Wonderful Plant Operated by Western Hardwood Lumber Co. ''/

Since the Los Angeles territory is today the greatest high grad.e hard.wood consuming territory in America, a few per[inent facts about the m.anner in which this supply is distributed, should. be interesting to many.

A wonderful example of a mod.ern hard.wood. lumber plant is that of the 'Western Hardwood I-rumber Company, of I-ros A:rgeles. Mr. D. J. Cahill, president of the company, beIieves this yard to contain by far the largest stock of hardwoods on the Pacific Coast. It is a most impressive institution, covering five and-one half acres with yards, shed-s, offices, and other operations, as shown in the accompanying illustration.

The ofrice, to begin with, is a magnificent demonstration of the attractive usage of their own materials. The big workroom, tables, desks, cabinets, doors, window trim, panels, ete., are all in very beautiful, natural-stained quarter sawecl'oak. The floors of the entire office are of Michigan maple. A more beautiful work room would be hard to firrd anywhere.

There are four private offices, Iarge, roomy, and attractive, with desks, cabinets, doors, panels, etc., all done -in the same wood. The front private office is in Southern red gum. The second is Philippine mahogany. The next is walnut' The fourth is mahogany. Every office is a work of art'

Yet, while 'we may naturally incline toward that new and mighty cabinet wood of the South because it IS Southern,-to our- notion those other three wonderful offices cannot hold a cand.le to that beautiful room in Southern gum' And the officials themselves remark that it seems to hold longer than the others the eyes of those who caII to look them over.

In the mechanical part of the yard there are six big concrete and. brick dry [ibns, with big clrying platforms; and' a mill for re-sawing, trimming, and re-working lumber, as well as a splendid veneer plant. The production of veneers is one of the big activities of this institution.

The stock of hardwood includes everything that is used commercially in California. There is a great stock of Southern white oak, ash, hickory, and poplar, for wagon and auto factories. A mighty stosk of Jap oak, from one to four inches thick, but mostly inch stuff. There are great cants as well as smaller items of Philippine mahogany. There are cants of Ilawaiian Koa, for slicing into veneers; a big stock of walnut, which comes from Ohio and Missouri. There is Port Orford cedar being sliced into thin strips for use in auto storage batteries, manufactured in Los Angeles. There is Aromatic Mountain cedar from Tennessee for lining slosets. There is the genuine old fashioned Central American mahogany for veneering. They carry a big stock of table leg stock, In ade of Southern oak, all 30 inches long, an^d itt size either 2x2,27/2x2r/2, or 3x3. There is a big stock of Southern red gum in all sizei for furniture and for interior trim'

They have a great stock of all sorts of hardwood flooring, of couise, in plain ancl quartered. oak, maple, birch and beecL They carry A/e, t/z and 13-t0 inch oak flooring, antl 13-16 inch maple.

They lave a big shecl for piling Yeeners to ilry, ancl it is a common sight [o see Southern oak, Jap oak, Jap birch, Southern bir;h, Philippine mahogany, mahogany,-walnut, and Port Orford cedai veneers, all drying at one time.

The entire plant and yard is interestilgly- and.ngatly arranged., pra6tical in every respect. This is strictly a wholesale institution.

D. J. Cahill is president and active manager. B. W. Byrne is secretary and iales manager. L' C. Spaulcling is treasurer. The institution is located' at 2074 East Fifteenth street.