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California Lumber Merchant

Dear Max,

The article on The King Lumber Company, Shafter, California in your December issue was a good article and brought comments from other firms.

We are sure that many firms are interested in bringing existing facilities up to date when they could not aford the high cost of new facilities. We shall be glad to have any of the dealers visit our yards and should our Shafter operation provide some merchandising ideas which may be beneficial, we shall be glad to have made this possible.

We appreciate the cooperation of the California Lumber Merchant and shall endeavor to work with you in the future.

Arthur E. Masters President

The King Lumber Company Bakersfleld, Californirc

Ilave Cutler

California Lumber Merchant

Thanks Dave, for the pictures in the last issue of my exhibit at the Hoo-Hoo convention, showing the outstanding stair rail of wood with all the bends, casements, etc., which were all made by hand.

For your information, it was book matched walnut plywood on the walls. The picture shows only one room but it was on all the walls of the second floor, all panels divided up equally on each wall and factor? matched and numbered on the back for the sequences.

The panels were half walnut, fire-proofed and preffnished on face and edges with a 96" space between.

BilI O'Keefie

Industrial Millwork & Su,pply

Hialeah, Florida

And our thanks to BiII O'Keele, who is surely the liaeliest 82 year-old, in the business.-Ed,inr

Dear Sirs,

I hope you folks are going to have some coverage of that old logging railroad that folded up this fall. It was up near Standard (Calif.), I don't remember the name of the company that owned the road, but as I recall some of the equipment was sf,eam.

It is a real loss to the West when these railroads are allowed to go out of business.

Roy Tliindham, Sun City, Calif.

We agree. SeC p6e 16 ol this issun.-Edinr,

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