The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-08-16
NORTH DAKOTA
GETS LARGEST
LUMBER ORDER
Bismarck Dealer Gels One
Carload from Four-Square
Train Special
Is CARS IN FAST FREIGHT
Healthy Building Activity Era
Forecast for Sta::: by
Shipment
Is CARS IN FAST FREIGHT

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biggest shipment Of lumber in the
history of the industry.
A trainload Of 58 cars. containing
1,566,00 feet Of lumber, arrived
from the west coast in Mandan at
6 p. m. yesterday and left for James
town at a. m. today over the
Northern Pacific.
O. E. Anderson, Bismarck dealer,
received q carload Of the shipment.
A great part Of the shipment was
made up Of a new type Of lumber
manufactured by the Weyerhaeuser
group Of producers at their Inland
Empire and West Coast mills. It
is . package guaranteed tor the
homebuilder's protection.
This is the largest shipment Of
lumber for q single state on record.
With the exception Of five cars, one
each for Montana and South Dakota
and three for Minnesota, the whole
trainload is being distributed in
North Dakota.
Zone Of the surprising things
about this special trainload Of lunn-
Der is that North Dakota is the state
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manager Of the Weyerhaeuser Sales
company Of Spokane, said. "Agri-
cultural conditions during recent
years have led the rest Of the
country to believe that North Da-
kota is the last state in the union to
carry off such ! remarkable buying
project as this.
1.-THE distribution Of the lumber
is based entirely upon the preference
for . quality material as against the
cheaper ordinary lumber. The fact
that North Dakota did 30 is wildly
indicative Of ! splendid and presum-
ably justified optimism. i .9osS-
casts m era Of healthy building
activity in North Dakota"
Twenty-Five cars Of the packaged
lumber orders were brought into
Spokane where they were console
dated into one train destined for IL
North Dakota retail lumber firms
| in 81 communities. The train left
Spokane Sunday morning as fast
freight over the Northern Pacific
and speeded eastward on the same
schedule provided for fruit and silk
| trains.
The lumber had gone through .
process Of regular milling, being put
in packager. It was reinspected and
put through an entirely new manu-
featuring process. This consisted Of
rebutting each end Of every board
50 that it was perfectly smooth and
absolutely four-square. 1t is known
as four-square lumber.
The lumber therefore does not
have to be rebutted by hand on the
building job and is more economical
than other types. On each cap IS
printed the species and grades Of
the packages content. This serves
a. . guarantee Of lumber quality for
it prevents substitution Of an infer
ior grade or Z different species OF
lumber for the kind the user orders.
jamestown lumber nerchants
Joined the train in Bismarck last
night and travelled with it to their
city today.
Accompanying the lumber train,
in special cars, are:
D. J. Robinson, Fargo, North Da-
kota representative for the Weyer-
haeuser company; T. F. Lowry. gen
eral superintendent Of the Living
ston division Of the Northern Pa
cific; Howard H. Ellsworth, st. Paul,
assistant general freight agent;
Lynn r. Challoner, Helena. Mont,
assistant general freight and pas
seneer agent; David NJ. Fisher, sup
erintendent Of the Snoqualmie Falls
Lumber company; William. Bull, &.
Paul, official photographer; w. +.
Strachan, st. Paul, general super
intendent Of the Northern Pacific;
Don Colby, superintendent Of the
Jamestown division Of the railway,
and H. A. Simons, Chicago.