Timber Tract to Supply Ironing Board Demand

O. V. Pratt of the Los Angeles firm of Pratt & Warner, manufacturers of built-in ironing boards, bath-room cabinets and other rvood specialties handled by retail lumber dealers. has just returned to his office from a'trip to Tulare County. where he purchased a tract containing about 10,CO0,00O feet of the finest California white and sugar pine st.anding.

By this purchase Mr'. Pratt insures his company of the continuous supply of the high grade of raw material they require for many years to come.

The constantly increasing demand for the Pratt-Warner Iine of wood specialties caused the firm to protect themselve-. against possible depletion of natirre wood suitable for their purposes.

I'rogressive lnmber dealers are handling more ancl more w,oocl specialties every year, says Mr. Pratt. A compact bath-roon.r c:binet, a convenient ironing board or a handy coml>inatiorr breakfast table and ironing board, attractively clisplayed in the sales room or the service room of the modern lunrber store, freqtrently helps the dealer to turn the sale of an entire house contract. The average home-builder today wants to see what the house is going 'to, look like rvhen complete, and it takes all these specialties to make a home conrplete.

Pratt & Warner plan the in-rm.ecliate development of the timber tract they har,e just bought. 'fhey u'ill install a small band mi1l, dry kilns ancl planing rrill. The most mcdern and scientific nrachinery obtainable will be pror-irled throughout.

The timber tract is in the vicinity of the Sequoia ,and General Grant National Irarks ancl cor.nmancls a beautiful view of one of the most pictttresque portions of California. So the camp that is to be developed in connection with the mill property will be more in the nature of a resort thar.r an industrial project. A11 accommodations for employes rvill be modern, comfortable, sanitary and attractive. It will be a show place for visitors.

Although most of the lumber will be finishecl ancl used in the Pratt & Warner fa.crtory in Los {ngele,s, a sm,all quantity will be placed on the market.

While the mill will be located several hundred miles from Los Angeles it is planned to carry the dried and finished lumbelfrom the mill to the factory by automorbile trucks.

Every Sawmill Employe Should Know His Fire Fighting Job

We very much agiee with the stand constantly taken in its bulletins by The Lunbermen's lJnderwriting Alliance, U. S. Epperson lJnderwriting Company, of Kansas City, that every employe around a sawmill should know jus't exactly what HE ougl-rt to <1o and where he ought to go in case of fire; that at the average mill the fire fighters have to be organized AFTER the fire starts, instead of BEFORE, and after a fire starts in the average sawmill it's too late to save the miil by the time the organization has been affe cte d.

It is hard to get the mill folks to give sufficient attention to this problem, but rvith any fire risk so hazardo'us as a sawmill, every man who holds a job ought to be instructed and to sonte extent at least experienced, regarcling what he should do in case of {ire. Quick and direct organized action on the part of sawmill employes would save a tremendous lot of.sawmill fire loss every year.