JOSSI'IN-HARDING L,UMBER COMPANY

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Mason Kline Opens Office in San Francisco Mc Kinney Lumber Co. Installg

Mason E. Kline, recently resigned vice president and general sales manager of the Union Lumber Co., has announced the formation of M. E. Kline & Company, having offices at 625 Nfarket Street, San Francisco, California.

This company 'ivill make wholesale distribution of railroad and industrial forest products of every description, with especial emphasis on lumber, timbers, ties, poles and piling.

Mr. Kline is an engineer, and member of both the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Wood Preservers Association. He has an outstanding record covering over thirty years of promoting and selling, both treated and untreated forest products. He is one of the most widely experienced and best known engiueers serving this highly specialized trade. While much of Mr. Kline's efforts have been devoted to West Coast woods, his experience covers the entire United States, Canada and many foreign countries.

This new ,company u'ill bring vast practical experience and expert technical knowledge to both the selling and production departments of those producers specializing in this type of material. In addition the company will be an important distribution link in supplying the forest products requirements of the railroads, large industrials, large contractors, communication and power companies as rvell as all other users of special forest products in all their ramifications.

Modern Dry Kiln

The McKinney Lumber Co., tl7l9 South Alameda Street, Los Angeles, has installed a modern dry kiln at its hardwood distribution vard, and can now furnish its customers with thoroughly air dried hardwood lumber. The company will also have limited sipace for commercial drying.

The firm carries a complete line of domestic hardwoods. Stephen A. LfcKinney, manager, has been associated with the hardwood business in Los Angeles for a long period. Before coming to California, he was connected with the hardwood industry in the South.

Arthur S. McKinney, the owner, also operates the Willow Glen Lumber Co. at San Tose. Calif.

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New Book lor Grcrding Western Softwood Lumber

"Practical Lumber Grading and Tallying" for Douglas fir-Pine and other Western softwoods, is a new book by Stephen W. Agee of Westport, Oregon. Mr. Agee has spent seventeen years as a lumber grader and W.C.L.B. inspector.

Tl-re book explains lumber defects and how they affect grades, gives descriptions of the various grades of Douglas fir and the Western pines, also a list of the crayon marks generally used in grading and abbreviations used for lumber and lumber manufacture.

The book costs $2.00 per copy, and can be obtained by ordering Trom Narwood Publishers, 902 1st Avenue, Seattle