Lumber By-Products, North and South

From Shasta's Lofty Summit to Coronado's Silver Strand.

Committee on Lumber Standards

Southern Pine Association Annual To Meet

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.

San Diego Lumberman Visits Los Angeles

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.

Meeting

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 Vrsrrs HEADQUARTERS

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.

Earl Hoffman Back From Hunting Trip

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.