Fairhurst Op"ns N"w Push-Button Mill

New One Mon Mill Cuts Cants for Adloinins Mill. Giant Lift Truck Handles Logs

It Goes In Here and Comes Out Therel All the mill operotions within the compcrct building qre qulomcrtic and mechqniccrlly controlled by the sowyer. Two men opercle the cut-oll sow crt lelt crnd two men toke oll crnd stcrck conts dt right. The huge lilt truck then ccrries these conts to the cdioining planing mill, oll to the right ol this view.

'l-hc neu' arrtomutic cant nrill, recentl-v completerl bv Fairhur;t -\Iill Conrpan,v at Carlotta, C:rlif., is nou-in full oper;tiion, cutting logs into c:rnts frtr the acljoining pl:tning rr,ill.

Iirorn the morlent the log le:rves tlre cr,rt-olT sa\\-to eltter thc nrill. rrntil it c()mes out as a cltrrt, lto olle har-rclles a stick oi it. It's all rlone lr,r-one nlrn u'ith pusl.r-brrtton control s.

,\notl'rer <listinctir-e fc:rture altout the rreu- "rnill R" is thc 13iant ncn'iork lift truck l'hich easily picks rrp rrnd carrics scr-erlrl logs frorn the co1<l cleclt to the crrt-off sau'. lfhe lift truck is also userl to carry the st:rcks o[ cirnts tcr "XIill A",50 yards zr\\,a,v, u'here ther- are resau'ccl ancl planc<l irrto surface lumbcr.

Thc ncn. cant mill has a cllrilr- capacitv of .50,000 feet,

Lifts qnd Corries 2500 Feet oI Lumber. This new Ross Full Hydrculic Lilt Truck con lilt close to ten tons ol logs on its tilt lorks, cnd wclk cwcy with them as il they were srnqll sticks. Operoting the truck is Robert Bcbcock, who explcined thct lccor<ling to l,-rank Overicicr, u,ho is superintenclcnt of thc trvo atljoirring mills. l'ol-er ior thc Gunderson Brothers elcctric carriagc oi the neu mill is provi<lec'l lrv lL uen.27.5 horseporr'cr cliesel cngine ar-rci gcnerator.

San Francisco Lumbermen's CIub

CiLrl C. Clror'. I'ortlanrl publisher talkecl to the nrcnrlrers oi the the SlLn Francisco Luntlrernrcn's Clrrll at their reglllar lrrrrcheon r-r-rceting lielrruary 19. The slreaker u-lLs introclrrcccl lrr- I)ave I)avis of the [)ar-e Davis I-unrlrer Co., fornrcr presiclent of the L'lrrb. His sulrject u'as "Nen' Clrrests at the \\'cst ('oast Lunrlter Talrle." He dreu. attention to the irmotrnt of \\test Coast lumber that is non- lreing consunred in thc Southrvest arrcl Sorrth, anci said that this n.rarliet s-ill iucrcase n-ith thc frrrther depletion of Southcrn pine.