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Mining and Milling Industrial Minerals - - - - Page 3
Seattle Factory Helped Bring Farm Changes - Page 8
Scott Paper Company’s Logging ‘Show’ - - - Page 'l4
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Lennard Chm, a
Korean, are gradstudents at
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Idaho. Our phot o g r a p h e r
snapped their picture at the new
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Published Bimonthly by the
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IF YOU WISH
INFORMATION regarding The Northern Pacic Railway, or aboutlndustry,
agriculture and other resources in the territory which it serves please address one of the following
otticers (depending on the information desired):
oratory technicians At the time
Picture was made they were measuring
the 1-eeeve values of clay, determined
Manager, Properties and Industrial Development. . . ..St. Paul, Minn.
OTTO KOPP, Vice President—Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .St. Paul, Minn.
scones M. WASHINGTON, Vice President—Oi| Development
. .Billings, Mont.
F. C. SEMPF, Manager, Industrial Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .St. Paul, Minn.
J. T. MOORE, Western Manager, Industrial Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Seattle, Wash.
S. G. MERRYMAN, MOHOQOI‘, Tll'l1bEl’ and Western I.GI1dS.. - - - - . - - . . - - . . -SOGTTIO, WOSII.
GEORGE R. POWE, Asst. Gen. Mgr. ' Properties and Industrial Development -- St. Paul, Minn l.. S. MACDONALD, Director, Agricultural Development Department . . . . . . . .St. Paul, Minn.
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paper, who use white clay f0l‘ lling
and cQating_ Refer to pages three and
four for more about Simplot operations
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‘Pelleted Beet Seed Just the Ticket,’ Montana Growers Say
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Pelleted seed is somethingcr new that is
stirring up attention of growers of sugar beets. Another device to give more
even distribution in the eld and a la1ger percentage of single plants, aimed at
reducing hand labor in thinning and
blocking, it consists of polished monogerm beet seed covered with a lightcolored colloidal clay, with no plant
food added, making round, uniformsized pellets nine-sixty-fourths or tensixty-fourths of an inch in size. The new
seed also may improve the quality of
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This year in eastern Montana, tributary to the factory of the Holly Sugar
corporation, at Sidney, 7,000 acres were
drilled with pellets. Plants emerged in
good-to-excellent stands spaced well
enougsi so that iiiinning aéid blocking
were one mechanicall an with Ion handled hoes‘ Neither riistoop work” I151,
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REGULAR MONOGERM SEED of sugar beets, at the top, tends to be at and irregular compared with coated seeds below, which are uniform. The pellets, formed with
a light-colored clay, are about niime-sixty-fourths of an inch in size. Yield is improved.
thinning by hand was required. In 1959
at Sidney, pellets were used on a demonstration basis. Farmers were reported
so pleased that they took all the pelleted
seed the company could furnish in 1960.
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Trial plantings last year in the Billings district (Montana) of the Great
Western Sugar company turned out satisfactorily. In the Red River valley of
North Dakota and Minnesota, pellets
were “spot planted” this year, as was
also regular monogerm seed, to obtain
information for use in the future.
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storage silos and a covered platform for loading railroad cars
are located. ln the foreground a boom may be seen in a basin,
Wl'l8l'e the l'l}'dl'0-Sizing Of cla)’ and its coarser material 0CclII's-
MICLASIL MILL ITSELF, center, of J. R. Simplot company, is
100 x 122 feet. It is anked on the left by a building 80 x 100,
which serves as a shop and warehouse. On the other side, steel
Simplot Produces Industrial Minerals in Northern Idaho
Miclasil Mill Opened Near Bovill Processes White Clay for Paper, Silica for Glass
and Mica for Roofing Material, All Mined Nearby; lnnovations Occurred in Plant Construction
$1, 500,000
when we were school boys Teacher
cautioned us against extravagantly repeating the word unique. "Few situations
or things really are matchless—that is
to say, unique,“ she would remark.
Here is once, though. when we believe
that long-suering purist. God rest her
soul. would, if she were present today,
approve of the use of the word. We
think the new Miclasil operations of the
J. R. Simplot Co., in Latah county,
Y]OI'll1€I'I] ldaho, near BOVTTT, TOT the
TQCOVBTY, processing.
packaging and
5hiPPiT1g Of indllslal
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unique.
N0 0P6I‘Ii0n even faintly resembling
the $1,500,000 plant recently Opened
at Bovill exists west of Georgia. The
resemblance isn't close in Georgia. for
Simplot engineers. in planning their
mill. adapted a number of ideas of their
own for moving, handling and processing materials.
Miclasil—mi for mica, cla for clay
and sil for silica——stands for the 1ninerals being mined and milled at the
Simplot site. The capacity of the plant
is 4-80 tons of nished products every
24-l'lOUI' (lay.
The clay. something extra-special, is
white and ner than bread our. Almost
all of it will be bought by Pacic N0rthwest paper manufacturers to use as ller
between wood bers in their products.
That. paper experts have said. takes clay
composed of particles of less than 15
microns in diameter, pretty small. indeed. Particles still smaller are needed
to coat smooth. white paper.
Previously all clay consumed by paper companies in the area has come
from the white cliffs of Dover, in England. or from Georgia. it was pointed
out recently by Phillip T. Peterson. who
manages Miclasil for the ]. R. Simplot
Co., and who supervised the construction at Bovill, which got under way in
August of 1959.
“We [hink our project will help
increase substantially in northwesl 10.
Calies [he producél] of caated ‘(hue
paper," Peterson said,
The Simplot company has leases on
8.000 acres in Latah county underlain
with clay and ne sand. nearly all con'
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right, is W’. F. Winkle, Miclasil sales head.
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RLNNING A FLOCCLLATION TEST on
clay of coater grade is Lewis Prater.
Simplot mctallurgist at new Bovill plant.
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volved in tl1e millis operating program.
The large volume of water needed
in the milling process is coming from
a 100.00().00O-gallon reservoir the coinpany built near by on ;\l0O5(' creek. A
thousand gallons are used every minute.
but 601) gallons a minute are reclaimed
and reused.
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put in and one spray drier for clay is
used. Equipment for the plant came
from Florida. Connecticut. Colorado.
California. Wisconsin. Ohio. Pennsylvania. ldaho and Washington. In addition to the driers. it included Tyler
screens for the sand circuit. Fagergren
scrubbers. Dorr-Oliver lters. a Carpo
electrostatic separator to remove mica
from sand and a Stearns electromagnetic
separator. which pulls off metals.
The Washirigtoii Water Power com-
INSPECTING A SAMPLE representative of the silica found above deposits of white
clay on northern Idaho property leased by the J. R. Simplot Co., are left, Phillip
T. Peterson, manager, and William F. Winkle, sales manager, of compan_v’s new mill.
pany instalkd a _23'0(_)0_volt power line
and 3 32411113 PIP? ll"? from MQSCOW
for natural gas at 3 (~05; of $f5()_[)()() to
serve the new Simplot mining operation.
tiguous. Near the site of the new mill
overburden varying from eight feet deep
to 60 feet has been removed, and strip
mining is being done with 18-yard Euclid scrapers "push loaded” by Caterpillar tractors on 80 acres which. it has
been estimated. will keep the mill going
two years.
In addition to its application in the
paper industry. the kind of clay found
on the Simplot property (incidentally it
contains about 35 per cent alumina)
goes into other industrial products. Decolorizers for fats and oils, ceramics and
pills the doctor prescribes are examples.
Chocolate bars are. to0—the non-melting
kind that C. I.’s eat in hot-climate areas
of the world.
The silica, which lies above the clay.
will be sold, Said William F, Winkle,
sales manager for Mielasil, to makers
Qf glass in Portland, Oi-e__, Oakland,
Calif,’ Tacoma and Seattle, Wash,’ and
in Alberta, Canada. Particles of mica
are being separated from the silica and
offered to the roong U industry.
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Simplot sta members planned and
carried on research for three years before actually starting to build their
Miclasil mill. All of the area leased was
core drilled. In some of it. close-order
drilling was done. Then. a laboratory
was set up and staffed with a metallurgist and laboratory technicians. First
it was at Moscow. Ida.. and later this
work was moved to the site of the plant
“The geology of this immediate region,” said Manager Peterson. indicating the Bovill area with a circular motion of his hand on a map. “has been
where a large laboratory was the
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building put up on the site near Bovill.
The Simplot mill itself, constructed
with concrete blocks and steel. is 100 x
122 feet and its walls are 30 feet high.
At one side it is anked by a building
80 X 100 which serves as a shop and
a warehouse. Directly opposite the mill,
on the other side, are steel storage silos
and a covered loading platform. These
are adjacent to an industrial track off
the Washington, Idaho 8: Montana Railway. In a large basin lying near the
mill. the hydro-sizing of clay and coarser fractions takes place. The clay, mixed
with water at the mine and pumped as
a slurry in a pipe line to the site of the
mill. is delivered to this basin. where
separation of the clay into different
grades occurs according to the sizes and
weights of the particles. A long revolving boom in the basin and two concrete
tanks under it. one of them IT feet
deep and 185 feet in diameter, are in-
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duplicated in few places in the world.
Really a wonderful thing happened here
in the rare sort of deposition which occurred. Mother Nature herself sorted the
minerals. separating the clays from the
sands in the process. When the feldspars
in our granite. through a period of
millions of years. were altered to clay
and the quartz components were altered
to sands, the depth and great breadth of
the natural settling basins in the area,
with mountains of just the right height.
and with precisely the amount of water required, brought about a gentle
erosion which resulted in the clay minerals being washed out rst and being
deposited in beds of pure clay. After
that, the sands were pushed down on
top of the layers of clay.”
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from which J._R._Simplot Co. is removing silica and whit_e clay
peratlons near BOVlll Ill northern Idaho. The geology of that immedi:-te iegion is said to have been duplicated in few other places in the entire world.
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equipment by the Northern Pacic Railway include 50 automobile carriers
(highway trailers) from Durobilt Manufacturing Co., 1nc., at Elinonte, Calif.,
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An observer recently commented that
technology on the farm is advancing so
rapidly he can see no way of keeping
well informed of the latest improvements. Examples were seen when Red
River valley farmers planted 1960 crops.
At the top, Allan Dragseth. south of
Crookston, Minn., was photographed
using four John Deere attachments for
liquid fertilizer on a 20-foot drill putting 80 pounds per acre of 8-24-0 on
oats. The attachments hold enough for
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COMBINATION PLUG AND SLIDING DOORS are a feature in this string of 100 new
boxcars on_ their Way west from Northern Pacific car building shops at Brainerd to
receive their rst loads of freight to move to midwestern and eastern terminal points.
they do not meet market requirements
due to size or other defects are used
to make this product. The price for culls
this year at Raugust will be $7 per ton
delivered at the factory.
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A $50,000 expansion currently underway at the factory of the Menan Starch
company at Raugust, Wash., will per
mit an increase in production of potato
starch from 900 bags daily of 100
pounds each to 1.000 bags.
Included are a 300 ton addition to
the company’s potato storage facilities,
a purier
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12 acres. A power-operated pump on a
portable supply tank rells them. A generator on his tractor supplies energy to
elevate grain from a truck to ll the
seeder box. Below, near Grand Forks,
N. D., on O. K. Loyland’s farm, a bulk
potato-harvesting truck loaded with seed
pieces was used to rell
the potato
planter. A chain in the bottom of the
truck moves seed pieces to an unloading
elevator. which is in position above the
planter boxes.
for piggyback service. The railway also
recently joined the Trailer Train company, which leases atcars for piggybacking to 26 railroads and one freight
forwarder. Trailer Train operates the
largest eet of cars of this kind. The
railway will use flatcars from this pool
f°r
antypes °fpiggyba°k"am°’
pecially to expand the movement
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of new
automobiles, which is swinging more
and more from the highway to railroad
piggybacking, Northern Pacic traffic
oicials have said. Last year, in conjunction with the Southern Pacic Railway,
the Northern Pacic began moving new
Chevrolets via piggyback from Oakland,
Calif, to Seattle and Spokane. Other
shipments from St. Paul and other eastern assembly points began in June this
year.
Prior to ailiating with Trailer Train,
the Northern Pacic placed purchase
orders of 75 roller-bearing flatcars, each
85 feet long, for piggyback service.
Northern Pacic rolling stock completed recently in its shops at Brainerd,
Minn., consists of 800 40-foot boxcars
with combination plug-and-sliding doors
and 200 4-0-foot heavily insulated boxcars, or “RBL” refrigerator cars, with
loader equipment. Purchased early this
year from Pullman~Standard, Chicago,
and put into service were 400 rollerbearing 40-foot boxcars having combination plug and sliding doors. Delivery
of 100 50-foot mechanical refrigerators
was completed in May, 1960, by the Pacic Car and Foundry company, of
Seattle. Twenty-ve gondolas, 65 feet
long, also have been purchased. The
railway’s own shop crews now are fabricating 650 more cars, all roller-bearing
50-footers. A hundred and fty
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heavily insulated boxcars, with damageprevention loader equipment. The others
are wide-door boxes. They will be complete or nearly so by December 31, next.
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Natural Resource at
Corona in Minnesota
Created an Industry
Sphagnum Peat Moss Harvested, Processed and Packaged
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has one of the state’s newest and
busiest industries.
That brief description applies to Corona, Minn., in Carlton county, 35 miles
west of Duluth and Superior, where the
Red Wing Peat corporation has 35 men
working on 2,227 acres leased from the
state harvesting and processing sphagnum peat moss, a lightweight, spongy
cocoa-brown earth that looks like pipe
tobacco but is used widely by nurserymen and gardeners to loosen the texture
of soil and improve its moisture-holding
capacity in greenhouses and outside
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Landscape experts and green keep
ers specify sphagnum moss as a topdressing on lawns and golf courses.
some 300 000 bales tightly
pressed, weighing 80 pounds each and
packaged in neatly lettered polyethylene
bags are being Shipped in boxcars this
year to buyers in a 10; of States of the
Uni0n_TeXa5, Tennessee, ()hi0_ Gem.
gia’ Oklahoma’ Florida’ Nebraska, California, Illinois, Wisconsin and North
Dakota, to name some of them. The
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boxcar is Ernest Peterson, local manager of the Red Wing Peat corporation, at the
company’s plant, at Corona, M|nn., in Carlton county. Shipments go to several states.
state of Minnesota receives a royalty on
each cubic yard of moss marketed.
Officers of the corporation have said
they are aiming at annual production
totaling 1,000,000 bales, or about onetenth of the estimated current annual
consumption of the material in the United States.
The peat at (jorona lies in soggy bogs
from four to ve feet deep, where gen-
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water, died, and built up layer on layer
durmg thousands of YearsThe current attempt of the Red Wing
Peat corporation to recover and process
this natural resource was begun two
years ago, when a crew was employed
to clear off with bulldozers a crop of
water-retarded black spruce, brush and
Other sllffac material On 300 HCTES 1168f
the Northern Pacic main-line track between Duluth and Staples. The top was
removed to a depth of a foot or 18
inches to expose marketable peat. Sixfoot trenches were cut through the bog
to carry off some of the water.
The next step was the planning and
building of a processing plant. A tumbler or rotary type of oil-red kiln was
installed. First dumped into the hopper
of a cleaning mill. the sphagnum is
moved by a chain conveyor to the kiln.
where its moisture content is reduced to
about 28 per cent. lt works about like
an alfalfa dehydrator. The moisture is
condensed and expelled into the air. In
the bog the moss is 95 per cent water.
Some air drying occurs before it reaches
the kiln. reducing the moisture to about
T0 per cent. After being dried, it is
moved on by conveyors to bins in a
building housing four automated baling
machines, which compress the material
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Hartman Wrap for Fruit
Reduced Loss in Transit
PEAT FOR LAWNS AND GARDENS from a stock pile at processing plant in Carlton
county, Minnesota, is lifted in a tractor-operated scoop to the hopper of a cleaning
mill and then is conveyed to an oil-red tumbler kiln. A royalty is goin 5 to the state.
shipments from Corona were made in
I959.
When the company began operations is was evident that some method
faster and less expensive than cutting it
out and piling it by hand was necessary
in harvestirlg the moss subsequentb’
the principle used in household vacuum
cleaners was adalned to 3 machim mus‘
tom made in Mi"neaP°li5) 12 feet tall
arid equiPPed with 3 giarmsized al"mi'
num tank. A John Deere track-type tractor pulls this big $7,500 implement and
also transmits power through a takeo
to a heavy fan which creates a vacuum
in the tank. Then, opposite the fan, a
suction tube, mounted on a roller picks
up moss, which has been loosened by a
rotary tillage implement passed over the
surface of the peat bog. Later the tank
is tipped to empty its sweepings into a
stock pile and large wagons still later
haul it to the processing plant. The rm
owns and operates seven of the vacuum
harvesters.
The general oice of the Red Wing
Peat corporation, headed by A. D. Trott,
president, is in Houston, Tex. Ernest
Peterson, local manager, has an oice at
the plant, at Corona.
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merce. The year’s combined export and
domestic shipments of grain were the
second highest on record. In 1945, 169,000,000 bushels were moved on the lake
from Duluth and Superior, an all-time
record.
Two hundred and thirt y- ve ocean
vessels delivered or picked up cargo at
the two cities last year. General-cargo
exports amounted to 7,227 tons and
general-cargo imports, including steel,
ferresilieon, machinery, wood pulp
glass, eeee, twine, liquor, beer, rugs’
automobiles and oatmeal’ came to 12,183 tons.
Domestic shi p ments in to th e D ulut h
Superior harbor totaled 5,459,000 tons
in 1959_
vents spread of the decay from one pear
to another.
Hartman discovered, too, that oiled
paper wrapping will control scald, or
blemish, in Anjou pears and also he developed a paraflin liner for shipping
boxes which reduces friction bruises on
the fruit during transcontinental movement.
This wizard of horticultural research,
now 70, recently retired from regular
work at the Oregon college but his inventions continue to serve pear growers.
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one, devised by Henry Hartman, above,
made millions for the producers of pears.
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In 1959, the rst year the St. Lawrence seaway was in operation, 85,600,000 bushels of grain were exported
from the Duluth-Superior harbor, on
Lake Superior, with 71,700,000 bushels
going directly overseas and 13,900,000
going to Canada. A total of 63,800,000
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bushels was handled in domestic com-
A small piece of paper, called the
Hartman wrap, has brought millions of
dollars to pear growers of Oregon and
Washington.
A copperized oil-paper wrapping devised in the 1930’s by Henry Hartman,
then on the Sta of Oregon Slate col‘
lege, it controls a fruit disease, called
grey-mold decay, which
destroys entire
boxes of fancy winter pears, either enroute or when they arrive in eastern
fruit markete The special paper pl-e,
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The normal market for beet sugar in
the nation consists of 11 western states,
11 plains states and parts of Indiana
and Michigan.
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Factory in Seattle Makes
Dairy Tanks by Thousands
Van-Vetter, Inc., Specializing in Stainless Steel
Items, Helped Bring :Milk-Handling Changes
It is said often that new ideas and better ways of doing
something create more jobs and more demands for goods and
services, and that they bring about a bigger turnover of capital. This by itself is an abstract statement; yes, it is a generalization in want of proof. If we will review radical changes,
however, that are coming on dairy farms all over America we
will call to mind at least one good example of a revolution in
methods which is evidence that the opening sentence of this
paragraph is true.
In the past 10 years many of those ve-gallon and 10-gallon
cans which for generations sat at the roadside every morning
geforenthe airival of the creamery truck have been replaced
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The new 5Y5iein reduces iiie iebei re‘
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with milking machines, makes it {ask
bie i0? One iafinef 30 keep "10"! COWS
than before. See what it has done, also,
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stainless steel products in Seattle, Wash.,
which was ieunded in 1948 but Wiiieii
began making biiik iniik tanks nine
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“Our factory was the rst one in
this area to manufacture bulk milk
tanks for fa;-in use,” A, R, Van Sant,
president of Van-Vetter, Inc., conmiented not long ago when reviewing the liistory of the rm. “Moreover, no one else
is making them in the Northwest,” Presidem Van Sant continued. “You might
put it this way—we KY6 0116 Of the OM65!
iiiallllfadllrers in 8 new industry-"
A hundred hourly wage earners and
20 salaried employees work for the comPan)’, ileiping make bulk milk tanks
which‘ have been shipped not only l0
users in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and
Montana but also to buyers in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, the Dakotas,
Iowa, Mississippi, New York, Ohio,
Kentucky, Utah’ Louisiana, Michigan,
Kansas’ C0101-ado’ Texas’ Tennessee,
Alabama, Indiana, Utah, Louisiana and
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Land ()’LakeS Creamei-ies, Inc” in
Minneapolis, has been a customer of
Van.Vetter, Inc“ for five yearS_ A Contract was signed with officers of the Gulf
Milk Producers’ association late in 1959
to send 1,000 or more, perhaps 2,000,
bulk farm tanks to Louisiana and Mis.
sissippi. The company now has an export representative, too, Sillcox International corporation, in New York City.
Last year in the Seattle factory 1,500
bulk milk tanks were made, compared
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maker of milk tanks and other stainless
steel products, smiles so happily this way.
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BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE of steel bulk tanks for dairymen are formed on heavy
presses in the factory of Van-Vetter, Inc., at Seattle. The tanks are made in 10 sizes,
ranging from 200 gallons each up to 1,500 gallons, about six tons of milk per tank.
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ALMOST IN THE WINK of an eye this big machine shears sheets of polished stainless steel into ditferent sizes at Van-Vetter’s plant in Seattle, where I00 hourly wage
eamers make products that are being distributed to buyers in 24 states and Canada.
with 900 in 1958. From eight to 10 of
the tanks, all of heavy gauge stainless
steel and having welded seams, can be
made per day. Ten sizes are produced,
ranging from a 200-gallon tank, which
costs the dairyman $2,100 installed in
his milk house, to a 1,500-gallon size,
which comes to $7,200.
Farmers, basing their purchases on
the number of cows in their herds, buy
more 300-gallon and 400-gallon tanks
than other sizes. It takes 25 or 30 cows
to justify a 300-gallon capacity, VanVetter officers have calculated. They cxplain that a tank should be large enough
to hold four milkings.
Eighty per cent of the milk tanks made
by the Seattle rm have been either in
300 or 4-00-gallon sizes and about three
times as many in the 300-gallon size
have been sold as in the 400-gallon size,
although the demand seems now to be
moving more toward the 4-00-gallon capacity than in the past, indicating a
trend toward larger production of milk
per farm.
Every bulk tank comes equipped
with a multi-circuit direct expansion
cooling system, thermometer and other
special features, such as a propeller-type
agitator which moves milk over the bottom of the tank, where cooling occurs.
A measuring rod calibrated accurately
is used to keep an account of the milk,
in pounds. The bottom, walls and ends
of a Van-Vetter tank contain two inches
of ber glass insulation which has been
compressed from three inches.
Polishing and nishing stainless steel,
shearing stainless steel sheet, electric
welding, and forming on forming presses are some of the processes involved in
making farm bulk tanks in the factory.
The Van-Vetter tank itself is accompanied by a 10-year written warranty
and its compressor, an integral part of
the cooling system, carries a ve-year
warranty. Both are indemnied by an
insurance company.
It has been estimated that 140,000
bulk tanks have been sold in the United
States but that 500,000 eventually may
be in service. Consequently those whose
future depends in any way on the demand for this equipment believe they
have a long way to go before the market
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In the autemobue or uaeler n_usme5S_eS'
Tnus’ 3 new W33’ of nandnng deny
Preuuets eauseu a demand for more Ina‘
terlals manufactured from stainless
steel‘
Ven'VetleT, Ine-= isnlt 3 ene'e°Inn"1ed'
it)’ een1PanY, n°We\’el'- For instance» The
rlnis engineers Yeeentl)’ deVel0Ped an
alleCl1lI1ent—e P0Wel' Washer fer milk
lanl<5- A revolving 5PFaY, using Water
heated I0 130 degrees Fahrenheit and 3
detergent, Washes {OT 10 minutes, with
an antenlane Inning device regulating
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“With this power washer, bacteria
are a scarce article in the milk equip-
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hand work is applied to bulk dairy tanks. Last year 1,500 of
them came out of this factory. Every tank has a cooling system.
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THIS VIEW SHOWS “insides” of a Van-Vetter milk tank, with
a propeller-type agitator and a calibrated measuring rod to keep
a count of the milk. Company is manufacturing a washer, too
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ment,” President Van Sant declared
“Tests have shown that we get a lowef
bacteria count than when the most carelul washing by hand is done. We sell
the washer separately but eventually
add it [gout tank; in the fact0ry_..
Van-Vetter is making such varied
items in stainless steel as food Service
equipment counters’ sinks and shelves
for cafeterias and hospitals~and doors
and door frames. Stainless steel urinals
for public buildings are manufactured’
furnished with germicidal and Ozone
lamps and a special trap to catch and
Conceal trash and debris Military in_
stallaiions both in Washington and Alas_
ka contain Van-Vetter stainless steel
pi.0ducts_ The lnstitutioiis Magazine
conducted a food service contest in
which Van-Vetter, lnc., was cited for
the equipment it supplied in the cafeteria of the Boeing Airplane company’s
transport division, at Kenton, Wash.
Incidentally, Van-Vetter, lnc., is located on 190,000 square feet of its own
land in Seattle and on 4-0,000 square
feet leased from the Northern Pacic, or
on a total of 230,000 square feet in one
tract. An N. P. industrial track serves
the plant. The Van-Vetter milk tanks
are crated and loaded in boxcars, from
22 to 30 in a car, double-decked and
Extra Dash of Imagination Helped Build a Business for Couple
Marketing Decorative Items from Alpine Areas of Washington
Sprigs and twigs may seem to be insignicant stuff, but in the Pacic
Nmthwest the)’ are an lmerestmg re‘
source-
An army of persons, more or less, has
occupied itself for decades past exploiting this natural product, gathering forest greens and shipping them to florists
in‘ far-flung locations. A husband-andwlfe team’ though’ Norma" and Dons
Steussy, has added a new twist to the
business. The Steussys have introduced
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the officers of this enterprising rm include Alan Erchinger, vice president;
manager-
mg WaY5 of arranging and e"l°Ying
products from alpine slopes and valleys
of the West.
“Bring the mountains’ splendor into your homes,” they admonish their
customers.
When Mr. and Mrs. Steussy moved to
OlYmPia: Wash-i from wisconsmi they
couldn’t get over the wide variety of
forest plants growing luxuriantly in the
moderate climate of the area and under
its rainfall conditions. They were so enchanted that 10 years ago they formed
the Steussy Distributing company to engage in a wholesale business, supplying
florists by express with boxes of wild
huckleberry, salal (some people call it
lemon leaf) rhododendron, sword fern
and, of all things, Scotch broom, which
local residents despise because it spreads
so
triple-decked.
Donavon Bancroft, vice president; John
Chapman, secretary; Joe Smith, sales
engineer; and Richard Van Sant. sales
an extra dash of imagination; they have
suggested to home decorators fascinat-
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broom, which Norman Steussy is putting
into bunches. It is gathered after a frost.
rapidly.
Scotch broom put the Steussys in
business, you might say. They thought
something could be done with it, picking its long slender branches after the
plant’s yellow flowers had dropped. The
broom at that stage of maturity, it was
determined, makes a product that brings
ecstatic exclamations from decorators
because they can fashion different kinds
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of. exotic ilrrangements with
On a
tn}? to Chlcago the Steussys showed 3
Husky ls Operating
Briquetting Company
The Dickinson Briquetting company,
at Dickinson, N. D., is being operated
by the Husky Oil company, of Cody,
Wyo. The Cody rm acquired the company from Binek Brothers, former operators. Industrial briquettes are manu-
factured, using lignite coal mined near
the plant.
Safeway Adding $500,000
Office at Bellevue
Safeway Stores, lnc., is putting up a
$500,000 steel and concrete air-conditioned office, 60x14-2 feet, on the 60-acre
site of its recently completed $10,000,000
f“S"“’“‘i°"f°e"‘" "ear B@"""**= Wash”
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sample of Scotch broom to a orist,
their rst serious attempt at selling. He
bought, and he told others, too, about
the “new” product. In a month they
shipped three tons of this unusual article
to eastern buyers and their enterprise
was well launched.
Then, later, a retail department was
inaugurated, named Sprigs and Twigs
and called a division of the Steussy Distributing company.
Here’s where imagination really
can come into play. Mrs. Steussy describes enthusiastically a special basket
arrangement containing 17 kinds of material—rhod0dendron (the waxy-leaved
state flower of Washington), jack pine,
red huckleberry, green huckleberry, silV8!‘ r, noble r, salal, juniper, incense
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addressed to A. Lange, orist in Chicago, are Norman and Mrs. Steussy, who run an
unusual rm, called Sprigs and Twigs, a division of the Steussy Distributing company.
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each accompanied by a hand-turned sol.
structions, and boxes and other special
containers to t the orders have to be
Kl brass vase imp0.rted.fm.m Kore.a' The
gifts were sent to its distributors
in several states and 8 l0t Of Citi6S at Cl'lI‘isl—
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procured‘ Doris Steussy once searched
weeks before she fgund just the right
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container. Those are some of the details
that make the Steussy operation click,
business of creating gm packages the
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Color pictures whl.ch appeared throughout the December issue of the magazine.
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Mrs. Norman Steussy, left, in cold room
at the company’s warehouse in Olympia.
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shipping container at the headquarters
of Steussy distributing rm in Olympia.
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WIDESPREAD SHIPMENT of greens is
made for gift purposes and for holidav
display. David Archer stacks up packages.
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The Astonishing Career of
Arthur
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He Began as an Office Boy in Chicago but Became Owner
A man stood alone in a Wells-Fargo
wagon. The idea was that he would
stretch at the end of a rope which was
around his neck. He didn’t, though.
The man was Cary Cooper. The location was rolling, bunch-grass range 25
miles northwest of Yakima, Wash., formerly leased by the Yakima Sheep company.
Arthur R. Bohoskey, head of the Yakima sheep company, and his wife witnessed the scene, a part of the movie,
“The Hanging Tree,” in which Cooper
starred and which was lmed on the
Yakima ranch.
Bohoskey had a double interest
for he not only had previously grazed
sheep on the location of this suspenseful
western but he furnished props for it,
too.
The early-day wagon which served as
a hangman’s platform was from Bohoskey’s collection of rare old-time vehicles. The girl in the story, Maria Schell_
rode in one of his single-seated buckboards.
Any time this short, stocky and still
energetic 73-year-old man can visit with
an interested listener about buggies and
other rolling stock of the pioneers, he is
happy. The yard surrounding his ranch
oice and the ofiice itself are veritably
Bohoskey, Stockman
of Fabulous Yakima Sheep Company
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THESE OLD-TIME WAGONS were loaned by Arthur R. Bohoskey, of Yakima, Wash.,
for the lming in that area of the motion picture, “The Hanging Tree." Gary Cooper
stood, with a rope about his neck, in the larger one. Maria Schell rode in the other.
with many interesting items.
However. there are other reasons why
Arthur Bohoskey is distinguished. One
of them is that the sheep ranch he and
his family own has no sheep on it, and
hasn’t had any for four years. Moreover, they are, as rapidly as possible.
turning it into a cattle ranch.
An unusual man who has had, as a
newspaper reporter in Yakima once
said, an astonishing career, Bohoskey
started working for a railroad as a 14year-old office boy in Chicago but some
years later, after successive jobs as telegrapher, cowboy, stockyards employee
a museum.
and then livestock buyer for Swift 8:
company, meat packing concern, he
turned up in 1922 as the owner and operator of a large sheep-feeding yard at
Lyle, Wash., along the Columbia river.
Before disposing of this property to the
Carstens Packing company, in 1953, 31
years later, Bohoskey fattened more
than 1,000,000 lambs.
“I made many shipments to St. Paul
and Chicago over the Northern Pacic.”
he recalled recently. “I remember one
consignment out of Lyle to Chicago oi
4.500 lambs that averaged 100 pounds
a head on the hoof. There were other
Douglas Fir Poles 128‘/2 Feet Long Were Shipped from Western Washington to Maine
These big Douglas r poles, nearly all
128% feet long, were cut from Northern
Pacic timber in western Washington
by the Cascade Pole company and were
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shipped, after being treated with creosote, by the Long Bell division of the
International Paper company to Machias, Me., where they were used as radar
masts. The poles were banded with steel
straps. It took three N. P. atcars to
carry the load. The consignee was Mil-
likin Brothers, Inc.
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found that they could locate water. Lising a power shovel and a bulldozer to
go down 15 feet they produced supplies
that flow at the rate of 60 or 70 gallons
per minute. ln some cases, piped down
hill. it has generated enough force to
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has acquired. Here. obviously pleased, he shows his son, Woodward, a special bridle.
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time and once we sent 4,500 fat range
lambs from Yakima to Chicago.’
in 1934, Bohoskey bought the 32,000.
acre holdings of the Yakima Sheep compan)», in the Wenas va[[ey_ Sixty thou.
sand acres more were used, either leased
ii'°in ewneia er grazed iindei Penniis
from the U. S. forest service. Subsequendy’ howeven he added several
thousand acres of deeded land in the
Yakima area and abolli 14,000 near
Presser and Kennewick Then, tater,
sales reduced the total land holdings,
but when he nally went out of the
sheep business entirely in‘ the 1950’s.
Bohoskey and his family still had about
34.000 acres, owned and leased, including some leased from the Northern Pacic Rai]way_
“My son, Woodward’ now is a
partner,” Bohoskey explained recentl“
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What Woodward Bohoskey and his
father are doing now consists chiefly of
getting ready to go into the cattle business. They believe they will be able to
“run” 2,000 cows and calves. Their
range is suited for winter and spring
grazing. They plan to utilize irrigated
pastures (some owned by themselves
near Kennewickl in the summer and
early fall. Heavy crops of alfalfa hay
and other feeds raised on irrigated land
will be available for the cattle operations.
The Bohoskevs have calculated that
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beef is expanding all the time. they have
pointed out. But they hope to “buy in”
on a_favorable basis—on a buyer s market, If. they can hit one._
Wniie ine)' are gening under Wa)3
their land is leased to other operators—
ibe grazing iand id eaiiie Sieweis and
the irngable land to large ffirmers who
raise Peiaiees and Peas °n_ii- iniPi'°ve'
ments are being made. Thirty miles of
ieneing Wiib ieai barbed Wires Wiii be
Put in—ai 3 cost of from $750 to $1000
a mile. Last summer 12 miles were com-
run sprinklers.
Basins have been gouged out of
the earth at strategic locations, too, for
the collection of run-off water. These
improvements are enhancing the value
of the range. Assistance in planning and
executing the water program has been
supplied by conservationists of the Ahtaiium-Moxee and Hiland Soil Conservation district.
lf only a part of what Arthur and
Wioodward Bohoskey envision today
comes to pass, the Yakima Sheep company really will turn into one of the
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A lighbcolored attractive sweet Cher“,
that was discovered as an unknown
seedling on the fat-m of Gordon Comm,
at Eugene, Ore” may become widely
u5¢d_ Hotticultutists at the state experi.
ment station report it is very promising
for canning and that, after further oh.
servation’ they may recommend it to
gt-owe;-§_ What is the name of this in.
teresting new variety? Corum, naturally.
Pieied-
Then, another Pmieel involves in‘
creasing ine water avaiiabie on ibe
rang
The B0i105keY5 are lappmg
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al'e Piping with tile to different loca.
tions so that cattle won’t wear out
pounds of beef walking too far for a
drink. Searching up some of the draws
at the higher elevations, the Bohoskeys
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Buding for Portland
in tile meil'°P°iiian area Oi Periiaad»
Ore., $161,720,000 Werib Oi biiiiding
Will be (10118, much Oi it this year, H
chamber of commerce survey showed.
Only ]0l)S costing $500,000 or more
each were counted in the survey.
BUNCH-GRASS RANGE near Yakima, Wash., is being fenced and improved with
water holes for cattle by Arthur and Woodward Bohoskey, a father-son unit. Seepage
from underground will be utilized. Sheep formerly were grazed on this rolling land.
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Remote but Storiecl Village Scene of Modern Log ‘Show’
Scott Paper Company, Cutting Timber on Slopes of Cascade Mountains, Has a Camp at Lester,
Wasli.; Logs are Loaded on the Northern Pacific and Transported to Mills Located on Puget Sound
ln the Cascade mountains in Washington. just west of the Northern Pacic’s tunnel through Stampede pass. is
the town oi Lester. This town of about
200 permanent population is located on
the main line oi the N. P.
The Northern Pacic is. indeed. the
life line of Lester. providing the only
transportation contact with the outside
world for part of the year. From the
time snow falls until spring the one-lane
dirt road over Stampede pass leading to
Lester from highway 10 is covered. up
to 20 feet deep. Even in summer. this
road is passable only with small trucks
and cars driven by the adventuresome.
Supplies for the people of Lester come
in on the Northern Pacic from Seattle.
some 65 miles to the west.
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now stop only for passengers. mail and
freight.
Early in 1959 the 50-year-old Lester
hotel closed its doors. For all these years
a stopover for railway crews. officials.
sportsmen and visitors. the hotel's win(lows are now boarded up.
But there is no danger of Lester be-
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of Washington Wllh‘3 “rnalfloader i'or_ the Scott Paper company. Loader picks up a
log with tongs and ‘heels it before swinging it around over the truck waiting for it.
(joling a ghost town. thanks again to
ih NOTlh@I Pacic. and i0 the SCOEI
Paper company. The big paper rm
headquarters one of its most extensive
logging operations in Lcst@r- The rails
are the Ohl)‘ Practical a"eh\19 Qt tTa"§porting logs l0 Pl1lP- plywood and ll1mher mills on the wash Year-around
highways to Lester probably are still
years away.
While a few residents of the town
work for Scott in the logging operations. every Sunday night the daily train
from Seattle brings from 110 to 125 additional men for the logging crew. They
return to Seattle and other stations every
Friday on a train chartered by the paper
private roads is dumped at a Northern Pacic spur in Lester,
V ash., and then loaded onto at cars, barely visible behind the truck, to move on the
railroad to western “Kishington. Twenty-two million feet of timber were cut in 1959.
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l]]Cid@n{3ll\'_ no passes are
valid on this train. not even those held
by N, P_ oio@rs_ During tho woo]; tho
men are housed and fed in Scott’s Lester camp. with clean bunk houses only
a short distance from town. A large,
well-equipped mess hall can serve more
than 200 men at a sitting with old-iashionod loggers’ inoa]s_
This is one of tho {ow remaining r-amp
operations in tho stats In most other
logging operations throughout tho oountr‘-_ workers hare their homes C1059 hv_
Those are oa]|@d_ in loggers’ hngh,
"homo guard” Operations
Lester is surrounded hv thousands
of acres of virgin tnnher am} “~o]1_ds\-Q]oped second-growth. Some of the Northern Pacic land in the immediate area.
part of its Green River Tree farm. is under timber contracts to Scott. The paper
rm also is cutting about an equal
amount of timber in the same area obtained from the federal government.
Carefully planned logging is done in
anticipation of a perpetual yield. selectively cut in patches for eiiective reseeding so each year's cut will be replaced by growing timber.
Logging operations extend for 10 or
15 miles around Lester. high on the
slopes of the Cascades. Logging begins
as Soon as the Snow leaves the roads in
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AN OFFICE BUILDING, bunk houses and mess hall are maintained by the Scott Paper company at its camp in the Cascades
near Lester, Wash. ln the warm months some of the loggers
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blocked again. Large off-highway logging trucks make frequent trips. bringing logs back to Lester where they are
loaded onto railway cars, which carry
them to Lake Washington, in Seattle.
“’l1ere they fire formed into felts and
t0W8d t0 mllls On Puget S0l1I1d- The
Scott Paper company uses the pulp logs
in its own paper-making operations and
53" legs and “Peelers” Sllllahle lol‘ plywood are traded to other companies for
logs of Pull] gl'adeThe Scott operation concentrates on
mobile equipment to log scattered
patches selected for cutting by foresters
and logging e"glneel'5- Well'Plahhed
forest roads wind throughout the Green
River Valle)’ and "P the 5l°Pe5- TheY
are designed to facilitate the movement
of logs l° lhe Tallhead and lhe}' else
Serve 35 3 mule lef the lrallslef Ol 1110'
hlle logging e‘1“lPmehl- These loads are
115efl again and again 35 lhe legging
crews move back to timber patches chosen by the foresters.
On an operation of this type, logging
equipment must be mobile. Permanently
placed spar trees with large sled-m0unted yarding machines still are necessary
to get logs from areas where roads cannot be built. But more and more self
propelled machines on crawler tracks or
wheels are replacing stationary equipment. Scott has large 30-ton and 40-ton
Trakloader machines built by the Washington lron Works, of Seattle, that can,
for example, travel under their own
power for 10 miles on rough roads in a
few hours, then rig up to yard logs from
as far as 400 feet where the trees are
felled. The same machines load the logs
onto trucks.
Olher equlpmenl melulles 5lal1°"'
ary and crawler-mounted loading machines, yarders, tractors to build roads
and skld loge, graders and dump lTllel<5
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drive their cars over rugged Stampede pass to the camp but
when rains and snows return N. P. passenger trains are their
means of reaching the “outside.” About 150 men are employed.
for road building, radio-equipped supervisory and maintenance trucks, buses to
transport loggers to the woods and
trucks for hauling water, fuel and equip-
sonnel, commissary staff and road and
logging crews.
I n 1 9 5 9 the Scott Paper company
shipped Over 3,175 Cars of logs our of
the Lester camp on the Northern Pacic. This represented 22.000.000 feet.
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This list of equipment requires a
maintenance and service operation at
Lester, with complete garage and repair
facilities and the men to do the work.
The Scott facility at Lester occupies
N.P. Transport Company
Has Basin clly Permll
Several aeres, inelnding Office building,
l11e55 hall, l)llI1l< h0l15e5, 5h°P5, 11Y1l°a<?ling and log decking area and railroad
spur reloading area. The total crew averages 150 men, in the peak of the logglhg 56350“ Somellmes golhg lo more
than 200, including oflice and shop per-
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Northern Pacic Transport company,
subsidiary of the North.
ern Paeie Railway, recently has been
granted temporary authority to conduct
interstate motor carrier operations supplernentary to Northern Pacic rail service to and from an area within 10 miles
of the townsite of Basin City, Wash..
in the Columbia Basin lrrigation project.
This in effect will provide rail service
to a remotely located but rapidly growing community on a through-rate basis.
Based on previous permits, the transport company also has authority to handle traffic moving in intrastate commerce between any point in eastern
Washirigton and Seattle, Yakima, Spokane. Walla Walla, Clarkston and We3 whe1]y-ewned
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natchee, Wash.
MOBILE LOGGING MACHINES replace
stationary equipment, Here George E_
Stitharp, right, Superintendent of Seott
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pelled unit for yarding and loading -logs:
Basin City, located west of Mesa,
which is on a main line of the Northern
Pacic Railway, is in the development
stage. A grain and bean marketing facility is under construction by the Odessa Trading company and contracts for
constructing of a grade school are being
negotiated.
The area tributary to Basin City is
an important segment of the 1,000,000acre Columbia Basin lrrigation project.
The land is suitable for a wide. variety
of crops and livestock enterprises, 1neluding grain, potatoes, miscellaneous
vegetables, sugar beets, peas and
fruit,
and Vegetable5 for Processing15
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ONE FLOOR OF SIX-STORY Fritz Sick cellars illustrates how this $1,800,000 fais a 20-barrel pure culture yeast-doubling tank. Foreman’s
desk has temperature gauge and switches permitting rapid temperature readings in
dierent parts of the building. The fermenting tanks all are located behind the wall.
cility operates. At the left
Rainier Cellars Have 33,100-Barrel Capacity
A new $1,800,000 fermenting facility,
called the Fritz Sick cellars, is in operation at Sicks’ Rainier Brewing Co.,
located at Seattle, Wash., in the city’s
south industrial district. The six-story
cellars add 4-5,000 square feet of space
and furnish 33,100 barrels of fermenting
capacity. Provision has been made for
future expansion to the extent of 11,500
barrels.
Thirty-four fermenting tanks in the
cellars were made from a design on
which the company has applied for a
patent. Temperature-control solution is
circulated through hollow exterior stiffeners, eliminating interior coils and ttings and providing tank interiors of
smooth “lithcote” surfaces. Also there
are automatic cleaning systems, a central control of beer and yeast transfer,
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY
ST. PAUL 1,
Form
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and push-button operation of a zonal
system which provides air sterilization,
regulated temperature and control of
humidity. Surfaces which come in contact with beer, wort and yeast are of
stainless steel, stainless-clad steel or inert
plastic. Product piping is seamless.