HOTMES-EUREKA

They have 68 of these kilns at Longview. John Tennant says'that they have less degrade from their kilns than they do from their one air yard.

Every part of the plant at Longvierv. the sawmills, planers, sheds, etc., are light and airy enough for a school room. Everything is loaded under iover. Winter rains won't make any difference. All lumber dry and shipped dry.

You should see them shipping finish lumber. You'd think from the way they strip and line and fix and paper the inside of the cars that they were shipping butter and eggs, they take such care to protect the product.

This-as I stated in the beginning-aims in no rvay to be a description of Longview, but simply a few high lights to give those who have not seen it some idea of this wonderful thing that Mr. Long and his organization have done at that place.

If ever a man has written FAITH-faith in an industry, faith in a territory, faith in a wood-that wonderful man has written the word in letters of undying size upon the banks of t(re Columbia at Longview.

And so wise, so economical, so practical, so intelligent, so almost uncanny is the ingenuity that shorvs itself in every operation, in every department, in every labor-saving and lumber-improving device at Longview, that once the great investment has been made and the process of installation marked "Finis", it needs not the eye of a sage to

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