L. W. tlacDonetld Co.

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Reprcsenling

6eqr Rivcr Lumber'Co., South Fork, Cclif. Douglas Fir and Redwood

Dry Ponderosa Pine

Pete Toste To Handle Salet Of Plywood Plant in Juneau

Announcerrent is made by Thos. A. Morgan, president of Colun.rbia Lurnber Ccmpany of Alaska, Juneau, that F. A. "Pete" Toste of Los Angeles, well known in the lumber ancl plywoo<l inclustries, is now associated with this concern. He sailet: for Alaska from Seattle December 7 with his family, and will start to rvork soon aiter arrival in the sales department of the lumber division, with headquarters in Juneau. Later, when the company's plywood plant on which construction has already started in Juneau is completed, Pete will handle the sales for the plyr,voocl <livision. The plywood plant will be completecl earlf ill the snrlmer, and will have a capacity of three million feet a month.

Colunrbia Lumber Company of Alaska operates three sawmills and five retail yards, ancl the plant r,r,'ill be a subsidiary.

Pete Toste was gracluated from the University of Montana in Forestry in the Class of '29. During his college course he worked in spare tir.r-re in the sawmill of Polleys Lumber Co., Missoula, llont. He spent the first two summers in the U. S. Forest service, and the last two stlmmer vacations working at the Pcillevs nill. After graduation he rvorl<ed for a year with tlris concern, lrandling various jobs in the sawmill, and later irr thc conrpany's retail lard.

He carle to Californitt in 1932. lle was four years with E. I{. \\-ood Lun.rber Co.. I-os Angeles, six months in the yard, and the rer.nainder in tl.re office in the wholesale department. Ife n'as u'ith Coos Ray Lurnber Co. a year, followed by a )'ear rvith \'IacDonald & Harrington, Ltd., Los Angeles. In

1939 he became manager of the Southern California operations of Rockport Redwood Company and Rouncls Trading Company, and in 1944 entered the wholesale lumber business for himself in Los Angetes. In 1948 he was made manager of the Georgia-Pacific Plyrn'ood Cornpany's l-os Angeles office and lemained with this concern until they closed their California offices.

Buys lnterest in Coast Range Timber Products of Salem, Oregon

The purchase of an interest in the Coast Range Timller Products of Salem, Oregon has just been announced by George ll. Miller, president of the George Il. N{iller Lumber Company, Portland, Oregon.

The neu' operation features dry kilns r,vhich have a capacity of 80,000 board feet. The plant is a complete remanufacturing mill and covers a seven acre tract. Its convenient location on trvo railrvays will help expedite the movement of lumber.

\Varren Hofiman of Salem, Oregon is joint owner of the mill and u'ill serve as plant manager.

The George E. N'Iiller Lumber Company also ou'ns mills in other parts of Oregon, the Cascadia Lumller Compan-v at Su,eet Home, the Yaquina Bay Mills at Nen'port and the Osrvego Planing Mill. A neu' mill is no'u' under constrtlction at Toledo, Oregon.