FIR.PINE.REDWOOD

Centrol Colifornio Dry Kiln Club Minutes, September I 8, 1959

The Septernber meeting previously scheduled to be held at the Collins Pine Lumber Company in Chester, Califomia, was rescheduled and held at the Cal-Icla Lumber Company in Auburn, California, on Septen.rber 18, 1959. Forty members and grlests participated.

The rernanufacturing and drying facilities of the Cal-Icla Lumber Co. were inspected during the morning in heavy rain. The operation processes lnrnber from its own sarvn.rill some 60 miles ciistant, and from other sawmills in the area. Ponderoszr pine is presently the main species cut. Tours were conclucted through the plant by Lee N{iller, kiln operator. The operations inspected u,ere the surfacing and mold- ing plant, box and cut stock factory, firrger jointing plant, air clrying yards and kilns. The eight Moore single-tr:rck kilns had long shaft fans, rvere of hollow brick construction vvith a total capacity of 400 N{ bd. ft. In the main, kiln clrying of air clrieh stock was clorre with the scl-redules being based on samole board r.noisture contents.

George Duif, general manager of Cal-Ida Lumber Co., hosted lunch which was served at the Auburn hotel.

James \\r. Jacobsen, kiln superintenclent of the Ralph L. Smith Lumber Co., Anclerson, Cali{ornia, and vice-president of the Club, presided cluring the aftenroon meetir.rg. B. A. Ecklund of the U.C. Forest Products Laboratory acted as recorder.

The meeting \vas called to order at 1 :45 p.m. arrd the rninutes of tl-re X{arch mecting helcl at the University of California Forest Proclucts Laboratory were accepted as circulated.

Under matters arising orrt of the minutes, reference rl'as macle to the slate of Club officers for the year 1959-60, nominatecl at the last meeting. As no frrrther nonrinations rvere receivecl, the slate of officers rvas cluly elected as follo.rvs:

Grubb, Hughes, Kinney Elected

|r1s5ids111-Flavel D. (Doc) Grubb, Scott Lrrmber Co., 13urney, California ; First Vice-PresiclentJoe Hughes, Hughes Brothers, Foresthill, Calif. ; Second Vice-Presiclent -W. A. (Bud) Kinney, \\'estern Dry l{iln Co., Oaklancl, Calif ; Secretary-Treasrrrer-E,ric L. E,llrvood, U.C. Forest Proclucts Laboratory, Ricl.rmoncl, Calif.

Iiric Ellu'ood reportecl on the Western Dry Kiln Club's arrnual meeting held at llureka in nlay and informecl the group that the 1960 arrnual meetirrg 'ivould be hosted by the \\'ashirrgton-Idaho-NIontana Club in N[issoula.

Jim Jacobsen called on members for suggestiorrs on meeting places for the con-ring year so that firm clates ancl locations can be set up for 12 montl-rs aheacl. Tim Tacobsen invited the group to meet at the Ralph smitir Ltimber Co. in January 1960. Members u'ill refer the request to their cornpanies and the prograrn for the coming year rvill be outlined at tlrc November meetirrg.

Eric E,llwood called for srrggestions on the type of meeting thc Club rnembers woulcl prefer to have in the coming 1'ear. I{e also announced that both the Oregon Forest Proclttcts Iiesearch Center and the Universitv of California Forest Products Laboratory lvould holcl a one-u,eek cotlrse on kihr tlrying in December, the respective starting dates being Novcr.nber 30th ancl December 7th.

1)r. John Zivnuska, forest economist at the University of California. r,vho spoke on "What's Ahead for the Lumber Inclustry," t'as inlroducecl by Eric Elh.vood.

In a cliscussiorr period on general operating problen'rs, Rrrbcrr E. Andreen of \Vinton l-umber Co., l\Iartell, said that his company had been studying the operation of their moisture sentry. There \4/as some discrrssion of the opera-