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ffiF Becouse of its light weisht, pote cotor, even I groin ond ,roil tighr knots, this softwood hos o porticulorly wide ronge of uses, from rough construction to inlerior finish ond fine cobinetwork. Eosy to work, noils without splitting, ond holds noils ond glue firmly.

This is bui one of fen fine softwoods from member mills of lhe Western Pine Associotion. All ore monufoctured, seosoned ond groded lo exocling Associotion stondqrds. Lumber deolers, builders, orchilecls ond wood users hove found them dependoble ond best for mony conslruclion uses.

THESE ARE THE TYESTERN PIl{ES

IDAHO WHITE PINE

PONDEROSA PINE SUGAR PINE

THESE ARE THE ASSOCIATED IYOODS

TARCH DOUGLAS FIR

WHITE FIR ENGETMANN SPRUCE

INCENSE CEDAR RED CEDAR

LODGEPOTE PINE tNrile for free illustroted

Focts Folder oboul Engelmonn Spruce.

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Western Pine Associolion, Yeon Bvilding, Portlond 4, Oregon.

KIMBERTY 2-OO77

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WAII SPAGE

OVER SINKS AND O?HIR HARD.TO-R,EACH SPOIS

BEDROOII AND BATHROOM

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Tclke Advontoge of o profitoble Mcrket in Your Areo by contocting brings about their revision to keep pace with industry and railroad progress ? The Association of American Railroads' Mechanical Section maintains a Forest Products Loading Rules Committee assisted by an On-the-Ground Committee of Car Department General Foremen who are nearer to the shipping points and in Cirect charge of all related problems. They advise the General Forest Products Committee and recommend changes at time of revision. Both these committees counsel with shippers and their representatives when loading rules revisions are in progress. The last or disposition group, though vitally affected, have not been consulted or considered, even though their well-being is most involved with the loading rules and notwithstanding the fact that they pay for both the lumber and the freight. The railroads through their association, at the insistence of shippers, have provided several figures or options in the rules. Needless to say, the figure or rule requiring the least in its specifications is the one used. Other regulations providing better methods and types of securement are seldom used except to appease those contending for better regulation. Failure to fully comply with the minimum requirements are too commonPlace.

Let us contemplate what the railroad needs to make a safe load on a flat car, one that will ride to destination without shifting or require adjustments, a load that will withstand the moderate end shock that is inherent in train operation. The measure that will produce such a load for the middle of the industry (transportation) is nothing short of solidly packaging the small dimension lumber and secur- ing each package with tu'o metal bands; segregation of lengths so that overhang will not exist or be reduced to two feet in one end of the unit. With such a package, having at least one solid square end, stackers can load or unload a car of lumber in a matter of minutes. Butting of the square solid ends of the package toward the center of the car precludes possibility cf much of the shifting and provides a solid surface for higher courses of packages. Butting of the square solid ends of the packages enables the stacker to break the packages away from each other for subsequent handling or storing' Packages of short material without overhang should be placed on the floor of the car in center position with the square solid ends of longer packages butted closely on each end. This enables manufacturers to market and ship the entire output of the mill and imposes no hazard or burden on either group of the industry.

Greater segregation of lengths will produce increased solidity of the package and the load or pile; in every case overhang should be confined to one end. In view of more solid packages with metal securement stickers can be eliminated or reduced to the one set corresponding horizontally to the separators or floor bearing pieces under the package. They should not be more than I inch in thickness and not less than 3 inches wide, and preferably of rough manufacture. Thinner or wider stickers will serve the purpose and all mills have them; usually they are wasted. The thin stickers located about vertical center of the package will hold the package from fallinq apart sidewavs after metal bands are cut. Thin stickers never turn