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- 1951-10-08
Part of Richards Studio Photographs
A view of trucks and the 12-ton hoist used to dump full loads of wood chips at the St. Regis Paper plant. The chips flow by gravity onto a conveyor belt into piles that stand 60 feet into the air by means of an elaborate four-way pneumatic system. Moving the mountains of chips had been systemized into a push-button operation to deliver chips onto the correct pile according to species of wood, pine, white fir, hemlock or Douglas fir.
Paper industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1950-1960; Trucks--Tacoma--1950-1960; Veneer Chip Transport (Tacoma);