TWIN HARBORS I.UMBER GOMPANY

Aberdeen, Woshington

Mqnufqclurers ond Distributors of West Coqst Forest Products

525 Boord of Trode Bldg. . PORTTAND 4, OREGON Phone ATwqler 4142

MENTO PARK

Bob JVlcefie, Jim Rossmqn

1618 El Comino Reol

DAvenport 4-2525

ENT. l-0035 from Bay Areo & Sqn Jose

Golif ornio Represenlolives

Quality :-! Dependabiliry !-! Service

WHOLESAIE DISTRIBUTORS

Complete Stocks ol quclity Foreign & Domestic Hcrrdwoods

Clecrr Ock Thresholds

Bod d Spircl Dowels

_ Plywood

MacBtATH HARDW0OD

Gompaiiy

5oll Professionol Bldg. EUREKA. CATIFORNIA

Hlllside 3-1674

TOS ANGEIES 15 C. P. Henry & Co.

714W. Olympic Blvd.

Rlchmond 9-6524

Rlchmond 9-6525

Montoncr lumber €ompony Boosts Smqll, Modern Moore Dry Kiln

One of the most modern small kiln installations in northern Montana is the new Moore Cross-Circulation single-track kiln at Broeder Brothers Lumber Company, Creston, Montana, which has now been in operation for several months. This mill cuts approximately 45,000 feet per day of Ponderosa Pine, Fir, Larch and Spruce. A1l of these species are dried in the kiln and about 50/o of the entire cut is sold in eastern Montana.

A new boiler house with a 75 h.p. boiler and fuel bin were recently constructed and a dry shed, together with storage tracks at the unloading end of the kiln, have beer-r installed.

The dry kiln is of the latest Cross-Circulation design. Equipment is housed in a wooden building constructed with three layers of 2x6 tongue-and-groove with roofing paper between layers, making a well-insulated wall 6" thick, which gives lowest insurance rates for wood building construction. The interior of the kiln walls and ceilings are painted rvith MooreKiln Non-Fibrous Walltite to protect and preserve the surface against kiln acids and humidities. The roof is of similar construction, having heavy felt paper fastened to the roof with Moore-Kiln Roofing Cement, which eliminated the use of nails and permits expansion and contraction of the paper and the wood deck without tearing the roofing.

Drying conditions of heat and humidity are automatically controlled within the kiln building with a Moore autographic controller instrument which also regulates the operation of the roof ventilators and controls the heat in either direction of air circulation by means of dual dry bulb feature. Large 72" diameter fans operated with a special 25 h.p. motor provide a large volume of air efficiently heated with 2" diameter fin pipe to uniformly season the stock to a desired moisture content. Low pressure steam at 15 p.s.i. supplied to the kiln, is a feature of this operation. To secure proper drying results it is necessary to reverse the direction of the air circulation within the kiln at periodic intervals. This is accomplished. with a special Moore time-reversing switch which does this automatically, eliminating any possibility of human error.

Fred Broeder, Jr., personally supervises the kiln operation.

Moteriols Cqrqvcn lo Deqlers

"Let's get the show on the road" is the motto of members of the Building Materials Exhibitors Association who are participating in the 1956 Building Materials Caravan. Several manufacturers have already contracted for their traveling exhibit to prominently display their products before thousands of irnportant dealers at 10 retail lumber dealer shows.

A 35-foot specially designed trailer, the largest permitted on the road today, will move the Caravan from city to city. The Caravan will leave Pittsburgh January 5 and its first stop is January 9-11 at the Kentucky Retail Lumber Dealers Convention, Louisville.

Bunycn Reno Reroil Yord Moved

Reno, Nev.-After many years in the retail lumber business at 500 Evans Ave. here, the Paul Bunyan Lumber Company has lost its lease from the Western Pacific R. R. Co. and has had to move. After October 15, the yard's new location n'ill be 2755 East 5th St. (P. O. Box 854), Reno, Nevada, reports Manager Henry D. Hancock.

rHE SECURITY ROYAI. DUICH PAINT TIANUFACTUNING CO., los Angelee, producers ond distribulors of fine points for lumber deolers, enterloined norc lhon 500 guests from the indurtry ot itr onnuol Open House Septcmber 25. Bill Sibbrel (right), soles manqger of lhe concern, ond Jim forersoll lll (lefi), producion superinl€ndonl, shown in lhe phoro below, were ho:ls ot o bufiet supper (shown lcfi) ond explcined the vorious operolion3 necressory to produce quolity point ot on equiloble prico to lhc contum€r. llr. ond lUlrs. Gecil C. Gockrell. Pick'r Building ,fldtcriq! & Supply Gompcny, West Covino, shown ol rhe lefi below, were rypicol of the dozenr of deolcrr pr*enl ol the ofioir, Following tours of fhe modern plsnt, gue3b w.re Gnt.rloincd in the loter hours of the evdning by rcvcrcl nighr club circuit voudeville octs from los Vcgos.

Golifornin Redwood Associotion Fulfills Voriety of Requests

The word on California Redrvood is reaching beyond the lumber marts of the United States, where it is recognized as a quality product of California. Here are some of the lesserknown postmarks on one day's inquiries for literature at the California Redwood Association in San Francisco: Valley Falls, R. I. ; Cohoes, N. Y.; Inkster, Mich.; Claymont, Del. ; Fremont, Neb. ; Birdsboro, Pa. ; Revere, I\{ass; Fort Pierce, Fla. ; Mystic, Conn. ; Chagrin Falls, Ohio; Blue Island, Ill. ; Manitowoc, Wis.; Twisp, Wash.; Silverton, Ore.; Golden, Colo.; and New Hamburg, Ont.

On any average day during the first five months of 1955, the mailman delivered 60 letter and postal card requests for promotional and conservation literature to the offices of the CRA. The mailbag contained more than 600 requests for the 1955 "Garden Ideas from California," following a special promotional campaign in the trade press and in selected metropolitan Sunday "house and garden" supplements. There was a total of 3,589 letters and cards received during the month of May, bettering the previous record of 2,768 during July of 1954.

Many letters, from the lumber trade request quantities of literature on such subjects as garden fences or garden ideasas many as 250G-for distribution to customers and potential customers of redwood products in their sales area.