While some are aware that on September 10, 1912, marked the cutting down of the first ceremonial tree by Clinton Walker and W.B. Carlin on what would be site of Westwood. On the surface, it seemed like a jubilant occasion. However, unbeknowst to the outside world was the Walker family feud, and the location of Westwood, was one of many issues at hand. Patriarch T.B. Walker was caught in a dilemma. After all, it was his dream that the California operations were to be run entirely on their own, hoping they would achieve the same success he did when he founded the Red River Lumber Company in Minnesota. While tempers flared an ambitious building program was implemented. On July1, 1913 some 450 buildings had constructed in this new town in the wilderness.