The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1919-12-26

timber matters, He was associate,
with Col. Johnson in the Johnson
Cummings Timber Co. The season
cut will be in the neighborhood .
100000 feet, as usual. The boz
frctory Is one OF the largest in thE
region and will use about 20,O00.o0(
feet of lumber in making box shocks
Recently the klamath Manufac
turing Co., was sold to the Earle
Fruit Co., of Sacramento, Calf,
which purchased II TO insure its many
packing houses supply of boz
shocks for the future. II is under
stood the business will go on, as in
the past. without any change.
Building Up u Substantial Business
Eighteen miles north of klamath
Falls, on the Southern Pacific rail
roads northern extension and also
on the east shore Of Upper Klamath
Lake, is located the busy plant of the
Lamm Lumber Co, in charge OF
which is w. Il. Lamm, vice presi.
dent and manager of the company
Mr.. Lamm Is one OF the active, en-
terprising millmeu OF the Klamath
region and during the last four years,
since he has begun operations at Mo-
doc Point, Ore, whs-, the mill Is To-
Gated. he has bai. up a substantial!
sswmill operation. The mill is equip
~. with a sing =. band. cdgsr. trim
m"r and other a'taLdan- machinery
and turns out $4,000 feet of lumber
daily in one S-hour SHIFT. In the yard
which is well laid out, fouc or five
million feet of lumber IS carried Ill
pile. 1t is largely California white
pine and Of good quality.
During the last summer new
structure was built, housing the Of
flee and general store as we'll as a
club for the men. The office is man
aged by Miss Ethel Lamm. sister
of w. f. Lamm. The mill began saw
ing this year on April aud will
continue in operation until closed
down by winter weather. probably
late in December. after making q
cut of about 100000 feet. The
Lamm Lumber CO., began operations
at Modoc Point in the spring of 1916.
Z. C. Lamm, of Danville, ILL.,. who
operates a retail lumber yard and
planning mill there. is president of the
Lamm Lumber Co. He is the father
OF Manager w. E. Lamm and Miss
Ethel Lamm, secretary of the COM
pany.
About ten miles north OF Klamath
Falls on the east shore OF the Upper
Lake and also on the Southern Pac-
ffic at Algoma, Ore. Is the lumber
and box manufacturing plant of the
Algoma Lumber Co., managed by
Matt Egan, a veteran sawmill man.
This is one Of the large and growing
mill concerns of the Klamath coun.
try. The sawmill is equipped with a
band and gang and cuts 120, 900
feet in Eight hours. Along in mid
summer a night crew was put on,
running the band only at night. max
ing the daily cut about $4,000 feet.
This means that the output for the
season will be in the neighborhood
Of 30,000,000 feet.
The bo factory has a capacity of
100000 feet daily, but has been run
ming this year day times only. It will
continue running thru the winter
months, while weather conditions
usually close the sawmill down early
in December. Mr.. Egan is one of the
old time sawmill operators and build
ers of the western country. He spent
several years in the Puget Sound
country in the '80s and has built
and operated sawmills in various
places of the west for the last forty
years. The sales of the Algoma Lum-
Der Co. are under the supervision OF
Z. J. Grant at the company's Los An.
geles office. Mr.. Grant for several
years directed the business at AL
gonna, but of late has spent most of
his time in Los Angeles.
At Chiloquin. Ore, about forty
miles north of Klamath Falls on the
Southern Pacific Railroad are the
sawmill plants of the ChiIoquin Lum-
Der Co. and the Modoc Lumber Co
AT the head Of the Chiloquin Lum-
ber Co. is e. A. Blocklinger, of San
Francisco, who also owns and one
rates the Doris Lumber G. Box Co. at
Doris Calf, between Klamath Falls
and Waad r.Iif