Show 1 Will CUT TIMBER TIMBERON ON LARGE SCALE San Vincente Lumber Com Company Company Company pany Has Big Project in California NOW READY TO OPERATE M H GROVER LEAVES TO PUT UP SAWMILL M 1 IT H t Grover resident manager of or the San Vincente Lumber company com pan left lett Salt Lake yesterday for Santa Panta Cruz Cat Cal where he will superintend tho the establish establishment establishment ment of ot saw mill for his company In the redwood forest recently purchased by this company in Santa Cruz county On acres of or forest land recently ac acquired acQuired acquired by the company compan there are feet of or redwood fir and hard woods Options on this timber were secured for forthe forthe forthe the company over a year Jear ago by b F o S Murphy bf Salt Lake from the Santa Cruz Lime company which had purchased th the theland theland land from its original Spanish owners for forthe forthe forthe the lime rock that was found on it The land is a part of an old Spanish grant rant and Its title has never passed through tho United States company The San Vincente Lumber I company compan has already made arrangements for the erection erection tion of or a large saw mill In the heart of or its redwood ledwood forest Machinery for the new newmill newmill newmill mill has been purchased from the D J Murray Manufacturing company of or Wausau Vau Wausau sau WIs Vis and will be shipped within a afew afew afew few weeks The new mill Is la to cost IW mo and ana will be equipped with the latest Improved machinery It will have a ca capacity capacity Capacity of feet a day and will em employ employ ploy plo j men the year round The saw sawmill sawmill sawmill mill Is known as the band type and has a band re saw Transportation far fac lilies fines for the com corn pany are the best The new Ocean Shore railroad being built from San Francisco to Santa Cruz will wUl pass over the com land It has been built south to toa toa toa a point within two and a half hair miles of the redwood forest The Southern Pa Pacific elfie branch running from froin Santa Cruz to Davenport passes within three ana and a half miles from the site of the new mill Spur tracks will be b built Into the woods and logging roads opened The logging tracks will be standard gauge and equipped ped with heavy steel rails to sustain the weight of pf r the giant redwood trees Trees Are Very Large Most of or the trees trees t es in the forest are very large and some of them too large to be handled easily A stump remaining af after after after ter the tree had been broken off of sixty feet from the ground measured at its top ten feet in diameter and fifteen feet af at a Its base It contained feet of lumber lumberA A single cut of or many man of these trees is ismore Ismore more than could be hauled out of or the for forest forest thane est on the th e cars and has to be blasted into quarters with giant powder The new mill will be in operation by March 1909 and by that railroad construction work necessary to provide transportation er tl facilities will have hae been e completed The mill will manufacture In addition to lumber redwood shingles and fir laths The company com pan expects epe to t find a market for Its entire output within a ra radius ralus radius dius lus of miles from the mill The for forest forest forest est acquired is the largest in the southern half halt of California CalICo mia and is the only one In that vicinity so that there will be little or no competition in the territory In which It will be he marketed Northern California lumbermen are forced to pay such high freight rates to get into this territory that they cannot hope to compete with a local company compan The Thc headquarters for the San Vincente Lumber company Is Iii imin in Salt Lake where where will be located the t e main offices Mr Ir Gro Grover Grover Grovet ver vet will re remain In local charge of the theof mill near Santa Cruz The directors of the company are C W Yo Nibley George Stoddard W V W W Riter Biter M 1 H Grover and n F S Murphy Most of the stock Is owned ba tw the directors |