Operations of lumber Mills to Begin Soon
Fruit Growers will Send Fallers into the Woods
February 25, 1934
Manager A. G. Breitwieser of Lassen Lumber & Box Company announces that their mill will begin operating March 5. To begin with the operation will be on about a 50 per cent basis, using up the NRA allotment of January, February and March.
By March 20 the allotment of the second quarter is expected to be supplied them and this will determine the extent of their operation for the first half of the year. At least a hundred men will be employed.
Fruit Growers Start March 12
Manager Earl Birmingham of the Fruit Growers states that their saw mill will begin operation March 12 and men will be added to their crew as they get under way.
Late in March fallers will be sent into the woods, and by April 1 is it expected they will have 150 men or more engaged in logging.
The contemplated activity will add 250 of their former employees to the payroll, and the outlook is that by early summer Fruit Growers Supply Company will be “back to normal” so far as logging and milling operations are concerned.
There have been a decided improvement in lumber demands during the past ten days and prospects for the industry in Lassen county point to operations approaching old time proportions.
New Mill Rumored
There are constant rumors of new mills being located near Susanville by early summer with crews ranging from 50 to 100 men in plants.
