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Big Oregon Plqnt Exponsion

A several hundred thousand dollar expansion and plant im_ provement program is now underway at Eastern Oreson pine Company in Lakeview, Oregon. Eastern Oregon pine bompany recently purchased the American Forest Products Corporation pla^nt including the sawmill, planing mill, related equipment, a 100_acre plant site and approximately lZ50 acres of iimberlands in the vicinity.

Officers of Eastern Oregon Pine Company are L. Mclellan, plesident; Ken Rose, vice-president and secretary; and David W'yman, vice-president and treasurer.

A new resaw is currently being installed in the mill with an eye to boosting production 15-20,000 bf per shift and an Irvinston Iumber end sorter is going up adjacent io the plant.

M0vE is planned

Eastern Oregon Pine Co., are moving it to the mill sile (too 0l plcture) toward_the eventual goal of having all lumber, from mill to shii ping, under cover. The mill now produces 18-20 hittion bf of pine and fir per year.

Foundations are also being poured for two new double track Standard kilns, 1O5 feet long and with a capacity of 300,000 bf per charge. Once the kilns are up, the company will build a 2W long pole shed on the green end and another 125, long cooling shed on the dry end of the kilns.

Management's eventual goal is a continuous flow of lumber, all undercover, from the sawmill to shipping area. [n line with this goal, a new planing mill will be built adjacent to the sawmill and plant f2 will be dismantled. Also on the drawing boards are plans for a big B0/ by 52U crane shed.

Eastern Oregon Pine Company produces from lB to 20 million bf a year of ponderosa pine and white fir. Sales are coordinated along with those of King's River Lumber Corporation by Marshall Schmidt who headquarters at 5524 Elvas Avenue, Sacramento.

G-P Oregon Wqrehouse Growth

An $85,000 expansion program for Georgia-Pacific's wholesale building materials distribution center in southeast Portland has been announced by branch manager Harry B. Nilson. He also announced a 12,6O0 square foot expansion of the G-P distribution center at Eugene, Oregon.

When completed, the Portland center will have more than 50,000 feet of warehousing space.

_ Georgia-Pacific now employs more than 400 persons in the Portland area, including employees at corporate headquarters in the Commonwealth Building the distribution center and the new trucking terminal at Tigard. In Oregon, G-P,s annual payroll is in excess of $38 million.

needs 2t/z million feet of lumber per month on a year 'round basis l" Lumber Mqy Be S-l-S2E Or S-4-5.

Itust Be Green Douglas Fir Cut To Size in a Standard Grade. You May Quote on AII or Any Part.

7/g'Lumber Mqy Be S-lS-lE or 5-4-S

2" Lvmber Must Be S-4-S.

3" Lumber Must Be S-4-S

4" Lvmber Must Be S-4-S.

40"

42"

50"

54"

,l Lumber musl be mqrked qs to quontityqnd length

Lumber musf be bun dled ior Jork truck unloading

May be shipped lruck ond trailer, JIot cor or by wo}er

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