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Vl.J.HUNT,Editor.................... . . . . . . . . . ...............................St.Paul Minn' ' service, if any.

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ly they are won the hard way, throughIF YOU WISH INFORMATION regarding The Northern Pacic Railway, or about Industry, e-ducatiolh Scientic research and ex-agriculture and other resources in the territory which it serves please address one of the followingofficers (depending on the information desired): Plorallon alld by Patiently Carrying out

P. D. EDGELL, General Manager, Properties and lndustrial Development. . . ..St. Paul, Minn.expensive drilling. laboriously trans-

porting crude oil to reneries. reningOTTO KOPP Vice President—Traic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .St. Paul Minn. . - - 1

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F. C. SEMPF, Manager, Industrial Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .St. Paul, Minn. ucts. to name only some of the every

J. T. MOORE, Western Manager, Industrial Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$eattle, Wash. day Steps‘ One Sector of the long route

a part of the marketing procedure—isERNEST E. THURLOW, Chief Mining Geologist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..St. Paul, Minn. illustrated by Qur interesting COVE!‘ On

l.. S. MACDONALD, Director, Agricultural Development Department . . . . . . . .St. Paul, Minn. this i5Sue_ R0na[([ /\"i_\-on made the pic.

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Another Plant Handling Columbia Basin Crops “*8 b"l“g l°““l°‘l ‘”i,"‘ g”°““° °“ theN. P. from a nearby tank farm. For a

Pure Line Seeds, lnc., whose home of the United States and Canada, where late TCPO" 0" other a5PeCt5 °f oll in

oice is in Moscow, Ida., recently open- it subsequently is planted and harvested Montana see Pages three and four-

ed a $45,000 plant for receiving and as fresh peas for canning or freezing.processing seed peas at Warden, Wash.. Pure Line has done business several

on the Connell-Northern branch of the years in the basin, each spring contract- at Warden, There is room for 3,000,000

Northern Pacic Railway. It was con- ing with irrigation farmers for the pounds of peas in portable bins each

structed at Warden to enable the seed amount of seed required by the rm’s 4. X 6 X 3 feet, holding 3,000 pounds

rm to receive. clean and sort seed peas customers during the growing season of each, The plant has been equipped withgrown on the Columbia Basin lrriga- the following year. The volume in the 3 soalper, gleaner, gravity separators.

tion project of eastern Washington. basin has reached a point at which seed treatment machinery, automatic

Seed from the Warden area is proc- oicers of Pure Line Seeds. lnc., felt scales, bag sewing machines, a sorting

essed and then shipped to many parts justied in the construction of the plant room and office area, A Butler building,

IN THIS BUILDING, 14-0 feel long, at Warden, Wash. Pure Line Seeds, lnc., of - -

Moscow, lda., cleans and packages seed peas, from ilirigated farms, which then plant’_ls done by the use of mechanlcalare shipped to growers of peas used for canning and freezing here and in Canada. fork lift trucks-

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feet. the machinery and an oliice are

located.A 450-foot spur track leading to the

plant, which is located on an area

240 X 300 feet leased from the NorthernPacic Railway, has a concrete apronat ground level on both sides to allowatcars or boxcars to be loaded fromeither side. All loading of cars, as wellas portable-bin handling within the

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S. G. MERRYMAN, Manager, Timber and Western Lands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Seattle, Wash. l0 the ultimale 5031 ill the Oll industriGEORGE R. POWE, Asst. Gen. Mgr., Properties and Industrial Development . .St. Paul, Minn.

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THREE OIL WELLS AT THE RIGHT drilled by the McAlestcr tana. Each produces from a different zone. The eld, dis-Fuel company are located on Northern Pacic Railway leases covered in 1952, now has 87 producing wells, 19 of whichnear the western edge of the Sumatra eld, in central Mon- have been brought into production in the past year and a half.

Oil Output Almost Doubled in Central Montana FieldsGrowth in 1959 and 1960 ls Being Matched by Expansion of Pipe-Line Capacity for Crude

Enroute to Refineries in the Billings Area and for Products Going to Consumers in Four States

Oil production from the elds of cen- year and a half. Articles about the completed since then. One of these, re-tral Montana has nearly doubled in the growth of this eld have appeared in cently nished by the Champlin Oil 81

past year and a half. This has been due previous issues of The Northwest, most Rening company, was a triple com-largely to development of the Stensvad recently in the November-December is- pletion, the rst in Montana. It pro-eld, opened by the Honolulu Oil corpo- sue of 1958. (While we then called the duced from the Amsden and two Tylerration in December, 1958, and to con- eld “Northwest Sumatra.” the Montana sands simultaneously through threetinued expansion of production in the Oil and Gas Conservation commission separate strings of tubing.Sumatra and Ivanhoe Dome elds. has officially shortened the name to Away ft-om established ptodttctlom

This growth now is being matched “Sllmalra-”.l about three miles south and west of theby expansion of pipe-line capacity to Operators have been active also Ivanhoe Dome eld, in the Keg CouleeCarry Crude Oll lo the renlntl area al in the Ivanhoe Dome eld. During ,Ian- area’ Lawrellee Barker’ ~lr" allrl Alllerl'Billings, Mont.. and by extensions of nary of this year, the Winston L_ Cox can Metal Climax, lnc.. drilled a wild-products lines from Billings to consum- No_ 1 N_ p_ was oomplototlt owing 277 cat which was completed April 1, pump-are of 3 l°ur‘5lale region barrels of oil per day as an Anisden lrlg lrr barrels Per (lay rrelrl a TylerIn the short time since the H0n0- dolomite dlsoovory_ The Juniper Oil St sand. In July, the Sumatra Oil corpora.lulu corporation completed the rst well, Mining company followed this with a tion completed a test two miles west ofStensvad eld has become the largest - . '. the Barker well at a flow rate of 227e_ nearby “ell \\l1ILl1 conrmed the Ams-Oll producer in central Montana. with its den production and also opened a new barrels per day.27 wells "OW Pumping some 180900 Tyler sand pool on the north side of An offset to Sumatra’s well drilled bybarrels Or Oll Per m°"lll- The P°°l dis‘ the dome. Four other wells have been the Honolulu Oil corporation owed 650covery initially flowed T31 barrels perday. and drilling spread rapidly east andwest until the eld limits were contigu- .l-- l-- l-- - * ( J .l l.l‘l|ous with adjacent older elds. Sumatra . .

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barrels a day on initial production Movement of rened products from The Continental Pipe Line company, a

gauge. There are presently ve produc- reneries in the Billings area has not subsidiary of the Continental Oil com-ers in the eld and rapid exploitation been overlooked, as we indicated above. pany, and operator of the Yellowstoneof Keg Coulee is now in progress. The Yellowstone Pipe Line company, Pipe Line company, will supervise con-

Virtually all of the central Montana which moves products west to Spokane, struction. The Husky line will join Yel-oil has been moved to the rening area has awarded a contract for construction lowstone facilities in Billings and willat Billings through the six-inch Powder- of a six-inch lateral from the main line permit direct movement from Husky’sriver pipe line completed in 1956 at a at Helena to Great Falls. Laying of the renery at Cody to the area served byreported cost of $2,000,000, The l)111'- 85-mile extension has commenced, with Yellowstone.

Chase of this line by the Crude Oil Pipe" completion expected by the middle of Construction also is well under wayline company recently has been a"' Octoiien Yellliwstone is 0:“?! lay on an extension by the Cenex PiPelinenounced by W' L' Teglmeyerv of Commental O11 Company’ t_e ,uS y , I company from its terminus at Glendive,Chicago‘ Teglmeyer stated that Studies Company’ the Intersiate Qll Plpe Lme Mont., to Minot, N. D.,a distance of 188are being made to connect additional c°mPanY and lb? U010" O11 c°mPa"Y- miles Cenex, a subsidiary of Farmerselds in central Montana, and it is ex- The Husky Pipeline company, a sub- Union Central Exchange, Inc” has suc_

pected that the capacity of the line Wlll sidiary of the Husky Oil company, of ceeded the Oil Basin pipeline companybe increased to handle the greater Cody, Wyo., has announced the start of in ownershi of th lln t fp e e eas romthroughput. a 96-mile line from Cody to Billings. Billings to Glemlive_ The extension is

eight inches in diameter, as is the exist-ing line, and will have a capacity ofabout 15,000 barrels daily. The cost, in-cluding a terminal at Minot, will be

$5,000,000.

Two Machine CompaniesMerged; Located at Bruce

Consolidated Farm Equipment, lnc.,a new company, recently opened a

sales agency at Bruce, Wash., on prop-erty leased from the Northern PacicRailway. The new rm is the resultof a merger of the Derry Implementcompany, of Othello, and the R. and R.

PRODUCTS FROM THIS REFINERY of Farmers Union Central Exchange, 19¢, Eq"iP"_1@"l company» Pf Warden» bothLaurel, Mont., will move to northwestern §lorth Dawn ll1l:$§l’lb8 l§5,000,0%0 l_iipe- of whrch were drstrrbutor-5 of I_line extension being built from Glendive, ont. to inot. e ui ing in t e ore- - -

ground, 320 feet long, adjacent to Northern Pacic tracks and formerly a one-story Casi? _farm machmery' The_new Instructure, housed only renery shops until January, 1960, when, in addition, a lab- addlllon to the .l- 1- C356 llne of lmPle'orzlitory from a smaller bullding was II"ll0VFCl in gnuthe gilouil: 00I‘t8t‘ld engllnering ments, will Offer A]]i5_Cha]me!-5 farman supervisory personne was move rom l ings o e ups airs, w ic was -

entirely new. The second oor also has a recreation room and storage space. Addi- equlpmenttional personnel previously in Billings now is occupying the space vacated by the The location at Bruce, being almostlaboratory. An increase of 14-0 feet was made in the length of the building above. -directly between Othello and Warden,

will permit the new rm to continue toserve the customers of the originalequipment companies. Many of the com-petitive problems which existed with thetwo smaller rms have been eliminated

‘ by the merger, and a stronger organiza-tion, from management and nancialDoints of view, has resulted, oicers said.The two agencies at Othello and Wardenwere dissolved with the opening of theone at Bruce.

The Pillsbury company, milling rmin Minneapolis, has acquired control ofthe plant of the Red River Valley Pota-to Flake company. at Grand Forks.

POLES WERE INSTALLED on rolling Montana grazing land to carry electricity to N_D__ and is making flakes under twooperate pumps on oil wells. Here, at Semingson A-l well of the McAlester lfuel com- 1 b Ipany in the Stensvad eld, pumping installation is powered by an electric motor. 3 95-

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Lewiston Grain Cooperative Pays Current Cash DividendsFirm Operating in Idaho and Washington Built New Elevators at Kendrick and Juliaetta

Directors of Lewiston Grain Growers,lnc., at Lewiston, lda., take pride in say-ing their company is one of the fewcooperatives that pay dividends to stock-holders aiid patrons in cash on a currentbasis.

This concern, which buys, sells andstores wheat, barley, oats, peas, lentelsand rape seed and deals in livestock andpoultry feeds, has paid 24 consecutiveannual dividends.

The cooperative was formed in 1930.It has 1,953 stockholders, all of themgrain growers, and it serves more than3,500 customers. It receives over 5,000,-000 bushels of grain annually and hasstorage space at 13 stations in six coun-ties for 7,005,000 bushels.

Officers have “° P'°blem “a“°i“g THIS ELEVATOR PUT UP in 1960 at UNDER CONSTRUCTION RECENTLYcapital expenditures. Indeed, pI‘€S6I1t Juliaetta, lda., for Lewiston Grain Grow- was a drive-through concrete elevator atowners of stock want to buy mo]-e_ ers, lnc., holds 213,000 bushels of grain. Kendrick, lda., to hold 301,000 bushels.

0c;ILll::e(1lart;Ztn;;‘:?l:1ll?:,ts: ail; tractor in both cases. Each elevator has belt, cups 1l'X 6_in<r_hes and a clean-outdrick Ida. on the Northern Pacic Rail- an electric truck lift’ an unloading h°P‘ b°<?t- All of Its 2‘) bms are fhopperedsiway ’whe,l, new drive.thr()u0h concrete per for rail cars, gravity distribution top Whlch 15 "116, 315°, Of the 21 bins infheelevators were constructed tobreplace old and b°tt°m- a 1»000‘P°und automatic 301’00O_bushel elevator at Kendnckfacilities. A total increase in storage scale Ovheadi 3 304°", 4"2'f°°t dumP The one it Ke.ndn(.:k ha? twodegs’ eachfor about 100 000 bushels of grain Scale, bins 120 feet high and a 36_f00t with specications identical with the oneresulted‘ The Hoéenson Construction headhouse_ The 213,000_buShe1 elevator at Juliaetta. The Kendrick. elevator has

. . . . . . ll t t l t k Hcompany, of Minneapolis, was the con- at Juliaetta has a single leg, with 12-inch a Sma 0“ Oma lc sea e on I S wor Omand grain can be cleaned and scalpedand the cleaned product weighed.

. . N h <1 ' k ‘ ' dl I5 Automobiles Went to Spokane on One Tri-l.evel Rack l Ju“;’et‘:aa]?;fZt'Ezagricfuieguiii

pansion, existing trackage was extended300 feet.

The following are olhcers of LewistonGrain Crowers, lnc.: President, M. E.Younger, Craigmount, Ida.; vice presi-dents, Walter Law, Culdesac, Ida, andE. E. Rogers, Mohler, Ida.; secretary, B.H. Whittinan, Lapwai, Ida.; managerand treasurer, H. L. Powell, Lewistoii:assistant manager and assistant treasur-er, Martin Snodgrass. Lewiston. Direc-tors are: T. M. Flock, Asotin, Wash.:W. D. Saiigster, Anatonc, Wash.; M. L.larnagin, Craiginount: Mike Kinzer.Ferdinand, Ida.; Marvin Vincent, Ken-drick: Arthur Meier. Peck, Ida.; J. R.

Thirteen 1961 Studebaker Larks and eled from Laurel, Mont., where they Rienel C°lt°"W°°d- Ida-J Oscar Thi95'two Hawks made by the same manufac- were received from the Chicago, Bur- 5611- Lewiston-turer which were moved to Spokane lington 8; Quincy Railroad, to Spokane Elevators are located at Asotin,recently comprised the rst shipment of on the Northern Pacic. It was not a Wash., and at Lewiston, Peck, Lapwai,automobiles to the Pacic Northwest piggy-back shipment. The rack holding Culdcsac. Sweetwater. Rubens, Win-on a atcar equipped with a tri-level the automobiles was manufactured by chester, Ferdinand and Cottonwood.transport rack. The Studebakers trav- the Dana corporation, of Toledo, O. lda., and Juliaetta and Kendrick.

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SOUTH END OF NORTHERN PACIFIC industrial property the taller building behind that belongs to the association, too.cast of Spokane, above, joins a freeway and on the west, in Also, west of the N. P. land, storage tanks of two oil companiesthe left background, is the Westerli Farmers’ association and are located. About all of the Northern Pacic property is level.

0 N. P. Has Nearly 100 Acres in New Site for IndustriesInitial Development at Location in East Spokane, Wash., Occurred When the Caterpillar Tractor Co.,

of Peoria, Built Parts Depot on Seven and Eight-tenths Acres to Serve the Northwest Area

Over 100 acres acquired by the North- large enough for a small city, supplies dustries and road and airport construc-ern Pacic Railway in East Spokane, sprinklers inside the plant. lion rms and government agencies areWash., a mile and a half from the city The Caterpillar building is a reservoir the principal users of Caterpillar prod-limits of Spokane itself furnish an at- for Over 40,000 of 100,000 Odd Paris that ucts in the region.

lraollvo looallo" for lnrl‘~rslrlos- the Peoria concern makes for its dier- Shipments are made, too, by air.Purchased over 3 Period ol slx Years ent machines. The day-to-day needs of to Tokyo and Singapore. The biggest

lo small Parcels-i Wllloll were Pieced lo‘ 16 main dealers and 65 stores handling part ever sent overseas in this way fromgolller to form one sizable lraol-I the the companyis products in Washington], Spokane, was acrankshaft weighing 600ProPorlY makes ll Possible "ow for the Oregon. Idaho, western Montana. Brit- pounds. The air freight amounted torallwal’ lo olror lnduslrlal silos of Var)‘ ish Columbia and Alaska are furnished $1,200! A Caterpillar dealer in Japanlog silos lo oomparllos requiring rrlodor“ from Spokane. Inventory needs. how- sells equipment to use in building damsorlolloor Warehousing or marrulaolurllrg ever, are not handled from this point. for the Nipponese and for other con-

blllldlngs and Parking lols olllslrlo or Agricultural, logging and mining in- struction.downtown heavy trallic areas.

The land is south of the main line I

of the Northern Pacic. On one side itabutts an interstate freeway. Lying eastof tank farms of the Continental Oilcompany and the Carter division of theHumble Oil X Rening company. theproperty, nearly all of which is entirelylevel, is served by a switching lead situ-ated along its west side. The WesternFarmers’ association. near the N. P.

land, also is served by this lead.The initial development in the new

Spokane industrial area occurred whenthe Caterpillar Tractor Co., of Peoria,lll.. acquired seven and eight-tenthsacres facing on Mission avenue. Cater-pillar constructed a one-story buildingfor an emergency parts depot contain-ing 76,800 square feet. Steel, concreteblocks and brick veneer were used. Thisdevelopment includes a 100,000-gallon l

storage tank on a 100-foot tower, a well LA'RGEST- - - in stoc at t e new emergency epot 0 t e aterpi ar

and_pumpS' In addition to meetlng th Tractor Co., at Spokane, is a 14-foot bulldozer blade that weighs 6,800 pounds.vllllry needs lor Waler- the sislollr D. R. Burke, assistant manager of the depot. is shown with two of the big blades.

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Practically all of the business of thedepot is done in the sale of parts fortractors, motor graders. bulldozers andengines. Indeed, a complete tractor

by Caterpillar and of 98 acres joiningit owned by the Northern Pacic andpresently available to be developed for .5CENTER OF SEC. |2,T25 N ,R 43 E._W M

could be built with parts carried in stock Spokane is {he nancial and indus- N.PRY.C0.at Spokane. trial center for an area in eastern Wash EAST SPOKANE, WN.Eighty per Gem of the Orders arrive ington, western Montana and northern NI NDUSTRIAL SITESby teletype directly from dealers, a|_ Idaho known as the Inland Empire. The , F:§>:l:‘iJ'?LT:"E|'5;‘5'"°U$TR'A:E;>T5g/8-l;56F(’)T-

most all of whom have sending and CIIY P°PuIall°"= "Ow 180382’ Increased ' I I- receiving equipment. There are eight 11-8 Per Cent in the Past 10 Year5- In s°“""“T

maintained by Caterpillar in the LnitedStates and Canada to give ’round-the-clock service. While dealers carry exten-sive stocks, it has been pointed out thatthey are unable to keep each of the com-pany’s thousands of parts in quantitiessulhcient to answer all demands.

The sketch accompanying this articleshows the position of the land occupied

Logging Company StartedOperating in Montana

The Clark Fork Logging company,a new rm. has begun operations atWestfall, Mont., 56.8 miles west ofMissoula, on the main line of theNorthern Pacic Railway. Oicers areEric Brye, president, Woodlin, Mont..where he is associated with the FlodinLumber company: Arden Davis, vicepresident, of Thompson Falls, Mont..also an ofiicer of the Thompson FallsLumber company; Edward Diehl. ofthe I)iehl Lumber company. Plains.lVIont.. secretary-treasurer: T. H. Dob-son. Thompson Falls, general manager.

The logging concern will ship from_ 3,000,000 to 6,000,000 feet of logs aI year to the three lumber companies‘ mentioned above, each of which op-L erates a sawmill. Logging will continue

for three years or more. A spur trackat Westfall was extended 1.140 feetto handle the new shipments.

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CATERPILLAR TRACTOR CO. BUILT a one-oor brick-faced from the Northern Pacic. Forty thousand Caterpillar parts arebuilding containing 76,800 square feet for its emergency parts kept for dealers in ve states, British Columbia and Japan.depot at Spokane, on seven and eight-tenths acres obtained Nearly all orders arrive by teletype. Depot has its own Well.THE !\'ORTllWI~IS'l‘, .§'oplemln-r-Ovtobnr. I060O

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the county seat there are 277,74-0 peo-l The depot is one of 11 of its kind 1 2'-H-I ’ t th - 19-0_ wt}-Zpe, r a 3 per cen more an 1n 0 XThe city caters to a wide agricultural "'—/I

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pea region of Washington and northernIdaho and a part of the big Columbia - 47Basin Irrigation project. A large volume |

of timber, lumber and mining business ff umplun‘is handled, too, in Spokane. Further- ‘I: w‘ mlcmnllmore, it serves as a distribution center

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NORTHERN PACIFIC PROPERTY ad-jacent to the railwa_v’s main line, east ofTHE SMALLEST PART kept by Cater- Spokane, Wash., shaded in the sketch, ispillar at Spokane is a steel pin, weighing available for industrial use. It totalsunder an ounce, shown here by M. L. nearly I00 acres. The Caterpillar TractorRalch, manager of the company’s depot. (lo. built on a tract on Mission avenue.

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in Poles for Poweroncl Telephone Lines

Geo. Rivarcl, Former N.P. Em-

ployee, Started Unusual Firm

George Hivard and a crew of helpers

pry into secrets concealed by poles

which carry telephone lines and the

wires of electrical power systems. In-deed, Rivard organized the Western Util-ities Maintenance company, of Billings,Mont., to carry on his detective work ina businesslike way.

It is understood generally that bigpoles treated with preservatives last a

long, long time. Some of them do—30. WITH AN ADJUSTABLE JIG to hold a drill, heartwood four feet down in the butt

years or more‘ What ls not known as of a pole is examined. Wood is recovered for inspection as drilling proceeds. Work

“ell is the fact that: due t0 sell and is done in Montana, Idaho, Washington by Western Utilities Maintenance company.

moisture variations, some poles don’t

last more lheh 10 or 15 Years’ maybe tenance company tested 1,100 poles for has been done in Montana, Idaho and

hel Over seven’ eveh though l_heY_ are the Montana Power company’s Lewiston Washington. A ve-man crew examines

lre*_lle‘l- Usually wheh_ rel heglhs ll ls division, 100 were rejected for rot at 65 poles a day. Experience indicates

lhslde at the ground hhe or lh the butt’ the ground line and 51 were rejected that a 15-year interval between tests is

hhdelgrehhdi where’ lh both lPCatl°h5= because of trouble below the ground about right.ll eehl he Seeh from the °l_llslde' Pm‘ line——lrom four to ve feet down. The A patented ve-eighths-inch bit which

servahve deeshlreaeh those lhher aleae' 51 were good at the ground line and Rivard developed and which generally

lilllll)’ service has heeh lhlerrhpled ahd w0uldn’t have been detected if testing is used on a ute four feet long is the

h°T5e51 Cattle and even Pe°Ple have heeh at the butt had not been done. On an- key to the company’s method. lt is pow-

killed when Poles thus weakened have other job, when 621 poles were exam- cred by compressed air. The bits cost

l°PPled lh 3 5l°"h- ined for Northern Lights, lnc., at Sand- $150 each and six are ordered at a time.

That is Where Rivard C0m€S iI1- H6 point, lda., 45 were rejected for defects Two of them wear out every year.

thought Of H Way I0 detet POI h8f0r6 at the ground line and nine were rotting To make an examination, 16

it is I00 late With011l tediously digging down lower. inches of earth are moved rst and a

several feet into the ground to inspect In ve since the small hole is drilled to the center of the

the butt of a p0le' organized >12 per cent of the polles exam- pole’ If the wood is bad at the groundWhen Rivard’s Wesern Utilities Main- ined have had to be rep1aced_ The work line, that ends the examination. If it

isn’t, an adjustable jig is attached tohold a drill and a hole is made down-ward to the center of the pole at a

tra-heavy poles, a deeper test is made,sometimes from four sides. Cuttingsbrought out show the character of thewood. If they are satisfactory, an emul-sion of oil, pentachlorophenol andwater is pumped into the holes and intoany checks in the wood that are evident.Holes then are lled with treated plugs.If shell rot is present it is trimmed awayand the mixture is sprayed onto the poleat the ground line, where backllingoccurs when the work is nished.

Seven years ago Rivard worked forthe Northern Pacic Railway at Laurel.Quitting his steady job, he left for

TRAVELl_Nt} 68,000 .MlLE_S last year. PQLE_S TBEATZED, a,l;ter thorough Greenland where, in two years, he Saved

George Rivard supervised his company s examination, with penta mixture at _

work and made estimates on new jobs. ground line; deep checks are lled, too. a stake to Slarl hls Company-

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depth of from four to ve feet. On ex- "

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* three-eighths of an inch thick.

Economy and Speed Goals in Expanded Plant at PolsonCapacity to Produce Plywood More Than Doubled; Improved Equipment Is Being Installed

Announced last fall, an expansioncosting $750,000 at the Polson division

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of the Cascade Plywood corporation, inPolson, Mont., has been carried on dur-ing 1960 and will be completed before

increased from 2,000,000 square feetmonthly to 4,500,000, based on plywood

Production in the plant has been con-tinued nearly all the time that remodel-ing has been in progress, although newmachines have been installed and addi-tional buildings have been going up.

While employment will be in-creased from 100, the number currentlyon the payroll, to 120, greater economy *of operation and more speed in handling TO HELP INCREASE production another glue spreader, a late model, has beenmaterial both im ortant items in added at the plant of the Polson division of the Cascades Plywood corporation, in

P Montana, where a $750,000 expansion program is being completed during 1960.the expansion program. For example, alate-model glue spreader has been addedfor increased production. Automationhas been introduced in the operation ofthe skinner and cutoff saws which cutpanels in the correct width and length.They will be handled by two men in-stead of four as in the past.

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Larger motors powering the veneerlathe in the plant have been put in tospeed up its performance. An Edererlathe charger and a Durand back rollhave been acquired to handle peelablelogs. These make for faster operationand, with the back roll, eliminate thick-and-thin cutting. A smaller core will beobtained, too, meaning that more of thelog will be peeled by the lathe. Also,automatic tipple control has been in-

°l"ded' THE MONTANA FLAVOR, cowboy hat, ._6 one of the rst new Pieces of equip‘ is found in industry of the state, as this. . . . . . . A PATCHING MACHINE f dment put to work is a Rainunn patching picture in Polson plywood plant indicates. in Germany thiéiafiiiliiaeltszixs

machine, made in Germany. In addi- of new equipment installed at Polson.. lion, han(]-patching equipment and a as veneer comes from the driers will be

Yates-American S300 eight-drum sander done in all additifm 35 feel Wid and Polson, but r, spruce and pine arehave been purchased. A new Victor 260 feet l°ng- It will house Plugging Pr0C@S$6d, l00- The nished b0aTdtwo-speed veneer clipper is in service. and Patching eq“iPmeY1t1 100, ad a manufactured in the plant is marketedIt not only nips out defects but it cuts lunchroom and laVat°rY for PeT5‘5_mnel- by lll U- 5- PlY“'00d C0FP0Tali0n- Theveneer into widths corresponding to the The old siruclure at P0150“ 15 be‘ mill is certied by the Douglas Plyw@<>dgrade of the materia]_ ing enlarged also at the “green” end Oi corporation, whose representatives make

Construction of a building 40 x 125 the Plant Wher among Olhef °P@ra' periodic inspections at the plant-feet in size to house 3 new 16.secn0n tions, leftover material trimmed or Executive Offices of the Cascades Ply-six-line veneer drier was begun during sawed O is Tem°"ed- A new logbarking \\'0°d ¢0TP°T3li0Tl 31"? in Portland, Ore-the past spring. The equipment will be installation is included in the plans andused in addition to a large drier already 3 °hiPPer: t°_ make _W°°d_ Chips fromin Se-rviCe_ A new warehouse, 7() X 193 leftover material, which will be sold to Gold mined in Montana in 1959feet, will supplement storage space pre- 3 Paper n}ill- will lfe Pr°Vided- totaled 28,551 "(W Olmcese Worthvi0uS]y avajlabk-_ Grading and sorting Larch is the principal wood used at $999,000.

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Yellowtciil Dam toBe Started Soon

Construction of the $109,300,000 Yel-lowtail dam on the Bighorn river, inBig Horn county, south central Mon-tana, will be commenced by the U. S.

Bureau of Reclamation during the cur-rent scal year, using the rst appro-priation for this purpose, approvedrecently in congress, amounting to

-$2,500,000.The dam, 500 feet high and 1,400

feet wide, will create a reservoir 71

miles long, reaching into Wyoming.with capacity for 1,375,000 acre feet ofwater.

A powerhouse with four 50.000-

kilowatt units will be built. The dani will DRY nouon OAK IS HANDLED in Steffes church furniture factory at Dickinson,make feasible an irrigation unit con. N. D., by lift truck before it is pr0cessed—-ripped into narrow strips, laminated,

- - f 44 000 H d- M planed and sanded to make pews, lecterns, pulpits, fonts, rails, kneelers, chairs, tables.slstmg 0 -, acres at ar 1n, ontOther new irrigation along the LittleBighorn, the Yellowstone, Tongue andPowder rivers may occur, too, as a resultof the availability of power from Yel-lowtail. Red Oak Contour Furniture from Dickinson, N. D.,

The site of the dam and a portion ofthe location for the reservoir were part '5 in Demand In several sfafesof the Crow Indian reservation. The

P 1 r “Funny how things get started.“by the federal government mused George Steffes. “One thing seems

to lead to another.”Spending That brief quotation came from the

. owner of a small but rowin com an '

°" H°°l"'°"‘ P|°"' twhich he calls stefffs chuich Fiirni-A new high-speed paper machine and ture) when he was asked how his thriv-

related equipment being installed at its illg bl1$iI1@SS making P@W5- Pl1lPii5-

mill in Hoquiam, Wash., by the Grays lecterns. baptismal fonts, communionHarbor Paper eompany at a cost in rails, kneelers, chairs and tables forexcess of $1O_()()(),()0() are expected to churches began. He spoke as though he

be in operation late next y-ear_ The scarcely believed the turn of events him-

capacity of the plant will be expanded- SPH-

to 70,000 tons yearly. more than double Steffes was a cabinetmaker at

the present total, which is 30,000. Also Dickinson. N. D., with 25 years of ex-

the rm’s line of ne papers and print- perience and more than the usual por-ing papers will be broadened. tion of savvy about woodworking when

The Grays Harbor Paper company. a friend who was a contractor built a

formerly the Grays Harbor Pulp and church at Mandan ve years ago. He

tribe was aid 532500.000 for the land i

Paper_company. is owned jointly by asked Stefies to try making pews for it. RACK FULL OF SEATS and backs oi-

Rayonler lncorporated and the Ham- That was the beginning. bmce that day. contoured pews is displayed by George

mermill Paper company. Rayonier sup- with a factory crew of five now located S'°"'-"5’ "ho 5"'"ed 3 f“"“l""'° f“°'°"Y'plies the pulp requirements from its in a new 5560.000 building south ofpulp mill at Hoquiam. Hammermill Dickinson equipped with $35,000 worth Steffes. who has a sales representative

manages and operates the Grays Harbor of machines. furniture for 70 churches traveling for him, gives a 10-year guar-

paper firm and markets its products, in- in North Dakota, South Dakota, Mon- antee of satisfactory service. This has

cluding Hammermill brands made for tana and Minnesota has been manufac- been wonderful advertising. Only a few

sale in western states. as well as brands tured. Nearly all of the business has replacements have been required. An-

which have been manufactured at the been done within 300 miles of Dick- other potent talking point is the fact

Grays Harbor plant for 30 years, inson. that he makes contour seats and backs

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for pews. Straight backs and seats alsoare furnished. but not maii_v of theseare ordered.

"You always get more ideas than youcan follow up." Steffes remarked. "butwe took tl.e time needed to develop thecontoured products. We evolved a spe-cial knife to plane the backs and theseats to produce the design we wanted.The knives were made in sections and a

" planer was rebuilt to accommodate themso they would shape the wood to tthe worshipers using the pews.”

, Ends of pews are made from inultiple-ply laminated material and are cut ac-cording to 15 different patterns. depend-ing oii the style wanted b_v the purchaser.l)ecorative designs are carved into them.

Dry red oak is obtained in car-loads from a mill in Wisconsin. On ar-rival at the Steffes factory some of itis ripped into oiie-iiicli strips and. aftersorting. these are glued and laminatedin a press designed by Steffes which

F. Ross. of Cleveland. Five thousandHerefords an(l over lllil horses were in-cluded. ;\/lr. and .\lrs. B. T. /\nderson.,]r.. of San Rafael. Calif.. are the buyers.The price was not included in the re-port of the transaction but prior to thesale the property was advertised na-tionallv at S2.T5t).()l)(l.

Increase Capacityof Wallula Mill

By the middle of I961 the capacity ofthe pulp and paper mill of the BoiseCascade Kraft corporation. at Wallula,Wash._ will he 375 tons daily comparedwith 200 tons at present. according toannouncement by 0lTl(‘(:‘!‘5 of the rm.who said that current expansion of the

_|()|1\'T1N(; THE EDGE 0; an end for 3 facilities will cost S5.0l)().l)U(l and willpew is (Jordon Zander in the Stelfcs fur- incfease the BQi5(f-Cascadg payroll at“mire manufacturing plan! in Dakma' Wallula to $2.l)()(l.()l)ll vearlv and willC

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exerts a pressure of 125 pounds persquare inch. This process allows greatercontrol over the wood in making seatsand hacks. he says. and it preventstwisting and cracking. which may occurin a one-piece hoard. Planing. cutting.trimming and sanding follow the lami-nation. Then the wood is filled. stainedand sealed and three coats of lacquerare applied.

Finished contoured pew seats andhacks are priced on the basis of $8.50

FACTORY AT DICKINSON has machinesworth $35,000. One is a planer JohnJaegcr is using on a board for a kneeler.

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a running foot. btraight ones are I51 a i'l“{'"d'? adldilional pip? drilillllg mi‘running foot less. Ends come at $30 a Fuller)‘ en argement U he lm S 3"“ 'pair ity-control laboratory and its iiiaiiite-

Ask George Sleffes whether there is nance shop. Other additions. they said,5» w. .

a hooni in church construction. He will “Ill be a Umlmuous Cooker’ a newreply that he is running hard to keep chemical recovery boiler. a power llwoil-

up with it and that he sees little pros- efi more elaporaturi and a He“ lmepect ahead of a slowdown. kl n‘

The Boise Cascade corporation oper-' ' A ates corrugated container plants at

cllmblng rrow Ranch Burlev ldac Golden Colo and at Wal-S9ld lo Californians lula and has another under construction

Recent news dispatches in Montana at Sunnyvale. Calif. Also it runs a fac-reported the sale of the T().()(l()-acre tory making multi-walled bags atClimbing Arrow ranch near Bozeman Berkeley. Calif. The function of the niillby Dan D. Francis, of Chicago, Richard at Wallula is to furnish paper to theseH. Francis. of Bozeman. and Dorothy converting facilities.> ---;-¢»~~--_»s, . . _. ~

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NORTHERN PACIFIC CAR PICTURED here held the original shipment of lilierboard from a Boise Cascade mill at “allula, \Vash., to the compan_v’s new containerfactory at Golden, Colo.. which will use several carloads monthly. Part of the plantat “'allula is in the background. Improvements costing $5,000,000 are being installed.

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Montcmds First Livestock Brand Still ls Being UsedThe rst livestock brand ever put on

record in Montana, consisting of thesquare and compass, emblematic of theMasonic lodge, still is in use. Poindex-ter T. Orr, of Beaverhead county,territory of Montana, had the brandrecorded. The exact time this occurredis not known because the earliest regis-trations in the state were not dated.Thirty of them were entered in the orig-inal Montana book of brands prior toMay 25, 1872, when the dating of reg-istrations began which, incidentally,was 17 years before Montana was ad-mitted to the Union as a state.

These facts, shown in distinct, carefulhandwriting, which still is clearly leg-ible after nearly 100 years, are availableat Helena in the oice of William G.Cheney, executive oicer of the Live-stock Commission of the State of Mon-

been bought and sold repeatedly sinceit made an appearance in the state. Thepresent owner and user is the RockIsland Oil 3; Rening company, whichhas ranch property in Beaverheadcounty.

Montanans currently have 55.000 or60,000 brands, it has been estimated byCheney. Many families own severalbrands each, some of which are notregistered. Frequently when a boy is

T born to a stockman and his wife, a newbrand immediately is established as thechild’s property and a cow is branded

' to start him in the cattle business at a

< " §_ ,l tender age.

“ i Montana brands are re-recordedevery 10 years. This will be done in1961. Cheney has estimated it will in-volve making a record on his books ofat least 40,000 brands. many old and

tana, who serves as oicial recorder of EXHIBITING FIRST MONTANA brand some n@w_ Fifteen th(;u5and or moremarks and b1'3nd5- is William G. Cheney, executive oicer probably are inactive, and will not be

The square'and'c0mpa55 brand has of the Livestock Commission of the slate. re'!'9COTded-

THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAYST. PAUI. ‘I, MINNESOTA

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