Laminated \food Walking Beams For Oil Fields

In the past few years laminated articles of wood have created valuable spots for themselves in the building world.

The accompanying illustrations show something wonderfully successful in wood lamination. Western Timber Structures, Inc., a subsidiary of the West Coast Lumbermen's.Association, makes "Westims" laminated wood walking beams for oil well use, and is building up a highly successful business with them. During the year 1937 they made and put into use many of these walking beams.

One of these illustrations shows a "Westims" walking beam made of laminated Douglas Firin operation at Bartholomae's Well No. 4, Brea Canyon Road, California, where oil is being pumped from a depth of 4113 feet through Zfu-inch tubing. The other illustration shows a "Westims" laminated Douglas Fir walking beam l4x24x 26 leet 0 inches being tested at the University of Washington. Its ultimate strength proved to be 98,000 pounds.

In 1937 Western Timber Structures also fabricated three 130-foot bolted timber oil derricks at their Wilmington plant, which derricks successfully drilled wells ranging from 3,600 to 7,500 feet in depth.

A. C. Horner is manager of Western Timber Structures, Inc., with offices at 85 Second Street, San Francisco. Their Southern California office is at 326 West Third Street, Los Angeles, and their plant at Wilmington,

Convention Dates

Ian. lS-Texas Mill Managers Association, Angelina ITotel, Lufkin. Monthly meeting'

18-2O-American Wood Preservers Association, Congress Hotel, Chicago.

1S-2O-Northwestern Lumbermen's Association, Minneapolis Municipal Auditorium, Minneapolis, I\{inn.

19-21-Middle Atlantic Lumbernren's, Associatiorr. Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia' Pa.

Z4-26-Mountain States Lumber Dealers' Association. Shirley-Savoy Hotel, Denver, Colo.

25-27-Northeastern Retail Lumbermen's Association, Hotel Pennsylvania, New York.

26-28-southwestern Lumbermen's Association, Auclitorium, Kansas City, Mo.

2- 4-Michigan Retail Lumber Dealers' Association, Hotel Statler, Detroit.

Feb. 2- 4-!owa Association of Lumber and Building Nfaterial Dealers. Des Moines Coliseum, Des Moines, Iowa.

Feb. 2- 4-Lumber Dealers'Association of Western Penrrsylvania, Fort Pitt Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pa'

Feb. 9-1l-Ohio Association of Retail Lumber Dealers, Deshler-Wallick Hotel, Columbus'

Feb. 12-Tennessee Lumber Millwork and Supply Dealers' Association, Nashville, Tenn'

Feb. 14-15-West Virginia Lumber and Buildi-rlS S-uWlV Dealers' Association, Huntington, \M' Va'

Feb. lS-I7-Wisconsin Retail Lumbermen's Association' Milwaukee.

Feb. 16-17-Western Retail Lumber Dealers' Association' Spokane, Wash.

Feb. 16-17-southwestern Iowa Retail Lumbermen's Association, Council Bluffs, Iowa'

Feb. 17-l8-Kentucky Lumber & Supply Association, Lexington, KY.

Feb. 22-23-North Dakota Retail Lumbermen's Association, Fargo, N. D.

Feb.23-25-Nebraska Lumber Merchants' Association' Omaha, Nebr.

Feb. 24-Zl-Virginia Building Material .Association' John Marshatt Hotel, Richmond, Va' iVlar. 8- 9-South Dakota Retail Lumbermen's Association, Sioux Falls, S. D'

Mar. 24-New Jersey Lumbermen's Association' Robert Treat Hotel, Newark'

Apr. 2S-indianaHaidwoodLumbermen'sAssociation' ' IndianaPolis.

THE R. J. M. CO. MOVTNG TO NEW LOCATION

The R. 1.-ttt. Co., distributors to dealers of standard building commodities, are moving to their large new warehouse

ZSS-Z4S South Mission Road, Los Angeles' corner of East Third Street, and expect to be in their new quarters by JanuarY 25 at latest.

Warehouse Capactty Doubled

Announcement is made by Ryness Flooring Company tt ut tt "y have doubled their warehouse capacity at their pf "", .a -OOt+ tt't"finley Avenue' They are wholesale dealirc i" Harris and Perfection Brand oak and maple flooring, and intencl catering to the retail lumber yard trade'