The Coconino sun., 1926-08-20
SECRETARY MCCULLOUGH
MAKES REPORT ON THE
BIG M'NARY SAWMTLLS

VICE pISS1dSHL eilLe SSlSAetl Ilidile'SC Ci
of the Cady Lumber corporation, who
gave me every opportunity to look
over the operations.
The saw mills of the company at
McNary and Flagstaff are both
closed down at the present time while
they are making additions and i'm
provements, the principal ones being
dry kilns and storage for the dried
lumber.
The plant at McNary is three
band mill equipped to saw 100000,
600 feet of lumber per year. This
will be done with two shifts each day.
The plant at Flagstaff is equipped
to saw 25,000,000 feet per year, and
approximately 25,000,000 feet will be
cut and sawn from the Sitgreaves
national forest west of Snowflake
during the year 1927.
The construction program at Nc
Nary is nearing completion. They
are building 20 units of dry kilns,
each 120 feet long, and expect to
have these finished soon after the
first of July. They are also building
storage. sheds which viii make it pos
sible to keep practically all of their
lumber under cover and out OF the
weather The dry kilns will reduce
the curing time from six months 10
about seyenty-two hours. They will
make it possible for the company to
take orders and have them filled and
on the way to the customer within
one week.
The box factory is being remod-
eled and additional equipment added
in a new building 120 feet by 120
feet. and upon completion of this
plant they will be equipped to sell
boxes of any class and any size. The
box factory also has its own printing
press so that trademarks and labels
can be printed on the boxes as they
are made.
The entire equipment Of mill, plan
er and box factory is electrically
driven from a central power plant
which uses the waste product of the
mill for fuel. This plant also furn-
ishes lighting for the town in which
there are four or five hundred hous-
es, including offices, hotel, store and
other public buildings. The present
furnaces are being overhauled and
a new power unit Of $50 horsepower
capacity is being added.
The logs are hauled from the adj
iacent forests by sixteen locomotives
over standard gauge track.
The corporation owns and operates
the Apache railway which is COM
mon carrier, about rs miles in length
from Holbrook to AIcNary, and also
maintains sixty-five or seventy miles
of standard gauge railroad in the
woods adjacent OF the McNary and
Flagstaff plants.
The logs are loaded on steel cars
by steam leaders, and the McNary
plant alone will consume about $500
logs every day. There is sufficient
timber adjacent to the plant to make
it a perpetual operation. 1t will take
from seventy-five to one hundred
years to log the area the first time
and as the logging is all done under
government supervision and, the
Young trees are protected, there will
be a new cut ready by the time The
area has been logged the first time.
They are at present cutting trees
anywhere up to two hundred years OF
age.
The timber area Of Northern Ari-
zona in which these mills are located
contains more than thirteen billion
feet of timber. All buildings are
erected to last for an indefinite per-
iod as it is expected that there will
always be lumber operation in this
location.
There are from three to four hund-
red workmen engaged in the con-
struction program in addition to
those employed by the company in
their planning mill and box factory,
which are still in operation. The
town Of McNary is at an altitude of
1920 feet in the heart of the pine
forests and is indeed a pretty place.
Good roads radiate from the town of
McNary to Rice, Springerville and
Holbrook and, while the company
does not particularly encourage tour
lists, they are always welcome to
camp in the woods near the town
and are accorded every courtesy. At
the present time it is advisable for
tourists to bring their camping
equipment as the constructive pro-
gram has crowded the company hotel.
The town is owned entirely by The
corporation. Comfortable houses are
provided for all employees. There
are four grade schools, including one
for the Negroes, one for the smaller
Mexican children, the grammar school
for the Americans and a high school.
There are three churches represented
and regular church services are held
every Sunday. There is a Boy Scout
troop with about 20 members, a pic
ture show, a baseball field, hotel
which will accommodate $50 guests,
and very complete department
store, with a stock of anything chat
a person might wish to buy, drug
store, bank, completely furnished
hospital, garage and gas station, and
the town is supplied with the purest
of water from nearby springs. The
climate is ideal for a summer resort.
Part of the improvement program
includes an expenditure of from six
to ten thousand dollars for beautify-
ing the townsite, surfaeing the streets
and making conditions more enjoyab-
lie for the employees of the company.
The future program also contemplates