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Peerless Lumber Leases Western Dry Kiln Plant

Peerie.. Lumber Company leased the facilities of Western Dry Kiln,826l San Leandro St., Oakland, last month, and plans are now underway to renovate_the planl Peerless Lumber is located adjacent to the Western Dry- Kiln operation and is headed by Gran Geisert and -Jack Loepf. Eldon Werthman, former superintendent for Western Dry Kiln, will move next door to the Peerless office to direct fir sales for the Dry Kiln Division.

Peerless Lumber's Western I Dry Kiln Division will continue to oDerate as in the past. offering in-transit and custom operate past, in-transitan_d a -complete inventory offir clears. drying, and stocking a complete inventory_of fir SaiesJor both divisions will be directed from Peerless Lum- Sales ber's office at 8451 San Leandro Street, Oakland. The Western Dry Kiln Division u'ill retain its old phone numberLOckhaven 8-3284.

Established during 1946, Peerless Lumber has become one of the leading ridwood distribution yards in lhe Bay Area. With the a-quisition of 'Western Dry Kiln, Peerless now occupies over 10 acres of East Oakland industrial property. In iddition to volume remanufacturing and distributioir of redwood, Peerless now offers complete custom milling and drying as well as fir clears for export, and for the eastern and local Bay Area markets.

Premium Cores Become Normol Specificotion

Premium core members will now be used in all regular factory production of several thicknesses and grades of Georgia-?acific's hardwood and specialty softwood faced olvwoods with western softwood cores.

' 'All % inch "standard" grade panels automatically will have a solid one-piece cross core at no price premium,.according to Frank V. Langfitt, Jr., western plywood marketing manager for G-P.

A Truty Dependabte Source Of Suppty

o Quqlity products from the world's best Mills o Dependoble service from quototion to finol delivery o Over 50 yeors experience in the export-im. port field o Prime importers serving the wholesole lumber trode exclusively

Coll rhe Atkins, Krdll represenlolivc neoresf you for de. pendoble qnd occurofe informqlion ond quolotions on oll ' imported wood produclsr

-And a n-ew "super" grade, designed specifically for.qrrality furniture, cabinei and-general milh,r'ork uses, also will have the solid one-piece crols core for fu-inch'. and all thicker panels will be produced with solid edge-jointed core members.

Tighter specifications are part of the company's- general prodict improvement program and are geared, in- this ca-se, io increasing demands by many specialty plywood users for oremium-core panels, Langfi tt said.

' Included iniiially in the higher mill standards are as-h, cherry, madrone, maple, walnut, knotty and VG gg4qt'-V9 fir, ritary and ribborrstripe lauan, knotty pine and VG Redwood faced panels.

The same face veneers also are being included in G-P's latest list of flakeboard-core panels, it was indicated.

Monthly Lumber Fqcis

Douglas fir region sawmill production, orders and shipments lor June hive been reported by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association.

The weekly average of West Coast lumber production in June rvas 157,353,000 b.f. or 99.2% of the 1951-61 avgrage. brders averaged 176,516,000 b.f.; ihipments 179,090,@ llr; weekly avera-ges for Nlay were production 158,004,000 b-f., 99.06 of the lgSZ-Ot average; oiders 1&,651,000 b'f.; shipments 169,554,000 b.f.

Six months of the 1962 cumulative production 4,051,198,000 b.f. ; six months of 1961, 4,047,792,A00 b.f ; six months of rgffi, 4,348,870,000 b.f

Orders for six rnonths of. 1962 break down as follows : rail and truck 3,185,904,000 b.f. ; domestic cargo 691,366,000 b.f.; export 161,534,000 b.f.; local 189,519,000 b.f.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 500,378,000 b.f. at the end of June. lumber inventory at 958,260,000 b.f.

For added structural strength, all Jones panels have Douglas fir cores and backs. As members of The Hardwood Plywood Institute every panel carries the seal of this rigid tesfing and inspection agency.