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THURSDAY, MAY 73,

14th ANNUAL

1974

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Herald

The - PAGE 17

Loggers ‘Supplement

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ELCOME LOGGER

_ Office Manager -

: GORDON ROWLAND
Forestry Superintendant

WALTER YEO .
Vice-President
General Manager

_— : _) : Terrace was constructed from cedar milled by the firm

KEITH MELANSON —

The World
Cedar poles
come out of |
the. Nass Valley’

DALE ROBINSON
Mill Superintendant ~

ROY MYERS
Yard Superiniendant

2 - a

-- Some time ago t
had-to be reméved from the forest.

Doo. operations which took place in the bush ceased and producers were

. faced with carrying the entire tree ta the mill site. As L.H.&K,
= - Forest Supervisor Gordon Rowland saic “We are otity alowed to
col. disconnect’ a tree and taxe it to aur Terrace mill.” :

, .-When this came about, Waiter Yeo and his team decided that lf

1s they had fo bring the whole tree ta the mill they would have to find a

Loc: Way t setlas moch of this iree as possible. For the past year

‘LH.&K. is doing just that with only the “sawdyst and the bark

ending up ia the firm’s ultra-modern incinerator. 2

-L.H.&K. has some 45 men on the payroll working on their 74 acre

fe on the western edge of Terrace and in their Timber Se

Harvest Licence at Kitwanga In the Cranberry area. .

tee -cThe firms onty harvest are cedars of cedar pole quality. In -

~ 20.) addition te their own licence they have obtained poling rights fram |

. ,ather logging operators on an excBange basis and they. also -

_. purchase cedar poles.

-To-> .. The forest operation is handied by five or siz contractors and the
product cut in their Kitwanga operation_is hauled up to Cranberry
Junction and down the Nass to the on the banks of the Kalum.

+ River by Dale Kushner who uses two new self-loaders in the
operation and for the 165 mile haut. Dy
+. The firm has manufactured as high as 35,000 poles in one year byt -
the yearly average fs 20,000. Their maximum tut. allowance is
19,000,000 F.f.A. Ct
1. Because the regulations required the firm to bring theentire trea.
fo the mill the firm soughtand found ways znd means af ItHizing the .-
waste that is usually burned, Out of their studies came a fencing
mill now producing five million board fee? per anium, ashake mill -
producing a box car of stakes per week as well zs a number of 2x4’5.

The firm cannot keep all inventory on hand as their product is sold
as quickas it comes off the production linc. . .
;, Another step, which Makes this firm“Number one the Province in |

l- > go far as total utilization ts concerned, involves @ picket post and

* gail mill which will split poies which are of no value for any ather
purpose because of center rot making a very saleable product oof a
rustic natural beauty requiring a minimum of maintenance.
«. The firm is going tull cut with one shift in operation. However, as
Mr. Yeo states, we have to go ta two shifts very Shortly, Our
operation is new aid as $00n as we iron out some of the bugs we will

. Move into a double shift operatian.

go the forestry afftetals decided that an entire tree
This meant that poling

’s finest

LOGGERS

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Poles: graded - —
from: 30: feet
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Shake’ and
-. fencing -mill-

LITT

The above office building hy Litile

"Haugland and Kerr Ltd, on their 76 acre operation in

LE, HAUGHLAND & KE

- from what fs. u

wha sually waste material in a poling
. operation, ©..." ee

5630 W Highway 16 635-6295 —