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lf ere are some pictures showing the yard; mill and dry kilns of the Mahogany Importing Company at 1405 Water Street, Long Beach, Calif.

This operation handles about 30 cars of lumber a month for remanufacturing and kiln drying. A large percentage of this lumber is for milling and kiln drying in transit.

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After processing the lumber is forwarded to various eastern and southern destinations.

Three lift trucks and three lumber carriers are used at the Long Beach plant.

All species of lumber, both hardwoods and softwoods, are dried in the kilns. The company has the same capa-

Lilt plccingtunits in io be dried. city at its other kiln drying plant at 1361 Mirasol Street, Los Angeles. The combined capacity of the two kiln drying plants at present time is 1,250,000 feet a month. In the background of the large picture are piles of lumber air drying on sticks. Lumber is air dried up to 60 days, depending on the thickness, before being put into the dry kilns.

Art Kayser, West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Los Angeles, is back from the Pacific Northwest where he attended some lumber grading meetings, and visited sawmills.

George B. Beckman is manager of the Long Beach plant. Charlie Beckman is plant superintendent.

Stu Smith, manager, Sierra ville, Or€gon, recently called cisco Bay area, and spent the his family in Pasadena.

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