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Bids received on property —

of last waterfront sawmill
By fan Noble

News Reporter
fan@usnewscom

HUNDREDS of buyers picked at the
rusty carcass of the North Shore’s
last sawmill Thursday,

They snapped up spare parts for businesses with a:
hopelislly rosie fiture, ,

‘The Bridge Street property of the 150-employee ‘Tolko
sawinill, a watertiont operation silenced in’ Mareh, was °
auctioned off In 1,831 lots the same day that NDP:
Preraler Glen Clark announced bis ambitious plan to pat
more Hinber workers to work in B.C.

Duncan's Doughis Mackenzie and Harold Joliffe were

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VANCOUVER Island residents

Douglas Mackenzie and Harold Joliffe
; - (above) shop for their Bolivian timber
“G ‘mill-at the Tolko auction. Outside, the
action continued (top).

lamented the passing of the mill,

Fred Allan, froma Surrey’s S and R Sawmills, said it’s
sad to see the mill go and workers out of jobs,

He added he knew the mill's owner before Tolko
took over in 1988 and had friends who worked at the
mill, ” ;

“We built our sawinill from the old mills,” inelud-
ing niany North Vancouver mills, he said.

L two of the 212 -boyers who had registered “atthe oF Everett, Washington-based Manny Aragon, at the
: Mavnird’s duction office betore 10 aan, Oe BPS . Yan F ey re auction to buy a tog dozerssaid he doubts anything
: With the smell of cedar still strong, in the air, the Ca Sea ah de vad can be done for sawmills,
| _ “ACU Istana dua hovered over a selection: af : . : - NEVIS photo Mike Wokolletd “Vawvironmentalists have it in for everyone,” he
: 7m hydrautic motors in the sawmill They explained they were Ps said They don’t want ne wood cut, no nothing cut.
, yt lvoking for mill cquipment for theic new timber epefation “AN auction at'Tolko industries’ closed plant was expected to ‘They digure everything is supposed ro stay the way it
in Bolivin, | attract 700 buyers for everyihing from drills to boats. is ;
/ We went daiwa there for our okt mining operation No, Bat Cobble Hill's Barry Ritchie, who was tire kick»
oe and found tnettier opportunity and decided. 1a prisue 1)" said the United States will hall aucuens, os ing around a sidewinder boat with a 4523 diesel engine, said he
; Mackenzie, an awner of Canadian-Botivian Resources, 2) here aren't too many sawinills left in the Lower Mainland fo was standing io one of the reasons the mill is no longer in oper
oe “There's lots of smal! here we would tike to have, is pita ko out of business, te satd, ation, -
ote question off price," chimed in Jotifte. ; “There’s no wood and it's pretty hard ta compete with wages Used oil and diesel fuel tinered the ground at his feet,
. The too were not the only ones with Sout American con and what the land's worth,” he said. 4 “This is what gives the whole industry a bad name,” he sald,
; nections acthe duction, ‘ Talko, which does not have a coastal forest Heenee and inast looking dawns “Us a aes,”
A Hob Sauiders was dooking for equipment such as tilt hoists” buy its logs on the open market. blamed its closure on the short. He stid the mill’s old equipment dated back to the 1940s and
and a pineapple infeed tor up te six local businesses ania client supply of coasial cedar logs and an inadequate export quota was unpraductive, 7
in Chie, curently a tesource evteaction hot spot, unter the Canada-US, sotiwoun humber agreement. Doug Haley owner of North Shore ‘Vimber in North
f a Saunders said thre hoist would po for ahout $8,000 and the ‘Tolko area inanager Vern Parkstrom: said reductions inthe Vancouver, said the millshad equipment for old, big, “heavy
~Anteed, which feeds the planar, $2,800 to $3,000, antl allowable cut atte the increase in land set aside tor parks duty” lags, , "
: He expected the Cop doflar would be paid for an end dog that means dere are fewer logs for savemills that buy fogs o the open “They can't effectively run small logs which you have to be
breaks up logs. Saunders expected it to go tar STBO,G00, market. > " , © able to-do toddy,” said Hale, who was hoping to land'a cutoff
{ He wast interested, ‘The plang manutictured products stich as decking, siding tind saw or trim saw, “Log size has drapped sleamatically over the past
. Saunders called hinwelf s savill consoitant who never tris: paneding. “Tolko’s Inlet Cedar Division was the last mill lettin a” 10 years and cedar iv general is getting really hard to get.”
nt ; vo a sale, - ‘North Vancouver fumbering history that dated back ta E8@3q Auction registration officer Andrea Crawlurd: expected
} . Last week he was in Tesas buying for his Chilean cligats. He Fven thengh many da the denimcad audience woe a benveen G00 and 700 people at tte auction, which was expected
' : stil that ithe newt few months. he expeess thar 30 sasvmillsin-“Tolko's: Bridge Street site to get equipment cheaply, they still to hast 1ta 15 hours, i
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