Plon Big, New Weyerhoeuser Sowmill Fqciliries ot Roymond

Raymond, Wash. (Special)-A nerv sawmill, complete with hydraulic barker and chipping plant, will be constructed here by Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, it was announced September 15 by David M. Fisher, manager of the firm's Willapa branch.

The projected new construction will replace an existing sawmill and complement the nerv planing mill, dry kilns, storage and shipping sheds recently completed at Weyerhaeuser's lumber manufacturing center in this Willapa Harbor community. Work on the new sawmill, designed to 'cut 150,000 b.f. of lumber per shift, will begin in the next few weeks and be completed about November, 1956, according to Fisher.

"The new sawmill will replace our present, outdated, mill with a modern plant as efficient as any in the Pacific

Northwest," said Fisher. "Work on the nerv facilities rvill progress alongside the present plants to ensure a minimum loss of production time due to construction. The old sawmill will cease operation and be dismantled after the new mill is completed."

Chips to Everett, Cosmopolis Pulp Mills

Chips, manufactured from sawmill leftovers by the chipping plant, will be transported by rail to Weyerhaeuser pulp mills at Everett, and the company's newest pulp mill, presently under construction, at Cosmopolis, Wash.

"The addition of a hydraulic barker will make our sawmill leftovers-slabs, edgings and trimmer-endsbark-free and suitable for chipping," declared Fisher. "The result is better utilization-through less waste-of the forest harvest."

Except for pile-driving, sheet metal work, roofing and similar minor items, which will be accomplished under contract, the work will be done by crews hired and supervised by Weyerhaeuser Timber Company. Included in the construction work will be a log splitter for reducing oversize logs to manageable size before they enter the sawmill, a chain-type log-lift capable of lifting several logs from the pond to the log deck at one time, a Bellingham-type hydraulic log barker which can remove the bark from a 24foot log in a matter of seconds, a double-cut head rig and the 'usual sawmill machines-edgers, trimmers, gang saw and resaws, as well as a nelv green chain.