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A.itterlcan Forerf : Pio-{ucts Adds Two New Brunches

San Franci5se.-drnglican Forest Products Corp. hbs added two new branches to the ,family tree, reporfs The San Francisco Examiner, and expects another one next September. Due in 1959 is the new $3 million corrugated and container forming plant to be built at Santa Fe Springs, south of Los Angeles, Board Chairman Walter S. Johnson told a press conference. This will duplicate the company's Newark plant.

Mr.,Johnson said the company has acquired the Mt. Whitney Lumber Co. in an exchange of stock. Mt. Whitney operates sawmills in Sequoia National Forest and in the Tule Indian Reservation east of Porterville.

As of December 1, AFPC took over the Byles-Jamieson Lumber Co., operating in the Sierras east of Fresno, with yard facilities in the city. Purchase price was around $500,000.

Company plans for the future, he said, "include possible expansion either by purchase or merger eastward into the midwest."

American Forest Products Corp. was one of the few lumber companies able to report an improvement in the final 1958 half. Mr. Johnson said the upsurge was due to "'the demand for lumber for home-building and the introduction of new products, notably Bond-board, used as sheathing and roofing."

Progress in Lumber Pockoging

(Continued from Page 10) ments, and our experienCe at other mills packaging lumber, we can arrive at these general conclusions:

(1) Through the use of 4 foot by 2 f.oot or 3 foot by 3 foot packages and a Fowler Loader Model DD-33 in connection with double-door boxcars, a mill can save up to $10 a carload over the cost of hand loading loose lumber after paying the cost of all strapping and labor. If the loads are to be mechanically unloaded, it is, however, necessary to add additional separators and unitizing straps which rlduce the savings available.

(2) Through the use ol 2 foot by 2 foot packages put up and further unitized in the car by methods developed at Southwest, lumber can be packaged and loaded at about the same cost as loose lumber hand loaded, and can be secured to arrive in good condition to be 100/o mechanically unloaded. When double-door boxcars are employed, time and money can be saved by loading several packages at one time using the Fowler Loader Model DD-33, or by loading strapped stacks of packages using a large lift truck and rollers. When only single door cars are available, these packages must be loaded and unloaded by a boom type loaded such as the Fowler Loader Model SD-22, although they, of course, can be hand unloaded after cutting the' straps. The use of single-door cars, therefore, requires the receiver to have a boom unloader in order to take advantage of mechanical unloading.

(3) Therefore, the extent of the savings available to lumber mills in loading packaged lumber depends upon the availability of double-door boxcars, although the singledoor cars can also be loaded. There are more than 115.000 double-door boxcars on American railways. The automobile industry is using only a fraction of the double-door automobile cars available.

Under these conditions, the mill that makes a deter- i mined effort to obtain double-door cars for lumber ..: loading should have a fair chance of getting them. - :.-

With double-door cars and Signode methods, a mill caii' save substantial money in loading. If they use two foot b/: two foot packages and a small boom loader, they can. also. load single-door cars where necessary, and at least break.. even.

For further information write Signode Steel Strapping Company,2600 North We-stern Avenue, Chicago 47, Illinois. .;