TRAlIS.PAGIFIG LUMBER GOMPA]IY

Po* Orford, Oregon

Manulacturers ol OLD GROtlrTH IDOUGLAS Frn - PORT OnFOnD GEDAR

SPRUCE and HEMLOGK - PILING and POLES

The new Moore Reversible Cross-Circulcrtion Kiln instcrlled by Kingsley Lumber Co. is oI economical wood construction.

The Kingsley Lumber Company, who operates the newest sawrnill in the Portland district, recently installed a Moore Reversible Cross-Circulation Kiln for drying a portion of their lumber production.

The dry kiln is 26 feet wide by 84 feet long and is constructed almost entirely of wood. The walls as well as the roof are built up of two layers of 3xB tongue and groove Fir lumber. Building paper is placed between the layers of wood and the joints are staggered. The walls are supported by means of 6x6 inch uprights on each side of the wall, which are securely bolted in place. The fan system is placed overhead in the kiln and is supported by means of steel roof trusses.

The fan system consists of ten 60-inch diameter fans mounted on a shaft extending the length of the kiln. In the operating room of the kiln is located a steam turbine for operating the fan system. The low pressure steam past the turbine is controlled from five to seven pounds back pressure and the low pressure steam is utilized in a portion of the heating coils inside the kiln.

The kiln is designed for either building up kiln loads by solid edge-to-edge piling of boards or the loads can be built up with six green packages four feet wide by five feet high. The kiln is being operated on a progressive basis and takes care of seasoning the flooring, ceiling and finish that is produced by this company. The Kingsley Lumber Company has a mill with a single band and resaw and has a single shift cutting capacity of 150,000 feet per day' This company is in position to take care of yard stock, also water shipments. The company is operated and managed by E. D. Kingsley, who has long been connected with lumbering operations in the Portland district. He is ably assisted by his son, G. A. Kingsley. I-yle Shafer is mill superintendent; Frank Keene is yard foreman, and the drying operations are under the supervision of Charles Traffe and Jim Bertrand.

CHAS. WHITE NO\v IN S. F. OFFICE

Chas. E. White, who has been for some time at White Brothers'Oakland office, has been transferred to the sales department of the San Francisco offrce.

Reminiscences of an Old-Time Lumberman

(Continued from Page 28) three months at Chino in charge of the yard at a salary of $100 a mo,nth. By dint of sleeping in the office and doing part of my own cooking I was able to save $200, and fulfill a deferred obligation to the girl friend. I worked under the direction of W. A. Morgan, who kindly transferred me to the old University yard, saying that it would be a good billet, but in a few months the yard was closed for lack of patronage and I was out of a job again.

I had, however, been in correspondence with a friend who was part owner of the Bridal Veil mill on the Columbia River, near Portland, with the result that I traded him some equities in real estate and went there to take the position as bookkeeper. I spent two years with this firm, first in the office, and then as salesman with an office in Denver, and later in Kansas City and Omaha selling lumber in Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas.

I returned to Los Angeles in 1894, and being unable to get a job 'vvas forced to go into business for myself. I had no capital but could secure credit with northern mills through my connection with the Bridal Veil Co. I shipped car lots of Fir flooring and Redwood shingles which I stored in a warehouse and sold at retail, and also worked up a carload business in the San Joaquin valley, in Arizona and New Mexico, later on starting a small yard at 4th and San Pedro Streets. By 190O I had made enough progress that I could offer J. F. Mullin sufficient inducements to go in with me, and we started the M. & M. Lumber Co. with headquarters at Third and San Pedro Streets, with a branch yard at Jerome, Ariz.

After incorporating the business and starting the Ocean Park yard I looked for other fields to conquer. We were doing a nice jobbing business in car lots from the north, and it seemed to me to be the logical thing to have an office in San Francisco, both for selling, and to pick up bargains for our yards. We accordingly arranged with H. S. Holmes, who sold for the Northern Pacific Lumber Co. of Portland, to represent us and the writer went to San Francisco to break him in.

For a month or so the outlook was encouraging and then San Francisco showed its Jonah-like disposition toward me and cast me out. The disastrous teamster strike that lasted all summer and paralyzed, all business compelled me to close up the office and return to Los dngeles, a sadder and a wiser man.

The recent death of Chas. Humphreys, who started the Clark & Humphreys Lumber Co. in 1886, leaves only the writer and Robt. Cuzner as survivors of the era of the 188O's in the lumber game in Los Angeles.

Mr. Cuzner is still president of the Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Co., and the writer is president of the Hollywood Lumber Co., which, however, is not selling lumber but is collecting rentals from industrial tenants now located on the property, and this I have found to be a more stable and satisfactory occupation.

STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT. CIRCULA. TION, ETC., REOUIRED BY THE ACTS OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24. 1912. AND MARCH 3, 1933.

OI The California Lumber' Mer6hant, published Semi'monthly at Los Angeles, California, for October 1,1938.

State of Califomia t County of Los Anrcles. I ""'

Bifore me. a l.Iotaiv Public in and lor thc State and county aforc' iaid, personally appeardd J. E, Martin, who' having been duly swo-rn according to la*, dl-po".s atid s.ys that he is the Business M-ana-ger of-The Californii Lumbir Merchant, ani that thc following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownershin, management (and if a dai-ly paper, the circulation), etc., o,f -the -aforesaid. publication for tbe date sho*n'in thc above caption,'required by the- Act oI August 24,1912' ss ;;"e; iv-th;-lct of M.ir:t'-'il iiis,.;b;ai.a in section 5I7, Postal Laws "ia-nis"ijtii;",-piLied o" the reverse of this form, to wit:

1. T1rat the names ."o "a'a*""*-o{ the pgblisirer'. editor' managing eaitot. -and- triit... -"t"g.ti-i'tii-rublisler,'1'-C' Dioqne, 318- Central iia';:.' i;; l"ill."-; Edito-r, l. C. Dio"", 3-18 centlal Bldg" us An;;i:?l fr;;";;?--Editor, l.'E-.'Martin, 3t{i Central Bldg',. Los Angelcs; il;i;';--Iri;;#t', J.--ii., ii,t"'1o, ste .central Bldg., Ip" 4?g'l-':' - --, ---2. ntii thi 6wner is: (If owned bv a corpo-ration' lts name ano "adrl"t-'ilu.i-i"''"iii.a--""1-- "l.o i--idi"-t-tlv -thertunder the names "na "aariiii. of ttocLhold.t" owning or holding onc per cent or more ;i'-t.;;i';;;"i-;a-;i;;k. if not 6wned bv a cqrporati-o1, the-n-ames i'"a" ia'a-J'JJ"-it the -iraivia".l owners musi be givin. If oqncd-lr a A;;.-;;;;;y, br other unlncorporated conccrn' it-s namc and addrtss, ii-ii'eti-.iiti.i.te of iach individdal member, must bc givcn') i. E. Martiri. 318 Central Bldg.' hs Angeles' W. t. ntact. San Francisco, California' i.'ii"l-iitliii"-d-" to"attot.ict"' mortgasees, and other s-ecuritv holders "*"i"g-oi-troiaini I per c€nt or more ot-totil amount of. bo-nds, mort' ;;;;;:"; oitrii sicuriiies are: (If there are nonc' so state.) None'- -4.-That the two paragraphs next above, giving thc names ot the o*"it",-liek-ttJdcrs, ind -secirrity bolders, if anv, contain not -onlv the list of stockholders and securitv bolders as th€y app€ar upon the b6-l(3 of the company but also, in cases where the stckholder or security holder app.irs-upon the'boks of the co,mpany as trustee or in a1Y o-ttrii n,ii"iat" ielation, the name of the- pelson or corporation f-or whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two paragraphs "ottiir st.tc-.nts embracing afiiant's full knowledge and belief as to ihe circumstances and condilions under which stockholders and security holders who do not apDear upon the bmks of the company as- trust€-e.s, hold stck and sccuriiics in a capacity other than that of a bona fidc owner: and this afiiant has no relson to believe that any other pcrson, assciition, or corporation has any interest dirtct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so stated by him.

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T- P. Wier. Houston, Texas.

A. C. Menv-an. Esiate of, Pasadena' Californi".

5. That the average number of opics of cach issue of this publication sold or distributed, through the mails or othcrwise, to paid iubscribers during the twelve monfhs preceding the -date shown above is :...-.......... (Tliis information is required from daily publications only.) I. E. MARTIN, Business Manager. Sworn to ard subscribed before he this lst day of October' 1938. TSEALI FREDA R. PAUISON. (My commission expires Aug. 18, 1942.)