The soft quality stock which the carpenters prefer and which develops a minimum depreciation in your yard.
We carry a complete stock of UPPERS-DIMENSION and LATH for PROMPT SHIPMENT.
We specialize in GREEN CLEARS-TIMBERS-and MINING TIMBERS.
We Oan and Operate Our Own Logging Camps, Scpmills, Planing Mills and Dry Kilns
When you rell your client a cheap, inferior roof. ing, you risk your own good name! It doeen't take long for our driving raina and bliatering suns to open the 6rgt leak. Then your client forgets about the money you raved him. "I've been etung," he eays-and he'e through with you.
'Experience har shown that it ig rafe to specify 'Weaver Roofing. We ctand back of 'Weaver Roofing with a real guarantee. A guarantee that protects you a. well ar your customer. lf,re will rtale our reputation on lAfcaver Roofc-becaure we know they WILL laet longer. And there are over 25,lXl0 Weaver Roofr in the Southwcrt to provc our claima.
Made in various grades, ve:ght! ud colors for all types of buildings
Manuf*tured by Weaver Roof Conpany, Los Angelec, California
SYLVESTER L. WEAVER Broadway 0?E4
The looked for rurh of ordera, ttat war predictd for rigbt aftcr Neru Yea/r Dan did not arive in ruch, !6eat force at war looked for, but the buying war more brbk right rftcr the 6nt, and a general tight€ning war lsen for a fw daye. Some of the larger retailerr cannc into t{re market wilh ronre good rized order, rnainly for randomr. Thc unrold rtockr are pretty well cleaned up.
, About thc tenth, there ge€med to be a elight indication of a weakening in the rcuthern part of the ctite. Random Eltr were not being enapped up ar freely ar for the weeli parg and about fifty centr per thourand wotrld be righd figurer on the drop at that time.
- -The^ rtrong fiSure in the market right now ir dmoet eny- thgg q uppen$ and particularly elarh grain rtockr. T[e railrodr are in tbe Northweet with orderr for rnany thourrndr_of can, and rome of thir ctock has not V* feel bought. lt ir underrtord tbat one oompany had rpecifica- tionr for about two thourand carr, and- if iUi. "t""f i" "tt bqght_lhb_month, we are bound to ree rome higher pricel thft will afiect f,ooring and ceiling. At thir ruritingr- eonr,i of the millr bave rerumed crrttins, after their hotiliia rhutdorm, however, the Portland rilk are reeing romd toear. weather, and very few of lhem have bcen- able to get
rtarted. We undentand trhat tbe amount of ruuold rtockr at the mills is as low ar !t hqr been for rome tirne pasi.
The rhip_mentr haye dropped ofr conride,rably so far thir mg_nQ, and' from indicati<ms-tthe totdr received'for 6".ry qr{ rhoy-a ruprise. Irr the routh, at San pedro, "p t" thl plght_ of the eleventh, forty veuels had. docked. 'tir"o-bined carrying capacity *as about 4S,OOO,(X)O fJ, -and at thir.rate, Janryry r-eceipts at this port witt probabiy run around_.125r00or0oo feet. The docls are in-good "f,"pe, better than they have been for ro,nre tinrc.
- Th" hpt report from the Wert Coart Lumbermcnrs AroG ciation chovr a wcek's cut by 125 of their member mill& of 4O,(XX),{XX). Thir rhorur the efiect of the Chriltlnasiil" rhut-dowr1 the week before thege milb -arrufactrued -oii hundred and two million feet. The salea for the weck S+"d :9,9o0:90o_ feet, and rhey rhipped 6g--iiii*" r nerr unb.lled rail orders amount to 41899 carr.
_ The California Redwood Acrociation'r l""i report givcr $'e weck'r aeler as a little over 4 million f; .riBd; three and a half million. The Southern ph; A;""i;fi";t t":L. trpg* giver ealee totab for the part *eek of iixtv miluon teetr- as againrt 63,0001000 for the week before. lley manuf_actured abopt S4r000rOOO fcct, rnd rhpped rixty-two million
A Condensed, Reaie-,a b9 l,I/ilson Compton, Secretarlt and Manoger of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Associntion.
Washington, January ?-The lumber industry is fast resuming its pre-war stride in volume of production and shipments and 1923 was, g'enerally speaking, one of the most ,satisfactory years in the recent history of the lumber trade. The volume of lumber movement has been perhaps the greatest in ten years. This activi.ty has been widespread, not localized. The service rendered by the railroads for the transportation of sarvmill produits for the country as a whole is the best in the industry's historv:-a credit to railroad performance and to the better urrd.rstanding between shipper and carrier. An increasing volqme is-being transported by rvater, probably 20 per cint of the shipments of the larger sar,r'mills and -perhips 15 per cent of the total shipments of the lumber industry. Waler transportatio_n is adding a valuable new facility to large portions. of the lumber industry as a substantial'guarantie against involuntary tie-up by car shortage. There is great safety tn tWo alte5nalive tr.pnsportationlutlets
The lumber stocks at the sarv-mills are generally smaller tlt1.1 " year ago. Many mills have run doirble, .";rr aripl;" .shrtts .throughout a considerable portion of the past year. r hat the stocks are relatively lorv is an indisputable- evi_ dence of the tremendous voluine of actual lumber .orrrr*f_ tion during 1923.
It is a tremendously significant fact that a volume of lumber, unprecedented dur:ing the last decade, has molrJ day by day from the mills tolhe retail yards and from the retail yards to the job. This was achieved rtuithout sub_ stantial increase in lumber prices. prices realized for lumber at the saw-mills are no higher than a year ago. In fact, there has been during the past six monihs a ionsiderable decline in the average prlce .le'r'el. Manufacturins costs, which had been greatly ieduced l92L and 1922, hav"e increased substantially during 1923. In some lumbering reg'ions, wages paid are the highest in history. The qualiti of labor performance has impioved and the-labor tuinover gre-atly decreased except in certain regions affected by spe- cial conditions such as the negro laboi exodus to the iVoitt from the South Atlantic.
Mr. O. H. Bat.r rtarted in the lumbcr grmc working for HrllepL & Howud of Dcnvcr, Color., 33' ycarr ago. ln tirnb he rtrrtcd '5 yard of hir own rt Hertingr, Ncb' whcre hc opcrated until coniri3 lo Crlifornia in lglO buying a yard at Whitticr. h l02l hq pur' chared thc Senta Ana and Norwalk yardr of thc Griffith LumDcr Co., and norg opcratcr tLc three yardr.
Thc outrtanding fcrture of hir tuccera il hL ability to meLli end kccp friendr ind ic exemplified in hir rlogan, tlf it'r Berr'r itU of thc Bcrt", which he adoptcd whcn firrt rterting in burincrl.l Everything Mr. Barr har anything to do with or ir connected with murt be tof thc bcrt"r--quality, rervicc or cthicr.
He ir e etaunch supportcr of thc Methodirt Church, e Scottirh Ritc Maron, at pre.ent dirtrict tru.tG. of the Kiwrnir Club and, rnember of ihc board of Trurtcer of tha Norwalk Statc Horpitel, Prerident of Intcrrtatc Financc Co, and dircctor in thc Srnta Aor Bldg. & Loan Aun' baider being ectivcly iatcrcrtcd ir dozcnr of cntcrprizer, erociatione, ctc., for thc dcivclopncnt of thc commun. ity or humanity. And he ir Vicegerant Snerk of .Hoo Hoo fol Orengc County.
Hir hobby ir to incouragc naintcnence of ettrectivc HOMES surrounded by bcautiful gardenr.
Hir vice her jurt becn acquired elthough aot yet put into rffcct. Hir ermployeer mrdc hir an Xmer prcrent, of ei finc cquipncnt of colf rtickr and bag, to rhow thcir apprccirtion of hir friendly intcr Irt end 3cncrority in and to them.
LET IT R^A,IN. ThC pour the better we like it. abrolutely that Superior Cd will keep yPur home dry.
By inspecting some of our Superior Protec{ed homes in Los Angeler you will be Superior C€m€nt Stucoo ir product. We will gladly fu lict of Superior jobr .within reach.
Write for booklet telling Superior Protected Homes. will gladly show you samples Cement Stucco in a variety of
Thc lightncr conbincd wl$ rtronfth-tto vhltG!..., the 3tniShtndl ud cvcnncer of rrrrtn and tha fmt thtt it t*ce a splcndld fintrh-all thcrc dqtlrlblc qualldcl nakc rpruce a ;upcr.lor wood lor all con3tructlon !urpoaca.
For Sashes and Doors
end' about
the dormWe know our dealer
Sprucc ir cpcclelly rultad to rnr*lng hlgh qu.llty .ub.., don and fc all lntrlor rrln rnd flnlrh of fln. raddenccr.
GRAHAM ISLAND STTKA SPRUCE
lunbcr for the locel nrr.lpt it errurcd by our o(tanatyG A lergc and .tcrdy rupply of thc bighcit 8rada rDncc boldin3r, includh3 t saa,O0,me fct ot vlrrh tfrrblr rt Gralum lrland, B. C. Wr mrhtrln a flct of rtcl rtcrn lumber rchoncn arld conplctr tr nlllr. olulnr nlIL and dry ltllnr at Lor Ang-cr Hrtor.
Prices and details on reouest.
There's a churcb in the city of Des Moines, Iowa, that believes in advertising. Fine !
(If there is one thing on earth that is poorly advertised, and poorly SOLD, its religion. Having for sale the greatest and best of all commodities, the fact that it's sale progresses as slowly as it DOES, proves the statement just made, doesn't it? Because if the selling was in any manner comparable with the quality of the "goods," the whole world would grab at it.)
This particular church has a big black sign board in front, on which they set big white type for their "ads." The other day they had this one:-
.A HEARSE IS A POOR VEHICLE TO RIDE TO CHURCH IN..WHY WAIT?''
Isn't THAT a good selling thought?
They're all recognizing the pulting power of publicity. We now have churches, Sunday Schools, Postoffices,-even telephone systems without competition-advertising forcefully and intelligently, and for RESULTS.
We want to draw a whole lot more lumbermen in 1924 into the advertising fold. While great advancement has been made in the industry, it is still a fact that the lumber folks advertise LESS than any other industry. And they probably need advertising MORE than nearly any other industry.
It is probable that the public knows LESS of the lumber industry, of its ability and its willingness to SERVE; of its modernized ability to advise, and assist along building lines; to do things for the public with regard to helping people properly utilize building materials; than of any other great public utility industry.
All too little does the public understand what a modern, active, thinking lumberman has to offer, outside of the general fact that they carry lumber and other raw building materials in stock
Here's hoping that lg24 will see great advancement along this line. As Andy Gump so tersely put it: "If a man's got something to sell, why keep it a secret?"
There are too many-FAR too many-men in the lumber business, who are in the same position as the people that Iowa church was shooting at when it pubtished the notice that heads this column.
DON'T \,[IAIT UNTIL YOU'RE DEAD TO HAVE PEOPLE READ SOME. THING NICE ABOUT YOU. TELL YOUR OWN STORY WHILE YOU'RE STILL ALIVE. DON'T DO ALL YOUR PUBLICITY STUFF IN EPITAPH !
IT WTLLPROFIT T]S BOTI-I
3 BIG MODERN SAWMILIS OUR OWN CREOSOTING PLANTOUR OWN BIG STEAMER LINE AT YOUR SERVICE -
Qouglas Fir, namecl after David l)ouglas, botanist, reached its best,development on the pacific -Coast from the head of the Sheena River in British Columbia southward t-lr_gugh the states of Oregon and Washington to centrai California. It is the morf i-portant lumSer tree of the North American continent and is known by a great ""ri"iy of names, such as Oregon Pine, Washington Fir, R.d pii, etc., but the name Douglas Fir was adop-ied by tiie United States Forest Service- some years ago. 'It is ihe .tr""t..ri soft wood in the world.
It is estimated that Douglas Fir cornprises 25 per cent of the remaining stand of timber in the ^United States and in British Columbia it is estimated to comprise one-third of the total lumber supply of Canada.
Universal Wood
Douglas Fir is very properly callecl the universal lvood, especially on the Pacific Coast. As an example of the differentuse_s_itis put to we cite the fact that practically every home in Washington, Oregon and California is built-almosi entirely of Douglas Fir. Practically every American wooden vessel .plying on the Pacific Ocean is built of Douglas Fir. Freight cars built on the Pacific Coast are madl of Do-uglas Fir and large quantities of Douglas Fir are ship- ped East to be manufactured into freight cars.
Just stop and examine any house under course of con- struction. The heavy joists are Douglas Fir; the studding is l)ouglas Fir; the flooring is Douglis Fir; so is the finisii !n the kitchen; the finish in the dining-room and the fin_ ish in the living-room and bedroom, also the doors: even the lath are Douglas Fir.
It is used. for paving blocks, rvooden piping, silos and tanks and rvhen you see a large building tinder construction and -stop to rvatch the pile-driver at rvork, just remember that those long straight timbers that are so nece.sary for the foundation are made of Douglas Fir. In fact, the uses of Douglas Fir are so many thai it s,ould be impossible to enumerate them all.
During the rvriter's experience in the lumber business.
Douglas Fir has play-ed a very important part in four verr- great events. Re-building of San Francisco, the World;s War, the trVorld's Fair at San Francisco and the rehabilitation of Japan.
Probably the greatest problem the manufacturers have had to face for years is over-production. This is not a neuproblem as over twenty years ago there rvas the old .,boneyald:' at San Francisco where ldmber rvas placed in storage lvaiting for prices to advance.
This- same problem presents itself year after year an<l today is still unsolved. Over-production is the chief cause of the rapid fluctuations in Douglas Fir market. It is verr. seldom that prices remain stationary for sixty days in sudcession. Just about the time we figure ihe market is firmly established, something alwavs-'happens and it is necessary to start all over again.
Following is a sample of price changes during.1923. On account of lack of space, mention is made of only two itenrs. Car Department
January lst, ceiling, $10.m over; April lst, g15.00 over; July lst, $12.00 over; October 1st, $6.00 over; December 3!st, $ list. Commons, January lst, $1.00 over; April lst. $5.00 over; July lst, $3.00 over; October lst, g2.00 over; December 31st, $ list.
Yoq will notice that ceiling shorvs a spread of $15.0{) and commons $5.00 per month. This shouldnot be.
Prices Randoms San ?edro Cargo Department
_ JEnuary, $29,00; March, $33.50 i June, 928.00; July, g24.00; September, $30.00; November, $23.00; December, $25.00.
Is it any wonder we wholesalers look so harrassed ?
-If it were possible to devise some way rvhereby the mauufacturers would have authentic information as lo the possible demand from the various sections. so that the proper relations between SUPPLY and DEMAND could -lre
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We wish to announce to the retail &tahlishcd 1888 Geo. R. Haclctt, V. P. & G. M. trade of california that we are in position to quote on parcels
Boards-Dimension-Green Clears and lath, for shipment on Canadian Government Merchant Marine boats, and solicit your inquiries.
Highest quality lumbcr and lath manufactured and inspected by Pacific Lumber Inapcction Bureau.
There was no cheer in Volstead mince pie. Neither was there cheer in Volstead e$$no$.
-but there's a world of cheer for the retail lumbermen in Callfornia, for Redwood-sales for 1923 went "over the top", Setten Million Feet-that's Redwood's 1923 $ain. It is an encoura$lng record, when one looks back over the year that Father Tlme has just pi!,eonholed.
Many retail dealers eay that Redwood Seryice" and its 300,000 "Sllent Salejmen" helped them materlally ln making this increase posetble. We hope eG-because that is what our service is for.
There are many indications of national prosperity for lgful.
For the new year we are $oing to help make Redwood sales even lar$er than in 1g23. Our "Redwood Service" to the retail dealerwlll embrace all that was furnished during the past twelve months, supplemented by many new features.
A prosperous new year ls indlcated for the Callfornia Retall Lumber Dealers who tell their customers,
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tnaintained, then stable basis ancl easil-v avoidecl.
the Douglas Fir market rvould be on a these rapid fluctuations could lte verv
Personally, I am of the opinion that this r.ery essential point will receive more consideration from the rnanufactrrr_ ers in the very near future
The unstableness of the Douglas Fir market ancl tl-re rapidity with rvhich prices fluctuate reminds me verv much of the story of the old darky, u,ho, u,hen asked to give his opinion of the price_of _cotton, gave this r,ery illudinating and convincing prediction.
"Well, Boss, it's jes dis-a-rva1'. De price nla,\, g.o up ancl den agin hit may go dorn,n. Brrt nros' tikety it's-jes naichal_ ly gwine to fluctuate."
And that is exactly our feeling torvarcls the Douglas Fir rnarket for 1924. "It's jes natchally gu'ine to fltrctirate.'.
l)robabl,r'one of the greatest changes that has taken place cluring the l'riter'.s experience in the lumber businesi has lieen in the foreign markets. Australia, New Zealand,, South Africa and the West Coirst of South Arnerica have ahvays lteen large consulrers of Douglas Fir ancl they are rising more ancl nrore e'ery year, but there ha'e been cruite I gooa rnan)r nelv fields opened rvhich har e harl a great effect in stabilizing the market.
1 Japan is norv one of the largest users of l)ouglas }.-ir dnd her influence has been felt for the last three or four yeals. China, another ne\vcorter. is beconrirrg a great fac_ tor in the Douglas Fir rnarket and it is only ieasonable to suppose that as China cotnes nlore to the fiont as a u.orlrl I)o\\'er, she rvill need Douglas Fir to help der.elop her great resorlrces. This is a fielcl that bears close u.atchirg.
The East Coast of South America has scarcelv lteen scratchecl. What the people need there is more knon.ledge hone Sutter 398
of Douglas Fir and while the shipments seem to be getting larger regularly, still this is due to the fact that afTer thE initial shipment Douglas Fir sells itself.
Central America is another territory that has harclly been touched. CuLra scarcely knorvs what Douglas Fir is. They are handling large quantities of Spruce ani white pine but so far Douglas Fir seems to be an unknorvn rvood.
It does seem to the u'riter as though a more energetic campaign should be rvaged in these nerlrer territories. T-here is no wood quite as good as Douglas Fir and these various countries are just lr,;aiting for us to prove it. When you stop to realize that practicalll. the r.vhole world is waifing to be shorvn just lvhat. Douglas Fir is, you can readily see horv great the possibilities are and how great a future the manufacturers of Douglas Fir have. Where other rvoods are -practically on their last lap, Douglas Fir is starting on its first lap.
The opening of the Panama Canal lr'as one of the greatest factors in extending the scope of f)ouglas Fir. On u.count of the lorv freight rate in shipping-by vessel to the Atlantic Coast, practicallv arr entirCll' niw-fielcl has been opened and this is grorving in volume every year.
The tvriter has the greatest adrniration foi tirose llioneers rvith a vision-those men rvho sara. the possibilities of the ^{tlantic Coast ancl lvho u'ere rvilling to stake their entire fortunes in _hope of oper'.ing up this terriiory for Douglas Fir. It took rnen rvith .a good ltackltone and a stiff upper lip to sort ol blaze the trail for the rest of us. Thev ctirld v-ery prop€rl1" adopt the famous fighting cry of the oid Irish Kings, i'.Clear the u'a.n-. u'e lead, others follor,v." It .is to their courage. foresight an<l vision that the Atlantic Coast stands today as one of the largest consumers of Douglas Fir, and this field is grou.ing every vear.
It has nou. passed out of the sphere of speculation as,
with reg'ular lines of steamers plying bettveen the two Angeles and the surrounding territory use from one huncoasts, shipping to the Atlantic Coist iJjust as safe as ship- dred twenty five million to one hundred and.fifty million' ping to Cititornia. Every year we see new lines of steam- feet per month. During July and also during November ers being added rvhich insure the manufacturers of Doug- when the lowest prices prevailed, this territory rvas still las Fir a steady demand from this section of the United using its one hundred and tt'enty five to one hundred and States. fifty million feet per month. Rusiness rvas good, in fact.
In 1922, shipments througl-r the Panama Canal lvere business is good all over California, and it looks like busimore than two and one half times as great as during 1921 ness will continue to be so during 1924. There is no reaand 1923 will no doubt be rnore than t'ivice as much as dur- son rvhy there should be any break in price dorvn here uning 1922. less some other territory falls down and it is necessary for
With the increasing knorvledge of the various uses to the mills to throrv their excess productions dorvn this way. rvhich Douglas Fir can be put, the specifications from the The Northern part of the state, particularly that section Atlantic Coist are becoming more and more desirable, that around San Francisco l3ay, gives every indication of comis, more of the lower gradeJ are being accepted. The mills ing greatly to the front during this coming year. We feel are hoping that shortly this section together with Califor- the manufacturers can safely bank on California to do more nia rvill solve the problem of these lorv grades.
California than her share tou'ards the consttmption of Douglas Fir.
Our Attitude Towards Douglas Fir
The .rvriter feels California has done more torvards stab- In closing, I wish to t'elate a little incident that occurred ilizing the market during 1923 than any other section of the during one of my visits to the San Francisco World's Fair. country. The Atlantic Coast has not yet fully arrived. The I had as my guest a fellorv lumberman from Astoria rvho. Ivliddle West has been a. disappointment for almost the en- .as sooll as we entered the gate. rushed me across the tire year but California held its orvn from January l,1923, grounds until u'e stood at the foot of that rn-agnificent untif January 1,1924. dagstaff presentetl to the Fair by Russel Harvkiirs of The
There has been several extreme drqps in price here but Whitney Conrpany. in not one instance was it due to the California market Torvering trvo hundred and twenty five feet in the air falling off. It was simply a case of over-production. We and flying at its peak the flag of the greatest nation in the rvere laking more lumber than any other section of the world, here rvas indeed a lvorthy representation of that United Staies but enough is enough, and when we were great tree whose forests furnish the principal industry of asked to absorb 33 1-3 per cent more than we could, then C)regon and Washington. something had to happel. And- it did. The market broke Reverently removing his hat and speaking almost as twice during the last six months but even that failed to though in piayer, t''y -o-p"t'tion very slowly repeated the have any effect on general conditions here. rvordi thai I have chosen as the title of this article-
We will take the city of Los Angeles as an example, "Douglas Fir, the greatest.tree God ever grew." simply because of the fact that its lumber is brought in by Thii is the thought that should become a part of our verv vessel, the footage is more easily tabulated. We find Los being.
900,000 FeetDailv
Wnr. Catnerorr & Company, of Waco, 'l'exas. leaclers in progressive rnerchandising ideas fcll retail lurnbernren, has just done a lvonderful nerv thing in horne merchandising.
They have issued their ou'n plarr book of fnrnitnre for homes, built of lurnber and milhvork, ar.rcl sold as cornpletecl jobs at ever-y one of Cameron's sixtr'-otl<l lurnber stores irr Texas and Louisiana.
The book is 32 pages ancl cover. It is printe<l rin r.errheavy book paper, and illustraterl'throughout. In fact. it is almost entirelt' a book of illustrations. The outside front cover shorvs a ltreakfast nook u'hich they sell, courposed of tn'o attractive benches ancl table. Arnong the' furniture.they oiTer and illustrate in this book are incluclecl 'bookcases, sidelroards, buffets, n'ardrobes. linen closets, chest of drarvers, phone tables, r,r'aste llaskets, kitchen cabirrets and tables, broom cabinets, iron-board cabinets. rnedi, cine cabinets, rnirror cloors, French <loors, screen cloors, flower boxes, cedar lined closets, ltergolas, floors. etc. These are sholvn separatelv. and also in interior honrc scenes, showing their use.
Ever.v Cameron store furniture.
going to push this
Il. P. Hunter, (ieneral Manager oiIunrber-built
Canreron &
Companv. belieres that there is more m()ney for the pr-ogressive retailer in selling other things than "just lumber" than there is in the lumber department, and he has proven it to the complete satisfaction of his finn for many vears.
The absolutely excessive price of furniture of quality in the furnitrrre stores today, is one of the things that has started this home furniture drive. As Mr. Hunter lluts it, any millwork finn can make furniture to special order. an<l ship it local freight, and far rrndersell the local furnitrrre man at today's furniture prices. and since the line of things they are now offering easily compare in attractiveness zrn<l usefulness rvith what the furniture men offer, it simplr. rneans another service as rvell as a saving to the local trade.
OAKL,'\ND, Jan. 3.-Building records {or Alameda county rvere smashed last year rvith an estimated total o{ $40,000,000 spent in construction. according to a survey annorrnced toclal' b1- Fl. W. Shau,. secretarv of the C)akland Brrilders' exchange.
Oakland leads Alameda county cities .rvith an estimatecl total of $27,000,000. Other cities in the county were: Berkelev, $6,500,000; Piedmont, 91,500,0@; Alameda, 91,000,000; Emeryville, $811,000; San Leandro, $780,000; Albany, $445,000
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Hardwood, properly stained and finished, is beautiful, ancl "a thing of beauty is a joy forever."
The home owner glows with satisfaction rvhile exhibiting to admiring friends the beautiful hardwood finish and polished hardwood floors of his home; the housewife points rvith pride to her Quartered Oak Table, her Mahogany Chair, or her Walnut dresser; the landlord swells with confidence while explaining to the prospective tenant the beauties of the hardrvood finished residence or apartrnent offered for rent, and the realty salesman finds a hardwood finished interior an unfailing stimulus to a quick and profitable sale.
In the older communities very few homes are built rvithout the use of hardwood in at least the main rooms, but in the newer rapidly grorving localities beauty is too often sacniiiced to speed and elegance to economy.
Unfortunately our own community was for many years guilty of the sin of omission in the rnatter of hardwood
interiors and rnany a home buil' in the past rvith an im,-rosing exteri.ror and beautiful surr.rundings, presents a cotnmonplace appearance when one crosses the threshold, because from a mistaken notion of their excessive cost, or an absence of appreciation of their beauties the owner failed to use hardwoods for the interior finish. Happily, this condition is now being remedied to a considerable degree, ancl a constantly increasing number of homes are being finished in hardwoods.
There are several reasons for this. In the past many of the planing mills, owing to the pressure of business occasioned by our unprecedented building activities, and the greater facility rvith which pine finish can. be qrepared, iather discouraged the use of hardrvoods by quoting relatively high prices on jobs rvhere alternate bids on hardrvoods and pine were asked. Then, too, stocks carried by
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the hardrvood yards here rvere not so varied and ample as they now are, kiln drying facilities u'ere limited rvhere norv they are extensive, and the builder and architect were not always alive to the fact that even if the price of hardwoods' per thousand feet was cornparatively high, because of the small quantitv required to finish an averag'e room, the total added cost over softr,vood' was lty no means prohibitive.
Again, in recent years, a great stimulus to the use of hardwoods was given by the importation of large quantities of Oak and Birch from Japan. For a number of years these woods reached here in the log and were manufactured into lumber, veneers, and flooring; later manufactured lumber was also received, and in both instances the prices were lower than on corresponding American rvoods. War conditions, which carlsed extreme advances in ocean freights, forced the discontinuance of importations from Japan, but in the meantime, the Philippine forests lr'ere being exploited by American manufacturers and Philippine lumber was being introduced into the American markets. Los Angeles being the American front door on the Pacific naturally became one of the early markets for this Philippine lumber, and the comparatively lor,v prices of these excellent woods has been another reason for the increased use of hard'w'oods here,
There are over 2500 varieties of trees in the Philippines, over 400 of which are commerciallv valuable, while in the rvhole of the United States and Canada there are fen'er than 7ffi varieties, only 120 of rvhicll are suitable for lumber.
There are 40,000 square miles of virgin forests in tl're Philippines, with an average stand. using only trees measuring over sixteen inches in diame.ter, of from ten to fift_r' thouiand feet board measure per acre.
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There is no 'point on even the largest islancl over 50 to 75 miles from tidelvater, and the topography of the Coun. try is of such a character that it does not present insurmountable obstacles to the building of railroads.
The trees of the Philippines are very large and yield lumber bf excellent average rvidths and lengths, in contrast with the rapidly decreasing average widths and lengths of lumber from our native forests.
The Philippine woods used here for interior finish, furniture and cabinetwork, are Red and White Lauan, Almon and Tanguile. The White Lauan and Almon are light red in color, and the Red Lauan and Tanguile dark red. These woods are sold under the general name of Philippine Mahogany, and while not botanically true mahoganies, their color, texture and appearance when stained and finished. so closely reseml)le the Central American and African Mahoganies, that it is difficult even for one familiar rvith hardrvoods, and wholly irrpossible for the uninitiated. to distinguish one from the other.
Other r'voods brought here from the Philippines are Apitong and Lumbayao, which are used largely for automobile body building as a substitute for Oak, Hickory and Ash.
The Government owns more than 97.5 percent of all the standing timber in the Philippines, which is a guarantee that the forests rvill not be wastefully exploited. Licenses and concessions for the cutting of lumber are obtainable on very easy terms, the title to the land .remaining in the Government and the forest charges being paicl progressively as the lumber is cut.
Because of the low ocean freight rates, rvhich are lower even than the rates on lumber from New .Orleans to Los Angeles Harbor through the Panama Canal, and less tharr half the all rail rate on l-rardwood lurnber from the East to Los AngeleS, we can coirfidently look forrvarcl to a continually increasing supply of excellent hardrvoods from the Philippines for many years.
Phillippine Mahogany is norv being shipped to Eastern manufacturing centers, made into furniture and shipped back here. There is no reason why this operation cannot be reversed, and u'ith our superior climatic conditions, the most favorble in the rvorld for the manufacture of the articles of wood, furniture manufacturing, already a lusty young industry here, should soon not onll' supply all our own requirements, but reach out into distant markets as well.
There has been a phenominal increase in the use of Rerl Gum in this market in the past four or five years. This wood is not the Eucalyptris of the Pacific Coast, as man-y seem to believe, but the product of a tree grown in tl-re South Central States. This tree is of the rvitch hazel farnily , but in contrast with the rvitch hazel, which is a small scrubby tree, of no value for lumber, it grows to a f arge size, many of the specimens exceeding a height of LZO feet and a diameter of four feet.
The term "red" does not refer to any particular color of the u'ood in the tree, but is said to have. referred originall-v to the color of the autumn leaves. and not to the wood. Some of the trees have thin sap wood, and others are practically all sap wood. This often leads to misunderstandings, as a buyer, unfamiliar rvith this characteristic. ma;- think that Gum lumber shon,ing some sap u.ood is not Red Gum.
However, lumber shorving any considerable percentage of sap is not as valuable as the all red, or heart rvood, and is sold at a lower price as "Red Gum, Sap no Defect." It is used very largely as a base for ivory and rvhite enamel finish. atrd is also stained to imitate Mahogany and Walnut. The furniture factories use it in vast cluantities.
Sorrle Red Gum trees yielcl a rvood shor,r'ing a figurg (C."ttr,*d "r P"g. 5r)
F-ull statistics covering the 1923 season are not available. However, the season has progressed to the point where certain statements can safely be made with reference to prevailing conditions in the pine lumber manufacturing industry.
The year started with promise of exceptional demand. The building industry was in a prosperous condition. On January 1 all stocks were from 6/o to 10% less than at the beginning of. 1922 although Shop and Better grades were I2-L5% in excess. On the other hand orders on the books were from 70 to 150% in excess of the same date in 1922, depending upon grade. In view of these conditions plans r,vere made to produce a record volume of lumber. Spring conditions were excellent for logging, labor was plentiful and these factors together with the opening up of new operations, have resulted in the breaking of all previous oroduction recorcls. It is estimated that the total
southern Oregon (Klamath and Lake Counties) will equal 1,500,000,000 feet, an increase of 18 to 20% over L922, which was the biggest previous year. In considering this increabed production, horvever, it must be kept in mind that this region !s being called upon each year to furnish a greater volume of soft pine lumber to replace the rapidly diminishing eastern forests.
An active demand lasted well intq 1923. Construction genprally slowed up in the early summer although the 1oial demand for box lumber and common grades has continued to satisfactory volume throughout the year. This has resulted in moving that portion of the cut. Further, the principal manufacturers rvere able to meet their current obligations rvithout sacrificing their better grades.
No cai shortage of consequence developed and heavy shipments have continued throughout the year.
On December I, 1923 total stocks on hand at the larger cut this year in the pine region of California and
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mills were about 24/o greater than on the same date in L922 and upper grades only aboat 32%. It is probable that the smaller mills have generally disposed of a greater proportion of their cut although accurate statistics are not available.
In analyzing this increase it is found that the movement of lumber in 1922 rvas abnormally large and this, coupled with the materially increased production in 1923 indicates a satisfactory stock condition for the beginning of.1924. Prices have naturallv followed demand.
At the regular Monday luncheon of the Lumber Salesmen's Club of San Francisco, held at the Palace Hotel, on December 10; Ben Reed, secretary of the Lumber Association of San Francisco, was the speaker of the day and gave the Club an excellent talk on I-trmber Standardization and Salesmanship. Mr. Reed stated that the lumber salesmen should familiarize themselves with the new standardization of grades, saying that this is the newest proposition that is attracting the attention of the lumbermen all over the country today. He said that the people ard going to demand Standards and that they are going to get them because the lumber manufacturers have decided on that point. He also advised the salesmen to become better acquainted with the various Building Plan Services that are norv in use throughout the state.
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From May to November the price of Select and Better California white pine dropped approximately $8.00; Factory plank, with the exception of No. 3 Shop dropped $21.00. Sugar pine uppers dropped about $15.00 and Factory plank, $18.m. Commons on the other hand dropped about $4.00 and Pine Box, about the same.
Summarizing the situation it appears that the pine region possesses a well rounded assortment of grades, not too iarge to be easily absorbed and at prrce levels which should result in steadv and continued demand.
men's Club, congratulated the members and officers of the club on the good work they have accomplished in the two years they have been functioning, and hoped that thel' would continue to show much progress during the Nerr' Year.
The staff of "The California Lumber Merchant," acknowledges, with many thanks, the receipt of over sixty messages of Christmas cheer and New Years wishes, from California lumbermen.
Dozens of cardp and telegrams were received during Christmas week, as well as a number of gifts in the form of calendars, cigars, desk pads, gold pencils, etc.. etc.
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Scores of steamship linesr coastal, tntercoastal and world-wide, and four great railroads' serve the lnterests of Tacoma's custorners' lllustrated here ts Tacoma's great Lumber Dock-the only exclusive public lumberdock on the Pacific Coast. Its large storage captcrty and modern qurck-handling facilities are of thc. ut.o* ,.porrance tn the quick dispatch of shipments.
l'his dock, rrr addition to the many prrvare line and .o-oinr-o*n.i lu-b.. prers, all connectcd.with marn line railroads, enables practically all 'l'acoma lumber manulactur.i. to thip erther by "steel" or "keel" at u'ill'
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We- h3v9 recently installed machinery which we ar€ using exclurively for the manufactrre of C. C. Doors and C. Cl Sash. This enabler us ro give five-day service-quicker if needed.
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'fhe proposed nrerger ot'the State and the Southern California Associations will be definitely decidecl at the next meeting to be held at the association headquarters at Los Angeles, on Janaary 26th,
Mr. F. L. Morgan, secretary-treasurer of the Southern California Retail lumber Dealers Association, has the following to say in his last bulletin, sent to members on December 27th.
At a meeting of our Boarcl of Directors, December 8, th-e,proposed nrerger of tl.te tnvo associations was discuss,ed in -the ligh-t of iubsequeniinformation, including resulls of .a poll of- the membe.rship. - Decision reached was that the Presiden.t appoint a-committee to draft a plan for the 'n'orking out of such merger' President nanted Messrs. Bowers, Chapman, Fox, Hofi and Lake. It was voted then that President Fickling appoint another committee of five to rreet a similar cbmmittee of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association at Fresno, December l5th, and recommended definite action, and a joint meeting of both Boards of Directors to be called tater. The personnel of this committee was named: Bowers, Chapman, Griffen and Lake, with President Fickling himself added as ex-officio chairman, the Secretary to accompany them.
The Planning Committee outtined that:
The consolidated association have one President and one Treasurer.
That the State be divided into tu'o districts, that North of the Tehachapi to be known as the Northern District, with headquarters at San Francisco; and that South of the Tehachapi to be known as the Southern District, with headquarters at Los Angeles.
That one Vice-President and one Secretary be elected by the directors from each of these districts.
That each Secretary shall have charge of all the work irr his district.
. That present Boards of Directors continue for the current year
or until next annual election of the consolidated association to act jointly.
TLat eich of present boards shall name a committee of three as an Executive Board. --ffr"i"".tt
Vice-President shalt be chairman of the committee for his district.
fhit all matters pertaining to the special work of each districi rttati be under- the direition of such local committee' -- fftif "it matters of common or State-wide interest be cared ioi lv both executive committees in joint session with the President of the consolidated association in the chair.
- -ilJ ttt. present scale of dues of Southern California Retail Lumber Deilers' Association be retained for all yards h-aving an investment of $50,000 or less, and that yards having a larger investment pay $25 dues,each 6 months'-
Oih;; li;il in 'the plan are not particularlv pertinent at this tit"1, b"t the committei has sought to be -fair tq .all without sacrificino anwfhins this association has worked for and secured durrng ;i^d&; ;;;thi"s
during the fourteen years of its existence.
ttt" t*o c6mmittees met in Fresno December 15 and the out- the fl"e-iulmitt"a proved satisfactory to the Northern District. Some a"Lii. -i.-"irt io be completed, and it is expected that a final dc.l.ion *ilf be reached at ; joini board meeting to be called at Los Angeles for Jantary 26th' - -
ii- trt. outtome ihose of vou who have doubted the wisdom of ."".o1a"tio" at this time will find att objections futly met- and all vour interests thoroughly protected. We will sacrifice nothing we il;;;;;i;;Aeuring thi p"ti t+ years, but secure added strength and effectiveness. -- P;titi,"tt open for one high grade yard manager and one young office man who understands typewriter.
If vou have not sent check -for your next 6 months' dues -please d" ;;i ;;;. - I; the event of consolidation it will be app-tied to th";;-";g;;izatiion and adjustments, -if an{, can be made later' Wishing alt a happy aud prosperous New t*1?.
Secretary-Treasurer.1N a district not more than 500 I miles long and 150 miles wide.
^ extending from Northern California through Oregon and Washington and into southern British Columbia, and from the Pacific Ocean to the crest of the Cascade Mountains, there is contained nearly one-third of all standing timber of the United States t
Think of it I A territory but little larger in area than the $tate of Missouri containing one-third of the nation's timber. Douglas fir is the principal species of this region, forming about 70 per cent oI the stand, or about one-fourth of all the remaining tirnber in the United States.
The perfection of the Dougles fir trees in the comparatively limited areas west of the Cascade Mountains in Washington and western Oregon is due chiefly t climatic reasons. Temperature are generally mild and uniform. Whole forests are found in which
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the trees average 250 feet in height and five feet in diameter.
Longview, Washington, situated on the Columbia River, is in the midst of this great forest region.
One of the largest projects now under way in the new city is the building of the Longview docks on the Columbia River. The sinking of the piling began September 8.
The dock, in addiiton to handling miscellaneous cargo, will serve the fir mill of the Long-Bell Lumber Company now under construction. It will have berthing space of 1,800 feet and will be the heaviest type of dock, belng designed to carry 1,0fl) pounds per square foot. The dock has shipside and inshore tracks. Lumber will be handled entirely by machinery.
There will be a minimum of 35 feet of water at the face of the dock at the lowest stage of the river. Some of the largest steamships now entering the Columbia River draw only /7 feet when loaded to capacity. It will require approximately 6,300 piling of 60 feet to ll0 feet long; 4,fi)0,000 feet
hoking South on Commerce Avenue, Ilngview. of lumber; 30,000 cubic yards of rock riprap and 500,000 cubic yards of hydraulic sand to complete the dock now under construction.
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More than 1200 Odd Fellows attended the institution of Longview Lodge No. 326, L O. O. F., Decem. ber g 1Y23. Thel 'gathefingl is claimed to be the largest of its type in the history of Odd Fellowship in the Northwest. Most of the visitors were members of Washington and Oregon lodges, but nearly every state in the Union was represented.
A petition was filed with the county commissioners of Cowlitz County December 3, 1C23, by seventy residents of Longview ask- ing that the necessary steps be taken to incorporate the city. It was set forth in the petition that alhough but 1,500 population is required to justify the incorporation of a city of the third class, several times that number re.side in the suggested corporate limits of Long- view. It is probable that by early spring Longview will be a futlfledged city, functioning and oper- ating as do all cities of its class.
There is immediate need for rnany frame dwellings, 2 and Sroom type-people on the ground ready and anxious to buy moder-
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ately priced homesIow-priced building lots, with improvements in, available for builders,
Here is an independent American city where all industrial and business enterprises are welcome 'on an equal footing. Its site in the very heart of the dense Douglas fir region; on the Columbia River with its ocean-going liners; seived by three transcontinental railroads -the Northern Pacific, Union Pa- cific and Great Northern: and w-ith abundant fuel and power facilities-makes Longview an un- ixcelled tocation for lumber mills and manufacturers of logging and mill supplies.
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_ The estimated poputation of Longview on December 12 was 5,000.
I have been hearing so much of Longview I made a special trip here to see the new city, and, needless to say, I have been more than repaid because of the opportunity it has given me to see the greatest piece of development work ever undertaken.-B. B. Grere, vicepresident, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, in the Longview Daily News..
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lfhe above is a phott-rgrapl-r oi Julius Krauss, rvhtl rvill be in charge of the lumber sales of The Reclrvoocl \fanufacttlrers Co. in Los Angeles.
Julius is a r-eteran in the lumber business, having sold reclwood since 1903. The past ten years he has been rvith The Redlvood \Ianufacturers Co. u'itl-r headclttarters itr San Jose, lle is an active lt'orker in the Hoo Hoo, ancl has been a member for seventeen years.
Mr. Krauss rvill assume his nerv position on Janttary lst.
Mr. W. J. $hittier, who has been at Pittsburg rvith the Redwood \{anufacturers Co. rvill sttcceed NIr. Krarrss in tl-re Salinas \ralle-r-.
Here are some facts concerning California's redwoods that are all interesting.
The redwood (Sequoia Gigantea) is the oldest living thing on the face of the earth.
It is the largest forest tree in America.
It is found only in CaliforPia.
Year rings prove agetof some trees to four thousand years.
Year rings give accurate record of clirnatic changes during the years.
Year rings of fossilized treds furnish data clear back to middle age of the eirth's history.
The na]me Sequoia honors the Indian of the Cherokee tribe who invenied an alphabet, in 1821, for his p-eople' His tribe learned to read lnd write it, and it proved very useful commercially; in spite of its many absurditie,s'- Sequo-Yah, or George Guesi' as the white men called him, was born in an In?ian village on the present site of Tuskegee, close to old Fort London, Tennessee.
The tallest tree is 325 feet in height, and thirty-five feet in diameter.
Its trunk is bare of branches for 150 feet.
The roots of a redwood spread netlike for a great distance, but there is no taP root.
Reitwood grows at elevations of from 6,000 to 7'000 {eet'
The belt J<tends from the foot hills of the Sierras from Placer. to Tulare counties.
There are fourteen groves containing over 12,000 trees over ten feet in diameter.
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Something new under the sun in the history of shipping has been created with the establishment of the first regular Round-the-World passenger service on the globe by the Dollar Steamship Line. A fleet of seven 522-type "President" liners have been purchased from the government to rnaintain the American merchant marine on the seas under private ownership. The venture is one of the pioneering enierp.ires in maritime annals which takes its place with the epochal achievements of Morse in telegraphy, Bell in telephones, Wright Brothers in airplanes and Edison in electricity.
The new service will circle the globe in lI2 days, calling at 21 ports in 12 countries and touching five continents' A ,egular sailing every two weeks rvill be made from New YJrk, Boston' San Francisco and Los Angeles' The ports of call on the globe girdling voyage include Honolulu' Kobe, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore' Penang' Colombo, Suez, Port Said, Alexandria, Naples, Genoa' Marseilles, Havana, Colon and Balboa'
TheinitialsailingsintheRound-the-Worldservicewill be the President Harrison, January 5, from San Francisco and the President Adams, February 7, from New York' The government built liners are peculiarly adapted for a tour of the world. The vessels have a displacement tonnage of 21,000 tons and provide every modern comfort for travel bY water.
Provision is made for a go-as-you-please itinerary around
the world by liberal stop-overs at any of the ports in order to give opportunity to visit all of the interesting places in all iands. The identical accommodations can be obtained for the entire voyage on any of the liners which are
sister ships. This exceptional service provides the conveniences of the private yacht for travelers'
The vessels were built by the government to handle large cargoes of fast freight and the nerv service will provide shipping facilities from all ports of call in the tour of the world.
Besides the President Harrison and the President Adams the vessels of the fleet include the President Hayes, President Polk, President Garfield, President Monroe and President Van Buren.
R. Stanley Dollar, vice president of the company, has written a new page in maritime annals through the courage of realizing the vision that will keep the American flag in a prominent position on the seas' r
Mcfntosh, Cowan & Company, certified public accountants, with offices at Seattle and Portland, and who are well known to Pacific Coast lumbermen, .have arranged for the openihg of an office at Los Angeles.
Mr. John G. Mclntosh,'one of the partners, has been in California for several weeks past, on one of his frequent business trips, and he states that a steady growth oi the firms praclice, especially in and about Los-Aigeles, during the past four years, has convinced him of thi wisdom o-f establishing a permanent office in Sciuthern California.
The firm has secured temporary quarters at 810 Loew,s State Bldg., and Mr. Huber F. Wise, who has beeri its Los Angeles representative for some time will continue in that capacity.
This company has for many years specialized in the lum_ ber infustry in income taxes, general iccounting and audit- ing. "Probably more than fifty per cent of thi public accountants work during the past five years has arisen from the Federal income and excess^profits tax laws,,, says Mr. Mclntosh. "Especially amongst timber-owning and-manufacturing lumber companies, it has in many- cases been necessary to analyze and revise property, capital and sur_ plus accounts from the beginning, in order to develop a proper shoy',ing to the Go.yernment with respect to invejted capit-al depletion and depreciation. Not many companies had kept their accounts in a manner that would do them justice under the requirements of the Revenue Act of l91Z
and 1918. However, the taxes for the year !917 and 1918, are now pretty well settled, and the basis determined for those years will govern the adjustment of taxes fdi?ub_ sequent years."
"The discontlnuance of the complicated excess-profits tax has eliminated the most serious of taxpayers difficultier, "na he will never have less urgent need of ihe accountants assistance in tax matters unless a new excess profits should be imposed."
_t_ Mt. EJmore King, of the King Lumber Company, Kern County, and more particulady noted aS the man who succeeded in taking the title of ,.the best dressed lumberman in California" from Gus Russell. is celebrating the birth of Miss Rae King, born in San Francisco on January lst. iVlrs. King-and the new baby are doing fine.
Mr. and Mrs. King are making their home in San F'rancisco for the winter, and Mr. King is expected in Los Angeles the latter part of the month, to make a short visit.
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December 3I,1923.
Lumberman,
H"ppy New Year you bullet head son of a lumberjack. Am sitting on top of the world and as far as I am concirned there is room for you; am hoisting two to you. Ever your friend, PETER B. KYNE.
January 2,1924.
Edward F. Adams, for nine years affiliated with White Brothers, hardwood lirmber dealers of San Francisco, is now connected with Allan Turner and will act as his representative in the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valley territories. Mr. Adams covered this territory for White Brothers for over three years and he is well known to the retail lumber trade in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley sections.
Mr. Adams has been working recently in the mill and sheds of the Coos Bay Lumber Co. in order that he might familiarize himself rvilh the practical side of the douglas fir business. He is an experienced lumberman and extremely well liked by the lumber trade of Northern California and his many friends are rvishing him suc.cess in his new position. IVit. Ad"-. has moved his' family to Stockton, where he will make his headquarters, and he will work the valley territory from this Point.
Peter B. Kyne, Btiarcliff Lodge, Bfiarcliff Manor, N. Y.
Shove over you wild Irishman, because Gus and myself both like that sort of seats, your Nerv Year wire brought keen recollections of our trip a year ago; heres hoping we soon have anothei with that dear silvgr tip for chaperone; I wish you an ulcerless and glandfut New Year, and likewise threaten yott with a letter soon; may your shadow never grow thicker nor vour spirit thinner; your friehd, TACK DIONNE.
The Miller Box Manufacturing Company, headed U^y St' Milton Metzler, and controlling the Miller Lumber & tsox Coap"t y, at Los Angeles, is ofiering a milling service to tn. So"itt"rn Californ'ia trade, that should prove of great convenience.
This company is advertising that they undertake to do mill work "f "it t ittas; surfa-ing, resawing, sanding and ""y "ttt.t kinds of general milhvork, in any quantity' Carload or less. - ft .y are ofiering this service to the retail and wholesale lumber trade onlY.
are the only dry shingles you can ii bry that successfully compete and compare with green shingles. They 3I9 guaranteed 80 per cent or more Edgegrain. AII 3 inches and wider. Re-pressed before shipment.
and qbooe all qre
Jl.v help land many g competitive bitl bv their quality. Many prosperous yarda harrdle them .*"i*ir"ly. -
There will be a meeting of the Consulting Committee on ,Lumber Standards at the Congress llotel, Chicago, on January 22-23, beginning at 10 a. m. There will also be a meeting of the representltives of the manu{acturers' grguP who ari memberJof the Consulting Committee on Lumber Standards at the same place, on lantary 21,
At the above two meetings, the following matters will be considered n'ith a view to the formulation of recommendations:
Odd and Short Length Lumber, Basic Yard Lumber Grades, Rough Dry Yard Lumber Sizes, Mouldings, Use of car cards, Grade Marking of Lumber, Shingles (possibly). Shipping weights for lumber, and such recommendations with respect to procedure in shop and factory lumber as may be possible in advance of the completion by the United States Forest Products Laboratory of its investigation now under way.
Mr. W. W. Whitson, proprietor of the Hillcrest Lumber Company, of San Diego, and also interested in various other enterprises in the southern part of the state, has been in Los Angeles for the past ferv days, attending to business matters.
Mr. Whitson is one of the pioneers in the game in this state, and is knorvn by a great number of lumbermen.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 10.-The ninth annual meeting of the Southern Pine Association, comprising leading lumber manufacturers in ten Southern States, will be held in New Orleans, March 11 and 12next, Secretary-Manager H' C. Berckes announced Saturday. The sessions will be held in the convention hall on the twelfth floor of Hotel Roosevelt.
On March 10, the day preceeding the opening of the subscribers' convention, there will be a session of the board of directors of the Association and various committee and special meetings to consider particular phases of the Association's activities and problems afiecting the Southern pine industry.
A number of noted speakers of national reputation have been invited to address the pine manufacturers' convention and the program for the two days' sessions will be announced later.
Robert C. Parker, manager of the Portland office of the E. K. Wood Lumber Co., was a recent visitor at the company's San Francisco office. Mr. Parker came down to 3pe"a the Christmas holidays with hi! relatives who re' side across the Bay, and after spending a few days on business matters, he will return to the Northwest soon after the New Year.
Mr. Earl Hoffman, of the Earl Hoffman Company, Los Angeles, has returned from a two-weeks' hunting trip to the Imperial Valley.
He reports that there is large number of ducks, mostly spoon-bills in the valley, and that it is no trouble to bag the limit. in a short time.
He and Mrs. Hoffman spent New Years at Calexico, and sav that thev had a wonderful time.
Many men talk big about what they can do tomorrour who are somewhat reticent about what they did yesterday.
^A,ll the Man-Power and Resourcer of our Organization have been thrown behind thir one idea.
We rvant you to feel when yotr have given an order for "Wbitney Sto&" yqur wotricr i! far ac that ordcr ir ccrcerned, rre cD&d.
"Whitney" ir not only a Trade Mark-it is also a Grade Mark.
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We arc rcprcrentcd in California exclurively by
Dougl$ 9354-9355
-Except on a basis of mutual confidence and underptanding.
-A basis of continual effort on our part to make every transaction satigfactory to you<ven if not profitable to us.
-We have equipped our organization with men who beIieve ar we deand we prolrcse to rise or fall on this plan.
-Therefore we can rafely ray-
I HEREBY RESOLVE: That during the coming year I will endeavor to learn and to utilize the limitless poasibilities o f that most wonderfrrl of all times-TODAY. . That I will cling less strenuously lhan in the past to tihe nothingness of thbse two great eternities-YEsTERDAY and TOMORROW. That I will know during this year that sufficient unto each day is the GOOD -NOT'the evil-thereof: That I will make it my life's business to crowd just as mugh optimismr just a8 much happiness, just ar much sunEhine, just as much well-done work, just ar much of the Golden Rule, just as much of that Spirit t{rat was in the Man of Galilee-into each TODAY, as my best efforts will permit. And I RESOLVE to think, and do, and woik, and journey, just ONE DAY it a time; to SMILE-LM-LAUGHand-LOVE-TOD^A,Y.
.You can't fit poorly side and end matched flooring with a crowbar, no matter how much you force it.
The importance of perfectly matched flooring is recogniled in Bruce manufacture. That's why tests are made, right at the machine, by expert workmen every few minutes-without exaggeration from twelve to twenty times every working hour.
money to- make perfect flooring, but your are saved money when they lay it, and your reputation for handling only _ the best oak flooring is worth-money to you.
Your customers, floor-layers and contractors have found by experience lhat Bruce Oak Flooring -,,LAYS EASILY.'
Frequent inrpection ir thc rccrct of eccuratc Bruce natching
Orlr- service department will co-operate wrrn you tn preparlng: sales letters and llterature, and ln providlng: cuts, ads, movte suatea end other materlal. Wrlte for apeclal aales plan.
E. L. Bruce Compeny
Olin L. Russum, of Stockton, representative for Chas. R. McCormick & Co., in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley territories, spent several days in San Francisco around the first of the vear. He had several business conferences with Ed. Garlind, manager of the rail department of Chas. R. McCormick & Co., while he was in the Bay District.
T. D. Phillips, well knou,n Northrvest lumberman and manager of the Superior Log and Spar Co., of Onalaska, Washington, wa.s a recent San Francisco visitor where he spent several days calling on his lumbermen friends in the Bay District. He was enroute to Texas, where he spent the holidays with relatives. He contemplates returning to the Northwesd by way of Kansas City and St. Louis.
R. R. Pattison, Los Angeles representative of the California and Oregon Lumber Co., was a San Francisco visitor over the holidays. In addition to attending to general business matters, he also spent a few days calling on the lumber trade in the Bay District. Before taking over the Southern California territory, he represented the California and Oregon Lumber Co. in the San Francisco District, and is well known by the lumber fraternity of the Bay Cities territorv.
Chas. W. Seffens, manager of the mill operations of the E. J. Dodge Company, redwood operators of Newburg, was a recent San Francisco visitor at the offices of the E. J. Dodge Company where he spent several days going over business matters with the officials of the company. Mr. Seffens states that the redwood industry of Humboldt County is in excellent condition and that the redwood operators in his section are looking forward for a big redwood demand during 1924.
The many friends of Fred Hamlin, the well known San Francisco lumberman, are glad to know that he is back at his desk again after being confined to his home for over two weeks on account of,sickness. Fred is now convalescing nicely and in a few days hopes to be able to make one of his regular trips over his territory.
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The Initiative Petition, in the anti-wooden shingle matter at Berkeley, said to be the largest document of its kind ever to be filed in this city, was presented to the City Clerk of Berkeley recently by Mrs. Sophie Runckel, a Berkeley civic worker, and manager of the campaign for signatures.
X{iss Emma Hann, City Clerk of Berkeley is shown receiving the petition, which contained over 5,000 signatures.
Mr. R. F. Throm, formerly interested in the Inglewood Lumber Company, and until the first of the year connected with Mr. Walter R. Fifer, L,os Angeles wholesaler, has severed his connections with Mr. Fifer and will embark in another line of business.
The West Coast. turnbermen's Association weekly reports on production, orders and shipments, for the past four years, are as follows:
From the above it will be observed:
Production for 1923 was L9.76 per cent greater than for the year 1922;88.42 per cent greater tfian in 1921 ; and 37.42 per cent greater than for the year 192O. Orders for 1923 were 25.45 per cent greater than for the^year 1922;80.78 per cent greater than in I92l; and 79.98 per cent greater than foi the year 1920.
- Shipments for 1923 rvere 30.63 per cent greater than for the year 1922; 89.3.5 per cent greater tian in lgZl; and 58.88 pei cent greater than for the year I92O..
Ed. Garland, R. McCormick his work after a severe attack
manager of the rail department of the Chas. Lumber Co., San Francisco, has resumed being confined to his home for a week with of tonsilitis.
The Sunkist Lumber Company, a retail organization recently formed by Kurz and Hatharvay, trvo gentlemen formerly from Colorado, has opened for business at Monrovia.
You can bank on this-Pioneer Roofings and Shingles always give perfect satisfaction.
Mason'Kline, superintendent of the St. Ifelens Creosoting Co., of St. Helens, Oregon, is a visitor at the San Francisco office of Chas. R. McCormick & Co., where he spent several days 4ttending to business matters. He is leaving shortly for Kansas City, where he u'ill represent the St. Ifelens Creosoting Co., at the annual conventions of the National Tie Producers' Association and the American Wood Preservers' Association. Mr. Kline, on his return to the Pacific Coast, will be connected with the San Francisco office of Chas. R. McCormick & Co., and will act as the traveling representative of the St. Helens Creosoting Co. The St. Helens Creosoting Co. is a subsidiary company of Chas. R. McCormick & Co.
Alec Page, well known Portland lumberman and representative of the Tyee Rhodes Sawing Method on the Pacific Coast, is a California visitor and is at present in Los Angeles. While in the south, he will also cover other Southern California points and will get as far south as San Diego. This is his first trip to Los Angeles in ten years and he says that he is amazed at the wonderful growth of the Southern metropolis. Before he returns to his Portland headquarters, he will spend about two weeks in San Fran-
cisco and the various other lumber centers of Northern California. Alec reports that the lumber industry in the Northwest is in prosperous condition and that the lumbermen of that section are looking forward for a bigylumber demand during 1924.
A certified copy of articles of incorporation bf the Merner Lumber company, transmitted from the secretary of statq, has been filed, the document setting out that the co4loration is formed for the purpose of erecting and maintaining buildings and yards and to purchase and sell lumber, building materials and property of all kinds, with its principal place of business in the city of Palo Alto, and to have a capital stock of $100,000, divided into 1000 shares of the par value of $100 each. The following are the directors named for the first year: Paul M. P. Merner, Garfield D. Merner and Delight Ward Merner, all residents of the state of California.
The'Bloedel Donovan mills, represented in Southern California by Mr. Robert Forgie, have chartered the wooden steamer "George Olson," and will put her in service to the Los Angeles Harbor.
This company also operates the Whitney Olson.
At a recent Hoo Hoo meeting, in Los Angeles, the question.was brought up as to the feasibility of the Los Angeles lumbermen, both retail and rvholesale, getting together in a move to either lease suitable quarters, or to erect a building, that would take care of the down town offices of. all of the companies, and also provide a meeting place for the Eloo Hoo Club, and other organizations of lumber and mill men, in the southern part of the state.
After much discussion, a committee of seven was appointed by Mr. H. L. Rosenberg, and these men were asked to go into the matter fully and report at a later meeting.
The committee consists of : Curtis Williams, chairman ; David Woodhead, B. W. Bookstaver, Fred E. Golding, C. S. Estes, A. L. Hoover, and Phil B. Hart.
Tom Watts, of Brighton, Oregon, manager of the Brighton Mills Co., was a Bay District visitor during the holiday season. While in San Francisco, he lvas a caller at the offices of the Wendling-Nathan Company to see his old friends, M. L. Euphrat and Roy Hills, and he also called at the offices of Chas. R. McCormick & Co. to visit'with Ed. Garland.
"Enclosed please find check for one years subscription to the Lumber Merchant, and please send it to my house. Our office copy is so much in demand that it is almost impossible to locate it for a week after it is received."
%Chas. R. McCormick & Co., Los Angeles.
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By special attention to selectiotr of lumber aad careful and scieatiic sawing and seasoaing, flmring ig produccd which is practically pcr. fect, raving fully two. thirds of thc time usu- ally required for acrap. ping and saading.
AII thin f,ooring lunbcr is. sawcd to sizc while GRBEN, giving uniform moisturc coatcat. botb sides. Tbis, tocctbcr s'ith thc care ugid in seasoning, drying, aelcc- tion and grading, in. sures pcrfect floora.
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Mr. H. J. (Andy) Anderson, head of the H. J. Anderson Lumber Company, of Portland, was in Southern California for several days, last rveek. He left Los Angeles on the l1th, intending to stop at San Francisco for a short visit, before returning to Portland.
Mr. Anderson in commenting on conditions in the north, and particularly around Portland, made the prediction that prices were due for a jump very soon, and that alleady many itenrs had been affected, mainly account of the continueil cold weather, and the inability of the mills to resume cutting.
He said that slash uppers were very scarce, and much in demand. This has been caused by the large amount of car
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material orders that have been placed in the last few weeks.
The H. J. Anderson Lumber Company is an old institution in the northwest, and is well and favorably known all along the coast.
Mr. A. O. Nelson, formerly Los Angeles manager {of the Santa Fe Lumber Company, and for many years identified with the lumber industiy on the Pacific Coast, has opengd offices in the Central Building, Los Angeles, as the A. O. Nelson Company.
He is haniling a general wholesale line, lumber, lath, shingles, etc., aid ainounces that he will be in a position to ofier stocks both for rail and cargo shipment.
Washington, Jan.8.-The Census Bureau of the pepgtment of Clommirce is urging cooperation of all lumber manufacturing associationi and individual manufacturers in procurins a p-rompt return of manufacturing sihedules for ihe calentat veari923. The forms were mailed by the Bureau to manufacturers on January Znd, and the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association has sent to the regional manufacturing associations a request that they cirialarize their members in behalf of prompt reply.
The Director of the Census is very anxious to publish the statistics at the earliest possible date, and recipients- of the blanks are urgently requlsted to make their reports !efore the end of Jinuary,-and the sooner the better' The Bureau promisei to publish the lumber totals within a few days after the receipt of the last report.
th" C.tt.rt Buriau has been viry helpful to the lumber industry, and the prompt return- of the schedules gives the industry an opportunity to reciprocate.
Mr. T. E. Whitmer, head of the Whitmer Jackson Comoanv. of Albuquerque, N. M., is on his way East, *!t9{' he is'to attend a meeting of the Board of Directors of his company. ffl witt return about the first of March, and is expected to spend a few days in Los Angeles before going back to Albuquerque.
i NEW YARD AT ROSCOE
I \ Strub. and Sweet recently opened a new retail yard at Roscoe.
James G. McNary, president of the First National Bank of El Paso, is to be honored by a change in the name of Cooley to "McNary." Cooley is a part of the property of the Cady Lumber Company of Louisiana, with which Mr. McNary is associated. It wasl acquired about a month ago from Los Angeles banking interests that had represented Tom Pollock of Flagstaff, who had there built a great sawmill with a railway line connecting it with Holbrook and the Santa Fe.
The original name of the townsite was that of an old Indian scout, long a resident of the locality, C. E. Cooley. While he participated in many erlgagements with Indians, finally settling down rvith an Indian wife, he best is remembered for a card game in rvhich he won an Arizona valley. His opponent, l\{arion Clark, had said "Show low and you take the ranch." Cooley shorved low, and the valley, now with an important tor.ttn, since has been knorvn as "Show Low."
Philip Buehner and Henry Buehner, of Portland, Oregon. were recent visitors in San Francisco rvhere they spent a few days calling on Allan Turner, the well known San Francisco lumberman. They were on their way to the Northwest, after spending several lveeks in New York on business. Mr. Philip Buehner was formerly owner of the Buehner Lumber Co. at Marshfield, Oregon.
Mr. Albert A. F'rost, manager of the Frost Hardwood Company, and the San Diego Lumber Company, at San Diego, provided a splendid Christmas treat for his employees last month, in the form of a banquet and entertainment, held at one of the San Diego cafes, on Dec.22nd..
A variety of talent furnished the entertainment f6r the evening, and Mr. Frost took the opportunity to thank the forces of both concerns for their support and loyalty.
In a deal recently consummated the E. J. Dodge Lumber Company became the owner of a large tract of virgin redwood timber on Howe Creek. The tract contains a hundred million feet of lumber, (and is situated three quarters of a mile south of the lVletropolitan mill.)
In order to log the tract it is planned to construct a threemile railroad, including a bridge over the Eeel River. This will connect the tract with the Northwestern Pacific tracks at the Dinsmore's switch.
Work will begin early in the spring both in building the railroads and chopping in the newlv acquired holding of the company.
The E. J. Dodge l-unber company has been operating in this vicinity for approximately forty years.
At present it ernploys one hundred men in the mill and another hundred in the logging operations.
IAt the luncheon of the Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9, held at the Palace Hotel on December D, Earle G. Linsley, professor of Astronomy at Mills College and Director of the Chabot Observatory, gave an excellent stereoptican lecture on the subject, "Why Is An Astronomer?" Mr. Linsley was introduced to the gathering by his old pal and friend, Rod Hendrickson, who paid Mr. Linsley a very fine tribute. With the aid of the stereoptican views, Mr. Linsley showed some excellent viervs of the moon, comets planets, stars, and constellations, and in his easy manner explained in an enjoyable way many interesting things regarding astronomy. After his excellent address, he rvas extended a vote of thanks by the club.
A. B. Wastell rvas the rvinner of the first attendance prize, rvhich rvas a beautiful model redrvood house, donated by the Redwood Sales Company, The second attendance prize, a box of cigars, was won by R. E. Carnahan.
"Ted" Lawrence, of the Hart-Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, made a few remarks regarding the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club and also advised that they had two Hoo-Hoo ball teams in Los Angeles, wholesalers and retailers, Bert Neylan, chairman of the Athletic Committee, was very much interested in his remarks and from present indications there is possibility that the Los Angeles and San Francisco Hpo-Hoo ball teams lvill cross bats at some future date.
A. B. Wastell, read the following resolution. which rvas passed by a unanimous vote of the Club.
WHEREAS; Great financial disaster has recently overtaken one of the great industrialists of this age; and believing that the difficulties that have beset his path have been due to circumstances and conditions entirely beyond his control; and further believing that this great character is wort-hy of our continued confidence and esteem:
BE IT RESOLVED: That Hoo-Hoo Club NINE at meeting assembled this twenty-seventh day of December, 1923 hereby extends its heartfelt sympathy and expresses its complete confidence in the Honorable Andrew Gump, the erstwhile president of .the Combination Hair Brush and Mirror Company, and that we wish him and his devoted wife Min and little Chester; Health, happiness and Long Life, with a return of Prosperity in the New Year, and also commend uncle Bim Gump for bringing to their cheerless household all the joy of Christmas through his wise use of that Austratian Bank Roll in scattering sunshine, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That we do hereby denounce the unethical methods and dastardly action of J. Ambrose Hepwingin wrecking the fortune of said Andy Gump and recommend that he be apprehended forthwith and turned over to the custody of the State Prison Board and Governor Richardson for punishment that shall be agreed upon by these harmonious agencies, and
BE IT STILL FURTHER RESOLVED: That the carrying out and execution of this Resolution be referred for action to the COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS of this Club, of which Gus Russell is Chairman, in conjunc- tion with the League of Nations.
After the resolution rvas passed, President R. A. Hiscox, advised that any one present who wished to contribute to this worthy cause that their donations would be greatfully received. Walter Madill and Bert Neylan, who were evidently grieved at the financial distress of their good friend Andy Gump, each contributed the sum of one dollar. Frank Harris. of the \ian''Arsdale-Harris Ltrmber Co. and
January 15, 192,4
a member of the San Francisco Board of Education, was appointed chairman of the first meeting in January. The seCond January meeting will be in charge of Milton Hendrickson and A. M. S. Pierce.
Secretary John C. McCabe read a letter from the Twin City Hoo-iloo Club, rvhich extended the greetings of the sealon. Bob Gehring and C. J. Carroll, at the piano and banjo firrnished some excellent music during the meeting, and'Mr. Carroll, accompanied by Mr. Gehring, sang several popular songs. The meeting'\\'as largely attended.
Thc Season brings but thc opportunity for me to exprcss the thoughts which have made mc rejoice throughout the year.
The krowlcdge. that in our mutual devotion to our cause tpe havc welded stronger the bond, of friendship which is ours. And let me rish for you this Christmas that great joy come to you and yours and that the New Year bring you Health, Happiness and PlentY.
HENRY.R. ISHERWOOD
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Mr. H. E. Verble, Snark of the, Fresno District, advises that they will hold a large Concatenation on the 19th of January.
This is the date of the San Joaquin Valley Lumbermens Club meeting, and they will make a joint affair, by holding the Hoo-Hoo meeting in the evening. This district also plan to Concat some time in May. the date to be announced later.
Vicegerant Snark, H. L. Rosenberg, of the I-os Angeles ' District, has his forces all lined up, and pepped-up, to make the coming Concatenation, to be held Februarf 19th, one of the largest in Hoo-Hoo history, and one to. be long remembered by all who attend.
This affair will take place the week of the Annual Institute of the Western Retail Lumbermens' Association, when there will be between five hundred and a thousand visiting lumbermen in Los Angeles, and the ceremonies are being arranged as a part of the ente;tainment for the visiting members. and initiates.
A committee on membership, headed by Phil B. Hart, of "California Lumber Merchant," is already at work. They rvill call upon various of the retail and wholesale companies in the southern part of the state, rvith the idea of interesting men who are eligible, to become a member and receive the benefits of the order.
It is anticipated that there will be over a hundred kittens, and probabll' a like number of re-instatements'
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A fellow who advertised for a wife,got one, and was divorced in four weeks, says that he is convinced advertising brings results, but is not dead certain that it really pays.
Louis Gerlinger. Jr., well knor,r'n Portland lumberman and manager of the Gerlinger Lumber Co., is a California visitor. On his way south, he spent a short time in San Francisco where he talked over business matters with Allan Turner, his California representative. He then left for Southern California, .ivhere he rvill spend some time looking over conditions in the Los Angeles market.
Charles R. NfcCormick. Jr., who is attending school at Santa Barbara,'is spending the Christmas and-New year holidays with his father, Charles R. McCormick of San Francisco. While in San Francisco he was a visitor at the offices of Charles R. IlcCormick & Co., where he inspectecl the nelv offices of the company in the Matson Building. He will return to his studies again soon after the Neiv Year.
Miss Leona Perkins,.t 8ffJ*. McCormick & Co., San Francisco, has returned from a weeks' visit to St. Helens, O-regon, wlrerg she attended a family reunion during the Christmas holidays. She-'reported a wonderful visii and stated that it was the first iime in twelve years that afl the members of the family were together bn Christmas ,Day:,' Miss Perkins is a sister-inlai'6T Mr. H. McCoimick, gener"l -"r"g.r jlllu Jt. J:l.rs Lumber Co.
A. J. Russell, manager of the Santa Fe Lumber Co.. San Francisco, advises that he had a strange coincident happen Christmas morning. He received two wires extending ihe greetings of the season which arrived at the Oakland Western lJnion office at exactly the same time and both wires were delivered at his honie by the same boy. The *ir.. were received from Peter B. Kyne, the popular writer. w_hose plese{ address is Briar Clifi Lodg-e, , Briarclifi Manor, New York, and Jack Dionne who was" spending the Christmas holidays at Houston, Texas.
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fl894T SOUTH II)S ANGELES HOOrren STREET CALIFORNIA
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TO LUMBER YARTXi HANDLING
. WALLBOA'RD:
Thc Brininrtool C.a. havc pcrfoctcd in thcir "SANA'A' COTE BLENDE" r 6nirh for two coetr for wrllboerd thrt ir unrurprrcd for beruty ud cconony, 3iving r hi3h gradc wallprpcr colored blcndc cffcct.
Sample pattcrnt on wellborrd will bc aledly furnirhcd on epplicatio4.
Thrt your *atlbdard ralcr will bc incrcucd by rhowing thcrc ramplcc- hu bccn prov.D bt othcr dcdarr.
9O8 S. Main St.
LOS ANGELES
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lc an organization wit'h: the Facilities; the Stock; and'the Spirit; to render a sel\rice on our productr ttat ir fart bringing ur in a clasr among the leederr.
Berider our enormour Sarh and Door burrnerr we are jobbcre'for the famour'
Beats-all Leather Mats ond
M cDougall Kitchen Cabinets
0tficec 2924-2026 Bay Strcet New
Advcrtiring thc Spccbftio
As Done by the erarldcn Crrove Lumbcr C.o.
We have in stock a Dandy Medicine Cabinet for $7.50. This has a large Plate Glass Mlrror Door. Adjustable shelves, nickle plated hinges and Latch.
It is very finely finished, will either hang on your wall or set in the wall.
All kinde and all prices of Rubber Roo6ng.
A good Ironing Board, strongly made, a wide and narrorv sleeve. board in it, for $7.00. We have them here and invite you to call and see them.
Doors, \Vindowe and Screen Doors always in stock.
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PHTLIPPINE FOREST Showing
LARGE MA}IOGA}TYTREE
DcltinGd to Makc
FINE FINISH LIMBER
For WESTERN }IARDWOOD LUMBER COMPANY
rfHE past six months have demonstrated another pracI ticalieatureof BALSAM-WOOL. It sells. From the very start, dealers' stocks have been moving. Sales predictions of a year ago are facts today.
BALSAM-WOOL has already proved itself a live prop' osition for the trade. Unlike the ordinary run of new building specialties it sold from the start. Home-builders, carpenters and contractors are taking to it faster than they have to any other insulating material. If BALSAM'WOOL has proved itself profitable for the retailer in its first year, surely today it deserves the attention of every live dealer who wants to increase his volume and profits.
In one middle western territory with a radius of fifty miles,46 dealers stocked BALsAM-wool. A check. up amon$st these dealers after theyhad been han' dlin8 BAIJAM-WOOL on an avera$e of three months showed that42dealers out of the 46 made sales amountin$ to about 4M ol theiroriSinal orders.Ten of these dealers had sold out their first orders entirely and were deliverinS from re' orders. One dealer delivered 8,(X)0 feet on one house remodelinSiob alone; the customer liking saLsAM -wool. so well that he pu! it on double and used it in newpartitions as a sound deadener.Anothei dealer's sales amounted to 30,0fi) feet, most of which went into remodel' ing, roof insulation and odd'time iobs.
Ot there 46 dealere only nine had ever sold or ctooked ineulation before they put iD BAISAM ' woou Coneiderint that moet ol theae deelers did not order until thc buildint eeason wac proctioally ovcr, this reoord ic very inter€stin$.
TheWood Conversion Company's offer to dealers is iust as fair and sensible as it wae a year ago. They want your first order to be a emall one. They are interested more in your sales than they are in their orders. They will show you how to sell BALSAM.WOOL and will furnish you with iested sales helps without charge.
BALSAM-WOOL will make an ideal addition to your stock. For a small inveetment you can put in a stock that will take care of any iob. BALSAM.WOOL costs little to handle and stock. Every home'builder, home-owner and farmer is a prospective customer. BALSAM'WOOL profits arc additional profits. BALSAM-WOOL does not dieplace nor does it compete with other items of yard stock. And besides, BALSAM-WOOL will make friends for you, every time you sell a roll.
Youwill find in your dealings with the Wood Conversion Company, who manufacture BALSAM'WOOL, the sams spirii of iair dealing and the same business integrity that has characterized this or$anization through sixty'five years of successfully serving the retail trade.
Sample, prices and complete information on BALSAM' WOOLmay be secured by addressing the Wgg-d Qonversion Co., Ciloquet, Minn., or through our local district rep' resentatives, or by mail addressed to our nearest branch office,
Slbley Lunber Co., Detroit, 
Oentlernen:
attentlon lir. F. ll. slbley.
We were lnfotr€A by the Wooil Conver8ton Co. tbat you w€re conslalellng taklng on Bal.salr Wool InFu1atlon anil tbey hay€ aiketl us to alrop you a 1lne glvlng our elpertoDo€ slnoo hanalllng thts rnaterlal.
We neke lt e practlce never to illnrlge the voluro of our salea to anyoner but can aaaur€ you lt hae b€eD e wlDne!. We have been succee8ful ln getting tbls partloular naterlal speclfl€d ln nany Job6. anii at the prescnt ere A6llvsrlng 40,000 feet on one Job.whloh la a oonaoryq,tory ot nuelo. 0f oourse the prfiaary u66 1n thl6 partloular ,6b 18 for deadenlng. Iie8t as8ured we net the f1€14 and wou out.
lhe contractors who have used Balssr! Wool all llko lt beoause 1t ls nloe clean natorlal to hanille anal i€ qulokcr to epply than other lnsulatlon naterlal on the narket.
!!o!0 the d€alel8 polnt of view it oan be naile a gooal noney rnaker ag the rnrgln 1s what se oall l1bera1 antt a oarload oan be unloaded ln a Jlffy. Our Dethoa of etorlag may not eraotly flt your 1ay out but we $111 it€ectlbe 1t nevertheless. Salsan Wool le very llght eo ne havs bul1t oeveral deoklngs 8 ft. hlgh over h18b blns for thls Eaterlal, lrntt below we Btot6 the heavy aaphalt th1n81€8.
Any speclflo questlons you.tnay weat to ast, ta will i)i frsnk ln anarering.
vory tnrly your8, SISIN!'AN IUIIBER. sJs/ccc.
The following figures from an authoritive sorlrce on the lumber industry of Canada. are interesting:
R. F. Hammatt. secretarv of the California Redwood Association and in charge of ihe initiative petition requesting the adoption of the new roofing ordinance in the city of Berkeley, states that the fourteen verification deputies who are circulating the petition in Berkeley have already secured over 3500 signatures, and that he hopes to receive at least 4500 signatures before the petition is presented to the City Council. 19,14 signatures are necessary to bring the matter before the City Council. Mr. Hammatt reports that approximately 90 per cent of the voters of Berketrey, who have been approached to-date, have signed the petition.
The initiative petition for the new ordinance will be filed during the later part of January. The City Council has twenty days in which to adopt the new ordinance.' If the Council fails to adopt the nerl' ordinance within the time required by the law, they will have to set a date for a special election within 25 days after the date of filing.
The source of these figures gave them as a means of showing the rapid destruction of the Canadian forests. It would seemi howe'r'er, that the production of lumber. ancl other commercial rvood products is just 7,000,000,000 feet, or less than one-third of the annual destruction, and only a little more than half of the destruction by fire bnd insects.
Mr, S. A. Overholtzer, for many years manager and part o\\'ner of the I-a Verne Lumber Company, at La Verne. has sold his interests in the company.
Mr. R. J. Dahlem, formerly connected rvith the Charter Oak Fruit Association. succeeds Mr. Overholtzer.
Catholic school 'erected in 18/0 noat being dismantled for its sound Rcdanood l*mber.
Mr. Howard Curran, of the Wilfred T. Cooper Lumber Cbmpany, Los Angeles, was married at Rutherford, on December 3lst, to Miss Elizabeth Doak, of that city.
The happy couple spent their honeymoon on a motor trip for ten days through the northern part of the state. and returned to l-,os Angeles last week, where they will make their home.
Mr. Curran is the son of Mr. Frank Curran, general manag'er for the E. K. Wood Lumber Company, at Los Angeles.
ETIFTY-THREE
A compilation of lumber and building figures at Los Angeles, for the year 1923, reveals.some interesting and record breaking figures.
During 1923 l7X) cargoes rvere reportecl at San Pedro.
Their capacity, inclucling both fir and redrvood rvas: 2,122,885,0N feet.
Fourteen hundred and eighteen of them carriecl fir, the balance redlvood,
In the year 1903, 2tl3 cargoes arrived at this port.
In twenty years, the gain rvas 1507 boats, about 4l per day, for the year.
In 1903, thirty million feet came into San Pedro, compared rvith over TWO BILLION FEET tor 1923.
The December arrivals carried 153,300,000 feet of fir and redwood, in 12I boats.
'Ihe 1923 building permits in Los Angeles called for 24,362 drvellings, o,*er 6fi/o of rvhich rvere all frame construction.
Mt. J. Fred Barg, secretary of the Hart-Wood f,umber Company, with headquarters at San Francisco, spent a ferv days last week in Los Angeles. rvith Mr. Ted Lawrence, T,os Angeles mauager for the Hart-Wood Lumber Company.
Ambitious salesq'ornan now in building field, ex-rnagazine writer, seeks opening rvhere rvriting and executive ability will be of valrte. Address : 13ox 37, care California Lumber Merchant.
The Northu'estern Redwood Company, with main offices in the Southern Pacific Building, San Francisco, has announcecl the appointment of the A' W. Smith Lumber Company, of Los Angeles as their Southern California representatives. The A. W. Smith Lumber Company wi.[l have the exclusive agency for the Northwestern, in Southl ern California and Arizona.
Mr. A. W. (Bates) Smith, formerly of the wholesale firm of Hooper & Smith, Los Angeles, is the head of the new company operating as the A. W. Smith Lumber Company. Bisides redwoo-d they handle fir and other lumber products.
(Here is one that was told in the lumber woods of the North, when, as a kid, I used to visit the lumber camps and river drives. It is most ancient.)
A French lumberjack, down from the woods spending his "roll" in town, was licking up licker at a bar, surrounded by an admiring crowd, and was making loud and boastful "war talk." A friend passing by heard and saw him, and drew him into a corner for a confidential talk. "Listen Joe," he said "you ought to cut out thisr fighting talk, or you may get into trouble."
"Trouble !" exclaimed the Frenchman, "What you mean trouble? I'm a bad man, me! I ain't fraid from nobody !"
"All right," said his friend, "if that's the way you feel about it, go ahead, but if you do this big Irishman McCarthy is liable to get hold of you."
"What H'frishman Mack-carty? Where is he? Show him to me ! I can lick any H'Irishman in de worl ! Where is he? I'll go find him!" Wildly cried the Frenchman.
"Well, I'll leave you alone if that's the way you feel," said his friend, "but you needn't waste your time trying to find McCarthy. You just keep on talking loud like you have been, and he'll find YOU," and away he went, leaving the Frenchman protesting what he was going to do when he found "Mack-carty."
The next morning this same friend ran right into the Frenchman on the street. and the Frenchman looked like a wreck His eyes were discolored and swollen, his lips were cut, his teeth were missing in front, his nose was black and swollen, and there was a bandage around his head. He tried to dodge his friend, but was cornered, and then sought refuge in apparent unconcern.
"Well Joe," said the friend "what happened to you? Did you get hit by a train?"
"Naw," replied the Frenchman disgustedly, "f didn't get
hit by no train. I jus have leetle fight wid dat fl'Irishman, Mack-carty."
"Oh, you did," said the friend; "well, who got licked?"
"Oh," said the Frenchman in apparent unconcern, "I don know jus who got lick."
"Is your nose broke?" asked the friend.
"Sure," said the Fretrchman, "but dat's noting for me, I'm a tough guy, you know."
"And your teeth," said the friend, "have you lost them?"
"Some of dem is gone, but dey were loose anyway; G['s noting for me. I'm a tough Frenchriran."
"Hciw about your jaw? Is that broke too?"
"Na!v," said the Frenchman; "it's jus cracked. It'll be all right soon. I don care for dat. f'm a bad man, you know.t'
"Now here," said the friend, "tell me the truth about this. You talk like nothing happened, but who got licked, you or this Irishman McCarthy?"
"Well," said the Frenchman, very confidentially, ,,I'll tell you de fsqf'-[ can't tell for sure jus who got lick, BECAUSE WHEN I WAKE UP MACK-CARTY'S GONE !''
We sell anything in softwoods that the California dealer desires.
White Pine, Douglas Fir, Redwood, Cedar and Redwood Shingles, Split Redwood Poste, Ties and Stakes.
aar connections arc the best, atd ue gioe the best possible seroice.
The present style of finishing home interiors, requiring as a general thing very little lvoodwork, is an open invitation to the brrilder to display his originality in that clirection. The opportunity to use genuine hardrvoocl for this trim is not to be overlooked when it can be clone for so little extra cost.
The wood'rvork of a room consisting ordinarill' of a small base, door and rvindow casings and picture mouldings, requires only about one or two hundred feet of luml>er. The cost of milling the hardrvood is about trvice that of pine. The amount of harclwood itself required is so imall that there rvill not have to be any hesitation on that score.
Where built-in features are added.-book cases. sideboards. mantels, etc., in keeping .ivith the trirn of the room, they are of course far more practical when made of hardwood, 'ivl-rich is durable as .rvell as beairtiful. This in realitl' means to the owner genuine hardwoocl fnrniture installe<l in the home at an exceedingly moderate cost.
The first thought connected u'ith hardrvood, that of high value, is correct; it is quite trrre that the touch of hardwood trim adds clistinction and value to a home for years to come; holever, with the style of trim nou' in'vogue it is possible to obtain this high value at compartivelv moderate cost. The simple lines of the most moclest bungalorv can show the enduring beauty of hard'rvood as well as the larger roolns of the pretentious mansion.
The rvoods appropriate for home trim run all the way from the ever popular u'alnut, mahoganv, quarter sarved and plain oaks. and the soft tans of Southern Gum, to the ne\ver lr,oods such as Ha'rvaiian Koa. Philippine Mahogany ancl Jenisero.
The vista through beautiful rooms finished in hardwood trim is the utmost in home interiors.
Mr. Clayton Cochrane, rvho has been rvith the Weyerhaeuser interests in the Snoqrtalmie Falls Lumber Company in Washington, has joined the sales force of the S. C. Hooper Lunrber Company.
Mr. Cochranels experience in lumber is a broacl one and he is rvel! equippecl to meet the neecls of the Sorrthern California tracle.
CALIFORNIA WHITE ^A,ND SUGAR PINE AND NORTH COAST LUMBER
BOX SHOOKS, CUT STOCK
MOULDINGS
LUTIBERTIE]I'S EXGHA]IGE
R. F. PRAY R. H. BROWNE
?5i$-?SI Firrt National Bank Bldg. San Francirco - - Lor AngCor
For intcrior trim and cabinet work it cannot be rurparred-Inrurea beauty, pcrmancnce, and durability{ortr very littlc more than toft woode-WG own and operatc our millr in the Philippine lelandr ofrering the dealer a depcndablc rupply.
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Officc and Yard-San Francirco Oakland Lor Angelcr
TEXAS & PACIFIC BUILDING
DALLAS, TEXAS
HARDWOOD FLOORING
You can buy rtraight or mixed care of MAPLE, BEECH, BIRCH and OAK Flooring from the manufacturera.
NICH()IS & C()X TUMBIR C().
GRA,ND RAPIDS, MICH.
4Thc Honc of Shillcd TVoodworLcn'
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such as characterizes Circassian Walnut. This figure is produced by a smoky, clouded series of rings, independent 'oi ttt" gtotutlt rings,-and is inherent in the wood itself, ttnlike thi figure iri Quartered Oak and lTahogany, which is secured-by qt "ttit-sarving the log. This figure-is one of the most -prized propertiJs of Red Gum and adds considerable to ils value. -Be."u.e ,of its soft, rich tones, and beautiful markings, Figured Gum is used for the highest grades of furnituie, cabinet work, and interior finish'
Oak remains one of the most popular and universally used of all the hardwoods, and is adaptable to a greater variety of purposes than any other wood. It is used in the finest iurnilure and cabinets, for interior finish and flooring, in agricultural implements, wagons--and- automobile bodies. fJr oil rigs, bridge timbers and railroad caf building.
Birch Is used-in a limited way here norv being largelv displaced by the Philippine rvoods.
fre getMahogany - from Guatemala and Honduras'
Tuana eosta, Tenizero, Prima Vera, and Spanish Cedar irom Mexico and Central America, Circassian Walnut from Russia, Iron Bark from Australia, Teak from India, Koa from Hawaii, Rosewood from Brazil, Ligum Vitae from the West Indies and Ebony from Africa
Port Orford White Cedar comes from Washington and Oregon and is used for interior finish and furniture, and for Jeparators in the starting and lighting batteries of automobiles. Aromatic Red Cedar comes from Tennessee and Kentucky and is used for chests and lining in clothes closets to keep out moths. Spanish Cedar is used almost entirely for Cigar Boxes.
Walnut is one of the finest and highest priced of the popular cabinet woods, and although the supply has often been reported as being about exhausted, it is still found in
We Manufachrre and Sell SPLIT SHAKES
HEWN TIES
POSTS GRAPE ST^A,KES
' FORTUNA*"(Humboldt C,ounty) ---CALIFORNIA
considerable quantities in fou'a, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Ohio.
Other hardwoods used in the market are Maple, Beech, Basswood, Popular, Ash, Elm and Hickory.
Another factor which has contributed to the increase<l consumption of hardwood lumber on the Pacific Coast is the low freight rates through the Panama Canal. When it is remembered that the Eastern furniture factories draua large percentage of their supplies of hardwood lqmber fromlhi South -Central States-,-adjacent to the Poits of Mobile, New Orleans and Galveston, paying a freight rate on the raw material to the factory, and another high freight rate on the manufactured article from the factory to I.os Angeles, it is evident that the Los Angeles furniture manufacturer, with a low freight rate through the Canal on the rarv material, and with ideal manufacturing conditions here, is in a very favorable position to meet outside competition.
Mention has been made of the increased kiln drying facilities here as having contributed to the greater use of hardwoods. Comparatively little hardu'ood lumber is norv used without first being kiln dried, and the most satisfactory place to do kiln drying is rvhere the finished article is being made; otherwise, the lumber, if kiln dried at a distance and under different climatic conditions, is liable to absorb moisture in transit, particularly if shipped bv water. and may have to be re-dried or held. some time for the moisture to evaporate.
Because of these conditions extensive kiln drying facilities have been provided by the hardrvood dealers, and b1' many of the planing mills and woodrvorking factories.
No wood is absolutely dry. If heated until all moisture is eliminated, the wood becomes charcoal. Green timber may be from one quarter to one half rvater and sap. This moisture is in the pores and other cavities of the wood. There is a common belief that the sap of a tree is "up" in one season and "down" in another. This is not true. A living tree contains as much water in Winter as in Summer but there is more activity at certain times than others.
Water rises from the roots of the tree through the wood carrying minerals held in solution. Some of it reaches the leaves, rvhere it mixes with certain gases from the air and is converted into sap. I\{ost of the water, after giving up the mineral substances, is evaporated through the leaves. and the sap goes dort'n through the newly formed (and forming) layer of wood just under the bark, and is converted into wood. This newly formed wood is usuallv colorless at first, but later, as the other layers of wood form over it, it takes on the color of the heart wood of the tree.
When the tree is cut into lumber the greater portio4 of this water and sap must be removed before the rvood is suitable for use in the manufacture of furniture, or as interior finish in buildings. This may be done in two ways;
either by allowing the lumber to season in the air for a long period of time, or by kiln drying. In the olden days, when times were not so strenuous, lumber was held for several years to "season," but now it is the exception to find lumber which is even one vear old before it reaches the market. Instead, practically ill woods now used for furniture, cabinet work and interior finish are kiln dried.
The kiln drying'of lumber is a highly technical proce$s when done properly. The early kiln consisted of a cornpartment in which lumber was stacked and heat introduced lvithout any regard for the moisture content of the air or the lurnber, often with disastrous results to the lumber. Now, however, many of the soft woods, and some even of the hardrvoods, are put in the dr1. kiln direct from the sarv, but most of the hardtvoods are allowed to dry in the air for from three to six or eight n:ronths before being kiln dried.
In the advanced types oI kilns for drying hardrvoods norv, the lumber is first subjected for several hours to a treatment with live steam at a temperature around 120 degrees with an atmospheric hurr-ridity of 90 to 100 percent. This forces the artificial moisture into the pores of the rvood. the heat causes the natural sap and water in the cellular cavities to expand, the cells break and the natural moisture mixes with the artificial'moisture or steam, and is removed from the wood by gradually increasing the temperature and reducing the humiditl' of the air surroundius the lumber in the kiln.
This treatment necessitates skilled attention. with the use of instruments for measuring temperature and humidity, and finely graduated scales for ascertaining the moisture content of the u'ood to determine when iust enough moisture has been removed'to make.the wood suitable for use.
In the campaign for the building of Better Homes, the architect, the contractor and the lumberman can render no better service to the owner than by encouraging the use of hardwoods for interior finish. They add a touch of bearrtv and elegance to the home rvhich ivill repay in pride and satisfaction many times their small additional cost.
The Los Angeles Hardwood Dealers maintain in the Metropolitan Exhibit, I\{etropolitan Building, Fifth and Broadway, a display of hardrvoods in a finished room, and as samples in a 'r'ariety of stains and finishes, where the owner or architect may go and make a selection to meet his particular requirements or suit his individual taste.
This service is gratis, and many have found it helpful in deciding that troublesome question of combinins bearrty rvith economv in the building of the nerv home.
Phin OrL Flooril6
Qurrtcrcd OeL Floorirl
Bccch Floorin3
Herdwood Trin
Herdwood Mouldiag
Rough or Drcrrcd Orh
Lunbcr
Rough or Drcrcd Gun
Lunbcr
OeL \te3on Stocl
Perquctry Stripr
ilromrtic Rcd Codrr
California has the distinction of har.ing her two largest cities among the leaders for lxrilding totals for the past year.
A compilation of figures for the -l-ear shotvs Nerv york in the lead rvith a total of $753.4U8,000.00, Chicago following with $328.000,000.00, and l-os Angeles next rvith $200,000._ 000.00. San Francisco ranks ninth rvith a total of 950,000,000.00.
Chicago Lumber C,o. of Werhington
Gocnl O6ccr Nov rt ll00-lll2 Hinrrt Bld3., SAN FRANCIIICO
Millr rnd O6ccr
Some dealers seem to chase business like the dog chases the bear, the dog's ahead and the bear after him.
There is a magic in doing right, in obeying the lau's o[ the universe, in giving ourselves in service to our fellou' men, in being decent and kind ancl neighborly. that is greater than all the magic of magicians that rve reatl alrortt in the story books of our youth. \Ate are wise u'hen u-e accept as the scientific truth the famous phrase, "Il1'" tl"s not seen, nor ear hearcl, nor can it enter into the heart oi man what things God has prepared for those that selve Him." (Dreier).
"Do you know what happens to little boys that tell lies, when they grc/w up?l' asked the teacher.
"Yeah," said.littlg Johnnie Wiseguy. "The house sends 'em out on the road as traveling salestrlen."
-like a boy at splendors that have spedTo vanished joys be blind, and deaf, and dumb; By judgrnents seal the dead past with its deadBut never bind a moment yet to come."
Illinister's Wife: "Wake up, John ! in the house."
Minister: :"\Vel,l. rvltat of it? [,et rnistake for tiremselrres.l' '| i;
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There are burglars them fincl otrt their
Saici a nrem.b.e5 qfi a clelegatiorr frotlt 'l'he l,otre Star State in a lrtirst o[ irrator-r' i
"We represgnt the sovereigt-t State of 'l'exas. So vcltttrg tl'rat the first rvhite Nonlan born irr Texas is still living' Yet she has nearly fir'e nlil,lion population today."
There \vas a pause o{ ll{rvilderment...ancl then. a r-oice rang orlt : "Sencl that u'otnan otlt to Nevada. \\'e tree<l her."
"A commonlllace life" \\'e say as rve sigh. But why shoulcl rr'e sigl-r as u'e sav ?
The commonplace sttn in the commorlplace sk-rMakes up the commonPlace daY'.
The moon ancl the stars are commonplace things, And the florver that blooms and the bird that sings. llut dark lvere the rvorld, and sad our lot,
If the flolvers failed an-d the sun shorvn not.
Ancl Gocl. l'ho stuclies each separate soul
C)ut of commonplace lives make His beautiful u'hole'
-A. Republican wag has gone on record as remarking that he regrets to see a big corn crop in this countrv llecause, "The'more corn we raise the more licker we make, and the rnore licker rve make the more f)emocrats rve have." That's a dirty remark.
A sawmill lnan one morn got tlp And found the sun rvas bright, His breakfast food, each plate ancl cttp, And everything rvas right. He heard the morning u'histle lllorv And heard the sarvs begin Their singing in the vale belou' The day to ttsher in.
And then he rtandererl to tlre nrill. Found ever,v rnan in place. And each one l'orking l'ith a n'ill And with a snriling face. The logs canre t1p u'ithottt a hitch To sarvs as shar'11 as su'ords. Each san' prt.'duced a perfect flitclr. Ilach flitch the best of boards.
And not a pulley slipped a belt. And life n as just a Song. The logs to lumber seemed to rnelt. And not a thing s'ent rviong. Tl.re rnorning rnail goocl orders btottght. And cancellations none. In all the letters there s'as t-tot -'\ kick from anvone.
All day the mill.. from earlv tlatvn. Till night began to fall, Kept u,rorking oh and sarving on Without a break at all.
At last the milhnan homes'ard l'ent Without a woe or care, And, kneeling by his little bed. He prayecl this little prayer:
"O. Lord ! I knolv that sonetinre I Will have to perish too-
I knou' that sometime I shall die. For people al'rr.a)'s do.
Todal- \\'e ne\-er spoiled a ltoarrl And everything rt'ent right. If it is all the same. Dear Lorcl.
I'n LIKE To DIE T'NIG(H,*'.
The first annual meeting of the Los Angeles District Lumbermens' Club was held on Thursday evening, January 3rd, commencing rvith dinner at 6:30.
Report of Secretary-Manager, E. D. Tennant, showed the Club to be in a most flourishing condition with an increase of almost double the membership, representing over 60 retail yards in the Los Angeles District. During the year the Organization has been able to steadily develop increasing strength and influence.
During the year regular weekly meetings have been held with an averag'e attendance around 70 per cent of the members having been present. These meetings have ahvays commenced with a get-together dinner, which enabled the Members to become thoroughly acquainted and provided the opportunity of exchanging ideas and information of real value to the entirt membership.
After hearing the Secretar,v's report and the remarks of
a large number of those present, in which they testified to the great benefit the Club had been to them both from a personal and business point oi view', a resolution was unanimously passed whereby thi Organization as now constituted will be maintained, the present Secretary:lvhnager re-elected, and a vote of thanks given Secretary Tennant for his valuable services during the year:
The work. of the Club during the year has proven beyond a question of doubt the value and necessity of closer acquaintanceship and co-operation b6tween retail dealers.in the Los Angeles District, artd as;a result the Club enters tlre netv
year with every assurance of not only making a successful record during 1924, but of still further establishing itself as a strong constructive factor in building up the retail lumber business of the Los Angeles District, so that those engaged in it, can render the utmost in real merchandising service to the building public.
"ACORN" BRAND OAK FLOORING L carr to identify becaure it ir TRADE MARKED oD etcry bundle. It ir tmifotn in rnading, dimcnrionr, end nilling. Sold and guaruntccd by relleblc drlhrr everywhere.
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Starting January 1, Allan Turner, for the past two years representative of the E. K. Wood Lumber Co. in the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valley territories, will act as the California representative of the Gerlinger Lumber Company, of Portland, Oregon. He has opened offices in the Lumbermen's Building, 110 Market Street, San Francisco.
Allan Turner is one of the best known and one of the best inforrned lumbermen on the Pacific Coast and has been connected with the lumber industry for the past eighteen years. Before coming to California, he was located in the northwest, rvhere he was affiliated with some of the largest mills in that section. While in the Northwest, he served three years as sales manager of the Clear Lake Lumber Co., Clear Lake, Washington; he acted as sales manager for three years for the Buehner Mills and Timber Co., with headquarters in Portland', Oregon; and also was assistant sales manager of the Grays Harbor Commercial Co., of Cosmopolis, Washington, for several years. He also spent several years selling lumber in the eastern markets.
IIis new' connection, the Gerlingcr Lumber Compahy, of Portland, Oregon, is well known to the California trade and have been large California shippers for tnany years. The Gerlinger Lumber Co, ire assopiated rnanufacturers and wholesalers, and they also have'connectiorlsi with several of the large mills of the Northwest wheteby they act as distributors for a portion of their production.
In order that his many lumbermen friends in the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valley territories won't be deceived, Allan wishes to advise that the above photograph was taken during the cold weather.
Established in comfortable and attractively furnished offices in the A. G. Bartlett Building, at Seventh and Spring Streets, Los Angeles, the newly formed A. W. Smith Lumber Cornpany, opened for business on January 2nd.
This company, headed by Mr. A. W. (Bates) Smith. formerly of tbe Los Angeles firm of Hooper & Srnith, will handle exclusively in Southern California and Arizona, the output of the Northwestern Redwood Conpany.
They will also.handle a general line of fir, both cargo and rail shipments, and will be able to quote on California Pine and Fir.
They have adopted a snappy slogan for the cornpany, "Wholesalers of Pacific Coast Woods."
As Superintendent small line of Yards; satisfactory reference given and can satisfy as to experience. Address Box 52. care of California Lumber Merchant.
Lumberwoman with years of experience in the retail field, rvishes position as estimator in Los Angeles. Capable Comtometer operator, stenographer, and is especially efficient at estimating. Can report immediately. Address, box S, care California Lumber Merchant.
Lumber yard in Central or Southern California. One that $10,000 to $50,000 invoice will handle. Address, Box 27, care California Lumber Merchant.
LUMBER BUSINESS: Owner has more than one yard. 'Wants to take things easier. $12!,Q00.00 requ_ired. In rapidly growing section in city. Address, Box 50, care California Lumber Merchant.
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As Yard Manager with an interest in the business; can give satisfactory reference. and satisfy as to experience. Address Box 51, care California Lumbdr Merchant.
$50,000.00 REQUIRED
For interest in fast growing well established HARDWOOD LUMBER YARD in BAY DISTRICT. Address Box 25 care The California Lumber Merchant.
Uniformly dried lumber, free from lriln defects, and of a dependable daily produc{ion at the lowert cort, ic obtained only through conservative drying rchedules.
Mills increase their production when th"y supply the demands of wholesalers and lumber users who must have quality lumber seasoned by
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Celifornie Rcpraentetivc: 501 Luabcrrnon'r Bldg.
GERLINGER LUMBER CO, ll0 Markct St. PORTLAND, ORE. SAN FRANCISCO
FACTORY LUMBER A.ND CLEARS
YELLOW RR-SPRUCE RED CEDAR
607 Flatiron Buildins
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Manufacturers of Douglae Fir ' and Port Orford Cedar. Savrrnills, Marshfield, Oregon., Distributing Plant, - Bay Point.
Annud hodu,Cion 200,q00,fi)O'Feet
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SOUTHERN HARDWOODS .CHICKASAW BRAND'' OAK FLOORTNG
DOT'GLAS FIR PANELS
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Amcricrn Nrtionrl Benlr Bld3, Srn Frencirco
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Oldat Erclurivc Hrrdwood Wholcrrlcrr on thc Prci6c C.orrt E.
