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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
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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 .