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Here's o Douglos Fir Whcrr Am ! DUAMOND.O> suPPw q0.
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The year was 1913, the month June, when the young chap above and Carl Davis rvere timber cruising out c-'f Marshfield, Oregon. You can imagine how their eyt:s popped lvhen they ran across this Douglas fir tree lvhich measured 13' 8" in diameter inside the bark !
Both men had been working in the rvoods for the SmithPowers Logging Co., Marshfield, Oregon, for about three years, when they discovered this giant fir u'hile timber cruising for the C. A. Smith Lumber Co., later to be knorvn as the Coos Bay Lumber Company. A ferv years after this picture was taken, Carl Davis formed a partnership rvith tl-re late Fred Powers and established the Santiam Lumber Company.
The fellow in the picture above originally graduated from the Biltmore Forestry School, and after three years rvith the Smith-Porvers operation, r,nu'ent to Ray Point (now Port Chicago, California) rvith the Smith Lumber Company. In 1917, he went on the road for that concerr-t and traveled the San Joaquin Vailel-. In 1919, he rvent rvith The Pacific Lumber Company, again traveling the San Joaquin territory, and in 7920 he became associated
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