Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1921-08-05
Will Use Forty-Three Men
on Day Shift Only
First Month
IS LOCATED ALMOST
In HEART OF CITY
Aim Is to Cut Ten Thousand Feet
of Finished Stock on Each
of Three Shifts Daily

Operation of the brand new plant
of the Olympia Veneer company, To-
Gated at Third and Jefferson streets,
will begin in earnest on Monday
morning with one full shift, according
to E. p. Dunbar, superintendent of
the plant. About 43 men will be
used for a month in the day shift, try
ing out and adjusting the machinery.
after which period two more shifts
will be put on, requiring approximate
ly 1875 workers, the full complement
of the corporation. which is organ
lied strictly on the cooperative basis.
About 10000 feet of finishev veneer
stock is the schedule for each and
will be accomplished as soon as the
men get accustomed to their posi-
tions, the grading and cutting of
stock, and the manipulation of the
machinery.
1--WE have succeeded in putting up
the entire plant without going out
side of our membership" SuperiD-
tendent Dunbar said this morning.
"Our company includes mechanics,
carpenters, electricians, brick masons,
and many other skilled workers. The
building and all the machinery in the
plant in their entirety have been con-
structed and assembled by our own
men. Organized as the company Is
on the cooperative principle, the con-
Germ is unbreakable provided the men
learn to forget petty differences and
each one is willing to let the majority
rule"
The company has fine site, almost
in the heart of the city, occupying
three and half blocks, with the
streets intervening vacated. The COM
pany also enjoys leased harbor area
for storing and booming logs at the
east end Of the plant, while spur OF
the O.-W. r. & N. Co. runs along the
west side CT the building.
The main building is 60x250 feet
with 14-foot posts. we'll lighted and
ventilated. The steam boxes connect
on the east end. This installation Is
40 feet 8 inches long and So feet 4 u
inches wide and 9 feet high inside.
divided into six compartments.
The boiler house is 31x48, built OF
brick and concrete. One SKIS boiler
is installed at present and another
will be added in the near future.
Steam will be used only for steaming
the logs, operating the dryer.
Logs are bucked in the water by
10 horsepower drag saw and then
lifted by an electric hoist to a car
running into the staem boxes. From
there they are taken out by means OF
an overhead trolley hoist and placed
in position on the lathe.
The lathe has swing of 102 inches
and takes a log 100 inches long, and
operates at the rate of 400 lineal feet
Der minute. The lathe is equipped
with two spuds and back roll and the
veneer is run on conveyer eight feet
wide and 48 feet long to the ST. Joe
clipper which has 9x12 table ana
102-inch knife From the clipper the
yener is run through the dryer.
The dryer is 110x23 feet outside
, measurements. and is known as the
13-foot Subsection type. The inside
measurements are S'2"x-3xlOT with
capacity of 440 square feet per
hour.
Other equipment includes two 75-
gallon Francis glue mixers and 81
inch spreader; Francis hydraulic
press with pressure of 100 pounds
per square inch; Yates sander, and
Wilkinson-C halloner two-saw lOz'
inch automatic trim and cut-toH.
The plant is driven entirely by cleo
tricity, with individual motors to
each machine. All wiring is in con-
duit and metal cabinets.