Installs Planing Mill To Give Top Service to Dealers

labor-saving features have been incorporated into this plant and good milling is done on a very reasonable basis, rvith a minimum of hand labor.

The Ed Fountain Lumber Co. consists of a partnership of Ed Fountain; Doyle Bader, who acts as sales-manager and general superintendent; Dale Burns, who operates the company's concentration yard and planing mill at Medford, Oregon; Carl Myers, who attends to the accounting and credit work, and Al Young, who is the yard superintend- ent. Five salesmen cover the Southern California dealers thoroughly on Western soft woods, which are the only items the company sells.

Most of the company's business consists of direct-car sales, from mills in Southern Oregon and Northern California to lumber dealers in the Southern California district An additional service is performed by stocking considerable quantities at the Los Angeles distribution yard, where it can be picked up on cluick notice. particular attention has been paid to producing and buying quality lumber, because experience has shown that in the long run dealers prefer it. The Douglas fir from their own planing mill at Phoenix, Oregon is carefully eased-edged, double-end trimmed and sprayed to retard stain. Special care is taken to see that the lumber is bright and in good salable condition when the dealer receives it. The salesmen's names are: Frank Bader, Lloyd Crandall, Rav Klots, Dick Lloyd and Rex Warkentine.

Resqw qnd maicher, each with its own blower system, in-Ieed, and out-feed Iccilities,

With an eye towards improving service to lumbcr deal_ ers. the Ed Fountain Lumbcr Co. has recently ir-rstallcrl a matcher, rvith sorting table, trim-sarvs, and a resau. ir.r the distribution yard at Los Angeles, located at 621g South Hooper Avenue.

A great deal of thought was given to this m..rttcr ancl Doyle Bader, one of the partners, came up u,ith thc iclea of using a partly abandoned rock bunker as a storagc bin for the sawdust and shavings. It is planned that by having ample storage space, the sawdust and shavings can be put to a useful purpose, accomplishing conservation of timler resources, and eliminating the objectionable feature of smog, which is causing so much trouble in this area.

From the pictures there can be seen a tremendous stor_ age capacity for sawdust and shavings in this old rock bunker. The material is elevatecl so that it drops bv gravity into the trucks to be hauled at convenience. Marry

New Or'egon Plywood Pkrnt

Central Oregon Plywood is the name of a new plant to manufacture Fir plywood at Oregon.

a firm building Cottage Grove,

In the Southern Oregorr area, John Kcnt and Jack Chanrberlain assist Dale Burns rvitl-r the buying.

Veneer Plqnt Joins Sawmill

The Ilolt l-umber Company, Creswell, Oregon, operators of a sawmill at that point, have installed a new green veneer plant in their mill. Harry Holt heads the concern.