A "New Model"in Sawmilling

Oakdale, La., Aug. 4.-Hillyer Deutsch Edwards, Inc., of this City, evidently believe that the policy of the automobile manufacturers in putting out a new model every yeag is a good one, and they are following it in their sawrnill operations.

This concern, nolr' but twelve years old, has been adding to and refining its operations yearly, and it starts this month with one of the latest things in hardwood manufacture, a complete remanufacturing and "cutting to pattern" shop at their Oakdale plant. This plant has just been completed and will work practically every pattern called for in commercial woodworking.

Also completed within the past year are the batteries of dry-kilns, absolutely the "last word" in the proper drying of lumber. Hillyer Deutsch Edwards has recognized the immense importance of proper moisture content and today every stick of lumber that goes into their kilns has.its rnoisture content known both before and after it is dried. The kilns automatically control both heat and humidity, and nothing is left to chance or to human failure to be on the job.

All sap gum is given its "steam bath" as it comes out of the mill, killing the spores that would produce the fungi, the blue stain which is the enemy of good gumwood.

Another innovation is a new loading dock and system. A corps of inspectors stand at the cars, under a chief inspector, and everything that is not accepted on the order is sent either to a reserve dry-shed, or to the remanufacturing plant to be refined by resawing, trimming, etc. After this operation it is also sent to the reserve shed, another step for quick shipment under adverse circumstances.

The dry-sheds hold about trvo million feet of lumber, and a reserve of every grade in all kinds of hardwoods is held here for rainy day work. No order can conte into the plant upon which work cannot be immediately commenced. Stacking is another thing in which exceptional care is taken, even to recognizing the importance of proper stripe and stripping. Every strip used in stacking for kiln-drying is of oak and is sized two sides.

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A new resaw has been added at the chains tb make thin stock at each hardrvood pla4t.

The Glenmora plant of this company is operated under the firm name of I{illyer Edrvards Fuller, Inc. It was bought about trvo and'a half years ago, just an ordinary hardwood mill. Today it is as clean, complete, and efficient a hardwood manufacturing. plant as there is in the United States. It has capacity of about fifty five thousand feet a d"y.

The Oakdale plant has a capacity of about one hundred thousand feet daily, while the plant at I\Iab, cutting long and short leaf pine, has a capacity of about sixty thousand. This pine mill has also been rebuilt almost completely in the past year or so.

Hillyer Deutsch Edwards, Jnc. own a strip of about fifty five miles long down the Calcasieu River, giving them both hardwood and pine cutting for many years.

c. D. JOHNSON LOS ANGELES OFFTCES MOVED

The C. D. Johnson Lumber Company. Los Angeles, is the latest convert to the new Petroleum Securities Building that is now housing,so many of the wholesale lumber ofhces.

R. T. Gheen, manager for C. D. Johnson, pulled up stakes the other day and moved to Suite 4O3. No change in the phone number, VAndike 5573.

United States Civil Service Examination For Forest Guard

Applications for forest guard must be on file at Washington, D. C., not later than September 11. The date for assembling of competitors will be stated on the admission cards sent applicants after the close of receipt of application.

The examination is to fill vacancies in the Indian Service and in positions requiring similar qualifications.

Registers of eligibles will be established from this examination for senior. forest guard at $1,500 to $1,860 a year, forest guard at $1,320 to $1,680 a .year, and junior forest guard at $1,O20 to $1,26O a year. The entrance salary within the range stated for each position will depend upon the qualifications of the appointee as shown in the examination and the duty to which assigned.

The duties, under supervision, are to patrol a district with a view to preventing and repdrting trespass, fires, violation of agreements by those conducting timber operations, the commission of waste by the Indians or others, and to perform other duties as directed, among which may be work in the building of improvements of various kinds, such as telephong lines, roads, trails, and fire lines for the proper protection and administration of the forests.

Competitors will be rated on practical questions relative to the duties of the position, and education, training:, and experience.

Full information and application blanks may be obtained from the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C., or the secretary of the board of U. S. civil-service examiners at the post office or customhouse in the principal cities in the States of Arizona, California, Idaho, N[innesota, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, IJtah, Washington, and Wyoming.

Urges Action

Spokane, Wash., Aug. 6.-The lumberman must adopt modern merchandising methods if the lumbering industry is to keep pace with its substitute industries, officers of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association told members of the \Mestern Pine Manufacturers' Association at their semi-annual meeting held at Spokane, Wash., recently.

"The lumber industry is decreasing in an alarming proportion because the lumberman is too prone to sit back and expect business to come to him," said Dr. Wilson Compton, secretary-manager of the national association.

FOREST SERVICE ASKS SPORTSMEN'S COOPERA. TION IN FIRE PREVENTION

With the opening of the deer season in the Coast Range mountains on August 1, the United States Forest Service is appealing to all sportsmen to help combat the critical fire situation which now exists in the California'forests.

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