New Dry Kilns to Handle Mahogany from Philippines

Cadwallader-Gibson at Work on Wharf and Plant for Long Beach Harbor

Construction of the new dry kilns of the CadwalladerGibson Lumber Company in Long Beach harbor is under \May. A steam shovel is engaged in making a three-foot excavation for the building, which will front on Water Street immediately east of the Craig Shipbuilding Company yards.

It is hoped to have the kilns in operation within sixty days, E. S. Johnston, the manager, said. Construction of the new wharf on Channel No. 3 and Slip No. 4 will be started as soon as piling arrives. The company is planning an investment of about $75,000 on its property at present.

The kilns will be of brick and concrete, two units each twelve by eighty feet, and when they are completed two other units duplicating them will be added. The two kilns will have a capacity of drying from 175,000 to 200,000 feet of lumber a month, the four units to give double that capacity. There is also to be a boiler house seventeen by thirty feet, alongside the kilns.

Merrit, Chapman & Scott of Wilmington have the contractfor the wharf, which will have a water frontage of 336 feet on the channel and slip and run back about thirty feet. It will be of the apron type of construction, and should be ready for receiving the company's ships from the Philippines about September.

When its facilities are ready the company will increase its shipments of mahog"ny and hardwood'pr6ducts from its timber preserves in the islands.

Technical Bulletins Ready for Circulation

Seven technical publications of special interest to architects, engineers, and builders are now available from the West Coast Lumber Bureau, Seattle, Washington. These contain not only the working stresses for Douglas fir and other important West Coast woods, but tables of working stresses for other American softwoods, relative durability values, and physical properties. These were all prepared by C. J. Hogue, M. Am. Soc. C. E., field manager of the Bureau, a structural engineer and authority on wood uses. ."Douglas fir and Southern Pine" is " l5-p."S9 pamphlet, giving a comparison of physical and mechanical properties of the two species with tables of working stresses. "Mechanical Properties of Timbers," a l6-page pamphlet, describes timber uses and strengths and is illustrated by drawings.

Coast Cedar Shingle Company Moves To Seattle

Chas. E. Putman, president of the Coast Cedar Shingle Co., Portland, Oregon, announced recently the removal of the company's offices to Seattle, the immediate reason of this change beirig that they will thus be in a better position to handle the national distribution of Fitite Colonial Shakes, on which they hold both patent and trade-mark.

The new offices will be at 4421White Building, Seattle, Wash.

Fitite Colonial Shakes are handled in California bv the Santa Fe Lumber Co.

The other five are a first of a series of Technical Bulletins to be distributed by the Bureau. They are: "Douglas Fir, Working Stresses for Standard Grades," based on the recommendations of the Forest Products Laboratory of the United States Forest Service, No. 1; "Working Stresses for Structural Grades of American Lumber Standards," No. 2; "Durability of West Coast Woods," No. 3; "Creosote , Treatment of Douglas Fir," No. 3; "Physical Properties of Woodsr" No. 5.

These Technical Bulletins are published by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association and distributed free of charge by the West Coast Lumber Bureau, 562 Stuart Bldg., Seattle.

LONG-BELL PLANT CUTS BIG STICK

The Long-Bell Lumber Co. cut the third and largest of three big sticks on a special order froin the government recently. It was 80 feet long and.34 inches squarg, and is to be used as a dredge spud on a government dredge.

Logging Road To Be Built In Klamath Falls District

Sprage River Timber Co. will start construction immediately on a seven-mile logging road from Ivan on the Southern Pacific main line into untapped timber south of Worden, Ore. The timber will be hauled to Bray plant, Sprague River Timber Co., near Chiloquin, Ore.