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Board-Tile-Plcnk-Lcrth-Duplex Bocrrd l-awrence Wilsey, manager of the Dorris plant, reports that the kiln is working out very well, and that it enables them

The Associated Lumber & Box Company recently have made improvernents at their sawmill at Dorris, California by installation of dry kiln facilities.

The new kiln is constructed entirely of u'ood and is of I{oore's modern Cross-Circulation design. The kiln is 46 feet wide by BB feet long and employs 66-inch diameter fans. The drying conditions of temperature and humidity are automatically controlled throughout the kiln.

The lumber to be handled through the kiln is piled on small loads five feet wide by five feet high on yard cars. During the winter months when the mill is not in operation, lurnber frorn the yard is loaded onto the kiln loads and dried to a uniform final moisture content of 8 to 97o for factory Iurnber. In the ltiln drying operations the pitch is set or crystallized in the lumber.

U. S. BUILDING ANDLOAN LEAGUE ANNUAL MEETING SEPT.27-29

Chicago, March 25.-The forty-seventh annual convention of the United States Building and Loan League will be held in Atlantic City, September 27-29 it rvas announced this week by Clarence T. Rice, presiclent. It rvill be the second time in the history of the League that the national meeting has been held in Atlantic City, and the third time in Nerv Jersey. Conventions rvere helcl in AtlanticCity in 1912 ancl Nervark in 1918.

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