78,900 Feet, Board Measure._]

The plant operates the year 'round, logging, sawing, manufacturing and
shipping. Handicaps of a severe winter climate are overcome and frozen
logs are thawed in a steam-heated pond. Continuous operation gives
steady employment to skilled and experienced men and a rapid replacement
of stocks that makes Westwood a dependable source of supply for the
trade.

The large Red River factories at Westwood are equipped to supply every
known need of the trade and made-to-order specialties are quickly turned
out. The most modern machinery is used for cutting, finishing, glueing
and other operations.

Our moldings, sash and doors and similar products are superior in their
clean-cut workmanship as well as the texture of the wood. Box shooks,
sash and door cuttings, boards for winding fine textiles or making organ
pipes, piano keys and key-beds, curtain poles and shade rollers are some
of our products. Cutting out the knots and waste at the source of supply
affords economies that are profitable to all wood consuming industries.

[Illustration: _One of the Edgers, Westwood Mill, California._]

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WHEN Paul invented logging he had to invent all the tools and figure out
all his own methods. There were no precedents. At the start his outfit
consisted of Babe and his big axe.

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No two logging jobs can be handled exactly the same way so Paul adapted
his operations to local conditions. In the mountains he used Babe to
pull the kinks out of the crooked logging roads; on the Big Onion he
began the system of hauling a section of land at a time to the landings
and in North Dakota he used the Seven Axemen.

At that time marking logs was not thought of, Paul had no need for
identification when there were no logs but his own. About the time he
started the Atlantic Ocean drive others had come into the industry and
although their combined cut was insignificant compared to Paul's, there
was danger of confusion, and Paul had most to lose.

At first Paul marked his logs by pinching a piece out of each log. When
his cut grew so large that the marking had to be detailed to the crews,
the "scalp" on each log was put on with an axe, for even in those days
not every man could nip out the chunk with his fingers.

The Grindstone was invented by Paul the winter he logged off North
Dakota. Before that Paul's axemen had to sharpen their axes by rolling
rocks down hil