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Hardwood Record — ^Veneer & Panel Section 



December 25, 1918 



regardless of the weather, without any damage to the 

 stock. The lumber comes out at the other end of the 

 kilns in a similar closed shed on to the transfer tracks, 

 and right across the transfer tracks with an entrance under 

 the same shed is the tempering shed. This is merely a 

 large brick building with proper ventilation and heat so 

 that lumber may be stored therein at precisely the right 

 condition of temperature so as to maintain it in perfect 

 condition after coming out of the kilns. 



In its kiln drying, the Wood-Mosaic Company has 

 made a point of loading lumber direct from the kilns 

 under its covered sheds into the box cars. The idea of 

 this is that lumber so loaded in bulk into the cars may 

 be shipped wh'le it is still hot and will arrive at its desti- 

 nation with absolute guarantee that the ordinarily dis- 

 astrous conditions of the weather will be entirely over- 

 come, as lumber may be shipped hot when bulk piled 

 in the car directly from the kiln and will arrive at desti- 



nation several hundred miles away, still retaining a con- 

 siderable part of its temperature. 



The company has so worked out its dry kiln v^rork as 

 to arrive at a scientific basis. in fact, it is so sure of 

 itself that it is in position to guarantee the percentage of 

 dryness on all kiln drying of lumber. It has worked 

 out a system of tests that enable it to adopt this policy 

 with perfect safety. 



The officers of the company are: 

 W. A. McLean, president. 

 Angus McLean, vice-president. 

 H. H. Barclay, secretary. 

 Merritt Rogers, treasurer. 

 T. J. Christian, lumber sales manager. 

 W. H. Day, manager. Highland Park operations. 

 Alex Schmidt, manager, Cincinnati operations. 

 Mr. Barclay gives most of his personal attention to the 

 development and operation of the flooring department. 



(Adv.) 



