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Kirby Finishing Huge Yellow Pine Sowmill

The Kirby Lumber Corporation, of Houston, Texas, is finishing construction of the biggest, n-rost modern, electrically driven Southern Pine sarvmill ever constructed. It rvill be ready for operations about February 1955. H. E. Bovay, Jr., of Houston, rvith his force of consulting engineers, is in charge of construction. J. K. Herndorr, vice-president of the Kirby Lumber Corporation. is head of the construction enterprise. The mill is located at Silsbee, Texas, and will replace five Kirby san,mills of smaller caliber. It rvill be one of the most thoroughly planned and engineered sarvmills ever built.

It u.ill manufacture 75,000,0OO feet of Southern Pine lumber annually. The sau'mill is equipped u'ith four double-cutting bandmills, 3 multiple sau' trimmers, 3 eclgers, an 8-foot horizontal resaw, a 54-inch vertical band rip-sar',', a timl;er butting sa\\', a timber sizer, a huge hog for handling mill u.aste, a chipper and screens.

The plant in general is equipped rvith: 11 latest type Moore dry kilns each 120 feet long; barkers for removing the bark from ali logs before manufacture ; an enormous power plant, u'ith tire fuel being mec^ranically handlecl; Iilectric motor-driven air compressors {or supplying air to the plant's many kickers and operating clevices; 2 storage poncls holding 5 million feet of logs;2 giant cooling sheds; a gigantic planing nill and remanuf acturing plant; sheds of 20,000,000-foot capacity to house the rough and finished lumber. Every department of the plant is equipped and operated by all the modern mechar-rical devices kno'uvn to sau'mill science. Nothing is done by hand that car-r be done by machinery.

Back of this mill there is a I'ine forest covering 550,000 acres. r,hich is estimated to be grolving trees faster than the big mill can cut, and u.ill furnish a permanent suDply of timber for the sarvs.

New Olds Bros. Yqrd Going Up

The nerv Olds Brothers Lumber Company yard in Winslon'. Arizona, is rapidly being completed at Third and Kinsley, said Walter Olds. The pioneer \Arinslou' lumberyard rvas rushing ,completion of a $60,@0 l>uilding to replace the one destroyed by fire June 17.

I\{embers of the firm drerv plans for the 15Ox140' building, using the old store as a base for the up-to-date neiv one. Walls rvill be cement brick and the store .w'i11 be s.:t back 30 feet to help eliminate parking congestion. The retail store ll'ill be 38'x110' and the remainder used for storage and carpenter shop. Olds Brothers will continue to retail hardware, paints and appliances in addition tir lumber and building materials.

Denny-New River Bridge Burns

Lumber operators and residents of the Denny-New River area in Trinity county face either winter-long isolation or suspension of operations after a fire late in August destroyed the only wet-u'eather bridge in the area at Harvkins Bar. E,mergency federal aid .rvas being sought, reported the Eureka Independent.