Ten of The Years Ago Today

From the Files California Lumbet Merchant, January 1 , 1928 toastmaster, and Rod Hendrickson acted as There was a fine entertainment Program. the new $2,000,000 cemgnt plant of the Midwest Company is nearing comple-

J. H. Shepard, Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento, was elected president of the Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club at the annual meeting held on December 17. W. D. Dearborn, Loomis Lumber Co., Loomis, was elected vice-president, and C. D. LeMaster, Sacramento, secretary.

E. S. McBride, Davis Lumber Co., Davis, Oscar Miller, Knox Lumber Co., Sacramento, and I. E. Brink, The Diamond Match Company, Chico, were elected directors.

San Francisco Hoo.Hoo Club was host to sixty children at a Christmas party held at the Palace Hotel on December 22. After luncheon, the children were given presents and there was a fine entertainment program. Frank O'Connor acted the role of Santa Claus, and Russell Gheen was master of ceremonies.

B. E. (Bert) Bryan has been appointed manager and treasurer of the Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland. Bert has been with the company for the past fourteen years, and is prominent in hardwood activities in the San Francisco Bay District.

Holmes Eureka Lumber Co. held a salesmen's conference at their San Francisco office on December 16. Present were: W. G. Hamilton, Harvey Isenhower, Lloyd lIarris, Fred V. Holmes and J H. Holmes.

Morton was Santa Claus.

Eighty-six retail dealers, salesmen, and their wives were guests of the Modesto lumber dealers on December 10, when the Central California Lumbermen's Club held its annual meeting and elected officers. Those elected were: George E. Ground; president, succeeding O. V. Wilson; O. D. Ruse, vice-president, and L. E. Elliott, secretary.

During the luncheon there was music and a fine entertainment which was arranged for by Jim Gartin and George Kewin. After the business session the meeting adjourned to the office of the Stanislaus Lumber Company, where Jim Gartin had arranged a Christmas party. Jim acted as Santa Claus and there was a gift on the Stanislaus tree for everyone present. In the evening daricing was enjoyed in the dining room at the Hotel Hughson.

Announcement was made of the consolidation of the San Joaquin Lumber Co. and the Falconbury Lumber Co., both of Stockton, effective January l, 1928.

Construction of Monolith Portland tion.

Ben Maisler, Maisler Bros., Fresn<i, was elected president of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 31 at a recent meeting. George Kennedy was elected vice-president, and L. L. Walker, secretary-treasure!. Directors elected were: R. A. Johnson, Jerry Stutz, C. W. Bingham, O. H. Carter and J. M. Chase.

East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club held its annual Christmas party at the Athens Club, Oakland, December 22. H. Sewall

66 Tears Ot Sdrvice

Tbe houae of Wbite Brotherg was lounded in Icnucry ot 1872.

New buildings and latest type of machinery in excess of $82,000 were added to the plant of the Los Angeles Paper Manufacturing Co. during the past year.

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Dealers Helped by Consumer Advertising

While the holiday season is a bonanza for many busillesses, it is as a rule a quiet period for the retail lumber dealers. All of which makes the Palco Wool tie-in with the Christmas season all the more significant. One investment in the home that can be made any time, its underlying theme-greater comfort, provides a natural tie-up when people are thinking about cheery interior,s. The theory behind the advertising shown on this page and which was run by The Pacific Lumber Company in California Arts and Architecture, according to Edric E. Brown, manager, Palco Wool Division of The Pacific Lumber Company, is that it is easier to get results by tieing in with current interests instead of trying to divert from them. Hence the Christmas theme of the Palco Wool ad.

Texas Lumberman Visits Coast

Frank Yochem, commission lumber salesman of San Antonio, Texas, was in Los Angeles for the holiday season. He also visited San Francisco and the Pacific Northwest.

Christmas In The Redwoods

Jim Farley, assistant Western sales manager of The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francsico, passed the festive season in Humboldt County. He was accompanied by Mrs. Farley and their son, Kim.

WHERE IS BUSINESS G(IING in 1938?

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Homes

The Cormorant builds on a ledge by the sea; The Coot, on the bank of a runnel i The Woodpecker hunts for a hole in a tree; The Kingfisher digs him a tunnel.

The Barn-swallow nests in the haunts of the tame; The Grouse, in the brush and the cumber I The Country Ilfouse lives in a Home with a Name; The City Mouse dwells at a Number !

The Bumblebee hives in a hole in the ground; The Wasp has a mansion of paper; The Ant may be found in a neat little mound; The Clothes Moth resides with the draper.

The Rattlesnake camps on the Prairie Dog's claim; The Bat, in the cliff-hollow's umber; The Freeman inhabits a Home with a Name; The Slave, but a House with a Number.

The fleet-footed Caribou rests in the brake; The Mole, at the end of a furrow; The Beaver abides in a hut on the lake; The Woodchuck is warm in a burrow.

Remote from the campfire's flickering flame, The Bear in his cavern may slumber; And you're in the hills in a Home with a NameBut I'm on a street with a Number!

-Arthur Guiterman.

Specify Redwood For Culvert Construction In Alaska

Engineers of the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads have specified Structural Grade California Redwood for culvert construction inAlaska. Initial projects call for structures bn the Tongass Highway near Juneau and others near Ketchikan, with 75 M board feet in the first order.

Structural Redwood has long been accepted in the Territory of Hawaii, as well as in the Canal Zone and Puerto Rico.

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"A penny can hide a mountain."-Holding a penny close to the eye will obstruct the view of a business picture which may be only an arm's length away. Keep your vision unobstructed, and. protect your inaestment with a broad view of current credit facts.

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"Can and does he pay" is the paramount question in credits, and the lack of, or poor information on this vital question, and not poor judgment, is said to be the cause of most credit losses. Your investment in receivables is at all times protected when and if the service of the Lumbermen's Credit Association is permitted to keep you constantly advised as to the credit status of your customers, both active and prospective.

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Stephen H, Ross

The last of the famous old "bull bosses" of the California Redwoods is dead. He rvas Stephen H. Ross, 88, rvho at the time of his retirement from The Pacific Lumber Company in 1925, was the olclest active 'rvoodsman in the Redwood region.

Mr. Ross had seen 7l years of rechvood loggiqg, from the bull teams to the modern caterpillar-type tractors, and until his death was just as keenly interested as the day he stepped off the boat in 186'6 from his native Nerv Brunswick. With the passing of the bulls and oxen in 1891, he had turned to bossing men and served out his time as camp boss for the old California Redwood and Excelsior Lumber companies before entering the employ of The Pacific Lumber Company.

Despite his advanced age Mr. Ross had attencled both of the professional logging conferences of the California Redwood Association held in Eureka in 1936 and 1937 and was the guest of honor as the oldest logger attending the 1936 Pacific Logging Congress held in Eureka. He spoke on "My 70 Years of I-ogging" at one of the Congress sessions.

Mr. Ross was buried in Eureka, December 17, with ceremonies conducted by the OdC Fellows lodge. Heis survived by his son, Sheriff Arthur Ross of Humboldt corlnty, four grand-children and two great-grandchildren.

New Plywood Booklets Now Available

Three nerv booklets covering all types of plywood, including the new resinous bond hot-prest outdoor plywood, are now available without cost to architects and builders or dealers. "Handbook of Douglas Fir Plywood" is a complete discussion of the nses of this modern material for sub-flooring, sheathing, roof-boarding, and many special uses, together with a grade-use guide. "Super-Harbord for Outdoor Purposes" is a detailed study of the fabrication and advantages of this new outdoor plywood, guaranteed against ply separation and proof against moisture, weather and termites. "Douglas Fir Plywood-How and Where to IJse" is a specific treatise prepared by the Plywood Association containing many practical suggestions for the application of plyrvood.

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Kitchen to be Nationally Advertised

Itetailers visiting San Frarrcisco are invitecl by the Peerless Built-in Fixture Co. to inspect the beautiful kitchen display in their space in the Building Material Iixhibit, 557 Market Street. The display has been very popular since it was installed and more than l00O people have seen it in the last 6O days. It is open to visitors any rveek day betwr:en the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

The kitchen is equipped rvith a General Electric dishwasher and sink, built into a Peerless Lino-metal drainboard. The entire kitchen is completely equippecl with the most modern conveniences that are used in Peerless de luxe cabinets, such as pot and pan closets, vegetable and fruit trays, ant-proof cooler, kitchen planning desk and electric range.

' The floor is covered with white marbelized Pabco linoleum with ruby red feature strip and border.

Ity-Lock Venetien blinds in suitable colors are used on the windows.

Colored full page advertisements shorving this kitchen rvill be run by The Paraffine Companies. Inc., in national magazines in Jannarv.

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Lumberman experienced in lumber, hardware and building material business open for a position. Southern California experience. Willing worker. Good references. Address Box C-700, California Lumber Merchant.

Lumber Yards For Sale

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U. S. Lumber and Log Exports and lmports Ten Months 1937

Total exports of hardwood and softwood lumber (including sawed timber and logs) for the first ten months of.1937 totalled 1,374,477 M board feet as compared with 1,451,839 M feet for the corresponding period of 1936, a loss of about 5.3 per cent, according to figures just released by the Forest Products Division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Of the 1937 amount l,Zn,ZgZ M feet was of sawed material as compared with lJn,&7 M feet for 1936, a gain of.7 per cent. The 1937 exports of logs and hewn timber amounted to 154,185 M feet as against 311,192 M feet for 1936, a loss of 50 per cent.

In the sarvn -roftwood group Douglas fir was the most important species exported, todlling fr2,536 M feet for the first ten months oi. 1937, a gain of 4 per cent as compared with the corresponding period of 1936. Southern pine totalled 308,534 M feet as compared with Dl,@l M feet for the corresponding period of 1936, a gain of 6 per cent. Other woods in this group which recorded gains at the end of the ten months period were: The "white pines" up 3 per cent over 1936 (October, 1937, shipments declined sharply) ; and spruce up 20 per cent. Woods in this group recording losses were hemlock down 36 per cent I redwood down I per cent; cypress down 9 per cent; whereas cedar was practically the same in 1936.

Sawn hardwoods totalled 305,934 M feet for the first ten months ol 1937, as compared with 26,232 M feet for 1936, a gain of 15 per cent. In this group all species except chestnut, hiskory and mahogany, made gains, the largest footage gains being made by oak, ash and poplar.

Softwood log exports this year amounted to 133,681 M feet compared with 2,8,7ffi M feet in 1936, whereas hardwood logs amounted to 2O,5M M feet against 22,432 M feet last year.

Total imports of hardwood and softwood logs and lumber (including cabinet woods) for the first ten months of 1937 totalled, 700,594 M board feet as compared with &2,580 M feet for the corresponding period of 1936. Of this

1937 amount 121,374 M feet u'ere logs (hardwood and softwood), 481917 M feet were softwood lumber and 98,203 M feet were. hardwood ltrmber and sawed cabinet woods as against 85,971 M feet of logs, 479,934 M feet of softwood lumber, and 76,855 M feet of hardwood lumber and sawed cabinet woods for the comparable period of 1936.

In the "logs" group, imports of cedar logs for the first ten months of. 1937 amounted to 21,851 M board feet; mahogany accounted Ior N,791 M feet; and fir, spruce and Western Hemlock accounted f.or 8,329 M feet.

In the softwood lumber group spruce was by far the most important species imported, totalling 275,918 M feet. The second most important segregated species imported was pine with imports of 75,500 M feet, whereas fir and hemlock totalled together 117,3ffi M feet.

The reciprocal trade agreement signed by the United States and Canada allotted Canada an annual quota of 250,000,000 board feet of Douglas fir and Western hemlock to enter the United States at a $2 duty and .excise tax.

From January I to November 27, 1937, imports of these woods subject to this quota totalled 131,505,816 board feet or 52.6 per cent of the annual quota, according to preliminary figures supplied by the Bureau of the Customs of the Treasury Department.

The quota on importations of red cedar shingles from Canada, established under Executive Order No. 77O1 of September 3, 1937, which limited importation of this commodity to 892,373 squares during the last six months of the calendar year 1937, was filled on November l, 1937.

Detailed monthly statistics of the United States exports and imports of hardwood and softwood logs and lumber are compiled by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce a4d are available from the Bureau on a subscription basis. Special statistics covering imports subject to quota are compiled by the Customs Bureau and are made available to the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.