Installs Moore Dty Kilns

A large dry shed has been erected ot'er the drv storage tracks and unloading area to protect the dry lumber from the weather.

Steam at a pressure of 10-15 p.s.i. is produced by an automatic oil fired water tube boiler. The use of lorv pressure steam is ideal for final conditioning of the lumber.

Lumber is automatically stacked for these kilns by neans of a special stacker which properly positions each board as to length prior to the full course being moved onto the stacking lift. The stacker, as well as the other lumber handling equipment, was designed and installed by Moore Dry Kiln Company of North Portland, Oregon.

This package stacker is equipped with the usual side feed floor chains upon which green solid units are placed by carrier or fork lift and these units are then moved sidervise by motor driven chains until the solid units are in the. prop'er position for the Moore breakdorvn hoist to lift and tilt the lumber onto the stacking table. This hoist has been manufactured so that the center two columns handle 6 and 8 ft. stock,'ivhile the center 4 columns handle 10, 12 and 14 foot stock, and all six columns handle 16, 18 and 2O ft. stock.

A special overhead sliding control panel and 2 removable skids on the stacking table allow the stacker operator to u'ork directly behind the hoist when handling the short lengths of lumber and at the end of the hoist u-hen handling the longer lengths of lumber.

Lumber from the hoist is deposited one course at a time on a set of carnel back chains on the stacking table, u'here (Continued on Page 58)

New Philippine Scw Mill

Findlay Millar Timber Company, manufacturer of the well known K L D Brand of Philippine mahogany, whose mill at Kolambugan lvas destroyed during the war, €xpect to have their new mill at Kolambugan in operation the middle of April. The mill rvill have a capacity of 1,500,000 board feet per month, and rvill cost in excess of $500,000.00.

Mill equipment rvill consist of double circular head rig, 8' Prescott resaw, 2€ mechanical trimmer, log deck complete rvith log kicker, log stop and steam nigger. Former Moore dry kilns are being renovated.

Yard equipment .consists of covered export sheds, lumber carriers and fork li{t trucks, etc. A nerv 'n'harf is norv under construction; the old tvhart w'as 5r( of a mile long.

Logging equipment includes four Caterpillar tractors, two road graders, three dump trucks, seventeen logging trucks, four truck trailers, fifteen steam donkey engines and two pou'erful tug boats.

A. W. Robertson is manager director, with head office 305 El Hogar Filipino Building, Manila, P. L S. M. Austin rvill be his assistant.

The company also operates a mill and storage yard in Okinarva.

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P. R. "Bob" Kchn Bcrck From 60-Dcy South Americcrn Trip

P. R. "Bob" Kahn of Forsl.th Hardwood Co., San Francisco and Mrs. Kahn returned Nlarch 25 from a two months' air trip to Central and South America. They flew to Mexico, and from there visited the Central American Republics, then flew down the West Coast to Santiago, Chile. They crossed over the'Andes and came back up the E,ast Coast, and took in all the islands of the Caribbean.

They traveled by the planes of Pan American World Air'rvays and their affiliates. The mileage of the trip totaled 22,000. Last year they rolled up about 38,000 air miles or.r their European trip, making the total of the tu'o trips about 60,000 miles.

Named Trade Promotion Manager

Fred G. Johnson is norv trade promotion manager of the Merchandising Division of Weyerhauser Sales Company, St. Paul, 1\Iinnesota, according to a recent announcement by T. Lincoln O'Gara, vice president and merchandising director.

As trade promotion manager, Johnson lvill motivate the merchandising program as related to retail lumber dealers, builders, and consumers. He will supervise convise 'conventions and exhibits, as rvell as maintain a complete field analysis program.

Johnson returns to the building materials industry after six years as general sales manager and a director of Wm. Bros Boiler & Mfg. Co., Minneapolis.

Lumber dealers and builders knon' Johnson best for his work with United States Gypsum Co., Chicago, rvhere he rose from supervising sales of insulation board in a threestate area to product advertising and sales promotion manager in his 15 years rvith the fimr. He left U. S. G. in 1945 to join the Bros Company.

His early experience included selling insulation material for Celotex Company in St. I-ouis and insulation board for the Weatherrvood Company in Southern Indiana and Kentucky.

Johnson assumed his new duties with \\re1'erhaeuser March 1. He is married and has trn'o children.

San Frqncisco Lumbermen's Club Hqs Successlul Evening Meetingr

The evening meeting of San Francisco Lumbermen's Club, held at the Regal Pale Brewery, San Francisco, March 28, proved to be very enjoyable. Ralph Mannion, Davidson Plywood & Lumber Co., San Francisco, was chairman of the evening.

Bob Everett, Cut Rate \\rrecking & Lumber Co., San Francisco, led the crorvd in community singing.

There rvas a buffet Smorgasborcl n'hich was very popular, and the food rvas excellent.

Bliss Howord S. Gotes