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Here are three clear and beautiful pictures showing the modern methods of timber-felling in use by the crew of the Associated Lumber & Box Company, at Sandy Gulch, near West Point, in Calaveras County, California. (For these pictures and the following facts THE CALIFORNIA LUMean MpifCHANT is indebted to Jerry Arends, of San Francisco.), View No. 1 shows a pair of expert timber sawyers starting the cut of a big Ponderosa tree with a Mercury Disston power sa1v. View No. 2 shows the tree starting its fall. View No. 3 shows these men using the same power saw for "bucking" the fallen tree into logs 32 feet in length, for transportation to the mill at Sandy Gulch. These are the clearest and best pictures of these operations that have come to our desk, and show the progress that has been made in Pine logging in California.

The Sandy Gulch mill, near West Point, is the latest and most modern sarvmill plant to be built in Calaveras County. Here is a brief description of the equipment of the mill. All electrical equipment and power. Nine foot Allis-Chalmers band mill. All steel carriage with Trout set-rvorks and Martin air-dogs. Fourteen inch shotgun feed carriage. Hill nigger and log-kicker. 84 inch vertical resaw with merry' go-round. 72 inch edger. Four boilers fueled with sawdust and hog fuel. 130 foot stack. Tu'o acre log pond holding one million feet of logs. Log hauling is by truck. The package system is used throughout the mill and plant. Lumber is hauled from the green-chain to a stacker where it is made into packages, transported to the yard by carriers, and lifted into piles for seasoning, by lift trucks.

' A new town named Wilseyville was built to house the 125 employes of the Associated Lumber & Box Company at this mill. The houses are equipped with every modern con- venience, and in addition there is a company rooming house and store. Howard Blagen is Resident Manager of this plant. He majored in engineering and surveying in college, since which time he has been an active sawmill executive. He was sales manager for the Blagen Lumber Company at Cal-Pine before they built this Sandy Gulch plant, and is responsible for many of the modern innovations used in the new mill. Lawrence Wilsey, well knowtr for 25 years in the West Coast lumber and box shook industry, is superintendent. Lonnie Hertzig, expert mill builder, built the mill. H. S. Albertson is sawmill superintendent. John Parmeter is woods superintendent. J. D. Conger runs the lumber yard. H. F. Warren is sawyer.

The Sandy Gulch mill has been in operation just a year and a half and is considered one of the most modern and efficient to be found anvwhere.

Above: View No. I

Below: View No.3

Specker at Chamber oI Commerce Meeting

Lemoyne Blanchard, Blanchard Lumber Company, North Hollywood, and chairman of the Los Angeles County Housing Committee, was the speaker at the annual dinner meeting of the North Hollywood Junior Chamber of Commerce Thursday evening, June 27. He talked on the lumber situation, and also told of his recent trip to Washington, D.C., in the interests of the Los Angeles County Housing Committee.

Opens New Store crnd Olfice Building

The Prescott Lumber Company, Sanger, Calif., recently opened a new store and office building wh.ich is of concrete and brick construction with a main floor 50 by 100 feet. Modern merchandising rooms are located on the mezzanine floor. E. I\f. Prescott is president of the company, and his son, Kenneth, who is receiving his discharge from the Navy, will be associated with the firm in September.

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