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started piling their lumber high and in truck-load units. It picks up the entire load a truck lays down, runs over to any part of the yard desired, and shoves it up as high as sixteen feet, and leaves it there. The cost is minimum. It can be taken d,own or moved somewhere else just as quickly.

Changes were made in the plant immediately to fit this Hoister set-up. They took all their low-roofed rough lumber storage sheds and put stilts under them, shoved the roofs high in the air, and removed the sides, so that the Hoister can run right in. And they began piling their lumber in these sheds in Hoister units, sixteen feet high. A shed that never had been able to hold more than 200,000 feet of lumber piled old style, now holds 750,00O feet. They did the same with all their sheds of this character, and soon {ound that they were carrying in stock fully three times as much lumber as they had been able to carry previously. And it is most economically done. The Hoister can move a truck load of lumber from one spot to another in that yard for only a very small part of' what it costs by hand, and in practically no time at all.

Paul Hill says that the rearranging and moder,nizing of the yard was practically built on this Hoister as a foundation. They had previously installed and still use a traveling overhead crane which unloads the lumber from trucks as it arrives from the harbor. The crane lifts the load from the truck and sets it down off the ru.nway. Along comes the Hoister and takes it anywhere in the yard or shed desired. Everywhere it is piled high by the Hoister; and when any of the units are wanted the Hoister gets them out quickly and efficiently and delivers them anywhere on the yard desired. A Ross Carrier which they have had for :many years, does the general lumber handling around the yard, working ,perfectly in combination with the Ross ,Hoister.

So much for the handling and piling of lumber in the yard and rough storage sheds. Now about the other equipment of the plant. The modern office is a beautiful job. It -is built of concrete, with concrete floors. There are three private offices, all of them finished in detailed Redwood, and each finished differently. The rear of the big general office is walled with Weyerhaeuser I(notty Pine, and the

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(Continued from Page 17) front portion with knotty Red Cedar panels, a product of U. S. Plywood. Many other attractive rvoods are used in the counters and other parts of the exterior. The entire office is wonderfully insulated, and is quite cool and soundproof.

The mechanical departments of the yard consist of a planing mill of modern equipment; and a small re-manufacturi'ng plant set off in one corner of the yard that performs some very interesting services. In the planer they perform the usual services of dressing, matching, and otherwise machining their dry lumber for market. In the smaller plant they take the edgings, trimmings, and waste from the planer, and convert it into salable wooden items of various sorts. For example they manufacture a large number of bed slats which they sell to furniture factories; they make fence pickets for their own trade; make small stakes; they build-up and glue-up small stuff and big stuff both, making all their own extra wide boards by gluing. The re-manufacturing plant is a unit Paul Hill is very proud of, because it makes valuable wooden things out of small pieces of wood that would otherwise be entirely wasted.

This entire yard carries a great stock of the three woods that the Los Angeles trade buys, Fir, Redwood, and Ponderosa, carrying a large stock of all items the trade desires. It also carries large stocks of treated lumber, Wolmanized, Chromated Zinc Chloride treated, and also Creosoted. You will find large quantities of all these stocks piled high on the yard. One of their big specialties is Weyerhaeuser 4-square boards, end-marked. Paul Hill says that they have a considerable trade that will accept nothing else in the line of boards but these flat, straight, bright-end boards, so they carry a very large stock under cover. Their stock of mouldings is tremendous, there being ah'r'ays available in well arranged bins every item of moulding used by the Los Angeles trade, in Redwood, Fir, and Pine. All items of Redwood, Pine, and Fir Finish are carried in large quantities; likervise panels of many kinds, and door and r,r'indow stock.

They have o,ne entire shed devoted to the storage of dry Redwood. They have one entire special warehouse for Fir plywood; and this is their fastest growing stock. This warehouse carries a varied stock of panels that would do justice to a wholesale depot. They now sell about twenty cars of Fir plywood a year. In another display and storage shed close to the street where people can drop in to look, they carrv their stock of soft and hardwood panels, and in front of each bin is a finished sample of the contents, which makes a splendid and attractive display. Right on the street they carry and display a select line of builders'hardware,'and a stock of Murphy paints. One of the front warehouses contains a varied supply of plaster lath, plaster board, cement, and a full line of Fry roofings. Likewise there is a rvell selected stock of Oak, Gutn, and Philippine lumber. Wooden shingles and lath are stocked in big volume.

Right now Mr. Hill is planning a new and attractive feature, that will be built in the front of the yard close to the office. It will be a new display shed in which they i,vill display and sell "specials" from all parts of the yard. It will be a sort of shopping place where the trade can drop in and take a look at joblots of building materials at special prices. Odds and ends will be disposed of in this modern way.

Altogether, one of the swellest retail lumber operations I ever sarv, modern, effrcient, economical, a veritable service station for builders and bu1,s15 of building materials. The personal popularity of Paul Hill is one of the great assets of the business, and he is surrounded by a courteous, smiling, go-getter organization that keeps the big job humming all the time. Yes, Sir, a grand outfit.

Changes in Palco Wool Division

Announcement is made by Edric E. Brown, manager of the Bark Products Division of The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, of the following changes in his department:

Ray P. Klass, who has been traveling tl-re Sacramento Valley and Coast Counties, will be Mr. Brown's assistant in the San Fr:ancisco office and will also travel the Western States, calling on Palco Wool distributors and representatives.

R. A. (Dick) Johnson, who has been covering Southern California, will return to his own stamping grounds in the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys.

Robert B. IIoover, who has been carefully trained for insulation activity, will become associated with his father, A. L. (Gus) Hoover, Los Angeles, and will work exclusively on Palco Wool Insulation.

These changes were effective on August 15.

PlywoodAssociation Appoints Agricultural Field Man

The Douglas Fir Plywood Assocation has announced the appointment of J. D. Long as its agricultural field representative with headquarters in Kansas City, Kansas. Mr. Long's primary work will be directed toward research in the use of plywood on the farm to produce better and more economical housing of all types. In this connection he will visit farming districts throughout the eountry, consulting with farmers and lumber dealers alike.

Mr. Long is well qualified to assist in solving building problems on the farm. For the past eighteen years he has beeen assistant professor of Agricultural Engineering at the University of California College of Agriculture at Davis, Calif. He is a member of the American Society of Agricultural Fngineers, and has engineering degrees from both Iowa State College and the lJniversity of California.

In addition to Mr. Long, the Plywood Association is also represented in the field by the following men who are cooperating daily with dealers and builders in demonstrating accepted uses for Fir plywood: David S. Betcone, Chicago; Joseph Weston, Los Angeles; Alfred Sherman, New York City, and Harry Steidle, Washington, D. C.

Walter Scrim Flies East

Walter Scrim, Los Angeles Philippine distributor, has returned from a flying trip that took him to Detroit, Mich., and Dallas, Texas, in a few days' time.