1925: Improvements costing well over a hundred thousand dollars have been completed, and with its capacity more than doubled, the Arizona Lumber & Timber Co. sawmill, the oldest and yet the newest in northern Arizona, is turning out more lumber each working hour, it is said, than any other mill in the Southwest. Technically, the equipment is known as a “double band� mill. That is, there are two main saw carriages, each with its huge band saw. And behind and auxiliary to these are numerous and various other saws. One is a vertical resaw. Two are edgers. One is an overhead trimmer. One is a horizontal resaw. The latter is the first to be installed in this part of the country. These auxiliary saws greatly speed up production by taking the smaller work from the two main carriages. Small logs, always hard to handle on the main carriages and time-consumers, are merely run to the saw there to take off a slab and then are shot back to the auxiliary saws.
Editor Chris Etling takes you behind the scenes of just one example of how we look through archives for information used in the Flagstaff History column.
Susan Johnson has lived in Flagstaff for over 30 years and loves to delve into her adopted hometown’s past. She has written two books for the History Press, Haunted Flagstaff and Flagstaff’s Walkup Family Murders, and, with her son Nick, manages Freaky Foot Tours. You’ll find her hiking the trails with her corgi, Shimmer.
All events were taken from issues of the Arizona Daily Sun and its predecessors, the Coconino Weekly Sun and the Coconino Sun.
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