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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1953)
I SOUTH COAST MILLING COMBINES NEW MILL, TRANSPORTATION SET-UP TO BUILD NEW INDUSTRY The S outh Coast M illing Com pany, which w ent into o p eratio n last week, is a brand new affair in this neck of th e woods. I t ’s new in lots of ways. The plant, which lies ju st north of town beside its com panion company, S outh C oast L um ber, is as m odern as they m ake them . The long c o rru g a te d steel-clad building houses a collection of th-' newest things in th e lu m b er busi ness. New Machinery Shown in South Coast Plant aw hile. W hy h asn ’t it been done be fo re? W ell, as Bill F a lle rt, w ho’s president of both S o u th C oasts, will tell you, i t ’s kind of co m p li cated. In th e first place, it’s a volum e deal. You d o n ’t ship lum ber by barge in little batches. S outh C oast plans for at least four m il lion feet jrer m onth, and m aybe m ore. T hey need th a t m uch to k(‘np th e barg es full, and to satis \ Los A ngeles dem and for Sou a In terested b y stan d ers fro m ern C u rry iber wh eh, inci Brookings as well as lum berm en d entally, is highly ra te d on the rom all over will get a chance m ark e t down there. ‘ ) view the new mill F rid ay , Oct. T h ere a re n ’t m any m ills th at 9. wht n S outh Coast will hold open house. And it’s q u ite a mill. produce th a t kind ol volum e. It Lum ber moves into th e m ill to tak es all of S outh C o ast’s gadgets be planed on a chain belt, w hich to do it. plus som e ex tra s. E x tra s mow s the pile of lu m b er dropped like Bill F a lle rt who rutis the by the c a rrie r up to a brand new p lan t, ami C h arles Ames who gadget. T his gadget picks up th e keeps lum ber com ing to it. Like load, tilts it, and s ta r ts feeding W a rre n S m ith who keeps the the rough lum ber onto th e belt m ark et ask in g for S outh C oast which will tak e it, ev e n tu a lly to products, and Bill Zickler. who, am azingly, keeps th e records the planer. B efore it g ets to the planer, s tra ig h t on w here it cam e from, though, it has q u ite a ca ree r. One w here it’s going, and how to get roller moves it over, sq u ares up i th ere . O th e r good m en arc pessary, like Bill B oones, mill the end, and feeds it onto a tow orem an, and Ja c k H ow ard, plan of saw s The saw n earest th e end -rman. slices off the tip of th e lum ber, And it ta k e s a lot of lumber-. so th a t it is ex a ctly the length it’s supposed to be. And w hile this is More th an any one mill around going on, a n o th e r gadget stam p s here is producing. So S outh Coast th« mill trad e -m ark , “S ocom i” , on ;s ta k in g up th e production of at least, eight m ills, pouring their it. From th ere it slides into the rough lum ber into th e m ill, and I n r, which spew s planed lu m ! dripping finished lum ber out ber out onto th e g reen chain like T here a re som e p re tty good s :z< d spag h etti. But before it gets out 1 nulls feeding lum ber to S outh »',* the mill, it has one m ore ob j Coast, too. stacle to pass. It w orks out p re tty well for A g rader, w atching th e lum ber, everyone. B arg e shipm ent is c u t looks at each piece ca re fu lly as it ting tra n s p o rta tio n costs for pass s. If he spots a stick th a t S outh C oast, and th e ir tra d e could be up -g rad ed by a little m arked, n ea tly packaged lu m b er ’rim m ing, he pulls it out a little. is highly prized on the m a r k e t ... \ gadget called a m erry-go-round so highly prized i t ’s sold before . icks it up, w h irls it out of the it’s shipped. T he rough m ills like line, and runs it back to a re-saw it. . , they dum p th e ir lum ber in m an w ho’ll trim up the piece, and S outh C o a st’s yard, and th e y ’re thereby raise th e g rade — and through. . . As fa r as th e y ’re con the price. cerned. the lum ber is sold. S outh From S outh C oast i t ’s a 28 m ile C oast likes it. . . th e n a tu ra l cx- tru ek ride to th e C rescent C ity cellence of S o u th e rn C u rry lum - doek. w here th e lu m b er is loaded 1 her plus th e ir excellent nroduc- on Sause B ro th e r’s barges, and tion m ethods a re giving th em a hauled to Los Angeles by ocean ?!i ady m a rk e t. And Los A ngeles going tug. likes it. . . th e y ’re clam oring for 1 It isn’t juMt the mill th a t is new more. about South C o ast’s set-up, i t ’s B rookings likes it, too. L u m lv r the whole package — from woods m illed at S outh Coast is going < T to Los Angeles. No one else has of here, and dollars for it arc done an y th in g q u ite like this, a l com ing back. It isn’t logs th at though South C oast L um ber has are leaving, and th e dollars a r e n ’t been shipping by barge for quite going to out-of-tow n m ills. You arc cordially invited to THE SOUTH COAST MILLING CO. Open House Friday Oct 9 Afternoon only to see Oregon's most modern planing mill in operation SOUTH COAST MILLING COMPANY T w o Miles N orth of Br<x>king$ on 101 ----- ----------------------------------- —/ T his is the tiltin g loader, w hich tak es a load of rough lu m b er and feeds it into the chain which will c a rry it into th e planing m ill. New m achinery keeps mill hum m ing B rookings S tudio P hoto. P lan in g m achinery and d u st collecting sy stem a re shown here. S y stem is m ost m odern a v a ila b le . Blow pipe system and dust co llec to rs w ere in stalled by M edford Blow P ipe (. o. B rookings S tu d io P h o to .
