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DANT & RUSSELL, ING.

POBTER BI.DG., POBTI.AND, OREGON

WHOI.ESAI.E IUMBER

Douglas FirSitka SprucePort Orford CedarPonderosa Pine Red Cedar Shingles

50 Men Build House in Less Than Hour Arcata Redwood Co. Has Modern Plant

Grand Prairie, Texas, May 19.-Fifty workmen built a four-room house in 57 minutes and 58 seconds today.

Several thousand persons watched as two teams of 50 men each competed in a contest at Avion Village, a defense housing project for employees of the North American Aviation plant.

Jim Bruno captained the winning team. The buildings are pre-fabricated structures.

Addition To Yard

Bauer Lumber Company, Carlsbad, is adding to its housing facilities a building 24 x 4O feet for storing lumber.

Camino

QUAUTY PINES

CAI.IFONNIA PONDEROSA PINE CAMINO SUGAB PINE

L"rnber from these fine pines is of high quclity for use cs interior linistt i! fine homes.

It possesses betrutilul soft texture crnd crttrcctive color when used in ncrturcrl tinislt

It is cdcrpted lor use cE hrotty pine crnd clecr lor both walls crrrd trin.

A good supply of Ccrlifornic pine timber is cvcilcble qt Carnino lor future maaufccture.

MICHIGAN CAI,IFORMA TUMBER COMPANY CAMINO, EL DONf,DO COI'I{TY, Cf,TIFORNIA

The sawmill of Arcata Redwood Company at Arcata, Calif. is a modern 7' band mill with a 6A' edger, trim saws, sorting table and all the equipment necessary for the manufacture of quality Redwood lumber.

All the lumber is handled by Ross Carrier in units direct from sorting table to the yard and car.

Production is from 30,000 to 35,000 feet per eight-hour shift. Logs are secured from Salmon Creek.

H. A. Libbey, who has had many years' experience in the manufacture of Redwood lumber, is president and manager of the company.

Wm. E. Bishop is mechanical foreman and Wm. A. Stewart handles production and shipping.

Donald E. Holcomb has charge of sales with an office in the Tilden Sales Building, 4N Market Street, San Francisco.

J. J. Rea is Southern California sales representative with office at 823 Burnside Avenue, Los Angeles. He is assisted by "Red" Hetherington.

Will Tow Three Log Rafts This Summer

Benson Lumber Company officials announce thev have signed a contract with the Shipowners' and Merchants' Towboat Co. of San Francisco for the use of Red Stack tugs to tow three log rafts to their mill in San Diego this summer from the Columbia River. The first raft will leave Astoria July 10. Each of the g0Gfoot rafts will contain 5,000,000 feet of lumber.

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TREATIIUG Atl Kinds of Wood ltems including Finish, Rustic, Siding, Rough Lumbercrlso Doors cmd Scsh

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