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Leo Keswick A California Visitor

Leo Keswick, manager of the W. R. Chamberlin & Co.'s Portlancl ofifice, was a California visitor over the holidavs. Mr. Kesn,ick spent a few days at the company's San Francisco office attending to company business matters. He was also a caller at the company's Los Angeles office. While in Southern California he attended the Rose Festival and football game betr,veen Pittsburgh and Stanford at Pasadena.

PACIFIC COAST BUILDING.LOAN ASSOCIATION MAKES REMARKABLE GROWTH DURING 192?

An increase of. $1,643,673.63, or 135 per cent, in the assets of the Pacific Coast Building-T,ea1 Association of Los Angeles during the year ending December 31, 1927, is shown in the association's quarterly financial statement, made public recently by A. A. Anderson, secretary. Total assets of the association now are $2,f54,768.12. Real estate loans on first trudt deeds total $2,627,3%.35.

Dividends and interest paid by the Pacific Coast Building-Loan Association during 1927 totalled $144,069.8% of which $86,955.93 was mailed to the shareholders and investors on December 31,1927.

"The 135 per cent growth of the Pacific Coast during the past year," Anderson said, "has been due principally to two thing: First, the endeavor of the associition tb provide a plSg fo-r borrowers and for every type of inventor, coupled with the best possible service; second, to advertising- telling the people of Southern California just what th'e building and loan plan is and how it operates for the saver, investor. and home owner."

Fresno Leads San Joaqutn Valley Cities In 1927 Building Permits

Building permits issued in Fresno during lg27 totalld $2,649,873, giving the city a lead over Bakersfield which was a close second with $2,375,202. Next in order among Southern San Joaquin Valley cities were: Hanford, $325,. 250; Visalia, $197,245; Port Marvill, g170,894; Exeter, $110,000; Lindsay, $90,000 and Corcoran 975,000.

REUBEN SMITH APPOINTED ENGINEER OF WESTERN DIVISION OF THE NATIONAL I,UMBER MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION

Washington, D. C., December 29.-Reuben W. Smith, who has been temporarily attached to the western division office of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, has_ioined the staff as field engineer, it is announced by A. C. Horner, division manager.

For two years Smith was professor of wood utilization at the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse. During that_ time he compiled and published statiitics, by species, of the amount of lumber and forest products used iq qh. wood-working plants and by the retaif lumber trade of New York state.

{S qlrp spg_n-_t a year at the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, 'Wisconsin, and a year as chief treating engineer of the Charles R. McCormick Lumber Company, St. Helena, Oregon. His most recent position was ai chief of the .consulting department of the- Protexol Corporation, Kenilworth, New Jersey.

Smith is a graduate of the forestry school qf the University of California and did graduate $'ork at the University of Wisconsin.

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