Electric Power in the Lumber Industry

In the preparation of this article an attempt has been made to show the development or growth of the use of electric power transmission in the lumber industry. More particularly in that branch of the industry that is engaged in falling trees, hauling them to the mill and sawing these trees into lumber units of the size used by builders and manufacturers of finished articles in which wood is the raw material. An attempt has been made to show the general scope to which electricity is used, without including any technical descriptions of individual applications. It was felt that this can be best accomplished by a general description of its use throughout one of the most recently constructed and most modern manufacturing units in the Pacific Northwest.