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Specializing In Straight Car Shipments

'"THE DEPENDABLE WHOIESALER"

in the load, but should they be of the "through" type, it is always good Yard practice to throw them in a pile by' themselves and later, at a more convenient time, unostentatiously slip them into the incinerator. This n'ill make it wholely unnecessary to inventory them at the end of the year.

6-In the structural grades, from a strength standpoint, there is not a distinction betrveen knots and knotholes. Intergrown knots, or similarly tightly knitted knots, reduce strength quite as much as loose knots or knotless knotholes. While for appearance, loosely knotted knots and knotless knotholes are limited more strictly than tightly knitted knots or firmly knotted knotholes, nevertheless, if the loosely knotted knots and knotless knotholes are not outside of the allowable knot size of allon'able knots in the knot grading rules, and not incompa:able in strength to tightly knotted knots, then loosely knitted knots and knotless knotholes would be acceptable so as not only not to limit structural grades too severely, but to also provide a larger source of supply of this type of lumber.

Arcata Plcning Mill Burns

The planing mill of Arcata Lumber Calif., was destroyed by fire September mated loss of $100,000. This was the fire in the Humboldt region within two

Services, Arcata, 24, with an estithird lumber mill weeks.

Roy Whipple, of Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco, recently took a vacation trip to L:rke County, and to Fort Bragg and other Mendocino County points. lle was accompanied by his brother, who came from southern California to make the trip.