Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1915-03-12

With our mill cutting our own timber in the
manner that our experience has taught is best suit
ed for farm buildings and Improvements, as well as
the demands of customers, we will be in better
position this than ever before to supply your
wants. We have just completed logging million feet
OF as fine timber is be had on the mountain.
Magnificent Yellow Pine trees three feet and more in
diameter-vertable giants of the forest About the
first of month shall take the first step toward
converting these logs into lumber be used in build
ing Modern and Happy homes Surely they will
serve noble purpose. We offer you this product as
the of perfect manufacture and adapaby for
the purpose that it will be worked into and at prices
that have been for several years If you con-
template building you will note this with considerable
satisfaction.
Manufacturing lumber is not mere process of
ripping up logs and knocking the bark off the edges,
but it means intelligent handling of each individual
log, saving each into the kind for which it is best
adapted The evolution of a saw log into finished
product is fascinating and allurng far its physo-
logical effects concerned but it has no relation to
getting out the and the best there is in it. Dis
cretlon vlgllence and training necessary this
end.
The finest logs may be ruined by uneven cut
ting due to poor machinery, or it may be ruined by
cutting 1t tor purpose to which it adapted.
From the time log is rolled the carriage until
the product is nailed up in building every handling,
every time it is turned is with the object of es-
tabllshlng its true grade inspecting it place it
where it belongs The head-sawyer must use his dis
erection when and where he takes off the first Slab then
to the proper thickness the boards, how far
to cut before turning etc. really matter of grading
The boards are then delivered to the edgerman who
has four take care of and who must take the
bark off the edges and rip the board into the proper
WdthS maybe making three four boards or leaving
it the full width his discretion Dictates really mat
ter of inspecting and grading Here, above any other
place In the mill, it takes vigenCe and training The
boards, being then in their first finished state
ed to be placed in the piles of their respective grades
where they left until dry enough for planning A
gain, it matter. of grading. 1t is graded again
before it paned because lumber depreciates by
soning and defects visible. 1t is graded by
the men who bring it into the planning mill, again by
the man feeding the machine, by the who trims
and squares the ends, and again by the who ties
it into bundles Everytime it handled it was close
ly Inspected with view of placing in the highest
grade possible but to make it did contain de-
fects that would admit the grade and kind for
which it was intended. Not all mills grade with this
end in view. Some grade every piece high as pos
sble with the result that their grades contain whole
lot of lumber that should have been in the lower
grade. You will readily perceive that there is likely
to be quite difference between the two grades when
graded with the two different ideals basis.
But all the claims can make will not be as
strong your personal inspection of the material it
self. We believe it is the highest qualty-we aim to
make it so-we stalking our reputation and future
that it is the highest But we ask you-the purchaser
Ito see for yourself. Comparisons mighty useful
to the man who is buying and, who sell, welcome
them