwight Hinckley, r.eteran'n'holesale lumberman, of Cincinnati, Ohio. ran an ad recently in "Wood Construction" that n.as interesting and unttsual. Large type announced that they could furnish the following rvoods, and carried them in stock, such as Quercus -A.lba, Juglans Nigra, Thuga Plicata, Picea Sitschensis, Pinus Lambertiana, Sequoia Sempervirens. Pseudotsuga Tztxifolia, Liriodendron Tulipfera. and Liquidambar Styraciflua.

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Read like they carried a iot of very mysterious stocks. But then, in the back of that same magazine they published the key to the list, and gave the common names of these strange sounding woods. This is rvhat thev \vere; (Start rvith Quercus Alba) White Oak, Black Walnut, Red Cedar, Sitka Spruce. Sugar Pine, Redu,ood. Douglas Fir. Poplar, Recl Gum.