Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1922-12-14
Amazing Sights
On California Trip

Col. A. c. Goodyear, president of
: the Great Southern Lumber Com
pany, accompanied by Assistant Gen.
eral Manager ]. H. Cassidy and Ma
jor J. H. Friend, who spent month
touring the timber districts of Cali
fornia and Washington in Colonel
Goodyear's private car, "Bogalusa,"
returned here last Wednesday.
] In speaking of the visits to the Ium-
berIng district, one of the party
stated the first place visited was the
plant of the Pickering Lumber Com
pany about $50 miles from San
! Francisco. They drove over by auto.
This plant is located at a place called
Sonora, an old mining town, one of
the first places where gold was dis
covered in California in 1849. It is
now a thriving little city and there
are two large sawmll plants operated
close by. At the Pickering plant they
manufacture fir, pine and cedar, some
of it very large. They have a fine,
up-to-date plant and were putting in
modern improvements all through the
yard for handling their lumber, in the
ways of memorials and cranes.
The party next visited the redwood
forests of Humboldt county, Cali
fOrnia, where they saw some very fine
timber. One tract of timber visited,
containing less than 10000 acres, all
under one watershed, was estimated
| to contain something over four bill
lion feet. 1t is said there are places
places in this particular tract of land
that will produce one million feet to
tn eacre. The party visited parts
of the tract during their short stay
that it is estimated would cut 6OO,-
600 feet to the acre. The trees were
all the way from 8 to Is feet in diam
eter and 800 feet high. Accompany
ing the Goodyear party was an expert
enced estimator who stated the trees
would average from $4,000 to 1885,
900 feet per trees.
To give you some idea of the mat
ter, just adjoining this tract of tim
Der there was mill running, with a
capacity of 10000 feet a day, and
the general manager stated that he
only cut over 125 acres in a year. He
stated their skidders sometimes oper-
ated for two or three months in the
same location.
Colonel Goodyear and party visited
some very fine plants in and around
Eureka, Cal, that were manufactur-
ing redwood. This redwood timber
looks something like cypress, only the
wood is redder than cypress. It
seems to be an everlasting wood and
never rots. The sap is very thin on
the large trees, not over 1-2 inches
thick.
From Eureka the party visited the
plant of the Weed Lumber Company, |
which is now owned and operated by I
the Long-Bell Lumber Company at !
Weed, Cal. This plant was operat-
ing mostly in white pine of very
fine quality. They manufacture in
the neighborhood of $4,000 to AGO.
900 feet a day, and this lumber is
all used in their own fac
tories right at Weed, made into doors
and window frames, and the low
grade lumber into box shocks. At
this point some cold weather was en-
countered. The mountains were all
covered with snow. In fact, there
were several of the logging opera
tons in California where they were
logging back in the mountains which
were closed down on account of the
snow being too deep to operate.
From there the party visited a
of large lumber plants in
Oregon and Washington. Practically
ing fir. The fir also grow very large,
but not so large as the redwood. They ,
saw some very fine and up-to-date
plants. On account of the timber be-
ing so large the mills, of course, are /
able to make a very much larger pro-
duction every day than you can get ]
On a mill that is manufacturing small ]
timber, They saw one mill in Port
and, Ore. that had nothing in it but
2 circular saw and gang-edger. S
This mill produced 100000 feet in {
ten hours. The circular saw was '
driven by a 500-horsepower direct t
connected motor. The edger was +
driven by a 400-horsepower direct
motor, and they make IA
nch timbers on the edgers and we're
putting them through at a speed Of +
400 feet a minute. Z
Four large mills were visited at =
Everett, Wash, which is a bout forty r
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ted two large mills at Snoqualmie G
Falls, which is about the same dis h
ance from Seattle. These mills were
manufacturing fir. The most notable
hing at Snouualmie Falls was the F
ogging by electricity. S
Several large plants at Tacoma, h
Wash, were also visited. To give
,ou some idea of the amount of num-
Ter now being manufactured on the c
'acific Coast. said one of the party, C.
n the city of Tacoma alone they are. h
five million feet per Il
ay. It was there they viewed some O
f the most up-to-date mills visited o
n the trip-the new plant. of the st.
aul and Tacoma Lumber Company 81
mong them. 81
The last plant to be visited by the "
arty was that of the Potlach Lum- a!
er Company at Polatch, Idaho. This W
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