Thriving Retqil 'Cqrgo Yqrd' Finds the Formulo

With the recent Hubbard & Johnson Lumber Co. headquarters sl"rift fronr Nlountain View to its Port of Redwoocl City yard, r\''e are reminded of the popular TV slogan, "They said it couldn't be done."

Hubbard & Johnson established wl.rat is still the only cargo operatior.r in tl-re S. F. Bay area at the Port of Redwood City back in December '57 amid a good deal of speculatior.r and a "time-r,vill-tell" attitude from rnany quarters of the local inclustry.

But "time HAS told" and, indeecl, the Port of Redn'oocl City installation (formerly yard 4') is now not only a thriving cargo yard but also heaclcluarters for the cotnpany's whole Nortl-rern California operation, which also ir.rcludes yards at Monntain View and Los Gatos.

The first shipment to what was then clubbed "Yarcl 4" arrived aboarcl the Alaska Cedar on December 26, 1957 (CLM 1/15/58) ar.rd the cargo, from Crescent City, tallied out to just a little better than 2l million board feet.

Since that first shipment, more than 75 million boar<l feet of Douglas fir cargo has passed over the clock and through the yard-a pretty convincing statistic in itself, except that this figure cloesn't even inclucle a whopping big rail ancl truck-ancl-trailer volume in the other iten.rs stockecl at the yard, including DFPA-gradecl plywoocls, all popular items in redr,r'ood, western red cedar and K. D. ponderosa pine.

Originally, rn'ith no more than four acres of relatively urrimproved land, Owners Bud Hubbard and Chet Johnson, along'ivith general manager Bill \Alray, have developed the operation ir.rto a first-class, 10-acre conceutration yarcl, completely paved ancl sporting a unique company-cleveloped "roller conveyor" system for dock-to-yard discl-rarge, still the only such lumber conveyor system of its kincl ir-r operation on tl.re West Coast.

Along u'ith general yard improvement, Hubbard & Johnson recently completed a brancl-new 15,000-sc1. ft. remanufacturing plant for added cortverrience arrcl service to its u'holesale customers in the Bay area ancl Peninsula. Plant capacity is 80,000 bm per shift and facilities include a

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