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SHEVLIN PLANT DESCRIBED
IN LUMBER MAGAZINE
Tho Issue of the American I.unv
be r in an dutcil August 15 contains a
two page nrtlclo tinder tho title
"Turning Far Western IMne Into
dumber," descriptive of the locnl
plant of The; Hhevlln-lllxon Company.
Tlio nrtlclo In rs follows:
l'rom Tlic Itimlciiimti.
Tho development of the pine lum
ber manufacturing In tho West Iiiih
resulted In the erection of soma
Hplo n d I d 1 u m 1) o r manufacturing
pluntH within the Inst few years, and
among tho more recent as well an
more complete Is the plant of The
Khevlln-lllxon Company at llend.
llccausu of the fact that the plant Is
equipped not only with the latest and
best mid most modem mnchlneiy us
ed in manufacturing liimher hut that
HiIh lumber goeH on and Is roinnnu
factured In the sash, door and mill
work factory It Is attracting the at
tention of lumbermen throughout
tho western country, many of them
are visiting llend to look It over, as
well ns the plant of the Hrooks
Scnnlon Lumber to,, at the same
placo, which watt also recently com
pitted and, although not having n
door cuttlng-up factory In connec
tion, Is a splendid lumber making
plant. These two Institutions are
Indeed objects of Interest In lumber
circles In the West and buyers of
lumber tlirouhout the emit are Inter
ested because with Increasing stead
Ineen their supply of plnu lumber
Ih coming from the great Inland Km
pirn region, eastern Oregon, south
ern Idaho, California, and adjacent
territory, which uro this country's
now pine producing districts.
Tho Hhevlln family need no Intro
duction to tho lumber trade. The
into Thomas II. Khevlln, the founder,
went to Minneapolis from .Muskegon,
.Mich,, In the early days of lumber
manufacturing on the Mississippi
river, starting with the old Hall &
Ilucey Lumber Company, the iinmo
of which was afterward changed In
the Slievlln-Cnrpenter Company. The
Hhevlln Interests extended to various
other lumber manufacturing plants
In tho white pine north, later to
Montana, and now Oregon. Like
wise the I llxon family, of l.a Crosse,
Win,, was closely Identified with lum
ber manufacturing on the (thick
river and the Wisconsin river In the
early days. At llend there Is a com
bination of the Shovlln-lllxou Inter
eslH that temlH towaid stability and
pcrtmiiieucy.
When the late Thomas I.. Hhevlln,
who passed away at his home In
Minneapolis between last Christmas
mid New Year'H, graduated from
Ynlt In IIMlii, where he had achieved
fame as an athlete and particularly
nn n football pluer, be uenl with his
football team on a tour of Kurope,
and on his return spi'nt eight mouths
In the pine timber about llend, with
tlio lesult that large holdings were
uciiilred, It was the llrst work In
which he was engaged after lie left
college, and when, upon the death uf
his father, the late TIioiiiiih II. Hliev
llu, the management of the vast
.Slmvllii lumber manufacturing In
terests was thrown upon his broad
iihouldors It was his niiiMtlou to de
velop the pine timber holdlugH about
llend, on Ihe upper Deschutes river,
most of which he had himself per
sonally looked ocr and nciiilred.
He llnnlly divided on the p. mm
r;id wiitlc wns begun Auwi: 1, HiKi,
but be uiu not destined k two the
completed plr.nl, which begun sw
ing Mai oh L'.'l, IU10. It v.'.is Mr.
Sliovllr'a pride, liL dr'iiin f ml ombl-
tlou, say tils UHKnlute:, and to Mm
belong the credit for what Ik being
nrcompllslied. In this he wr.a nbly
pecomleil by his .'ousln, T. A. McCiinu
who now luui general supervision of
1i .Miovlin Intel tuta In the wist, re
siding nt llend, giving his personal
attention to the big plant theie.
The olllcers of The Khevllii-lllxon
Company ate: Frank I. Illxon, I.n
Crosse, Wis., president; llovoy C.
Cluike, Mluneiipulls, Minn., vice
president uud 11. W, Wetiuore, Min
neapolis, secretary and treasurer.
Mr. McCann Is a nntlvo of New
York, After completing his studies
In 1!07 at (leorgetown University,
Washington, I). C , he went to lie
mldjl, Minn., Mid began learning the
lumber business In the xurd of the
(Irookaton Lumber Company, a 8hev.
lln-llhou Interest. In less than ton
eiirs he bus risen to the leadership
of tho vast Hhevlln Interests In the
west, lie worked from tho iKittnm
up siul, possessing a receptive mind
a nd nut being afraid of hard work,
after working through the different
departments lie entered tlio sales de
partment anil trawled on the road
polling lumber. Ho then became
miiiinger of the plant and for so vet
jeaiu had char go of operations lit
llemldjl. lu liiir. Mr. McCann left
llemldjl uud took charge of tho l.'b
ly l.uinhur Company, at l.lbby, Mont
rilnco operations wero begun at llend
be ha had charge of both mid now
visits l.lbby for u day or two onco
or twice a month, leaving the details
of umnageiueiit to able department
heads there.
Hum !i,V,000 Acre of l'lne Timber
laud. Tlio Bhovlln-llUon Company has
nearly 200.000 tcrei of splendid pine
tlmberlnud In tho upper Deschutes
xesion lu east Central Oregon, all
tributary to the plant at llend. The
first of the Umber wan acquired by
T. 1. Shcvlln In 1900 in tho namo of
ths Fremont Timber Company. In
191G the holdings of the Deschutes
Lumber Company were acquired nnd
more recently In Juno of this year
the entire holdlngB In this region
or Muellers, of Davenport. Iowa, were
acquired, making a total of nearly a
quarter million acres of timber.
A description of the plant of The
Shevlln-Illxon Company nt llend Is
of Interest. Tho sawmill Is ",4.210
feet In size nnd Is equipped with two
Filer & Stowell single cutting band
mills, with edger, trimmer, etc., and
Gl Inch carriage, with 14 inch shot
gun feed.
Passing out of the sawmill on to
the 192 foot sorting platform the
common lumber Is pulled off and
taken to the yard tind plied, while
tho select uud shop lumber goes on
to tho end of the sorting platform
nnd Into the larger stacker building
In front of the battery of twenty
Grand Itnplds Veneer Company's
moist air dry kilns. These kilns are
220 feet long and 100 feet wide,
with u totol capacity of 720,000" feet
of lumber. Ilecaueo of the fact that
moro than half or the mill's output
has to be dried before going to tho
different cuttlng-up departments this
extensive dry kiln equipment Is ne
cessary. Tho Iiinvbcr going to tho
kllt'm automatically stacked and an
unstackcr, having the opposition of
the stacker, handles the lumber after
It hits been dried. The lumber In
this way Is kept under cover prac
tically till the time, from the mill
to the kilns, planing mill, dry lum
ber sheds and the different fsctorles.
alongside of the pinning mllln, fac
tories and sheds are sidetracks r.ip
uble of holding forty railroad cars.
The planing mill, box factory, and
If fact everything outside of thu
nawinlll, nro operated by el.vtrlcltv,
motors being attached directly to
each mnchlne.
Tho power Is furnlnhed by a Filer
&. Stowell Corliss 7,0 horsepower
engine, at en in for which comes from
nine 72x20 Inch and two 721S inch
boilers. Tho electricity Is supplied
by two turbines, one GOO kilowatt
and In addition there Is u direct con
necting generator of ."0 kilowatts.
Tho burner i.t :i I reel In diameter
nnd 110 feet high.
Thu pl.iiilng mill, which Is small
hccniiHo so much or the mill output
Is handled lu tho factories. Is equip
ped with llerlln mmelilnes. Including
a surfacer, a matcher, n molder, a
rip saw, a siding saw, and other ma
chines. lle.Miiul the pinning mill Is
tho door factory, 210x270 feet In
she. In which cut-up door stock Is
made. It Is capable of turning out
1,000 sasji and 2,000 openings In a
day. It Is motor driven, as Is tho
planing mill and box factory.
The box factory extends on beyond
thu planing mill and Is I,"i0x210 feet
III she and Is capable of using 20,-
000,000 feet of box lumber annually.
There Is ample room for piling
lumber In the yard, which furnishes
excellent air drying facilities, as
llend Is at nn elevation of 1,000 feet
nhovo sea level and there nre nhout
1122 das or sunshine each year.
Starting March 211 the sawmill
turned out 5,000,000 feet nf lumber
during the llrst four weeks, which
shows how well' the plant wiib con
structed. The nnmiiil output of this
single mill operated as It is. night
and day, Is 7!,000,000 feet. Hecent
ly The Shevllii-I llxon Company tie.
elded to Increase tho sawmill cnpaclty
by building another unit of n saw
mill alongside of thoMlrst mill and
this plant Is now well along nnd will
be lu operation early in tho fall,
equipped with one Filer & Stowell
baud mill on the start, with room
left for a second hand mill alongside.
If It Is deemed advisable by market
conditions to Install a fourth hand
later on. With tho three hand mills
In operation Is Is estimated thnt the
plant will tuin out 110,000,000 feet
of lumber n ear. nnd should n fourth
band be Installed thu cnpaclty will be
Increased to nearly 150,000,000 feet
of lumber annually.
Thep hint wus designed by Dion
& Horskotte, of Minneapolis, undor
tho general supervision of E. H. Dca,
of Minneapolis, who has general sup
ervision of tho construction and op
erating of all of tho Shcvlln saw
mills. The lumber from tho Bccond saw
mill unit will ho taken by chains at
the rear of the mill, through tho end
of the first unit sawmill, on to tho
same sorting platform nnd on to tho
stacker shed, or to tho jard, as do
slred. In the second unit sawmill
there will be an edger and trimmer,
n b well us a cut off saw for cutting
up long logs.
It Is expected the sawmill will be
In operation about 45 weeks each
year, shutting down only for repalra
during midwinter. The dam across
the Deschutes river at the mill makes
a splendid logging pond and the river
Is open all the year around.
All of the Shovlin logging is under
tho general supervision of J. A.
Nichols, of Minneapolis. Ernest
Nichols looks after the logging at
llend.
Tho logging rallrond extends out
from the mill five mile to the edge
of the timber and
couple of miles to
EVERY DOLLAR YOU PAY FOR
BRICK THAT IS MADE IN BEND
STAYS HERE
Brick is the MOST ECONOMICAL Building Material there is.
All who have used our product are satisfied.
The Bend Brick & Lumber Co.
Company In Pittsburg and Philadel
phia. llend Is n thriving community lo
cated on the Deschutes rher, 150
mlle3 south of tho Columbia river,
and at the southern terminus of tho
then into It a Mil and Harrlman lines extending
l. n flout ,..,.. ' tl.fn nnCloM fnr n rTnvJIn I. nlittt.
There Is no underbrush and tho land 'ping facilities over three trnnscntl-
Is level, making an excellent logging
opportunity. Two Ilaldwln locomo
tlves nro operated on tho main line
uud u shay locomotive Is used for
switching. Tho logging la dune by a
Clyde log skldder nnd a McKlffert
log loader. In addition to a Lldgcr
wood skldder nnd loader. An Ohio
swinging crnno assists In gcncrnl
work.
About 100 acres comprise tho mill
site, of which over 100 ncrcs havo
been cleared for uso at tho present
time. Tho land Ilea high nbovo the
river, tho location giving nn excel
lent circulation of air for drying
purposes, which Is greatly aided by
the altitude and sunshine.
Thed ry lumber Is housed in two
largo sheds, one C32 feet long and
100 feet wldo Inside, at ench end of
which ore 12 foot covered plotforms,
making tho total width of the nhed
121 feet. Tho other shed Is 500
feet long nnd of tho snmo width, and
together they will hold 10,000,000
feet of lumber. '
Tho Bnsh and door cut-up factory
Is under tho supervision of Henry
Klopp, of Spoknne, nn experienced
nnsh and door manufacturer, who
makes and markets this part of tho
output, while tho box factory, which
began operations July 1, Is being
looked nfter In n general way by F.
A. Douty, or Portland, who super
vised tho construction or tho box fac
tory. The marketing of tho box out
put Is handled by tho Kniipp-Chenoy
Company, of Portland, Oro., with of-
llces In the Spalding building. 0.
W. Cheney Btiporlntends tho box rnc
tory, while .1. II. Knnpp looks after
tho sales lu the Portland olllce. Ho
was formerly secretary of tho North
west Association of Ilox Manufactur
ers and Is an experienced box ir.an,
r.c nro Messrs. Cheney nnd Douty.
Coiiifoitnblc Olllce Qunrteix INtuli.
lished.
The general olllcea of The Shevlln-
Illxon Company, of llend tro housed
In n comfortable 'building on tho
hanks of the river, one story high
with a largo counting room nnd a
number of private olllccs for depart
ment malingers. It will bo noticed
in tho foreground of thu picture
herewith. J. P. Hennesiiy Is lumber
sales manager at llend, having re
cently moved there rrom l.lbby, Mon
tana, where he had charge or oper
ations. Ho Is assisted nt llend by
Flunk Prince.
The eastern olllco In Chicago la
looked after by Arthur W (.airliners,
who Is well knuwn In the marketing
of liili'.nd Empire lumber, having
been lu tho wholesale lumber busi
ness In Spokane for the last ten
years. (J. W. Gates & Co,, Portland,
Ore., handle th-s sales In tho Wy
oming, I'tnh r.nd Colorado territory.
Mr. (lutes Is likewise nn experienced
lumberman, having been engagod in
the wbolesalo lumber huslnesn in
Portland for .i dozen year, mid prior
to thnt sold lumber for many yoara
in the east. N. II. Morgan, with of
fices In Mlnenupolls, looks after tho
Minnesota territory, whllo Crowen &
Cow en of Waterloo, and tho Wilson,
ilex Lumber Company, of Porry,
Iowa, handle the Iowa territory. Tho
llradford - Kennedy Company, of
Omaha, Nebraska, looks after tho
Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota
business, Thu Forest Lumber Com
pr.ny representu Tho Shevlln-Illxon
nentnl railroads to the east. Until
the completion of these roads Into
llend n few years ago It was reached
only by long stago' rides, from tho
Orogon-Waslilngton Railroad & Nav
igation Company's lino skirting tho
south bank of tho Columbia river,
nnd it la said it was named "llend"
because It wns tho last bend In view
ns the stage line left the river In Its
northeasterly course toward the Co
lumbia. Tho high altitude nnd tho rcault-
ant climatic and soil conditions In
the Deschutes valley nre such as to
grow a lino quality of plno timber.
The lumber made from It Is soft,
light nnd white nnd Is especially suit
able for cutting up purposes, fuctory
uso and general ynrd stock. The
lumber Is termed "California whlto
plno ' commercially by Thu Shevlln-
Illxon Company, and already Is mak
ing a place for Itself.
Operating under these conditions
Tho Shovlln-Hlxon Compnny will for
ninny yenra, with Its nlmo3t Inex
haustible timber supply, be n great
factor In supplying the users of pine
lumber In tho middle west and cast.
No time, lnlwr, expense, or attention
has been spared in constructing n
splendid manufacturing plant, and
this, coupled with the Shevlln repu
tation for quality, puts Tho Shcvlln
Illxon Compnny In a strong position
to demnnd Its share of tho plno lum
ber trndo of tho future.
vTuxedo Nights?
by Walt Mason
When'the day's work's done, and the good old aunf
has sunk in the well known West, then I stretch my
form by the fireside warm, I sit at my ease and rest.
Then I take my pipe which is mildly ripe, as the pipes
of good smokers are, with a chortling soul then I fill
its bowl from my glass Tuxedo jar. And I smoke at
ease, and my trouble flees to
the place where dead troubles
go; and my worries seem, in
my waking dream no longer to
have a show. And I say, "In
deed, it's a noble weed that
drives all the ghosts away, and
clamps the lid on the cares
that skid around through the
busy day. The worries and
woes and such things as those
in the daytime leave their scar, but there's re3t at .
night and a calm delight in my
glass Tuxedo jar." ''CbmSA
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Your Health
ItKTim.VKD TO SCHOOL.
(Crook County Journal.)
Joel Johnson, Carl Wackcr, and
Ilurnhnm Coe, tho threo minora ar
rested at llend August 4 for burg
larizing the Long Prairlo Hanger
Station nenr Crescent, wero taken by
olllcers to tho St. Anthony, Idaho,
Industrial School Tuesday. Tho llrst
two mentioned boys wero out on pa
role whllo Coe had escaped from tho
reform school about n month ago.
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CLI.UN HANDS.
Disease germs lend a hand to
mouth existence. If the human race
would learn to keep thu unwashoJ
hand nway from the mouth many liu
nmn diseases would bu greatly dim
inished. Wo handle Infectious mat
ter more or less constantly and wo
continually carry the hands to the
mouth. If tho hand has recently
been In contact with Infectious mat
ter tho germs of disease may In this
way bo Introduced Into tho body.
Many porsona wot their lingers with
saliva before county money, turning
the pages of a book, or performing
similar nets. In this case tho pro
cess Is reversed, tho Infection being
carried to tho object handled, there
to nwalt carriage to tho mouth of
some other cnrcless person. In view
of theso facts tho I'. S. Public Hoalth
Servlco hns formulated tho follow
ing simpler rulea of personal hyglono
and recommends their adoption by
every person In tho United States.
Wash tho Hands Immediately
Ileforo eating, before handling, pre
paring or serving food, arter using
the toilet, after attending to tho sick
and after handling anything dirty.
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General Passenger Agent. Portland
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