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ls Crossing-Plank Hardest Use for Wood?

One could easily make an interesting hobby in finding "tough" uses to which lumber has been and is being put. World travelers cannot fail to be impressed with the long life of wood.

There are many examples of well-preserved and useful wood in structures, and elsewhere, 1000 years old. Most of these, however, are rot and weather-resistant examples. Wear-resistance is something else.

For instance, crossing-planks the railroads use between the tracks on country road crossings, have to "take it"contant jolts from every kind of vehicle, including tractors and other heavy farm machinery, not to mention weather and soil conditions, all highly destructive. Port Orford Cedar has been found most practical from the price, impact, and rot-resistant angles, and is consequently the standard crossing-plank used in this part of the country.

Stage floors of the legitimate theater get extremely hard usage. Scenery, equipment, and trunks are banged around on it. Nails, s'crews, bolts, etc., are being coirstantly inserted for bracings and fastenings, and then removed. These floors must be able to "take it" without splintering and crack'ing, and still be strong and firm to support the required weight and hold these temporary grips.

The Geary Theater in San Francisco has a Port Orford Cedar stage floor llx4 Tongue & Grooved, laid in 1910, and still in good shape. This floor has "taken plenty" in its 26 years of life.

While not usually subject to su,ch "tough" usage as the above, when you ,consider the fragile size of a Port Orford Cedar Venetian Blind Slat, and what it has to stand in the way of light, heat and movement, one cannot f'ail to enthuse about the hardy'character with which Nature has endowed this unusual wood.

Do you know of any other "tough" spots for wood?

Uge Redwood for Exhibition Pens

California Redwood will be used for constructing gates at the back of more than one thousand pig pens at the Iowa State Fair this summer, it was announced today by Hammond Lumber Company. Redwood for this construction was sold by Hhmmond's Chicago office. The principal Hammond Redwood mills are located at Samoa, Humboldt County, California, in the heart of the great Redwood timber belt. According to the official publication of the Iowa State Fair Board, $35,000 is to be expended for construction of 1,009 exhibition pens, 7 ft. by 8 ft. in size. "The 8-foot gates along the back of the pens," states the report from State Fair officialls, "will be constructed of Redwood plank."

Moulding Business Good

Moulding Supply Company, 1121 Meridian Avenue, Alhambra, manufacturers of high grade finish and mouldings from Ponderosa and Sugar Pine and Redwood, are working to full capacity.

Tom Price, manag'er, is at present confined to his home by illness, and W. P. Roberts, superintendent, is in charge.