Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-02-22
.SILVERTON TO GET
S5OO.OOO SAWMILL
Silver Falls Timber Company
to Handle Much Of Log Out
put Of Nearby Camps

Portland, Ore, Feb pa modern
sawmill will be built by the Silver Fall.
Timber company at Silverton this
spring at a cost of approximately $780,
600.
The plant will be operated in con
nection with the logging camps Of the
same company near SilvertOn.
NJ. C. Woodard, general manager of
the company, has just returned from
the east, where he purchased the neees-
sary machinery and equipment for the
mill He went to Silverton yesterday
to make arrangements for the imme-
diate Inauguration of construction ac-
tivities.
The plant will be built at the edge
of Silverton, a town on the Springfield
branch of the Southern Pacific, 46 miles
south of Portland. A first class log
ging road, about 26 miles in length,
connects the town with the camps.
Big Timber Tract Owned
The company owns about $4,000 acres
of first class timber land in Maricn and
Claekamas counties, tapped by this log
ging road.
1t is estimated that This timber tract
contains more than 3,0O0,GGl00 feet OF
splendid fir. Heretofore the company
has cut its timber and sold the logs to
other mills. For about IS months, how
ever, owing to the depression IN the
lumber market, the camp has been
idle
Construction work on the new plant
will be done by day labor under i'm
mediate direction of the company Off
cials. 1t is planned to erect com
plete mill, modern in every detail, in
cluding dry kilns, sheds and loading
facilities. The initial output Of the
plant will be about 250,000 feet per
day of ten hours.
Place in Log Market Kept.
Facilities will be provided, however,
for operating both day and night when
conditions warrant A force of 400 men
will be employed in the mill and camp.
While the company proposes, in the
future, to cut its log output in its
own mill, it will not retire from the log
market entirely. 1t will be in posi-
tion to offer its surplus log stock to
other mills, but it is rather expected
that the new plant will be able to cor.
sumo the entire camp output.
Orders have been issued to use all
possible speed in erecting the new
plant in the hope of having it ready
for complete operation about Septem
Der l.
eff the present upward tendency Of
the lumber market continues" said l.
B. Menefee, vice. president Of the Silver
Falls Timber company, yesterday, awe
should be able to operate our mill on
full time from the moment that il is
finished. If conditions improve, We
should be able to operate il Doth night
and day
"While our principal business hereto
fore has been logging, we have cen
templated going into the milling hnsi
ness for the last few years. We have
awaited only the impr Of the
lumber trade that now has set in
"We are nicely equipped to operate
advantageously, for we have fine
stand of excellent timber and n gooC
standard gauge railroad connecting the
timber stand with the Southern Pacific
line at Silverton. '''A
''While the lumber trade was in {
state of depression, during the last few
years we did not operate cur camp. W.
don It calculate to do much logging unit
our mill is completed, but expect Il
operate steadily and Indefinitely afte
that. "