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The Los Angeles County Carpeirter Mill has just completed and moved into its new home on Mission street near downtown Los Angeles. Having operated for many years in a small, restricted area, the new facilities provide for enough watei into the Pacific Ocean to strpply a population of 54,m0,000.

California will continue to set new construction records in all types of building. We may look forward in this state to the greatest home building boom in history during the 196Os, when the "war babies" of the 1940s reach marriageable age and establish their own homes.

There were 1,872,000 babies born in California during the decade 1940 through 1949. hundreds of thousands of new homes will be needed during the next ten years. Certainly you will enjoy a large market for lumber. Our billion-dollar home building permit ydars in the. Los Angeles area are destined to be exceeded during this new period.

And the new homes and families will need many other things. They will make new demands on all industry.

It took spirit to bring the early Californians across the plains, the deserts, and the mountains. It has been written of the Forty-Niners that the cowards never started,-and the weaklings died on the way. We look back upon this pioneer spirit with some wonderment, as though it is a quality that perished with the founders of the new West.

But it also took great pioneering spirit for America to lead the world to the new industrialized society which alone offers mankind's survival. We are only begun on this new and greatest journey.

It is also our task, then, tofight regimentation and enslavement from any source; to maintain the climate of political.and individual freedom that a.lone can inspire men to pioneer together in this great new journev.

Since operating personnel is available only 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, and the kiln operates 24 hours aday,7 days a week, one of the new Moore-Kiln Autographic Temperature and Humidity controlling instruments was installed with program cams which automatically control the wet and dry bulb schedules at pre-determined intervals, one set of program cams foi each species, thickness, and grade. The instrument not only records and controls the drying conditions but automatically changes these conditions to another condition at a pre-determiped time to automatically season the lumber.

The county of Los Angeles has cause to be congratulated on the installation of these modern facilities.