WEYERHAEUSER TIMBER COMPANY
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Klamath County - Klamath Falls
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1921
March 9, 1921: "Wm. Baum, an employee of the Weyerhaeuser Timber company, is in the city for several days, after several months of inspection of the timber of the company." (The Evening Herald)
March 14, 1921: "Hal Ogle, formerly of this city, who has been away for some time and will resume his work with the local branch of the Weyerhaeuser company." (The Evening Herald)
1922
1923
November 1923: "J. P. Weyerhaeuser, president of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., accompanied by George S. Long and W. L.McCormick, were visitors in Klamath Falls, Ore., October 16, looking over the company's holdings, including a mill site recently purchased at Texum, four miles from Klamath Falls on Klamath River. The Weyerhaeuser holdings are in different locations throughout Klamath County, but the main stand is located on the western side of Klamath Lake." (The Timberman, Vol. XXV)
1924
May 27, 1924: "The Weyerhaeuser timber company was represented here Sunday and yesterday by a party of 25 officials, stockholders and directors.
The 700 acre mill site on the Klamath river which is owned by the Weyerhaeuser company was inspected by the party and some of the timber holdings were visited.
While members of the party talked freely over the general situation no definite information relative to the plans of the company were given out except to say that no immediate construction of a mill here is contemplated." (The Klamath News)
The 700 acre mill site on the Klamath river which is owned by the Weyerhaeuser company was inspected by the party and some of the timber holdings were visited.
While members of the party talked freely over the general situation no definite information relative to the plans of the company were given out except to say that no immediate construction of a mill here is contemplated." (The Klamath News)
1925
1926
December 11, 1926: "Weyerhaeuser Timber company promises to construct Klamath sawmill when Oregon Trunk railroad builds here from Bend." (The Oregon Statesman)
1927
April 28, 1927: “J.P. Weyerhaeuser, head of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, traveling in a large private automobile and accompanied by one of the largest stockholders of that company, visited Klamath Falls last Monday and Tuesday.
In an interview with a local newspaperman Weyerheauser definitely stated not only that his company expected to build a mill in Klamath County but, also, that they expected to begin work within a very short time.
To those who know the intimate connection between the Weyerhaeuser timber interests and the Hill railway lines Weyerheauser's visit here at this time and his very definite statement that a mill would be built soon is of great significance.
The site for the proposed mill, which is said, will be the largest in the northwest---which may mean the largest in the world---is four miles south of Klamath Falls. In the railway hearing in Portland, the superintendent of the Weyerhaeuser Company stated that this mill when built would employ 1,000 heads of families. There seems but little doubt that there will spring up near this mill a city of 5,000 people, a southern extension of Klamath Falls into the irrigated territory.
The coming of the Weyerhaeuser interests will mean to the farmers of this section a vastly increased local market just as sure as the building of a James' line from Klamath Falls to a California connect ion will make the Klamath Basin the greatest agricultural section of like area in the west.” (The Malin Progress)
In an interview with a local newspaperman Weyerheauser definitely stated not only that his company expected to build a mill in Klamath County but, also, that they expected to begin work within a very short time.
To those who know the intimate connection between the Weyerhaeuser timber interests and the Hill railway lines Weyerheauser's visit here at this time and his very definite statement that a mill would be built soon is of great significance.
The site for the proposed mill, which is said, will be the largest in the northwest---which may mean the largest in the world---is four miles south of Klamath Falls. In the railway hearing in Portland, the superintendent of the Weyerhaeuser Company stated that this mill when built would employ 1,000 heads of families. There seems but little doubt that there will spring up near this mill a city of 5,000 people, a southern extension of Klamath Falls into the irrigated territory.
The coming of the Weyerhaeuser interests will mean to the farmers of this section a vastly increased local market just as sure as the building of a James' line from Klamath Falls to a California connect ion will make the Klamath Basin the greatest agricultural section of like area in the west.” (The Malin Progress)
November 18, 1927: "Beginning of construction on the huge sawmill which the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company proposes to build in Klamath Falls, was foreshadowed here this week with the arrival of Ralph R. McCartney, who is to be resident engineer for the company.
McCartney will be in charge of preliminary work incidental to actual commencement of mill work, which, according to George Long, general manager for Weyerhaeuser who was here from Tacoma, Wash., last week, will start in the near future.
Long is expected back here this week to make full announcement concerning the sawmill, site for which is two miles south of Klamath Falls. The proposed mill will be one of the largest in Oregon, Long stated, and will be a duplicate of the company's big plant at Everett, Wash.
Long said the capacity will be 100,000,000 feet yearly." (The Sacramento Bee)
McCartney will be in charge of preliminary work incidental to actual commencement of mill work, which, according to George Long, general manager for Weyerhaeuser who was here from Tacoma, Wash., last week, will start in the near future.
Long is expected back here this week to make full announcement concerning the sawmill, site for which is two miles south of Klamath Falls. The proposed mill will be one of the largest in Oregon, Long stated, and will be a duplicate of the company's big plant at Everett, Wash.
Long said the capacity will be 100,000,000 feet yearly." (The Sacramento Bee)
November 26, 1927: "In line with the announcement in this week's Advocate that the Great Northern Railroad Co. has decided to build its line as far as Klamath Falls, Ore., comes the news that George Long, prominent official of the Weyerhaeuser Lumber company, recently affirmed intention to construct a mammoth mill with 100,000,000 feet capacity on the Klamath river, four miles south of Klamath Falls. The Weyerhaeuser Timber company owns more than 200,000 acres of timber land in the Klamath basin.
It is understood that work on the site for the mill will be started within six weeks or two months." (Blue Lake Advocate)
It is understood that work on the site for the mill will be started within six weeks or two months." (Blue Lake Advocate)
1928
1929
July 23, 1929: "The largest log loader to be delivered in this section has been unloaded here by the Weyerhaeuser Timber company. It will handle a log containing 5,000 feet of lumber and weighs 107,000 pounds over five and a fourth tons.
It was necessary to load the machine on two large flat cars to transport it from Portland to Klamath Falls. Cost of the machine is in the neighborhood o $30,000.
It is a McGiffert loader manufactured by the Clyde Iron Works of Duluth, Minn., and was sold by the Clyde Equipment company of Portland through their local agent, Ed Wilson." (The Klamath News)
It was necessary to load the machine on two large flat cars to transport it from Portland to Klamath Falls. Cost of the machine is in the neighborhood o $30,000.
It is a McGiffert loader manufactured by the Clyde Iron Works of Duluth, Minn., and was sold by the Clyde Equipment company of Portland through their local agent, Ed Wilson." (The Klamath News)
November 2, 1929: "Weyerhaeuser lumber company is continuing the work of building their large plant with the main mill built and machinery installed, the planer is installed and dry sheds have been built. Railroad has been practically completed and two camps have been operating.
A large crew of men is employed in the building of the mill but it is not expected to be in operation before spring, according to the general reports.
Recently the board of directors of the company visited the plant and stated that work is progressing satisfactorily." (The Klamath News)
A large crew of men is employed in the building of the mill but it is not expected to be in operation before spring, according to the general reports.
Recently the board of directors of the company visited the plant and stated that work is progressing satisfactorily." (The Klamath News)
December 4, 1929: "F. R. Titcomb, general manager of the Weyerhaeuser Lumber company, last night announced that the large mill being constructed four miles west of Klamath will start operations on a small scale in January, 1930.
It will, however, be six months after that before the mill will be in full operation, it is stated. The mill will at first be operated as a test and to finish manufacture of lumber to complete the plant.
Mr. Titcomb came to Klamath from Tacoma with a party of engineers on a regular inspection and left last night for his northern offices.
Further assessment of operating plans and of the work done and planned by that company here will be made later, Mr. Titcomb assured the press." (The Klamath News)
It will, however, be six months after that before the mill will be in full operation, it is stated. The mill will at first be operated as a test and to finish manufacture of lumber to complete the plant.
Mr. Titcomb came to Klamath from Tacoma with a party of engineers on a regular inspection and left last night for his northern offices.
Further assessment of operating plans and of the work done and planned by that company here will be made later, Mr. Titcomb assured the press." (The Klamath News)
December 19, 1929: “The Weyerhaeuser mill, with a capacity of 50,000 feet of lumber per hour, 1,200,000 feet per day, more than a third of a billion feet per year, will go into operation today.
Beginning last Monday morning one machine after another of this vast lumber manufacturing plant has been put into service and by the end of the week the entire plant will be operating although full capacity will not be attained for some months yet.
By the time lumbering operations are fully under way for 1930 this mill will increase the flow of Klamath lumber into the markets of the world by about sixty per cent.” (The Klamath Basin Progress)
Beginning last Monday morning one machine after another of this vast lumber manufacturing plant has been put into service and by the end of the week the entire plant will be operating although full capacity will not be attained for some months yet.
By the time lumbering operations are fully under way for 1930 this mill will increase the flow of Klamath lumber into the markets of the world by about sixty per cent.” (The Klamath Basin Progress)
1930
April 5, 1930: "The Weyerhaeuser Lumber Co. plant is operating one eight-hour shift a day, and the camp has been running all winter. Approximately 850 men are now employed, R. R. Macartney, manager here, stated last night. He added that there are no plans at the present for employing any more men. The plant is cutting about 200,000 feet daily." (The Klamath News)
July 8, 1930: "The Weyerhaeuser box shook manufacturing plant on the Weyerhaeuser plant holdings south of the city, started operations yesterday with about one-fourth capacity lay-out. The employes and the box shook manufacturing will be gradually but very noticeably increased from now until the first of next week when it will be running to capacity.
Machines were set into action by the 30 employes Monday. Boards started buzzing through the re-saws and were conveyed on the gravity rolls to the various cleat machines and then through a finishing process.
W. C. Strong, who has been with the Chicago office of the company for a number of years, is superintendent of the box factory. He has been in Klamath Falls since May 17, laying out floor plans for the factory and attending to the thousands of details in construction with the erection of the plant. Previous to working with the Weyerhaeuser company, Mr. Strong was in Baker, Ore., where he was superintendent of the Oregon Lumber company. He is well known in Klamath Falls, having visited here on many occasions.
Assisting him as superintendent, Mr. J. A. Fletcher will have charge of the floor work and output. Both have offices in the new building. Mr. Fletcher comes here from Spokane, where he held a similar position with the same company.
The box factory is 250x265 feet, and has been completed in time for the opening. The entire space is not utilized, and it is possible to more than double the capacity of the factory.
The total output, when running to capacity of the present machines, will be 100,000 feet of box shook per day. Orders are already filed, and many more are being received. One hundred men will be employed by the first of next week, according to Mr. Strong." (The Klamath News)
Machines were set into action by the 30 employes Monday. Boards started buzzing through the re-saws and were conveyed on the gravity rolls to the various cleat machines and then through a finishing process.
W. C. Strong, who has been with the Chicago office of the company for a number of years, is superintendent of the box factory. He has been in Klamath Falls since May 17, laying out floor plans for the factory and attending to the thousands of details in construction with the erection of the plant. Previous to working with the Weyerhaeuser company, Mr. Strong was in Baker, Ore., where he was superintendent of the Oregon Lumber company. He is well known in Klamath Falls, having visited here on many occasions.
Assisting him as superintendent, Mr. J. A. Fletcher will have charge of the floor work and output. Both have offices in the new building. Mr. Fletcher comes here from Spokane, where he held a similar position with the same company.
The box factory is 250x265 feet, and has been completed in time for the opening. The entire space is not utilized, and it is possible to more than double the capacity of the factory.
The total output, when running to capacity of the present machines, will be 100,000 feet of box shook per day. Orders are already filed, and many more are being received. One hundred men will be employed by the first of next week, according to Mr. Strong." (The Klamath News)
December 31, 1942: "Weyerhaeuser Timber company today became the owner of the Long-Bell Lumber company plant on Klamath river and the big Long-Bell timber tract in northeastern Klamath county and Lake county.
The transaction, one of the largest timber and mill deals here in years, was completed at 5 p.m. Wednesday.
It was announced that the Weyerhaeuser company will cut the timber from the Yamsay tract in the Weyerhaeuser mill here, and the Long-Bell plant is to be shut down immediately. The Weyerhaeuser company will take over as many of the Long-Bell sawmill crew as can be absorbed, and the remainder of the crew will work at the Long-Bell plant on shipping operations.
The shipping department at Long-Bell will be operated until the present inventory is disposed of. As the shipping crew completes its work as many as possible will be taken into the Weyerhaeuser operation, it was stated.
Purchases of the timber by the Weyerhaeuser company assures that it will be brought into Klamath Falls for manufacture, it was pointed out.
The timber acquired by Weyerhaeuser is on what is known as the Yamsay tract, and is the largest privately owned stand of timber in this area outside of the other holdings of the Weyerhaeuser company.
Weyerhaeuser Timber company will not start cutting immediately on the Yamsay tract. The Lamm Lumber company of Modoc Point is harvesting timber in that area at the present time.
Eventually, it is expected, Weyerhaeuser will extend its logging line, which now runs 25 miles north of Beatty, into the newly acquired Long-Bell timber to facilitate the harvesting operations which may not develop there for several years.
The Log-Bell plant on Klamath river is the old Shaw-Bertram mill. It was taken over by Long-Bell in 1936." (Herald and News)
The transaction, one of the largest timber and mill deals here in years, was completed at 5 p.m. Wednesday.
It was announced that the Weyerhaeuser company will cut the timber from the Yamsay tract in the Weyerhaeuser mill here, and the Long-Bell plant is to be shut down immediately. The Weyerhaeuser company will take over as many of the Long-Bell sawmill crew as can be absorbed, and the remainder of the crew will work at the Long-Bell plant on shipping operations.
The shipping department at Long-Bell will be operated until the present inventory is disposed of. As the shipping crew completes its work as many as possible will be taken into the Weyerhaeuser operation, it was stated.
Purchases of the timber by the Weyerhaeuser company assures that it will be brought into Klamath Falls for manufacture, it was pointed out.
The timber acquired by Weyerhaeuser is on what is known as the Yamsay tract, and is the largest privately owned stand of timber in this area outside of the other holdings of the Weyerhaeuser company.
Weyerhaeuser Timber company will not start cutting immediately on the Yamsay tract. The Lamm Lumber company of Modoc Point is harvesting timber in that area at the present time.
Eventually, it is expected, Weyerhaeuser will extend its logging line, which now runs 25 miles north of Beatty, into the newly acquired Long-Bell timber to facilitate the harvesting operations which may not develop there for several years.
The Log-Bell plant on Klamath river is the old Shaw-Bertram mill. It was taken over by Long-Bell in 1936." (Herald and News)
February 15, 1943: "Weyerhaeuser Timber company of Klamath Falls was high bidder with $8.85 per thousand for 16,000,000 feet of Fremont national forest timber. W. H. Lund, in charge of timber sales, announced here today.
Ivory Pine company, Bly, submitted a bid of $6.10.
The timber, consisting mainly of Ponderosa pine, with some sugar pine, lodgepole pine, white fir and California incense cedar, was sold to increase war production, Lund said.
The stand, in the Horse Glades unit of the forest, will be cut on a tree selection basis, he said, approximately 40 per cent being left as growing stock for production of future crops." (Herald and News)
Ivory Pine company, Bly, submitted a bid of $6.10.
The timber, consisting mainly of Ponderosa pine, with some sugar pine, lodgepole pine, white fir and California incense cedar, was sold to increase war production, Lund said.
The stand, in the Horse Glades unit of the forest, will be cut on a tree selection basis, he said, approximately 40 per cent being left as growing stock for production of future crops." (Herald and News)
December 30, 1949: "Weyerhaeuser camp 12, at the Little Yamsay No. 1 tract on the reservation, will open Tuesday, camp 4 and camp 6 Wednesday." (Herald and News)
March 7, 1950: "Weyerhaeuser Camp 12 has closed down for an Indefinite time." (Herald and News)
April 4, 1950: "Fred C. Naser, 58-year-old Weyerhaeuser camp 4 employe, received a leg injury about 4 p.m. yesterday afternoon when his right leg was squeezed between a cat track and a log.
He was brought to Klamath Valley hospital by Kaler's ambulance where examination showed no break but splintering of a bone." (Herald and News)
He was brought to Klamath Valley hospital by Kaler's ambulance where examination showed no break but splintering of a bone." (Herald and News)
April 8, 1950: "Logging company resumed operations this week after a shutdown of three weeks when the Weyerhaeuser at Sprague River started work again on Tuesday. Weston Engle and Don Wimer of Fort Klamath are again on the job as truck drivers." (Herald and News)
April 13, 1950: "Weyerhaeuser Timber company is logging at its Camp 11 site on the Indian reservation and hauling from there is expected to start in two weeks." (Herald and News)
May 15, 1950: "Pickets sprung up at 6 o'clock this morning across the road leading to the big Weyerhaeuser Timber company plant here, one of the largest in the Northwest, effectively halting operations of the plant as well as its four logging camps in this area.
The strike, called by CIO International Woodworkers of America, is against not only the local plant, but against Weyerhaeuser operations in Washington.
Between 900 and 1000 are employes of the Klamath Falls plant or of the camps.
Picket lines are also up at the logging camps." (Herald and News)
The strike, called by CIO International Woodworkers of America, is against not only the local plant, but against Weyerhaeuser operations in Washington.
Between 900 and 1000 are employes of the Klamath Falls plant or of the camps.
Picket lines are also up at the logging camps." (Herald and News)
May 15, 1950: "A $2999 damage suit against Weyerhaeuser Timber company was begun this morning in circuit court, brought by a woman whose husband was injured in a mill accident, April 12, 1946.
Plaintiff is Mrs. Velma O'Sullivan. Her husband, Jerry, was hurt when a load of lumber fell on him. He had a $25,000 damage suit against the company in federal court and at the end of litigation was awarded $1300.
Mrs. O'Sullivan seeks $2999 for loss of her husband's companionship while he was recovering from the injuries. She is represented by the Portland law firm of Lord, Franklin and Anderson, while the local firm of Farrens, Maxwell and Moshofsky represents the company." (Herald and News)
Plaintiff is Mrs. Velma O'Sullivan. Her husband, Jerry, was hurt when a load of lumber fell on him. He had a $25,000 damage suit against the company in federal court and at the end of litigation was awarded $1300.
Mrs. O'Sullivan seeks $2999 for loss of her husband's companionship while he was recovering from the injuries. She is represented by the Portland law firm of Lord, Franklin and Anderson, while the local firm of Farrens, Maxwell and Moshofsky represents the company." (Herald and News)
June 13, 1950: "A group of Weyerhaeuser Timber company employes who believe they represent a majority of Weyerhaeuser workers---union and non-union---last night requested a meeting with IWA-CIO officials to determine if bargaining rights of the local IWA should be taken away from the union's Northwest office.
They want to put negotiations toward settling the long strike against Weyerhaeuser's Klamath Falls plant into the hands of Klamath Falls men.
The group has requested a meeting with all IWA-member Weyerhaeuser employes present be held next Saturday night at 8 o'clock in the IWA-CIO hall.
Weyerhaeuser was struck by the IWA on a regional basis May 15, closing down plants over Oregon and Washington.
The strike has settled down to a standoff. About 9000 men are away from their jobs." (Herald and News)
They want to put negotiations toward settling the long strike against Weyerhaeuser's Klamath Falls plant into the hands of Klamath Falls men.
The group has requested a meeting with all IWA-member Weyerhaeuser employes present be held next Saturday night at 8 o'clock in the IWA-CIO hall.
Weyerhaeuser was struck by the IWA on a regional basis May 15, closing down plants over Oregon and Washington.
The strike has settled down to a standoff. About 9000 men are away from their jobs." (Herald and News)
June 14, 1950: "A mass meeting for Weyerhaeuser employes has been called for tomorrow night at 7:30 in the armory, a meeting that probably will be opposed and maybe boycotted by some Weyerhaeuser workers who have asked for a closed union (IWA-CIO) session Saturday night at the union hall.
Tomorrow's meeting was called by Tim Sullivan, president of the Klamath Basin District council, IWA, and local 6-12.
The activity was generated yesterday when a group of company employes saying they believed they could speak for a majority of Weyerhaeuser workers, criticized handling of the IWA strike against Weyerhaeuser and asked for a vote to determine whether the union's bargaining rights now held by the IWA's regional negotiating committee should be taken away from that group and returned to local control." (Herald and News)
Tomorrow's meeting was called by Tim Sullivan, president of the Klamath Basin District council, IWA, and local 6-12.
The activity was generated yesterday when a group of company employes saying they believed they could speak for a majority of Weyerhaeuser workers, criticized handling of the IWA strike against Weyerhaeuser and asked for a vote to determine whether the union's bargaining rights now held by the IWA's regional negotiating committee should be taken away from that group and returned to local control." (Herald and News)
June 21, 1950: "Weyerhaeuser paid $28.50 per thousand for sugar pine; $15.50 for Douglas fir, and $5.20 for white fir, for a total of 7,430,000 feet of timber in the upper Jenny creek area of southeastern Jackson county. The bid price exceeded the appraised price by 45 per cent." (Herald and News)
July 20, 1950: "An agreement to end the 66 day old strike of CIO woodworkers against Weyerhaeuser Timber company was reached today in Portland.
R. R. Macartney, Klamath Falls Weyerhaeuser manager, said his plans are to open the local plant and logging camps Tuesday.
The agreement reached today between the IWA's Northwest regional negotiating committee and company officials is subject to ratification by the union membership. Votes will be held in locals Sunday and the ballots will be counted Monday in Portland." (Herald and News)
R. R. Macartney, Klamath Falls Weyerhaeuser manager, said his plans are to open the local plant and logging camps Tuesday.
The agreement reached today between the IWA's Northwest regional negotiating committee and company officials is subject to ratification by the union membership. Votes will be held in locals Sunday and the ballots will be counted Monday in Portland." (Herald and News)
July 25, 1950: "Employes of the Weyerhaeuser Timber company plant here and logging camps in the county trooped back to work this morning as CIO woodworkers ended their strike against the company.
The strike lasted 10 weeks.
R. R. Macartney, Klamath Falls company manager, said a surprisingly complete crew reported for work on the first shift.
Some employes who found strike-interim jobs out of town have not yet returned.
Also, Macartney said, the company is receiving more applications for work now than it has gotten in four or five years.
Settlement of the strike gave Weyerhaeuser workers a 5-cent pay boost, three paid holidays and a company financed health and welfare plan. The IWA did not get the union shop it demanded." (Herald and News)
The strike lasted 10 weeks.
R. R. Macartney, Klamath Falls company manager, said a surprisingly complete crew reported for work on the first shift.
Some employes who found strike-interim jobs out of town have not yet returned.
Also, Macartney said, the company is receiving more applications for work now than it has gotten in four or five years.
Settlement of the strike gave Weyerhaeuser workers a 5-cent pay boost, three paid holidays and a company financed health and welfare plan. The IWA did not get the union shop it demanded." (Herald and News)
March 21, 1951: "Featured in an article appearing in the March issue of Weyerhaeuser magazine is Cecil Haggreen, veteran planerman at Weyerhaeuser's Klamath Falls plant.
The article is one of a series describing jobs in Weyerhaeuser sawmills.
Haggreen's work is of a highly skilled variety, requiring knowledge of different types of lumber in order to correctly set the feeder chain for the type lumber passing under the planer knives.
His machine can handle 320 board feet a minute.
His job is one of the noisiest in the mill. The enclosed planer knives scream like an airplane engine when the lumber goes through. Consequently there is no communication near the machine except by hand signals.
Haggreen, 41-years-old, has worked at Weyerhaeuser almost 20 years with the exception of four years as an Air Force mechanic. He's married and has two children." (Herald and News)
The article is one of a series describing jobs in Weyerhaeuser sawmills.
Haggreen's work is of a highly skilled variety, requiring knowledge of different types of lumber in order to correctly set the feeder chain for the type lumber passing under the planer knives.
His machine can handle 320 board feet a minute.
His job is one of the noisiest in the mill. The enclosed planer knives scream like an airplane engine when the lumber goes through. Consequently there is no communication near the machine except by hand signals.
Haggreen, 41-years-old, has worked at Weyerhaeuser almost 20 years with the exception of four years as an Air Force mechanic. He's married and has two children." (Herald and News)
December 17, 1951: "Construction of a plant at the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. millsite here to manufacture a new line of forest products, to be known as Weyerhaeuser fiberboard, was announced today by R. R. Macartney, Klamath Falls manager for the company.
The construction will begin, Macartney said, as soon as the national production authority in Washington gives the company the green light.
Production is scheduled for sometime in the spring of 1953.
The plant will employ about 75 persons and will be a perpetual operation.
At the same time Macartney said Weyerhaeuser's sawmill will reduce its production after the first of the year about 25 percent and that at the new level of cutting the company should be able to operate indefinitely.
Currently the front end of the sawmill is being rebuilt, with one rig closed down at a time. That work will take several months. A hydraulic barker is also being built.
Nearly all of the raw material going into the fiberboard production will be obtained from previously little-used species of white for, Macartney said, and the manufacture will use many white fir trees that in the past have had little or no commercial value.
About 50 percent of the raw material going into fiberboard will be using up timber that has been left standing in the woods when white fir is cut for lumber. The supply is plentiful, Macartney said. The Weyerhaeuser mill currently uses the particular species for lumber, cutting up to 10,000,000 feet a year.
The plant---plans call for an L-shaped building with some 30,000 feet of floor space---lying east of the sawmill---is to be designed to produce about 90,000,000 square feet of fiberboard a year on a one-eighth inch thickness basis, operating 20 shifts a week at full capacity.
Weyerhaeuser's engineering department at Tacoma is designing the plant and for some months a pilot plant at Longview has been producing a line of fiberboard.
Though the major part of the raw material will be used and, Macartney said, with the new plant Weyerhaeuser will be able to use about 21,000,000 board feet of white fir a year on a 40-year rotation.
The plant is to have processes and equipment to make any variety of the board a customer may want, and six different kinds are contemplated at present. These are facing board, decorative board, floor underlay, industrial board, hardboard and moldable board, coming in thicknesses from one-sixteenth to three-eights inches, and with two standard surfaces, screen on one side and smooth on the other of smooth on both.
Important characteristics of fiberboard is its smoothness, hardness, strength and resistance. It can be nailed, drilled, punched, bent, sawed, flexed, sanded, painted and will hold baked-on enamel.
Industries use the product for certain auto parts, in radio and television sets, decorative panels, cabinet and millwork trim, wall covering, underflooring and the like.
The venture into fiberboard production her, Macartney said, will be the first on a large scale for Weyerhaeuser." (Herald and News)
The construction will begin, Macartney said, as soon as the national production authority in Washington gives the company the green light.
Production is scheduled for sometime in the spring of 1953.
The plant will employ about 75 persons and will be a perpetual operation.
At the same time Macartney said Weyerhaeuser's sawmill will reduce its production after the first of the year about 25 percent and that at the new level of cutting the company should be able to operate indefinitely.
Currently the front end of the sawmill is being rebuilt, with one rig closed down at a time. That work will take several months. A hydraulic barker is also being built.
Nearly all of the raw material going into the fiberboard production will be obtained from previously little-used species of white for, Macartney said, and the manufacture will use many white fir trees that in the past have had little or no commercial value.
About 50 percent of the raw material going into fiberboard will be using up timber that has been left standing in the woods when white fir is cut for lumber. The supply is plentiful, Macartney said. The Weyerhaeuser mill currently uses the particular species for lumber, cutting up to 10,000,000 feet a year.
The plant---plans call for an L-shaped building with some 30,000 feet of floor space---lying east of the sawmill---is to be designed to produce about 90,000,000 square feet of fiberboard a year on a one-eighth inch thickness basis, operating 20 shifts a week at full capacity.
Weyerhaeuser's engineering department at Tacoma is designing the plant and for some months a pilot plant at Longview has been producing a line of fiberboard.
Though the major part of the raw material will be used and, Macartney said, with the new plant Weyerhaeuser will be able to use about 21,000,000 board feet of white fir a year on a 40-year rotation.
The plant is to have processes and equipment to make any variety of the board a customer may want, and six different kinds are contemplated at present. These are facing board, decorative board, floor underlay, industrial board, hardboard and moldable board, coming in thicknesses from one-sixteenth to three-eights inches, and with two standard surfaces, screen on one side and smooth on the other of smooth on both.
Important characteristics of fiberboard is its smoothness, hardness, strength and resistance. It can be nailed, drilled, punched, bent, sawed, flexed, sanded, painted and will hold baked-on enamel.
Industries use the product for certain auto parts, in radio and television sets, decorative panels, cabinet and millwork trim, wall covering, underflooring and the like.
The venture into fiberboard production her, Macartney said, will be the first on a large scale for Weyerhaeuser." (Herald and News)
February 5, 1965: "Lee Hobbs, 26, suffered a possible back injury Friday when he fell while working on the green chain at Weyerhaeuser Company.
A Weyerhaeuser spokesman said an investigation into the accident was underway and no other details were available.
Hobbs was taken to Klamath Valley Hospital by Peace Ambulance. His injuries were not believed serious." (Herald and News)
A Weyerhaeuser spokesman said an investigation into the accident was underway and no other details were available.
Hobbs was taken to Klamath Valley Hospital by Peace Ambulance. His injuries were not believed serious." (Herald and News)
February 15, 1965: "Randolph Hamm, 47, planerman at Weyerhaeuser, was reported improving at Klamath Valley Hospital Saturday night from injuries received Thursday when he was struck by a board falling from the roof of the mill.
He was taken to the hospital by Peace Ambulance." (Herald and News)
He was taken to the hospital by Peace Ambulance." (Herald and News)