Company Reports Record Production
Westwood Mill Output is Told
January 25, 1943
The Red River Lumber Company of Westwood this week reported its sawmill and dry kiln produced more lumber in 1942 than in any other year in the twenty-five years of operation in that city.
Officials reported that the sawmill cut 212,414,759 feet and the kilns dried 221,255,755 feet. The excess of the kiln output were the cedar squares for Venetian blind slats which are returned to the kilns from the company’s Susanville plant was also kiln-dried at Wetwood, it was reported.
A total of 5980 acres of lumber were shipped from Westwood, as well as one car of ties, 120 cars of moulding and siding, eighty-eight cars of shook and cut-stock, 159 cars of Venetian blind slats, 523 cars of plywood, forty-six cars of veneer cores, three cars of flitches and one car of logs.
A total of 6,921 cars of various types were shipped.
