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POSI OFFICE BOX 185 Arcota

Henry Hording Millon Briit

WEST COAST tUfiTBER, AND TNTBER, PRODUCTS

Silver Falls Timber Compcrny Mill

Prepcres lor Long LiIe

The Silver Falls Timber Company, at Silverton, Oregon, closed its big sawmill three years ago for want of timber, and supposedly closed dorvn for good. Now it is being renovated and improved and prepared for a lumber term of life.

The properties were bought early this year by the Oregon Pulp & Paper Company, of Salem, Oregon, r'vho also acquired some large stands of timber within reach of the mill. Now they are operating the sawmill while giving it a general overhauling and rebuilding. The mill is a very heavy-duty band that cuts logs up to 8O feet in length, and it used to cut about 250,000 feet of lumber in a single shift. From now on it rvill cut about 150,000 feet per shift. A new resaw is being installed, and the mill brought up to date. Paul Leadbetter is local manage:.

Housing Proiect Planned

M. Penn Phillips, president of the Omart Investment Company of Azusa, Calif., announces plans for the immediate start of a 550-unit lorv-cost housing development on the site of the old Crestmore Ranch in Bloomington. Ultimate cost'of the development may approach $5,000'000.

An initial unit of 100 homes will be erected, the rest to follow according to the rapidity of sales.

The project will include one, two and three-bedroom homes. The one-bedroom structures will sell for less than $5,000. Mr. Phillips said, while those with two bedrooms will sell for less than $6,000, and the three-bedroom units rvill be priced at under $8,000.

Dahican Lumber Compcny Formed to Build New Philippine Mcrhogcny Mill

The Dahican Lumber Company is a new corporation created by D. C. Maclea, of Baltimore, which is preparing to build a large mill in the Philippines to manufacture Philippine Mahogany. The new concern has taken over, 'ivith the permission of the Philippine government, the Dahican timber concession formerly operated by the Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Company, of Manila, before the war. The Japs took over the properties when they moved in, the mill was destroyed by fire, and now it will all be rebuilt. They have ordered machinery for a mill that should produce 22 to 28 million board feet of lumber annually. The rebuilding and re-equipping of their logging railroad system is now under way, and they expect to be shipping lumber into the United States shortly after the first of the coming year.

More New Plywood Plcrnts

Scarcely a month passes without announcement of new plywood plants coming into existence. The past twelve months has seen more new plywood plants start, than in any previous five year period.

The Hardel Plywood Company has started operations at a small new plywood plant at Olympia, Washington.

The Menasha-Coos Head Plywood Corporation announces plans for a new plywood plant to be located at North Bend, Oregon.

The U. S. Plywood Corporation has transformed its green veneer plant at Mapleton, Oregon, into a complete plvwood unit.