The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26

tanned the snow and frost, and made
hard saving. To do away with this
difficulty they decided to roof over a.
part of the pond. and they now have
shed 100 feet wide and 800 feet
long, with a capacity for about zoo, 900
feet Of logs from which the frost dis
appears before they go to the mill.
The officers Of the company are:
T. B. Walker, president; Gilbert M.
Walker, vice president: Fletcher L.
Walker. treasurer and manager, and
Charles B. March, secretary and man
ager OF the sales department
The company ranks with the lead
ing concerns Of it's kind in the white
pine country and turns out a quality
Of lumber second to none.
Holdings in the West
Only last winter Mr.. Walker re-
turned from an extended trip thru the
| timber regions of the Pacific slope,
and his observations, summarized at
the time by the Mississippi Valley
Lumberman, are worthy Of reproduce
ton In this connection Next in ex-
tent to the holdings Of the Weyer-
haeuser syndicate and the Central Pa
cifio railroad on the coast comes the
timber owned by Mr.. Walker. The
Lumberman said:
| The Weyerhaeuser timber is located
in Washington and Idaho and consists
in the larger part Of fr in the first
mentioned state and q large area of
white pine in Idaho. While tho hold
tngs Of this latter company are much
larger in the aggregate than those held
by Mr.. Walker, yet no one individual
in this syndicate owns as large an
amount as that belonging to him. BY
general consent Of those who are fa-
milia.r with matters on the coast and
as asserted by the San Francisco and
local papers, Mr.. Walker Is credited
with the largest holdings Of any one
person or firm on the coast The tim
Der he owns consists Of sugar and
white pine, with large intermixture
of fir and spruce, and Is located on
the upper tables Of northeastern Cal
ifornia in Siskiyou. Shasta, Modoc,
I.assem and Plumas counties.
Pine Regions of California.
Mr.. Walker has been engaged per-
sonally and thru his assistants for the
past ten or twelve years inspecting and
examining the timber lands of the
coast. and finally about FIVE years ago
began the purchase of timber In the
pine regions of California He has
spent a. considerable portion OF his
| .
personally experimenting. inspecting
and managing his pine land purchaser
His recent trip was for the purpose Of
closing UP his various land deals and
of surveying and estimating his tim
Der holdings.
Mr.. Walker In securing his large
holdings has selected the table lands
rather than the mountain regions. not
only on account of the large quantity
of high-grade timber to be found there,
but because on the level table lands
logging can be done very cheaply and
railways built without much difficulty,
and at comparatively small cost. for
bringing the logs to the mill and carry
Ing the lumber away to the trunk line.
The demand for this lumber is rapid
run the supply. The only perplenng
problem at present is the disposal Of
| CI16 common grades. buL as the clear
lumber, shop, door and box stock con-
stitute a large part of the output and
the demand Is always in excess Of the
supply, the remaining small fraction
will generally find q market in the
Sacramento valley.
Solid Tracts.
Mr.. Walker, having completed his
purchase of timber in almost solid
tracts Of all that Is tributary to Pit
river and also the large district in Big
Meadow district. will begin the de-
velopment Of a railway scheme and
perhaps the location of sawmill plants
with view of converting the timber
into lumber on a large scale, not SO
much under his own management as
that of his sons, who are all practical
lumbermen and who have most sue
cessfully managed and operated his