HOFFIIIAN COMPANY

billed to final destination through our plant for staining in transit and forwarding.

, "'We have just secured staining in transit privilege from the carriers, and under this privilege we are ready to unload any designated portion of a car of shingles or of shingles mixed with other forest products, staining this designated portion and drying them by our patented Centrifugal drying'process, and immediatelj' reloading them into the car and forwarding to destination.

"By the use of Starks improved staining machine all surplus stail is removed from the shingles before they are taken out of the machine so that no damage is caused to finished lumber or similar materials that mav be contained in the same car with the shingles."

Mr. H. A. Browning, head of the H. A. Browning Lumber Company, Los Angeles wholesalers,-is in the-Northrvest, on a three weeks'trip through the mills.

H. F. BREY RECOVERING

Mr. H. F. Brey, veteran lumberman gf Porterville, is reported as being well on the way to recovery frorn his very recent'serious illness.

He is spending the summer in Oakland, at 578 34th Street.