Man., Feb., 27, 1961 Thm Newt-Review, Roseburg, Ore. 3 V
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FIRST STEP in foiling a tree, as shown in the top picture,
a power saw operator cuts a wedge on the side facing the
direction the tree ts to foil; then, he goes around to the
other side makes his cut. In the bottom picture below,
a cot picks up a bundle of logs in the woods and pulls then?
to the landing to be loaded. All pictures on this featur
page were taken on a logging operation of Roseburg Lum
ber Company's in the Umpqua National Forest. (Photos
by Andy Fautheree) .
"TIMBER," the troditiwwl tall of a faller when a trm
goes down, is yelled, left, by a woodsman when , two
trees go down at the som time. One tree could not be
felled by itself in the right direction, so it took another to
push it over. Above, two buckets, armed with power sows,-
oxes and wedges, cut a fallen tree into sections to be
later yarded and hauled away,
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some LOGS con't be brought to the landing by a "cat," so they are literally dragged
n via a towering spar pole by what, lumberman for years have termed a "donkey."
The donkey is rigged with cable which runs to the top of the spar pole and down to
where .the logs are located. n some instances, it is also used for loading logs to be
hauled away. . ,
THE LAST STEP in a typicol logging operetta is the actual delivery of the logs to th
mill. Here, a logging truck ond trailer takes on a load of logs. A special hoist is
used with pirtcher-lik claws that pick them up on or two at a time and load theim
on the truck. The crane gets its logs from a nearby pile the yarders have brought In,
Canyonvillc
Mills Operate
Year Around
Two lumber mills operate in the
CanyoBville are, only one of
which is locally owned and oper
ated, sawing at tneir peak tola!
Evans Winchester Plant
Specializes In Plywood
Seven miles north of Bosehurj?, one of a number of Mvmem ot
travelers on U, is, m freeway cant Uie Kvans Products Company, Olh-
look to the west over an immense
miU pond and see the big letleri
EVANS J'KOUUCTS COMPANY.
Evans Produrts is yet another of
Douglas County numerous lumber
industries. The plant in Winches
ter nrfwhiff, SfJ,rfSf snrl in.
of dose to thousand board feel ( ,,rjor f,mshl plymod which sells
oaiiv ana empioyine some m nn : ,i,.r nt irari m. pnii -i i,r u ...a i,, tw, i, ,.i
on two shifts reports correspond- At full capacity, the plant produces follows the generally conservative
.i V S . . , 54 million noara leel oi piywooa approach of the company.
Herbert Lumoer Co., owned by 0B , s, hagw pp, VMr- . ,
Milton and Ariene Herbert of Can- Tne pant waa tajn )Sv and Labsratory Usi
er divisions of the company pre-
mice various type ot maemnery,
bicycles, boats and batteries,
Supt. Hail said he did not think
the Winchester plant was unique
in any special way. He said that
methods of production were pret
ty much the same as in other
yonvilte, and located east of Can-1 ,.i,( t ,. u.ul
y?n.,,ie ,wal bS'lt 'n ,he ""n"1"! Jones. In IMa Evans bought the
"Experimentation, Hall said,
of IMS at which time i it employed planl 8n(1 has operaimu it products research laboratories in
seven men anil sawed between 15 1 ever smn M ,ak ,in)nl ,gj men Corvallis." The lab, which is un-
, fLrT.L; ?,a"cvire employed at the Winchester tder the direction of Dr. PWr Jem-
i t , i. V,, , ! Panl including 1 supervisory per-jiak, works in conjunction with as 20 loads fjoms out per Aw tm
ri lm inner to, (at hwihb io run i mnl)e. xhe annual payroll amounUSthe agriculture department t Ore-! the Hubbanl Creek Bowl, andwiUt
Umpqua Area
Roads Draw
Many Trucks
As soon as the logging wad ta
the Umpqua area are usable each,
jlar, the trucks start rolling m
almost every road.
Up Hubbard Creek several rr:w
stands of timber have been opened
and they go back to the eni ot
the county road tea or tah
miles.
Martin Bros. Container and. Tint,
ber Products Co. (rem 0Md
and f. and H Lumber e, l
Sulherlm are two of the largest
operations. A few individual logga
ing "shows" are cut and timber
hauled by private equipment, too.
Martin Bros, cuts from its mm
timber and also from stands it
has purchased. In peak seasons.
Martin Bros, may have as Many
in eonjunciion with his Canyon
vine operation. Row we total out
put at peak is M thousand feet,
and 4S men are employed on two
,i,,o.
According to Herbert. th milli '! P1"?1 , ""J' om five E'n
has never been down more than "" won. ine
to more than a million dollars;
Othar Plant Operated
Superintendent at the plant is
Harold Hall. According to Hall,
icon Slate College, "Any new ideas! the empty trucks returning, it be
j the lab comes, tip with are shared j comes a very busy road.
nn an plants nan iau?a, i flimoii an umoer eui now, is
The Winchester plant lo md-i selected and cut in a planned pat-
ply is contracted out lo private lux-lrrn. so as to Wee trees far a
gers who haul the peeler Jogs to (sustained yield. On the el side
fwo weeltn and weoilarlv ooeraies company operates two veneer plant tty trufK ana aeposn ot we umpqua mver on ayea
muh 2 thm .IlSi? c plants in fiold Beach, plywood them in the companies targe miUjRoad across from the HuMmkI
4-L J.S . , JEf-. -k Plant in Coos Bay, and a hard, pond. I Creek side a another stretch
:fwtr , mil mi. . .
of Canyonville, is an affiliate oi W" P'
thm OuI,IIa HCnKfe.,, ( V. r,A i v-"
saws between tw and 12 thousand
board feet a day at peak produc
tion, at which time it employs 35
men on two shifts.
According to Herbert Paeti, one
of the owners, the mill has opcr
The wood product plants are only
SAWMILLINS STARTS
ts j; u w-l
A CLEAN SWEEP is the end result of this unit cut in
the Umpqua Notional Forest by Roseburg Lumber Co.
From a distance, the usable fallen logs sweep to the center
where the spar pole is located. It appears like a mogne
drawing iron graphite. This unit will soon be burned off
anu planted with new trees for future use.
Oreeon near Champoes in 1KM by
ated continuously since it was pur ! Thomas McKay. our years later,
chased in 1MB, except for three Mson I -re eoiwtructed mill on
months in JOM following the burn- j Willamette River anil cut iiim
mg of the planer mill at Riddle. "r 'hs went into the construction
Right in the center of Cam-on- he ""t buildings erected la
ville is the old Alcan mill site. i -Salem. -
still owned by E. Bregman. who.
operated il smee IMT, and bought (ig INDUSTRY
out all J. Paul Camnbell mill m-l
terests in 19S0, oerting them m.- The lumber and logging Indus-
lil IBM. Acconlmg to I. W. CII
In talking about the plant' fti- ( county road along which more tint.
ture. Hall said that there are no) ber is tut. This road, too, m fcusy,
immediate plans to increase Ihej Roseburg Lumber, Martin Bros,
size of the Winchester plant. He. and Quist Co. are among c8iBpa
said that for the most part im-iies iismf it.
provements in the plant will be in Some of the farms, where tint-
The first sawmill was built n I trramlinin( product loa mettiuns, ivt has itecn Harvested lor many
raw materials, and improving sod as they become ready for market,
updating the machinery. , It is nut possible to estimate the
. I timber that has been harvested ta
this area, for it was started m'nm
WASTE USED loten hid i i u-ta while mm
In Douglas County and the rest ou """"
of the slate, the old sawmill bura-1
er is passing out of the picture, 1
I he wood that comes from tne tor-
et is now being utiliirf within I
TIMBER MANAGED
The state has over W fcQEm
In- brines into the stale a billion I the Plant. It bocs into boards. olv-Iboard feet of merchantable limber
who with J. Paul! Vnmnhi-if hoti2:it dollars annuallv and aermmts fori wood, nolo and oaoer. harriboard staihlma now. And most ol it hi
the mill in 1W1, il was started by 60 per cent of the induslnal pay-land fiberhoard, soil twriitioners j being managed trader the poBcy
Fred Cooper and Ted Boss, iroll. jand chemical producti, 'tbat "timber is crop.