B.R. Garcia Trallic Service

Monqdnock Bldg., Son Frqncisco 5, YUkon 6-0509

Complete Seruice on All Traffic Problems

Over 25 yecrrs speciclizction in the trcrffic crnd trcrnsportction problems of the lumber industrY.

Freight Bills Audited on contingent bcrsis

Pacific Coast \(/holesale Hardwood Distributors V/ill Convene at

Lake Tahoe June 29, 30 and JulY 1

Announcement is made by the Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Association that they will hold their annual three day convention at Tahoe Tavern, Lake Tahoe, on June 29, 30, and JulY l, 1949.

Many of the members will probably arrive on Tuesday, June 28, and stay over until Saturday, July 2' Arrangements have been made for those who may want to stay over July 4 to do so by making advance reservations'

The annual banquet of the Association rvill be held on the evening of July 1. The first business session will be on tlre morning ol June 29.

Officers of the Association are: President, Don F' White, White Brothers, San Francisco; Vice President, Bruce Mclean, General Hardwood Co., Tacoma, Wash'; Secretary-Treasurer, Don Braley, United States Plywood Corp', San Francisco.

Directors are: Gordon T. Frost, E. G' Reel, Alex Gordon, Fred Ahearn, Dallas Donnan, and Lawrence B' Culter.

New Portland PlYwood Plant

To Stcrrt Ecrrly in 1949

Announcement has been made by the Portland Plvlvood Corp., Portland, Oregon, that their nerv $1,000,000 plyrvoocl plant r'vill start producing early in 1949'

It is estimated that the plant wiil produce 36,000'000 feet annually of all types of Douglas fir plyrvood, and the company will handle its own distribution' Offr.er. of the firm are George E' Murphy, president; Leo N{anthe, treasurer; Henry A' Nelson, secretary' Directors are the officers and Jess L' Barr, Adolph Wanke' and Tames Fleishman.

Tests of small specimens by the Forest Products Laboratory demonstrate that the strength of wood fibers is greatly increased bY drYing'

Douglas fir ranks among the top four woods used for treated cross ties and switch ties'