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Brush Industrial Lumber Co. Moves to New Site

Brush Industrial Lumber Co. moved recently to their fine new site at 5354 East Slauson Avenue, Los Angeles, just across the Los Angeles River. The telephone number at the new plant is ANgelus 1-1155.

This company is a rvholesale distributor of foreign and domestic hardwoods, industrial lumber including Ponderosa and Sugar pine, spruce and cedar, also direct car shipments of fir lvhen available.

J<rck Brush The nerv site is just right for this business. It is approximately six acres in extent, has a storage capacity of 6 to 8 million feet of lumber, and has shed room for 750,000 feet under cover.

The yard is 75 per cent paved. Trackage 1000 feet in length runs down the center of the yard, providing unloading facilities for 15 cars. The lumber is unloaded on both sides of the cars and placed on setups.

Brush Industrial Lumbcr Co. r,vas established in Los Angeles 11 years ago. Jack Brush, its owner, is one of thc best known lumbermen in this territory. In his youth hc spent l0 years in the United States Army, and r,vas lr commissioned officer in World War I. After coming to California he worked for several years in a pine sawmill, and later was rvith W. E. Cooper, I-os Angeles lvholesaler, for nine years as salesman, sales manager, and manager.

It is interestin$ to recall that Mr. Brush'3 ancestors were engaged in the sawmill business. On his father's side his great-great grandfather, born in Virginia in 1787, established a sawmill on the Susquehanna River in Maryland in 1812. The mill rvas at Port Deposit at the head of Chesapeake Bay. It cut genuine White pine, hemlock, and later various hardwoods. It was powered by a r,vater