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sawmill union and the plywood union to fill them all.
Improved Markets Indicate Big Year For
Smith Wood-Products Plant Here in 1939
This month will end a decade of
operation in Coquille for Smith-Wood
Products, Inc. This period in retro­
spect reflects a development and
progress unsurpassed by any other
operating lumber mill in the entire
northwest.
Commencing with the purchase of
a small Port Orford cedar and battery
separator plant in 1028 that was oper­
ating on the present site at that time,
Smith-Wood Products has grown from
a small mill operation that it was here,
employing a hundred or more men,
into a major industry of Coos county
and the largest, most consistent of
the economic livelihoods ot Coquille.
This firm, employing at times nearly
1600 men in the mill and in the forests
in order to carry on its operations and
regularly has 750 working in the plant
which is only two blocks from the
business section of the city.
As Smith-Wood has grown, Coquille
has grown and more homes have been
built here and new businesses have
started and new business buildings
have been built as a result of this
aggressive industry right in our city.
So, that the big gain in population
of Coquille has been due chiefly to
this large plant which has continually
added new departments that always
have required more labor, giving the
city more payroll.
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And now with another year in the
offing, predictions for the 1930 season
seem brighter than at any time since
June of 1937. More optimism on the
eastern markets and better conditions
abroad, particularly in England, have
led to a sharp uptrend in construction
which will without doubt result in
full time and complete operation of
the local mill to capacity in the com­
ing year.
“We have several producing units
in the mill," said R. A. Jeub, assistant
general manager, but the apparent
increase of business already on hand
for the new year is not confined to
any- particular form of over-produc­
tion.
The uptrend is general," he
continued. The principal manufac­
turing units in the plant include a
cedar mill, Venetian blind stock fac­
tory, cedar veneer and battery sep­
arator plant, fir mill, plywood plant
and the retail yard.
The plywood mill has the largest
number of men employed with about
225 in this department and it is work­
ing two shifts a day. The fir mill is
producng 350,000 feet of lumber a
day on a double shift which started
early last summer.
Other depart-!
In the years since he' found
plenty
of
toys
and
Colorado- Town
Revives Ritual
Of Log Burning
MERRY CHRISTMAS
to
our many
Friends and Patrons
Co.|
COQUILLE
VALLEY
Patronage and
| Good WiU
New Additions At
During the Past Year
Plant This Year
Not Extensive
and wish
One and All
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Although additions to the Smith-
Wood plant here have not been ex­
tensive during the past year, there
have been some improvements and
further investment that maintain the
plant as the second largest lumber
mill operation of the county (Coos
Bay Lumber at Marshfield is regarded
as slightly larger).
A new planer was installed in the
planer shed and a timber sizer was
placed in the fir mill so that timbers
14 in. a 24 in. can now be handled
slfed.
Two large loading sheds were con­
structed on the tide n^xt to the nil-,
road siding which permits all weather
loading for the company now. A 110
horsepower diesel engine was placed
in use in another tow boat on the
river which makes a total of three
dieeel tow boats, together with two
gas tow boats.
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A Merry Christmas
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and a
Alpine Coal Co
SWIFT 8 CO.
Coquille
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