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Beautiful in design . beautiful in grain texture and beautiful in craftsmanship, BAGAC DOORS are made from Bagac veneers cut on our own concessions in the Philippine Islands. Architecturally correct in design, detail, and a product of the cabinet makerts art, BAGAC DOORS, manufactured exclusively by us, will be a money making feature for hundreds of dealers and builders during 1930.
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- P"ugl"l Fir-Lumber production during the week ending December 28 indicated a quite g"tt"rJ holday shutdown, being approximately ottu-half Jf *h"t it was-during !!r9 nrecedin_g week, accoiding to reports received bv thl West Coast Lumberrnen's AssJciatio., frortt 224 mille itr U" P"_"gtt" fir_region of Oregon, Warhington and British Columbia. While orders also dropped thlv exceeded pro{uction during the week by approiimately iO,OOO,O0O ieet, ot 12.4O per cent.
Production at West Coast mills has declined steadily d_uring the past four weeks, while new businese has heli "tg"I eyea-elcept during ihe last reported week, during which the Christmas holid'ay occurred.-The relationship be-tween production and orders, which for some time has-been unfavorable to the industry, is gradually improving. This betterrnent is believed to iefeci the realization of ?alers, moet of whom have lower stocks than they have carried i1 vels, that the present is probably the mosi advantageous time for ttem to rtock up to meet the requirements of spring building.
Production, orders and shipments at thes€ 224 milts for the week ending December 28 were reported to t{re Association as follows: Production, 85,SZg;Bg3 feet; Orders, 96,189,203 feet; Shipments, 105,285,532 feet. -Detail oi orders and rhipments as reported were as follows: OrdersRail, 43,556,357 feet; Domestic Cargo, 35,O92,935 feet; Export, 10,384,177 feet; Local, Z,l5O,7i4 feet Shipments
-RaiI, qq,q32,190 feet; Domestic Cargo, 39,905,9O1 feet; Export, 2213961702 feet; Local, 7,15O;Zi4 feet.
The California market showed improvement during the part two weekc and the demand was far ahead of thJ December businers. The amount of unrold lumber at San P.{" totaled 13,373,OOO feet on Januar5r 8, which is praclically the same as reported two weeks ago. 51 boatl are laid _up "o4 2 are operating ofi-shore. thiJ being the largest number of vessels ofr the coastal nm for the nart vear. What boats are operating are having a difficult time llcating cargo at the mills. O-iog to recent storrnr in the Northwert, it ia reported that there has been an emergency shutdown of many mills in the Puget Sound district. -
The total Douglas fir cargo arrivals at Los.Angeles Harbor for tfie twelve months of 1929 totaled 1r050r41g,OOO feet. Fir cargo arrivals into San Francisco Bay for 1929 totaled 589,755,Ofi) feet.
Loc Angeles building permitr for 1929 amounted to $9310161160. Building activity in Loc Angeles, as measured by the value of permits iuued was 8.5 pei cent leas than in 1928. Grouped according to tte principal clarses of building, increaser occurred in the value of permitr issued
for indwhial, annulement, church and educational buildingr, and decreases occurred in the value of permits for apartment-houses and other buildings for dwelling purpores. The San Francirco building permits for 1929 totaled $33r682,O25.
The California Redwood and California White and Suger Pine demand continues fair and t'he market is expected to show considerable activity during February and M.rgh to meet the spring building demande. There are no particular changes in prices. Redwood cargo arrivale into San Francicco Bay for 1929 totaled 2441763100O feet, while the Redwood cargo anivalr at Los Angeler Harbor amounted to 67,790,000 feet.
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With holiday chutdowng in eftect at rnany mills, orders for lumber during Christmas week were 1O per cent in excess of production at 779 leading hardwood and softwood millc, acoording to telegraphic repoits to the National Lumber Manufacturers Aesociation. Total production at these mills was l8lrll4rO0O feet, refecting tte annual mill repair and inventory period, as against a total production reported by 822 mills the week before of 326r281,(XX) feet and orders amormting to 89 per cent of that production.
The current relationrhip of shipments and orders to production for the 52 weeks of 1929, baeed on reports of the regional asrociations to tlre National Lumber Manufacturers Arcociation, is as follows:
West Coast Lumbermen's Arsociation-p16{uqtion, 9r015,519 M feet; Shipments, 81826,97 M feet; Orderr, 8,890,5OO M feet.
California Redwood [s6sia1iq1-ploduction, 4Ol,4O7 M feet; Shipments, 3861181 M feet; Orders, 397'il2 M feet.
California White & Sugar Pine Associatian (51 weekr) -Prod'uction, 114211602 M feet; Shipmenti, 113121746 M feet; Orders, 113081459 M feet.
Western Pine AcEociati66-p1s{qs1ior4 212931777 M feet; Shipments, 211871517 M feet; Ordere, 2rO7Or322 M feet.
Southern Pine Association-Productionr. 314131168 M feet; Shipments, 313971700 M feet; Orden;313771484 M. feet.
Totd Softwoods (311864 Mill Reports)-Production, 17,691,174 M feet; Shipmentr, 171274,91(J M feet; Orderr, 17,106,666 M feet.
Total Hardwoodr ( 12'710 Mill Reportr)-Production, 2,676,861 M feet; Shipments, 2,456161fJ M fea; Orderr, 2,4261898 M feet.
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Let us go to the thinkers of other industries for some optimistic facts. That's one thing about the lumber industry that has always impressed me. \ll/e seem to do so little comprehensive thinking of our own, and we develop so infernally few ideas out of our own industry. That, in fact, is its basic weakness' :{< :r< ,r
A famous makerr of shoes, speaking before a recent shoe convention, made a statement that we lumber folks can use in our business, and get much optimism and consolation from. This shoe man was looking ahead of our present temporary disarrangement of business. He talked on the expected development and increase in the population of the United States. Ife was looking for the future consumption of shoes.
He said: "The ls\il€bt guess on population of the United States in 1950 is 28,000,000 more than the number of people we have in the United States today. Guesses run to 53,000,000. Don't forget they must all wear shoes." fsn't there a ray of light for you there,*my doubting lumber friends?
Suppose we take this minimum increase. And let us assume that the per capita consumption of lumber will remain the same as in the past few years. What does it mean? It means that twenty years from today we should be consuming at least EIGHT
It means that every year from now should bring us additional normal consumption of a third to a half billion feet of lumber. ft's automatic. you can't stop it. you don't have to do anything to create it. Al,l you have to do is sell a normal amount of lumber to all the population, and that is based on the very
of recent years.
Is that a bleak outlook? If this shoe man's low guess is too low, it might be easy to assume,that the population in_ crdase should take care of the entire output of some of our well known species of wood. And each year, as big batches of mills cut out and disappear, (thus automatically help. ing the remaining milts) there will come this automatic additional consumption. Think what it means !
And all the lumber industry has to do is keep the people fairly well sold on the use of wood for building porpor.r. Based on this shoe estimatg five years from toa"y ""r."r, million more people will be prospective customers of the lumber business; and five years from today several billion feet of present production will be cut out and gone. Five years from today the list of sawmills in the South, hard and softwood,,both-will be the saddest, shortest list im_ aginable. Yet every year there will be , fot ,"o."i;;[ to build buildings ior.
Some lumber manufacturer recently wondered, aloud and in my hearing, if the lumber industry isn't a passing industry. Read the above paragraphs, and think what an impossibly pessimistic question that was ! If the lumber industry were like other industries in its mental attitude toward its own affairs, it would be shouting with enthusiasm at its own marvelous prospects. Other industries do business with a more or less permanent supply of raw materials. The lumber industry does NOT. This industry and the undertaking industry done cdr say-..
Right now the lumber industry seems to focus its attention upon but one thing-the dead market of the past three months. Yet there is nothing temporary about this industry. ft is one of the greatest ind most uiefut to men, of all our industries. fn retrospcct, this pr€sent situation won't loom so large. And we've got a wonderful future to look forward to-interesting work to be done, interesting things to be accomplished, an illustrious future that depends largely upon our olyn state oI mind, and upon our own efforts
Let us grasp the viewpoint of this shoe manufacturer. Millions upon millions of people are coming into this tand. They must all be housed. They must all, have shelter. They will all need wood. But whether they use wooden shelter or not, depends upon this industry,-its effort to keep step with the march of progress, its ability to keep up with the tide of the times. If we allow the per capita consumption of lumber to keep dropping, the elimination of the passing mills, and the automatic increase of population, will neither or both, make this industry prosperous. In spite of these two great automatic boosters of l,umber prosperitS it will stilil be up to lumber io hold its place by its own efforts. A do-little, say-little attitude will be fatal, in spite of these powerful allies and "Un"T"a;. *
Mr. Lumber Deater, -;, :r"-rou doing this Ne$, year to make your business better? Anything? Or are you sitting, and waiting, and complaining about business? Are you taking any steps to create any business? Or are you depending entirely on what automatically dWelops? Don't you think some extra effort, some additional ingenuity, some interetsting activity on your part, will make people buy building material that would not otherwise do so? fnventory season is over. Get out of the old rut and stir up sorire business. It may amaze your local friends tothl point of giving you an order.
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never-eleeping brain.By arl ever-active notebook. By arking quertionr galore, and asking them intelligently. By a figuring pencil that getr somewhere. By a dirplayed interert in the other fellow that will win his confidence and admiration if properly presented to him. By advertiring, roliciting, dieplaying, discerning, distributing dirposing of your gooda and rervice. You will never do it if you rit in yow yard by tte ride of the road and wait for someone to come and buy sorr€thing. You have got to take your town and dirtrict
tmder your busines wing, and nrrse and nurture it. You have got to ertablish younelf as tte building specialist of ttat community whore steruardship is ro usefuI and splendid that people will be dblighted to have you pry into their efiairs becaure fihey will tmderetand that your pryins ic for tteir benefit prirnarily. You can ask anything, ruggert anything, try to sell anything, to the man who knorw that YOUR interest aims at HIS benefit and betterment. The average dealer ought to do ten timer es much EKPLORING FOR BUSINESS ac he doee.
A. H. "Al" Powers, for ma-ny ye-ars prominent in the log- EleCtS OffiCefS ging and lumber industry of the Northwest, died at Indio, California, Thursday, Jaiuary 2. Death was caused by an B. W. Lakin, general manager of the McCloud River a,uto accident, combined with a heart attack. Lumber Company, McCloud, w1s elected president of the Mr. Powers was born in Ontario, Canada, November 6, California White & Sugar /Pine Manufaclurers' Associa1862, of American born parents. IIe came to Michigan with tion, at the annual meeting\of the association held at the his parents when he was 19 years old, and soon after be- Palace Hotel, San Franqiscd, Tanuary 9. $an w-o1\ in the logging camps at Aitken, Minn. About the Ward A. Dwight, pr6it'#'t ctt ttre -Big Lakes Box Com19" gf 21, together with $.J. Dwy_er w-ho is now head of pany, Klamath Falls, Ore., was electedi,'ice-president, and the Southeast Portland Lumber 'Co., Portland, Ore., he R. D. Baker, president of the Lassen Lumbei &, Box Comeggaged in logging operations in Minnesota for many pany, Susanville, was re-€lected treasurer. )r,ears. _Lgter, he became a member of the Powers-Simpson ,Bernard F. Scott, is acting secretary-manager of the asCo. at Hibbing, Minn., engaging in logging. He came to $ciation.. Oregon with ihe late C. A.3m"ith atrE"ftJr.t tgOT to tgZZ /,{ was head of the Smith-Porvers -LogginC_ Cq. 9f _C9op // -------
the company' About two years ago he organized the clarence Blackman and Fred Anderson are continuing in Powers-Davis Logging co' with operations near Powers, business in oakland, under the name of Blackman & An- Ore. After his retirement from active management of the S-lttr-pr*.i.-I-oggi"g Co., he turned over the active work derson' Their -yard is now located at 1222 42nd Avenue, to his son, Fred w.powers an9^ the telephone number remains as before,'ANdover
Mr. Powers took an active part in civic affairs at Marsh- 0'160' field, Ore., where he was a member of the school boar.d for many-years ard was a member of the Port o_f C_.oos_B1.y ALBION LUMBER COMPANY MOVES commission. Funeral services were held at Indio, Cali- . o
fornia, on January 4. Mr. Powers is survived by his widow c' F' Flinn' general manager of the Albion Lumber comand the following children: Fred Powers, Marshfield, ore., pany' announces that the general manager's office of this Mrs. cletus Bodell, San Francisco; Mrs. J. Arthur Berg, company is now located in room 981 Southern Pacific -.qrirt.; erl.'tiFo*.ts, Jr., powers, ore.; Miss Margaret Building' 65 Market Street' San Francisco' Powers and Mrs. Robert T. Dixon. Marshfield. Ore. A brother, Charles F. Powers of Marshfield, also survives.
Wendell Brown, Los Angeles, Southern California representative of the J. R. Hanify Co. spent the holidays in San Francisco with his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Brown. While in the Bay District he was a call,er at the company's San Francisco office where he conferred with John Reed and Walter Ball.
Herman Herwig, of the Watsonville Lumber Co., Watsonville, accompanied by Mrs. Herwig, spe.nt a few days in San Francisco during the holidays.
It is announced that cutting at the new plant of the Edward Hines Western Pine Co. at Burns, Ore., will start January 20.
We have arranged for exclusive distribution of this improved pulley in Redwood Frames, in line with our established policy of makin$ our California Type Frame the best always.
THE SIMPLE DESIGN, QUALITY, MATERIAL AND WORKMANSHIP, AND MODERATE PRICE OF PALCO FRAMES ARE WELL KNOWN AND HAVE WON THEM A HOST OF FRIENDS. THIS NEW PULLEY WILL MAKE THEM EVEN MORE DESIRABLE TO BUILDER AND HOME OWNER.
IT IS MORE THAN JAM PROOF, IT'S FOOL PROOF, DIRT PROOF, AND WEATHER PROOF. IT MUST BE SEEN TO BE APPRECIATED-IT SELLS ITSELF.
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Complying with request from the Detroit Free Press for an expression on the outlook of lumbering interests for 1930, to be published in an annual editorial symposium compiled by the J. L. Hudson Company for Detroit newspapers, President E. L. Carpenter, of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, says :
"During the first six months of 1929, the lumber industry enjoyed a volume of business equal to the same period in 1928. Values were well stabilized and the industry gener- ally on a fair earning basis. The volume of new business being placed began to decline early in June and has continued at a sharply reduced level to this time. This reduction was coincident with the marked decline in building permits throughout the country. The situation was strongly influenced by a lack of credit at reasonable rates for construction purposes, and by the growing uncertainty as to the stock market situation. which was at the time obsorbin-g all available credit, both domestic and foreign, in an effort to maintain inflated values for Ameri,can stock securities in all the stock exchanges of the world.
Long-range forecasting is not an exact science and is not to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly. I am willing, nev,ertheless, to g'o on record as believing that the volum-i of lumber business in the United Statesln 1930 is reasonably certain to equal, and qui,te possibly many exceed, the
corresponding volume for either 1928 or 1929.I am willing to make this statement for the following reasons:
1. Credit for construction purposes ii now available at reasonable rates.
2'- An expanded program of highway construction, as well as Government construction, both Federal and State, is assured.
3. The ag-ricultural regions of the United States, excepting- only a- few isolated districts, are seriously under-built, and h-ave, in fact, had no real building program for a number of years, owing to conditions which are=well understood and generally recognized.
.4. Recent developments and present trends indicate quite clearly _that the crisis in our agricultural districts is pass- ing and that the purchasing power of these districts is increastng.
My cgnclusion, then, is based upon two assumptions:
(a) That the demand for lumbei from the railr^oads and large industrial consumers, considered in connection with the expanded highway and Government programs, assure a consumplion of ^lumber in these directions it least equal to either 1928 or 1929.
.(b) Tllat the same can be said of the agricultural dis- tricts, with reasonable assurance here. thit the demand ma-y -exceed the corresponding demand in either 1928 or 1929;'
At the annual meeting of the San Gabriel Valley Lumberman's Club, held at the Aztec Hotel, Monrovia. Tuesday noon, January 7, F. P. Sappington was unanimously elected president for the coming year. Mr. Sappingtoh is one of the old timers in the lumber business in ealifornia, having been in business in El Monte for the past t_wenty-six years. Steve Westover is secretary of the San Gabriel Lumbermen's Club.
A. 4. Kayser, Los Angeles, California representative for the West Coast Lumbermen's Associa,tionf is on his reg- ular monthly trip in Northern California; He will make stops at various points in the Valley districts and will also spend a few days in San Francisco. He will return to Los Angeles the latter part of the month..
W. R. CHAMBERLIN BACK FROM SAN FRANCISCO
W. R. Chamberlin, W. R. Chamberlin & Company, Los Angeles, has recently returned from San Francisco, where he spent several days on business.
JACK THOMAS MAKES NORTHERN TRIP
Jack Thomas of the Coos Bay Lumber Company, Los Angeles, has returned from a ten-day business tlip to the company's office at Bay Point.
PLACERVILLE LUMBERMAN VISITS SAN FRANCISCO
S. G. Beach, of the S. G. Beach Box & Lumber Co., Inc., Placerville, was a recent visitor to San Francisco.
Washin$on, Jan. 7.-savings in freight costs to wood consumers and an increased utilization of raw materials have resulted from the use of smail dimension or ready-cut stock. Both the producers and consumers of this commodity will be interested in a bulletin, "Small Dimension Fto*: Its Sealoning, Handling and Manufacture,', which procl: rrs Jeasontng, flandllng Manutacture,,, has just been released by the Nitional Committee on Wood Utilization of the Depaitment of Commerce. This booklet, which is obtainable from the Public Printer. the Suner- the Printer, the SuperGovernment Printing Office. intendent of Documents, Printing tce, Washington, D. C., summarizes present conditiois in thi dimension stock industry, explains the advantages of pro- ducing and using ready-cut stock and discussei the diffi, culties encountered in its manufacture. Cost finding, standardization, and the approved practices of manufact-ure, seasoning and handling are discussed at length. :
The National Committee on Wood.Utilization is concerned with promoting a more economical manufacture and use of forest products. Among the industries which can use small dimension stock to good advantage, the publica- tion mentions those manufacturing automodile bodies, furniture, refrigerators, agricultural implements, sporting goods, turned articles, toys, novelties, ind a large genera-l CJoqp including manufactures ranging from coflins to clothes pins. Radio cabinet manuficturers are also materially interested in the published results.
" The booklet emphasizes the importance of proper dry- ing or.seasoning and proper stacking or storing of small dimension stock awaiting re-manufaclure. It recommends bundling of small stock to facilitate handling'in shipping, discusses production and requirement standardi-zition within practical limits, and emphasizes the importance of cost knowledge and proper cost accounting melhods.
We announced in this space that we would publish, push, and sell in California the famous Creo-Dipt Products. It is our pleasure now to announce that we enter enthusiastically upon our second year selling these famous shingles.
Oh ! Lord ! Give us this day our daily bread, And the fuel with which to bake it. We will run this yard fo'r another year, And then fs1-sake take it.
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There are four snakes in the retail building material industry which must be killed off before the industry in its entirety will enjoy its full produ,cing capacity of orders.
These snakes are Fear, Doubt, Worry and I'll-wait-tillspring-f all-or-next-year-and-see-what-the-prospects-are.
The kid who looked in his stocking on Christmas morningr- and when his brother asked what he got, said "I got a Shetland pony. It's gone away but it will come bick fgain," has the average retail building material merchant backed off the map for optimism.
From personal conversation and through written communications with hundreds of our retail friends of late, I am inclined to give them the nom de plume of "smiling Pessimists," and the reason they smile is because they know, right down in th,eir hearts, that it is not as bad as they say it is.
Charlie Gloom runs a lumber yard, so called. in most anv town and any state in the Unlon. When I met him the other day with "How's business, Charlie?" he said, with a smile on his face, "By Golly ! It's rotten. We are going to balance in the red. We are cuttin' her off to beat the band this year, and taking a big loss on our inventory. It's a cinch we won't have to pay any excess or any other kind of profits tax this year."
Well, I guess it's true. If the retailer inventories at market value, he'll have to use some red ink on the last entry he makes in his books.
But what do you think, Charlie, of the prospects for 1930? "Well, I'll tell you. There's been a half dozen banks fail around here in this community. Everybody's btoke. Money is scarce as hen's teeth. Lois of the farmers have their applications in to the Federal Farm Board and it will be a year or eighteen months before they get their Ioans through.
"Honey, hogs and hominy don't bring enough to pay the cost of producing them. The same thing is true of sheep, steers and straw. Also wheat. oats and corn. not to mention wool and cotton. Thousands of people are out of a job. The charity lists are as big as theyle ever been all over the country. Why, I saw an old lady pawing over the garbage can behind a restaurant the other day to get something to eat."
To hear Charlie talk you'd think we were living in Russia. This Charlie, a smiling pessimist, has you about ready to take the count, when he sort of smiles and says "Did you hear the story about the big nigger over in France duiing the war?" Then he told a funny story and laughed with the rest of us.
We noticed that Charlie ate his meals with a great deal of relish. He showed us around the town in a- peach of an automobile-took us out to the house for dinner, just
a bird of a home. It must have set Charlie back for something around fifteen or eighteen thousand dollars. It was furnished beautifully and the missus and the kids were all well dressed. We all went to the theatre in the eveing, on Charlie's invitation, and to the restaurant afterwards.
This smiling pessimist, Charlie, was the life of the party. We knew that what he had told us during the day, he didn't believe himself. But the difficulty is that although from day to day Charlie's business is pretty good, he continually keeps company with these snakes---fear, doubt, worry and the rest of them.
His line of conversation, from day to day, although he may not realize it himself, is the biggest enemy that his business has. In the old davs. it was the custom of a retail building material merchint to say that business .was no very good, or it was poor. This, largely for the reason of keeping anyone else from starting in business in that town. But we are above all that now. or should be.
Wouldn't it be a good thing for the entire industry to kill off these snakes-fear, doubt, worry, etc., and begin right now, this new year, to talk and advertise optimistically and join the progressive party of retail building material merchants who are "Helping 'Em Build," and when asked how business is, come right up quick with a statement that we're making 'er hop. We've killed off the snakes of fear, doubt, worry and procrastination and set up a goal christened FAITH and CONFIDENCE.
In the book of Joel, second chapter, twenty-eighth verse: "Your old men shall dream dreams. Your young men shall see visions."
That is the idea exactly. Let the old fellows dream of the past. But all the young fellows in the building material business, under the age of 6O years, let them see visions of what is to come-Prosperity, Better Business, providingthese young men irr the retail building material industry ADOPTAND PRACTICE MODERN BUSINESS PRINCIPLES.
Let's go to it,folks. Heart within and God o'erhead. Serve the people. Show them a picture of what they want. Make their mouths water. Prepare to assist them in financing their building operations. Organize savings and loan societies, or local mortgage companies. Back up and encourage anyone who will organize any sort of a loan company that will assist the retail building material merchant in financing his customer-his home builder.
In my judgment, no one can stop a large amount of home building during the next few years, the volume will be materially increased if more money is made AVAILABLE for home construction.
There is plenty of money in the United States. Treasury issues and good bond issues, running up into the millions are being grabbed up within a few hours all over the country.
Take the bit in your teeth-head up-get action-start to go. Let the smiling pessimist pull on the lines as hard as he will. All he can do is to just steady you to an easy three-minute clip.
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I places it makes goo4 that lumber dealers naturally enjoy handling it. Once they stock Sisalkralt and become lamiliar with all the things it can do, they like to suggest it to their customers. They know it will make goodand please a lot oI Iriends. That makes repeat orders.
Everybody uses Sisalkraft-architects, contractors, merchants, Iarmers, home owners, manufacturers, and even railroads. It provides excellent, air-tighg waterproof protection for buildings, supplies, finished work" winter operations, temporary construction, shipments, and so on. It licks the tough jobs and can be used economicdly to replace building paper. Yardmen like to handle Sisalkraft. It is clean and pleasanq always dependable, and sells with a good margin of profit. You canreally merchandise Sisalkraft. Send your initial order today. We'll help you sell it.
New York, Jan. 6-Gradual improvement of business during the early months of 1930 is foreseen by the National Association of Credit Men, whose January bulletin was sent to members today.
Reiterating his statement mad'e a month ago, that real business is good and is going to be better, Dr. Stephen I. Miller, executive manager of the association, said that the most favorable factor in the present situation is the improved purchasing power of the farmer.
"According to Department of Agriculture figures," Dr. Miller said, '161onr raised in the United States this year were worth about ffi5,000,000 more.than last year, in spite of a decrease of about 5 per cent in total production. Grain and cotton were down, but yields from fruits, vegetables and sugar were larger. The farmer is apparently going into 1930 with improved purchasing power, which will mean much to both wholesale and retail trade, as well as to manufacturers of equipment.
"Money and credit continue under wholesome control. Brokers' loans are down to the lowest level reached since September, 1927. The stock market adjustment is continuing in good order, and thus far without causing a really conspicuous failure."
fmprovement in automobile manufacture as the spring advances is expected to react favorably on other lines. It is noted that the Ford Company is now on a schedule of 4,500 cars a week, and that makers of the lower priced models are, on the whole, more active than manufacturers of the higher priced cars.
The bulletin includes a survey of trade and credit conditions in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland, states lying close, both physically and tempermentally, to the scene of the late unpleasantness in Wall Street. Manufacturers and wholesale houses in these states reported a negligible decrease in sales from the same month a year ago, when business was said to be booming.
The First 1930 Tri-Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Division of the National Association of Woodeir Box Manufacturers will be held at the Palace lfotel, San Francisco, California, on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 28th and 29th, 1930. An invitation to attend this meeting will be sent to all Wooden Box Manufacturers and others interested in the welfare of the industry on the Paci'fic Coast.
The first day of the meeting, Janaary 28th, will be open to all Wooden Box Manufacturers and others interested in the industry. The session to be held the second day, January 29th, will be open only to members of the association, or their representatives. All motions passed at the January 28th session are subject to ratification by members at the session to be held January 29th.
This will be a "round-table" meeting similar to previous meetings held by this Association. There will be a cabaret dinner the evening of January 28th.
W.W. Schopner, secretary of the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association, announces that the annual convention will be held at Atlantic City, N. J., April 9-10, with hotel headquarters at Haddon Hall.
In the recent survey among the Association members Atlantic City was favored as the convention city by most members from all sections. The convention will-be iargely attended. Lumber wholesalers will come from all over the United States and Canada to exchange ideas and get the news on latest developments and prospects in the distribution field. The Convention Committee is arranging an attractive program and members are urged to send the secretary their suggestions of matters to be considered.
Members of committees of the California Retail Lurnbermen's Association held a series of meetings at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, on Friday, December 20.
President Harry A. Lake, Garden Grove Lumber Co., Garden Grove, presided and the following were in attendance: Ralph P. Duncan, Merced Lumber Co., Merced; W. B. Dean, The Diamond Match Company, Chico; M. D. Bishop, secretary, Co u n ti e s Lumbermen's Association, Watsonville; Ed Galpin, Peninsula Lumbermen's Club, Palo Alto; Elmer Ellis, Palo Alto Lumber Co., Palo Alto; J. O. Handley, Murphy Building Materials, Carmel, and F. Dean Prescott. Vallev Lumber Co.. Fresno.
Boston, Mass., Dec. 25.-A representative of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association learned from the freight claim agents of two New England railroads that claims for cinder damage to cars of finished lumber in transit will probably be 20 per cent to 25 per cent greater this year than they were during 1928. Several instances were cited where western mills are covering the contents of the cars, and battening the doors with paper, to .prevent the infiltration of cinders. This has eliminated the damage to a large degree. As a possible solution of the trouble, they suggest a clause in the contract between the retailers and the manufacturers, specifying the covering of the material, prior to shipment. The claim division of the American Railway Association is compiling an additional file on the subject and it was intimated if these claims continue to grow, that the railroads will be forced to demand a greater freight revenue for transiting such material.
f fEf,E is a wood that will bring you that covf] eted repeat business and widen your circle of satisfed customers. Always a popular wood in California, the advertising canpaign instituted by the oldest and largest pr6ducers of Port Orford Cedar will increase its sales m a n y times over. Stock it now.
Port Orford Cedar is available in mixed carsall grades and standard si2gs-$'iih quick deliveries either by water or rail. This wood is recognized througAout the world for its remarkably long life -its resistance to decay. Termites (cornmonly called white ant) and other insects avoid it.
Recommend Port Orford Cedar to your customers for house framing, trestle and dock piling and timbers, bridge and wharf floors, railroad ties. ft will give years of satisfactory service. Economical because of the minimum of replacements necessary.
Cream-white, even-grained, Port Orford Cedar stains and enamels perfectly-maLing it the finest wood for interior finish. Machines easily--does not split or warp-a best seller for shop useS. Cali. fornia representatives are: R. C. Turner, 407 Call Bldg., San Francisco, and Thos. W. Dant, 606 Petrbleum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles.
Mail the coupon below to our sales agents, Dant & Russell, Inc., 1105-C Porter Bldg., Portland, Oregon, for further information.
Plywood is another form of Port Orford Cedar that has exceptional qualities, becauge of its regigtance to warping-itr possibilities for perfect finishing with enamels or stains. All standard thicknessec and sizes. Ideal for paneling, for cabinet work and many other uses. Port Orford Cedar Plywood representativeg are: FI. B. Maris Panel Company, 735 Third Street, San Fransisco, Calif. California Panel & Veneer e.a.,955 So. Alameda Street, Los Angeler.
Dant & Russell, Inc., 11O54 Porter Bldg., Portland, Oregon.
I am interested in Port Orford Cedat. Please send me free, your book "Port Orford Cedarfts Properties and LJses." Company Address
wfinl be a lbanner jrear f@r Fhinippine lv{lalhogany pr@duats in the West.
We lhavepioneenedl this mnarvell@us woodl pnodluat in tllais tennitonyo secturing oun srrrpply f'ronn tlhe ilnsuullar lLtamnlber Co.,whiclh operates tlhe wonlldl's Ilargest Fhinippine lrniil"
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The ninth annual meeting of the Savings, Building-Loan Conference of the Pacific will be held at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, February 10 and 11, 1930. The conference in'cludei the states Arizona, California, Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Montana, Nevada, Washington and Wyoming, and the Territory of Hawaii. Building and Loan executives from all the states represented in the conference will be in attendance and problems common to all building and loan associations will be discussed. The annual banquet will be held on the evening of February 11.
Frank M. Wise, secretary of the United States Building and Loan Association of Los Angeles, is secretary of the conference. He is making the arrangements for the Los Angeles meeting. Mr. Wise is well known to the lumber trade of Southern California, and prior to his becoming associated with the building and loan movement, was sales manager for the Patten & Davies Lumber Co. of Los Angeles with which concern he was connected for sixteen years.
The Sisalkraft Co. Chicago, manufacturers of reenforced building paper held the annual sales convention in Chicago December -28 and 30. The field organization which was brought f{for this meeting included more than 40 men covering ttyf entire country. An excellent gain in dealer distributifr was reported for the past year and larger plans were lfid for still further extending the sale of the product durinf the coming year.
E. F. Johnson, formerly manager of the Merced Lumber Company's yard at Ballico, has been appointed farm field man for the company's eight retail yards in a new service which they have inaugurated for their patrons.
Mr. Johnson is well equipped for the new position, as he has had actual farming experience, and is a carpenter as well as a retail lumberman.
M. F. Faria has succeeded E. F. Johnson as manager of the Ballico yard.
R. F. Wells, prominent retail lumberman, formerly of the West Turlock Lumber & Mill Co., Turlock, has moved with his family to Berkeley, where his two daughters are attending the University of California.
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PORTLAND 267 Pocific Stroet
OAKLAND . t6+o EostTvelfth Sh€et
TACOi^A 5o3 PuyollupAvenue
SPOKANE tt26 Second Street
YAKliltA tt6 South Second Street
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VANCOUVER, B. C., Foseol/vloton Soler Conodo, Ltd., zzot Fourth Avenue, Wert
'VICTORIA, B. C., L. H, Compbell, czr Whorf Strect
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Home builders who are desirous of seeing the latest ideas in home construction should visit the Architects' Building Material Exhibit, which occupies the ground floor, foyer and mezzanine floor in the new Architects' Building, Fifth and Figueroa Streets, Los Angeles. It is one of the most complete exhibits ,rn the Pacific Coast and includes every improvement in efficiency, economy and comfort for homes and buildings.
The lumber exhibits are found in the foyer and on the mezzanine floor and include the displavs of the Hammond Lumber Company, Red River Lum6.. Company, Cadwallader-Gibson Company, Inc., Hardwood Dealers, Built- In Fixture Co. and California Redwood Association.
Stanton _& Son, 'Western Hardwood Lumber Co., W. E. Cooper Lumber Co., C. W. Bohnhoff, and the California Panel & Veneer Co., shows the beautiful effects which mav be gained through the use of domestic and imported hard-
The Hammond Lumber Company's exhibit is of Mavan architecture, the frame construction is entirely of redwood. with sand,blasted interior depicting the natural beauty oi this wood. The exhibit includes ,rver twenty varieties of imported and domestic hardwoods. Six alcov-es. with sides of plain oak and bases laid in artistic patterns of Black Walnut and various other woods, show how ctlor combinations may be secured through the use of hardwoods. Six species of domestic and imported hardwoods are exhibited in the case w,rrk of the alioves, each finished in harmonious tones. Doors, in twenty varieties of soft woods, are displayed ,in attractive manner, showing the adaptation of these woods to near,ly every form rf architecture. fhe fl-ooring,-laid in basket-weave parquetry, is quartered oak. The exhibit also includes an eicellent issortment of builders'hardware.
The Hardwood Dealers' exhibit, which includes E. J.
woods for panels, interior trim and doors. The floor of the exhibit_,.part of which is laid in plank flooring, shows the adaptability and beauty of oak foir flooring puiposes. Sam_ ples of many sp_ecies of domestic and imp"oried'hardwtods in attractive colors are also on displav..
One of the features of the Hardwbod Dealers' exhibit is the cabinet furnished by the Maple Flooring Manufactur_ ers' Association showing how miple floors can be beauti-
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Picture to yourself a huge staining 13n[full of heated oils heavy with color pigment, evenly mixed by beaters. Into this bath go selected cedar, straight-grained shingles. The tank is closed. The lid clamped down, and the staining under pressure begins.
Powerful compressed air forces the preservative stain and color pigment into the straight-grained cedar-not a bit of surface escapes. Whenthe Creo-Dipt Stained Shingles are removed they contain 35% t" 40% more pigment-because of pressure staining. Then each shingle is inspected separately and packed.
Your Customers Know Pressure Stained Creo-Dipts
Why? Because they are familiar with the Creo-Dipt story. They see it regularly in the Saturday Evening Post and other national advertising. They are partly sold o n Creo-Dipt Pressure Stained Shingles even before they enter your door. Creo-Dipt to them means added beauty and long life. Why not give them the quality merchandise they know about and want?
When you need a shipment of Creo-Dipts in a hurry-remember the Creo-Dipt plant at Seattle, Washington. They can furnish you Creo-Dipts in any quantity, any color, and at any time. Learn to look to this complete plant for instant service. Phone or wire special rush orders.
The Santa Fe Lumber Company
San Francisco, California ( Northern Representative)
The Hipolito Company
2O2l S. Alameda Street
Los Angeles, California (Southern Representative)
West-King-Peterson Lumber Company
San Diego, California
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When the stock market smash came in the last week of October, 1929, President Hoover with his usual good sense and foresight realized at once that something must be done to avert serious depression, that something must be done to brace up weak knees, to change the psychology of the great mass of people in the United States from a psychology of despair to a psychology of hope.
Frederick William Wile in the Washington Star, in speaking of the president's energetic 'and helpful efforts, says in substance that the president realized the nation's house was on fire and called out the nation's economic fire department. Let us hope that before the nation is called upon to go through another similar experience, the nation's house will be provided with a sprinkler system so that when any part of it gets too hot, water will be thrown upon it and the danger of fire eliminated.
First study the chart. Notice that each major movement of industrial production is preceded and forecast by a corresponding movement of money rates. Observe that since the first of January, 1928, the present downward movement of industrial production has been forecast. Beginning with M"y, 1928, this was reported regularly in "Looking Ahead." What a pity that it was not known to those who were buying and holding stocks in the months preceding the speculative smash at the end of October, 1929, and who were justifying the advancing prices of stocks on the ground that 1929 would bring no major downturn in business.
Then notice particularly that money rates in the short time since November I, 1929 have fallen ftom 6r/a per cent to 5 per cent and are now (December 15) forecasting a major upswing of industrial production to begin, without much doubt, at or shortly after the middle of 1930. The usual seasonal swing from January to April, 1930, is likely to occur, but this will be a'minor swing. It will not reach a point as high as the peak in 1929.
There could be no better time than now to see clearly that major swings of money rates forecast and are followed by major swings of industrial production. Just now, because money rates are falling, practically everybody is convinced that this will be followed before long by increased business, by an upward movement in industrial production. It is almost unbelievable now that when commercial money rates were so rapidly rising in 1928 and the first half of 1929, practically no one was convinced, or could be, or would be convinced that such a rise would be shortly followed by a decline in industrial production and in general business. As a matter of fact, the downturn in business came about eighteen months after the upturn in money rates. Study the chart and draw your own conclusions as to what is ahead.
If we remember rightly, both Mr. Ifoover, then Secretary of Commerce, and Mr. Mellon gave warning in the spring of 1923 that some lines were over-producing and that there was danger of a repetition of the experience of L92O-192I. This warning was followed almost at once by a decline in business activity-the recession ol 1924. Business men do not like a recession, much less a depression in business. Neither do they (notwithstanding the contrary belief of the Saturday Evening Post) like over much those who warn them that a falling off in business is ahead or those who throw cold water upon their exuberant optimism, no matter how wild thev may become.
President llooveris plan for leveling the road of business was announced in the report of the Conference on Unemployment in 1921. In short, it is to fill up the valley ahead by taking off of the hill which comes before the valley. This to be effective, of course, should be done before business gets down into the valley. This was not the case in 1929. Business is now slowly going down into the valley, but the profits made at the peak of l9D are still available to help fill up the valley which seems to be ahead. Therefore President Hoover would have business corporations spend now all the money they can spend wisely or that they will need to spend in the near future and which they can just as well spend now. He would have the Federal government and the State, city and town governments spend now, all the money that they have available or that they can raise for improvements that are needed and that they can afford to make now.If everyone cooperates heartily with the president, there is no doubt but that great good will be accomplished and that the valley will be at least partially filled up and the business road made more nearly level than it otherwise would be.
Several traditional beliefs have been shattered bv the speculative smash. Among these is the belief thai the stock market discounts by some months the major fluctuations of business because the consensus of buvers in the stock market is a consensus of the best business and economic minds in the nation. Contrary to this belief, five
million speculators'could be and \Mere wrong. Stock market prices inluly, August and September,1929, were not q safg guide to the course of business in the fall of 1929. Stock prices did not turn down in a major movement until after business had turned down in a major movement in June, 1929. It is safe now to believe that stock pri,ces will not turn up in the next major movement until after business has turned up in its next major movement. Too few follow the course of business carefully enough to know when it has turned up or down as soon as they might and should have known. The Bulletin of the Federal Reserve Board showed that the manufacture of food products reached its peak in December, 1928; automobiles in March, 1929; textiles in May,1929; iron and steel in June, 1929; and all manufactures in June, 1929; also that the mining of all minerals reached its peak in February,1929. From these months on, each month has been below the peak. What added information was needed to save stock market losses in October and November or. to make stock market gains by selling short in August or September? This information of course corroborated the forecast made in "Looking Ahead" regularly, begihning with May l, 1928.
Now is the time for optimism, not for excessive caution. Caution was what we needed in the first half of. 1929 instead of excessive optimism, but anyone who advocated caution at that time was liable to be shot at sunrise, unless, like Jefi, he did not get up early enough.
Frank William Prideaux, died in San Francisco on December 24, fram pneumonia after a week's illness, at the age of. 52.
Mr. Prideaux was outside salesman for the Chas. Nelson Co., San Francisco, and had been in the employ of this concern for 19 years. IIe was a native of San Francisco.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Prideaux, four sonso Jack, Frank, Jr., Louis and James Prideaux, and two daughters, Gertrude Zahler and Rose Lannin.
George F. Grant is now covering the Peninsula and Coast Counties territory for the Coos Bay Lumber Co., formerly worked by the late A. A. Rantala.
Stewart Smith, who formerly worked out of the company's Los Angeles office, will work the Sacramento, Sonoma and Napa Valleys, replacing Mr. Grant.
With our intimate knowledge of the neede of the lumber induetry, our firgt congideration hae alwaye bcen to provide the highest quality of inaurance protection.
Second to t{re quality of protection provided, but right along with it has always been the degire to protect the industry againet unneceaEary insurance cost.
C-oet depende upon operating experlses and lossee. With that Mutual interest, careful management and 6re prevention have kcpt cost down to 62/o dt premium income.
Other income, added to the uving of 38/o, hae made poeeible a dividend of over 40/o. Thug thc reeult is maximum protection at minimum coet.
Any of our companizs zrtill be glail to erplain fully to anxt lumberman zohy Lumber Mutual Insurance offers the greatest insurance ztalue be can buy.
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samples of maple flooring are shown in silver gray, autumn brown, or'chid, seal black, royal blue, Spanish brown, natural finish, dove gray, etc. These stains, the formula of the Marietta Paint & Color Co.. Marietta. Ohio. have been
fit the house plans, requiring no trimming or waste, and they are a complete wall covering in one unit.
The exhibit of the Bui,lt-In-Fixture Co. displays the latest models in Peerless built-in furniture, showing all the modern improvements in a model kitchen. Many interesting photcgraphs, showing the interior of kitchens both before and after modernization, includes part of the exhibit.
The California Redwood Association exhibit is an attractive Redwood house designed liy Ernest Irving Fneese. The sidewalls and rorf are of Redwood shingles, while the interior is artistically finished in Redwood which brings out the beauty ,of this wood. The exhibit also includes a display of Redwood doors, b:th in the natural finish and 1n ,colors.
Miss M. L. Schmidt, to whom the success of the Architects' Building Material Exhibit isattributed, has
adopted by the Maple Flooring Manufacturers' {ssociation. The Cadwallader-Gibson Company, Inc., exhibit, which shows an interesting display of doors and floors, includes numerous models of Bagac doors which have recently been introduced by the company. These doors are all l/a inches thick and of the most improved hardwood construction, using stiles, rails, etc., of built-up softwood cores with fly panels, all faced veneered with Bagac. An interesting touch is the use of rotary v,eneers on the panels of the doors, giving attractive and varied grain textures. The dimensions, proportions and contours of moulding, etc., show the results of careful architectural designing, while the number of widely different finishes used, show the versatility of Bagac.
The Red River Lumber Company display demonstrates the beauty and adaptability of California Pine panels, also showing the various colors, shades and color combinations obtainable by the colored sandblast process developed at the company's plant at Westwood, California, and marketed under the trade name "Red River Panel." By this unique process, for which patents are pending, the color application is combined with the sandb,last erosion which cuts away the soft wood, leaving the hard wocd in relief. The "Red River Panel" is finished at the factory, requiring no finishing or painting on the job; they are furnished in an unlimited range of colors, shades and combinations, and can be supplied up te 5x10 feet with one piece faces; they are cut to
Cali.f ornia Redzaood Asso ciation Erhibit
been in charge of the exhibit since its beginning fourteen years ag'). The exhibit was first started in the Metropolitan Building, but on the completion of the new Architects' Building two years ago, was moved to its present location. By the presentation of the. many lumber and building material displays, Miss Schmidt has made the exhibit interesting and instructive to home owners and prospective builders.
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". and another thing I like about Pa-Co Plywood," declares the dealer who lets Plywood increase his profits,
"is the way it always gets here in good shape. The manufacturers realize that it isn't enough for a product to be fine and smooth with no chipped edges or broken corners when it leaves the factory. It's the condition in which it reaches his yard that counts with the dealer.
"So they pack Pa-Co Plywood carefully in strong cartons that bring it through all okeh."
Consider the Banana
It started the f ashion of protecting your Product to the consumer.
Or maybe the egg antedated it .we don't know. Also we've heard the coconut mentioned favorablv in this connection.
Anyhow the idea is sound, whoever gets the credit.
So when we realized how good Pa-Co Plywood really was. and we kept hearing it from many sources we just figured it would be a good plan to profit by the good examples mentioned above.
Pacific Coast Plywood Manufacturersn fnc.
1013 Liggett Building Seattle. Wash.
Hence the carton-packed Plywood.
Now your Pa-Co Plywood Panels reach you in their pristine freshness. without scar or blemish from rough contacts of transportation.
ERE'S A NEW PRODUCT that will take lumber dealers into markets they have never been able to sell . . . . on€ of the most promising items ever offered to roofing dealers and this is for Pioneer dealers only!
PIONEER COPPERCLAD VALLEY STRIPS will sell on every sloping roof . because every sloping roof needs valley scips and because PIONEER COPPERCLAD VALLEY STRIPS cost less than other metal valleys! And copper never.deteriorates!
Last year more than 181000,000 feet of metal valleys were sold and none of this profitable business went to lumber dealers. This year the volume will be still greater and dealers who stock PIONEER COPPERCLAD VALLEY STRIPS will have a market in every roof of tile, slate, wood shingles, asbestos or comPosition shingles!
ft is the logical product to sell with roofing . . . . it can be applied by any roofer. It is fexible, fits snugly and nails down just like any roofing. Packed in rolls containing 50 ft. lengths, 2l% inches wide with 9 inches of copper exposed.
For samples, prices and complete details get in touch with the nearest Pioneer Branch Office . . and remember, Pioneer Copperclad Valley Scips are Patented and distributed on the Pacific Coast by Pioneer Paper Company exclusively.
A twelve-page booklet detailing the principal reasons why lumber is seasoned and giving the moisture contents recently adopted as rules of its grade-marking practice has been issued by the Southern Pine Association. The booklet relates some of the history of lumber drying and shows that the practice dates back to antiquity and was recognized in both the Bible and in the Latin poet Virgil's works as a "hardener" of wood. It tells of the modern practices in both air and kiln drying and of their effectiveness in producing better and stronger lumber.
The Southern Pine Association calls attention to the prevalent wasteful practice of builders who cover or protect every item of construction material except the framing lumber. This, it points out, is inviting subsequent disalignment of the structure frame, the most important element in the building. The booklet explains how moisture equilibriums are established through the long seasoning and drying processes; how proper seasoning tends to eliminate warping, checks, knot loosening and other possible defects from the delivered product, and how, when lumber is carelessly exposed a second time to the elements, the established equilibrium may be so badly broken down that failures will result.
Because of the equilibrium factor the booklet cautions against specification of unreasonably low moisture contents. Moisture contents below those given in its Standard Specifications for Southern Pine mav be obtained from Southern Pine mills, it states, but in announcing the availability to purchasers of its official inspection service on deliveries, it makes the point that lumber ordered on special moisture content specification will not be considered as falling under the grading rules, but as a special contract.
The announced moisture Content Soecifications in the Southern Pine grading rules are: Kiln Dried
l. For C and Better Lumber-4/4 and S/4-Uitn dried, the moisture content shall not exceed 12 per cent in 9O per cent of the pieces of a shipment, or an item of a shipment, and the remainder shall not exceed 15 per cent.
2. For C and Better Lumber-6/4 and 874-61tt Utt.U, the moisture content shall not exceed 14 per cent in 90 per cent of the pieces of a shipment, or an item of a shipment, and the remainder shall not exceed 17 per cent.
3. For No. 1. No. 2 and No. J Common Boards and Strips-kiln dried, the moisture content shall not exceed 15 per cent in 90 per cent of the pieces of a shipment, or an item of a shipment, and the remainder shall not exceed 18 per cent.
4. For No. 1 and No. 2 Dimension-kiln dried, the moisture content shall not exceed 15 per cent in 90 per cent of
the pieces of a shipment, or an item of a shipment, and the remainder shall not exceed 18 per cent.
5. If, and when C and Better lumber 4/4 and 5/4 is air dried, the moisture content shall not exceed 16 per cent in 90 per cent of the pieces of a shipment, or an item of a shipment, and the remainder shall not exceed 19 per cent.
6. If. and when C and Better lumber 6/4 and 8/4 is air dried, the moisture content shall not exceed 18 per cent in T p.t cent of the pieces of a shipment, or.arr item of a shipment, and the remainder shall not exceed 21 per cent.
7. For No. 1, No. 2 and, No. 3 Common Boirds and Strips-air dried, the moisture content shall not exceed 19 per cent in 9O per cent of the pieces of a shipment, or an item of a shipment, and the remainder shall not exceed.22 per cent.
8. For No. 1 and No. 2 Dimension-air dried-the moisture content shall not exceed 19 per cent in 90 per cent of the pieces of a shipment, or an item of a shipment, and the remainder shall not exceed 22 per cent.
9. These moisturi content provisions-apply at the time of loading the lumber.
10. Purchasers desiring stock of a specific moisture content,.higher or lower than the figures given herein, may obtain it by ordering it special, and such a shipment stritt be considered not as having been manufactured under these rules, but as a special contract.
11. In case of complaint on account of the dryness of any shipment of Southern Pine lumber, official Asiociation inspection will be available to subscribers and to non-subsciibers upon request. Such inspections for dryness will be made in accordance with the maximums allowible under these rules; inspection service for "special" moisture content limitations shall be rendered only when the exact specifications are furnished to the inspector.
12. In case the buyer wishes inspection as to moisture conteni he shall notifv the shippir within tw;t-i;;; hours after the lulnber is unloaded. All lumber on which complaint is made as to moisture content must be fullv protected from the weather; no inspeciion will be made ii, upon the arrival of the inspector, there is evidence that these provisions have not been strictly complied with.
13. ff, as a result of an official Association inspection, it should be found that some of the pieces of a shipment, or an item, exceed the maximum moisture content illowable herein, such pieces shall be considered ds of the next lower grade. It is understood that an item of a shipment will consist. of -a grade and size, without reference io lengths, except ll tltg case of dimension that is ordered in quant-itiei of specified lengths.
Now a Gerlinger carrier with a narrow wheel same carefully selected and tested materials as its spread. Model RPN has a lO/2 inch narrower associate models. The new model RPN Gerlinger wheel spread than its brother models HSF and carrier will meet all the requirements of the manuRPF yet carries the same large load. Model RPN facturers of lumber who are compelled to utilize
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Model RPN and all Gettinger models are built with channel and angle congtnrction. Every cection is drilled, reamed and hot riveted. AII gearc are fabricated from High Speed Chrome Vanadium heat treated steel. Poweted with the Continental S-5 Industrial Red Seat motor with four apeeds bot'h fotward and reverge, capable of a speed of 3O M.PII. and handling ac easily ac a pleacure car the Gerlinger is equal to any taelc.
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V/ The board of directors of the Millwork Institute of Cali- Trefi, So. Calif. Hardwood & Mfg. Co., Los Angeles; C. G. Y fornia met in special session at the Hotel Californian, Chipchase, Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento; J. Fresno, Saturday, December 21, Ior.the purpose of dispos- W. Shrimp, Cresmer Manufacturing Co., Riverside. ing of uncompleted administrative matters and developing Board Meetings-A. W. Bernhauer, Chairman, Fresno a program for a closer tie-in between the central office, the Planing Mill Co., Fresno; H. Cbor-Pender, Frank Graves directorate and the membership generally.
Sash, Door & Mill Co., Los Angeles; C. W. Lannom, The meeting convened at 10:00 A. M. and adjourned at Lannom Bros. Mfg. Co., Oaklan{; E. J, Nutting, Herring
3:00 P. M. The attendance was as follows: R. R. Smith; & Nutting, San Francisco; A. J. Todhunter, Hammond Fortuna; A. W. Bernhauer, Fresno; E. A. Nicholson, Los Lumber Company, Los Angeles. Angeles; A. J. Todhunter, Los Angeles; D. N. Edwards, , Glass Sizes-Ray Garner, Chairman, Hammond Lumber Oaliland; C. W. Lannom, Oakland; R. R. Leishman, Pitts- Company, Los Angeles; Chas. E. Senften, Pacific Door & burg; J. W. Shrimp, Riverside; C. G. Chipchase, Sacra- Sash Co., Los Angeles; !Ym..Hayward, Pacific Manufacmento I E. J. Nutting, San Francisco; H. C. Weyler, Santa trrring Co., Santa Clara; V. A. Boell, The California Door Barbara; J. G. fennedy, Santa Clara; H. T, Didesch and Co---O4land.L. G. Sterett, Los Angeles.
The Trade Promotion committee will maintain complete
The dire,ctors decidid, by unanimous vote, to appoint supervision of the Trade Promotion Program and all qajor five standing committees, assigned to the following^activ- expenditures. involved_ therein, except Mr. Sterett's salary. ities: (1) T-rade Promotion, Standards and Certif;cation, This co.mmitte: will als_o have glner4 supervision of major (2) Miilwork Schedules, (3i Membership, Dues and Sub- exp.enditures for the Certification Program and lat-er on i"iiptionr, (4) Board M."ii,ig., (5) Legiliative Matters. y!!l probably appoint^a sta.Tding^sub-committeeto devote A
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The personnel of the committes, with the exception of :*t"o1t:r"j.,1::tltlrl:t:,::1,.Tli1:.jl":::i:::"P:':'J- the Legislative Committee which will be named laier, fol- ffi;1",fi#'*'l'i:lJlrt'jl:r*"'i'o'$?1il bl"'J":ij;:nf#; lows: ."--i?""tit"*ir" is to assist the central office organiza- Trade Promotion, Standards & Certification-A. W. tion in the mattei oi .*p""ai"f tfr" ,".*f"irfrip i"a it.
Bernhauer, Chairman, Fresno Planing lVlill Co., Fresno i members personally will iet lur-y ,ounaing up piospective H. Coor-Pender, Vice-Chairman, Frank Graves Sash, Door members.' & Mill Co., Los _Angeles; ^C.- W. _Lalnom; Vice-Chairman, The committee on Board Meetings is to decide when Lannom Bros. Mfg. Co., Oakland; J.__G. Se_11ed-y, Pacific and where special meetings of the B?ard are to occur and Manufaclur-ilg qo., San Francisco; H. C. Weyler, Boyd will functiori somewhat a"s an executive or sub-committee Lumber & Mill Co., Santa Barbara. of the Board. The personrrCt of this committee is comMillwork Sche_dules-A. _J. Todhunter, Chairman, Ham- posed of the chairman of each of the other standing commond Lumber Compan_y, L9s Angeles; E. 4: Nicholson, mittees, which plan automatically ties in all functions and Pacific Door & Sash Co., Los Angeles; C. E. Morrison, activities. Pacific Manufac'uring Co.,_Los Angeles. The directors believe that these committees should help ^_Membershlp, Due_s _$ Subscriptions-E. J. Nqttlng, very materially to advance the polieies and program of the Chairman, Herring & Nutting, San Francisco; D. N: Ed- Institute and to keep the membership constanily info,rmed wards, The Oakland Planing Mill, Inc., Oakland; H. C. as to the progress of every effort undertaken.
Inspection and reinspection by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association is to be done only on Grading Rules No. 9 after March 1, by action of the Grading Rules Committee' ata meeting in Portland, Oregon, December 20. The Committee based its decision on the fact that the Number 9 rules had been in effect since July I, 1929, and that all concerned had been notified, by circulars, distribution of eradins rules and otherwise sufficiently to permit proper idjustirent of purchases and stocks to the new rules. The full text of the Committee's action follows:
"Effective March 1, 1930, the West Coast Lumbermen's Association will inspect at mills and reinspect at Point-of unloading only on Standard Grading and Dressing Rules No. 9, daled July l, 1929. This ruling is to be interpreted to permit inspeclion and reinspection-without change on all lumber bought prior to March 1, 1930. Lumber sold under
Company at Crannell, visited his mother in Alameda over the Christmas holidaYs.
the No. 9 rules, as to grade, but of sizes other than those specified therein, will be inspected and reinspected as coming under special contract.
"stocks as of grades in the previous editions of West Coast Lumbermen's Association grading rules will not be inspected or reinspected by the Association's Grading Department after March 1, 1930."
In further explanation the Committee stated that retailers, wholesalers, railroads and car building companies, and other interested groups-including producers and consumers-who assisted in formulating the No. 9 Grading Rules have again ,cooperated in accepting the new rules as meeting all of their requirements so the committee felt that a definite date for closing inspections and reinspections by the Association should be set. March 1, 1930, the committee believes, is ample advance notification to all buyers and users of West Coast products.
The Los Angeles office of the Eagle Lumber Company which was formerly located at 629 Chamber of Commerce Bldg., is now in room 234 of. the same building. The phone number, WEstmore 8970, was not changed.
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Wood construction methods as developed by engineers in the Panama Canal Zone are the mosf effiiieni of their kind, in the opinion of Axel H. Oxholm, Director of the National Committee on Wood Utilization of the Department of Commerce, who has just returned from a trip to Central America. If a knowledge of these methods and detailed information in regard to the uses for American woods could be spread to other tropical countrids, the market for American lumber would appreciably increase, he believes.
Mr. Oxholm visited the Canal Zone at the invitation of Governor Harry Burgess, who placed him in touch with department heads in the Canal Zone, and made it possible for him to gain a first hand knowledge of wood using practices in the zone. Before Mr. Oxholm's departure from Panama, a conference of all department heads and their assistants was called at the Governor's instigation for an exchange of views with these officials in regard to wood utilization problems. Both Army and Navy organizations located on the Isthmus were represented at this conference. The Canal is one of the largest users of American lumber, and it is hardly possible to find more diversified uses for wood in one locality than is found in the Canal Zone. 'tlt is remarkable" said Mr. Oxholm, "that wood is playing such an important part in building and construction in the Canal Zone, since climati'c conditions, insects, and wood borers seem to combine to destroy materials of organic origin, such as Wood. Little does the non-technical visitor to the Canal Zone suspect that behind the constru,ction of wooden houses, railway equipment, docks, and the many other wood construction operations, lie years of painstaking effort and experience in establishing the best methods of preventing the attack of these enemies of wood. Most residences are either all-wood structures, or partly wood and partly concrete. This latter type of construction seems to be preferred at the present time. For the administratlon buildings and .other structures of major importance in the Zone all-concrete construction is used.
"While in the United States wood destroying insects usually enter buildings by boring through the ground, in the Canal Zone and in many other tropical sections there are in addition the so-called flying ants which may enter
through windows, doors, or other openings, and are therefore much harder to combat. The extreme humidity of the tropics also puts wood to a very severe test, and it is doubtful whether American lumber is used anywhere under more difficult service conditions than it is in the Canal Zone. And yet the fact that wood is so extensively used in building and construction, definitely shows that through engineering skill these enemies of wood have been controlled.
"California redwood, cypress, southern yellow pine, and Douglas fir are the principal woods used in the Canal Zone. They have been selected either on account of their natural resistance to decay or insect attack, or both. Interesting experiments are now being carried on by Canal Zone engi-neers in insulating wooden structures from the ground by using metal shields. In many cases chemicall-y treated lumber is employed with equally good results. As an interesting _example of economy in wobd uses it may be mentioned that railway ties in the Canal Zone, il untreited, only last two or three years, while creosoted ties have an average.life of fourteen or fifteen years; and the latter may be obtained at a relatively small increase in cost. Wa* and means of extending the use of treated lumber for gen- eral building purposes are now being studied. Califoinia redwood and cypress are bojh teririte-resistant woods. T.his also applies to softwoods of other species having a high percentage of pitch. Canal Zone eigineers are" in close touch with Mr. James Zetek, associatd entomologist of the U. S. Department of Agricul,ture who is in chaige 9f plant insect investigations ai Barro Colorado, C. Z. frr. Zetek and Dr. Thomas E. Snyder, entomologist at headquarters of the Department in Washington,-D. C., have done. outstanding work- in combating insect damage to wood and were it not for the findings of the Bureiu of Entomology Ameri.can lumber would not have attained the status it now has in the tropics."
The National Committee on Wood Utilization is now preparing a booklet on Wood Construction Methods in the Tropics, and Canal Zone ofricials have already pledsed their cooperation in this work. Since the panimi CJnal is the outstanding engineering accomplishment of the (Continued on page 44)
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ifty-one of the 337 designs submitted in a small homes' .petition recently conducted by the Midwest chapters the American Institute of Architects, were placed on exhibition from January I to 15 at the Architectural rooms in the Architects' Building at Fifth and Figueroa streets, Los Angeles.
The competition also was sponsored by the Monolith Portland Midwest Company, a company affiliated with the Monolith Portland Cement Company of California, and the designs were submitted from virtually every state in the Union and from many foreign countries including England, Canada, Cuba, Porto Rico and Mexico.
While rules for the contest called for a home for a family of moderate means suitable for use in the Midwest sections and not more than six main rooms, 105 of the plans submitted were from California. It is an interesting fact, also, that three Los Angeles archite,cts won first, second and third places.
The winners are Walter L. Moodv. H. Rov Kellev and Arthur H. Hutchason who *erei*"rded first, s-econd and third honors, respectively. Among those honorably mentioned for their designs are Edward W. Kress and Harold H. Weeks, San Francisco; Normal L. Low, Rivera, Cal.; Florence Wright, Santa Monica, Cal.; J. Robert Harris, Hollywood, and Yandell W. Nibecker, Los Angeles. The plans submitted by the winners, those honorably mentioned, and others were on exhibition at the Architects' Building.
The winner of first prize will receive a three months' trip abroad, first class, with all expenses paid and $500 in cash for incidentals; the second prize is a two months' trip abroad on a regular tour or cruise with all expenses paid and $300 in cash for incidentals; third honors call for a three weeks' trip anywhere in the United States with all expenses paid and $150 in cash for incidentals. Those receiving honorable mention will be given $50 in cash each and copies of Richard S. Requars book, "Old World Inspiration for American Architecture." Mr. Requa was the
architectural advisor for the contest. and his book consists of attractive reproductions of photographs taken in Europe and representing the latest development in architecture in foreign ,countries.
The competition extended over a period of several months and the judges, members of the Midwest and Salt Lake City chapters of the American Institute of Architects, met in Denver where the plans were considered. Headquarters of the Monolith Portland Midwest Company are at the Colorado metropolis. The designs were submitted by number and the winners' name were not known until after the prize plans were selected.
In conjunction with the small homes' competition, there also was conducted by the same interests a contest for articles on the importance and value of architects' services in designing and building homes. The five winning articles also will be on exhibition while the small homes' plans are being displayed at the Architects' Building. The prize winning articles were selected in the same manner that the prize home designs were chosen.
Strangely enough, California talent also was conspicuous in the articles contest sin.ce three of the five winners are from this state. Here is the list of winners: First, "Why an Architect?", F.lizabeth Worsfold, Palms, Cal.; second, "Value of Design in the Small Hom€," C. H. Williams, Cincinnati, Ohio; third, "You Need an Architect !", Mrs. N. Palmquist, Albany, N.Y.; fourth, "You and Your Architect," Howard A. Winter, Los Angeles; fifth, "An Accident or an Architect?", Walter L. Moody, Los Angeles. It will be noted that winner of first prize in the small homes'competition, Walter L. Moody, also won fifth prize for his article submitted. One prize of $100 and four of $50 each will be awarded the winners, each prize also to be accompanied by a copy of Mr. Requa's book.
During the exhibition at the Architects' Building, the prize winners gave talks on appropriate subjects, and various clubs, associations and classes inspected the display in bodies.
Stock market stories continue to be all the rage.
The one in our last issue ranks first, in our judgment, among the hundreds that have gone the rounds. Here's another good one.
His cash was gone and his broker was dernanding margin money, so the desperate young man called on the head of the life insurance concern which carried his fifty thousand dollar policy, and asked for an immediate loan of tsr thousand dollars.
The insurance man looked up the policy and found that it was only three years old, and had a loaning value of
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d C. W. Hornibrook, general sales manager of the Ewauna Box Co.. Klamath Falls is in the East on an extended business trip. He will spend the first three weeks of January in Chicago.
The Truscon unit method of assembly provides a wide range of combinations, sufficient to fill almost any size opening, from a comparative- ly few types and sizes of Truscon Standard Steel Casements, Dealers are enabled to meet practically all :requirements with a minimum investment in stocks, insuring rapid and more profitable turnover.
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not more than a thousand or fifteen hundred dollars, and told the insured that fact, and that under the circumstances he couldn't possibly loan him ten thousand dollars on that policy.
"Well," replied the desperate one, "it's your choice."
"V/hat do you mean, it's my choice?" asked the insurance man.
"It's your choice, and you can take it now," replied the would-be borrower. "YOU LEND ME TEN THOUSAND TODAY OR PAY MY FAMILY FIFTY THOUSAND TOMORROW."
H. A. Libbey, assistant to the president of The Little River Redwood Company, Crannell, was in San Francisco on a short business trip for a few days 4t the first of the year.
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A thorough discussion of West Coast hemlock and methods of increasing the demand for this species will be a feature of the annual meeting of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, which will be held at the Winthrop Hotel, Tacoma, on Friday, January 31. The Association is developing an extensive West Coast hemlock display for the meeting and has asked numerous operators to join in a hemlock "clinic." The Association intends to bring out the experience and ideas of the industry in regard to hemlock as far as possible and will appreciate receiving suggestions and recommendations from any interested operator prior to the meeting. It is hoped that every lumberman interested in West Coast hemlock will attend the meeting' and participate in the discussion.
A strong program of other features has been worked out for the meeting. One of the speakers will be Sydney Anderson, formerly congressman from Minnesota and lately president of the flour millers' federation. Mr. Anderson will talk on cooperative developments in the milling industry. His address on a "Fair Share of Business," which was distributed. by the Association to the West Coast lumber ihdustry several months ago, brought a number of favorable resDonses.
Charles S. Keith will give a resume of the probable trends in Southern Pine production during the coming five years and the effect of changing conditions in the South on the marketing of West Coast woods.
'Ihe 1929 building permits for Phoenix, Arizoga, totaled $5,248,674. The valuation of the 1928 building permits amounted to $5,999,465. Building permits for the month of December totaled $485,145 as'compared with $246,8O5 for December 1928.
J. W. Pearson has been appointed general manager of the Redwood Manufacturers Company, Pittsburg, succeeding A. W. Jongeneel rvhose resignation was effective January l.
Mr. Pearson has been associated with the company for the past nine years, and prior to his recent promotion was general superintendent.
The Republic Lumber Company are the new owners of the Wm. J. Bettingen Lumber Company at Pasadena. C. Elwood Glasby, who is well known to the lumber and sash and door fraternity of Southern California, is president of the new concern.
J. H. McElroy, of the McElroy-Cheim Lumber. Co., San Jose, was a recent business visitor to the San Francisco Bay district.
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t Cargo-loading, a new method of loading lumber for rail shipment, has been introduced by the Weyerhaeuser mills to insure delivery of 4-Square packaged lumber to the dealer in A-1 condition, and it is being highly commended by dealers everywhere.
Cargo-loading of rail lumber shipments by the Weyerhaeuser mills may well be terrned scientific lumber shipping and another forlvard step in lumber merchandising. It is the culmination of studies and experiments by Weyerhaeuser mills to popularize lumber pioducts by re-manufactur-
The various items that make up an order are grouped by item and loaded at a limited height for the purpose of facilitating unloading, and the packages are interlaced to obviate shifting and jamming. In some cases the topload is bulkheaded to solidify the entire load into a compact unit.
The accompanying pictures clearly portray the process of car preparation and loading. And after the car, so loaded, rolls on its way over the miles and miles of main line tracks and through the numerous srvitch yards with their high centers, low joints and jerky switch engines, it ar-
ing, packaging and guaranteeing them under the nationallyknown 4-Square trade-mark, and now, by cargo-loading, placing these grade-marked, specie-marked and guaranteed products at the dealer's door in all the original beauty of newly-manufactured lumber a.s it comes fresh from the machrne,
In addition to preserving all of the merchandising qualities inherent in 4-Square packaged lumber, cargo-loading accomplishes two major benefits for the retailer; It practically obviates damage in transit, and of much importance to the dealer, the cargo-loading method permits of quicker unloading, handling and warehousing with consequent reduced handlirtg costs.
Briefly, cargo-loading, in addition to car selection, involves a variety of new practices in lumber shipping. These include an unusually thorough cleaning of cars and the repairing of any faults in the car structure that may cause lumber damage. application of protective furring strips to sides and floor of car, paper coverings on end walls and ceiling, and. sealing of car doors with papel. The heavy paper coverings prevent damage to the stock by cinders and dust that may filter into the car, and that on end walls also protects the square ends of the lumber and the caps.
rives at-the dealer's siding in the form of the long-sought answer to a lumberman's prayer-the receipt of a car of lumber that "comes through in good shape"-qndamaged merchandise, easy to unload, easy to tally, and so clean that it puts the old stocks in the warehouse to shame. The perfect condition in which it is received adds greatly to the modern merchandising atmosphere that characterizes the 4-Square packages when they are properly piled in the dealer's warehouse or shed.
And so, cargo-loading effectively protects en route to the dealer's warehouse the 4-Square packaged lumber that has initiated a new era in lumber merchandising by taking, as asserted by a live-rvire eastern dealer, the lumbir business out of the cracker barrel stage and putting it in the merchandising class.
Cargo-loading has been adopted by the various Weyerhaeuser mills of their own volition. So that there mav be no deviation from the proper method of stowing thl 4Square packages or in providing for their proteciion, the warehousemen and loaders at the mills are governed by a rigidly-enforced set of loading rules. These rules are accompanied by blue print charts that illustrate the methods
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Next to California itself, Texas is the greatest potential consunrer of Western Lumber Products.
With a population over 51000,000, a mighty domain that constantly develops in lumber consumption with its local lumber production decreasing at a rate as rapid as its corsumption increases, the Texas territory extends its hands westward and asks for ttmore lumber.tt
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Pure gold is not spoiled by its associates. ft can be refined to the same twenty-four karats of perfection, whatever its origin. All that is necessary is to rid the gold of its associates that are not gold-
I like Julius Caesar because that would make Shakespeare feel nice about it if he were stiLl living to think one person likes it an]rway even if no one else does.
Cassius had an uns eady past.
Brutus killed himself by rubbing his body over the sword held by one of his men.
Surely being cut off in the prime of his life was a terrible incident for Julius Caesar.
The number of people that take part are thirty-two, and two women make thirty-four.
Caesar died a sad death but they finished the show just the same.
A visitor being shown through an English insane asylum, noticed one of the inmates, an Amcican, jabbering senselessly, and covering the walls of his cell with diagrams.
"\Mhat a pathetic case," he rernarked.
"Yes", said the attendant, "he tried to explain to an Englishman what waffles are."
The local newspaper which offered $1 for each Embarrassing Moments letter accepted by the editor, received the following:
"Dear Editor: I entered my house last night and caught another man with my wife. I was indeed embarrassed. Please send $2 as my wife was also ernbarrassed."
The editor read the letter and sent the man $3, with this note:
"We don't wish to cheat you. We feel that the other man must have been somewhat embarrassed also."
"Did you ever hear anything so perfectly wonderful?" exclaimed the daughter of the house as the radio turned out the last notes of the latest thing in jazz music.
"No", replied her father, "I can't say that I have, although I once heard a colLision between a truck load of empty milk cans and a freight car filled with live ducks."
The annual convention of the American Wood Preservers' Association will be held at the Olyrnpic Hotel, Se.attle, on January 28, 29 and 30. The program which includes papers and reports on the use and service treatment of timberl. the termite situation on the Pacific Coast, and technical reports and papers on wood preservation, is as follows:
"southern Pacific's Experience with Creosoted Douglas Fir Ties on Its Western Lines," by Mr. W. H. Kirkbride, Engineer of Maintenance, Southern Pacific Company. -
"Quesnel Bridge," by Mr. P. Philip, Deputy Minister and Public Wcirks Engineer, Department of Public \Morks, Victoria.
"The IJse of Treated Timber and Lumber in Dock Constru'ction," by R. J. Middleton,'Assistant Chief Engineer, C. M. St. P. & P. R.R. Co.
"service Records on Treated and Untreated Fence Posts," by Mr. R. M. Wirka, U. S. Forest Products Laboratory.
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-Golf Clubs and in Tobaccoin
-Football Teamsand in Automobiles-
"Linc Chloride as a Wood Preservative-Past, Present ln and Future," by Mr.L. C. Drefahl, Grasselli Chemical Company.
"The Preservative Treatment of Engelman Spruce Ties," and "studies of Heat Conductivity in Wood. Results in Steaming Round Southern Pine Timber," by Mr. J. D. Maclean, U. S. Forestry Products Laboratory.
"The Biological Background of the Termite Problem," by Dr. S. F. Light, Assistant Professor of Zoology, University of California.
"An International Termite Exposure Test," by Dr. Thomas E. Snyder, senior entomologist, Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with Mr. George M. Hunt, in charge of wood preservation, U. S. Forest Products Laboratory.
"A New Test for Fire Resistance of Wood and Some Results Obtained With It," by Mr. George M. Hunt and Mr. T. R. Truax of the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory'
J. W. Thompson, McCormick Lumber Gamble, Wash., and Port Gamble, spent in San Francisco at
general sales manager of the Chas. R. Co.'s mills at Port Ludlow and Port St. Helens, Ore., with headquarters at a few days visiting the home office the end of the year.
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Dunning are being congratulated on the birth of a son, William Ransom Dunning, born to them on December 24, at San Francisco.
Mr. Dunning is sales manager of The Little River Redwood Company, San Francisco.
Port Orford Cedar Products Co., Ralph C. Turner, manager, 407 Call Bldg., San Francisco, has a new telephone number. SUtter 5020.
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to be followed, and are as definite and inflexible as those for loading and protecting fragile or perishable merchandise.
Imbued with the spirit of the thing, the loading crews, who are true-blue lumbermen and keenly appreciate the beauty of well manufactured lumber, havi adopted an unwritten loading code which further assures thaf the bright, clean stocks will not become damaged or soiled in the loading process. Greasy hands, grimy gloves and hobnailed
and on the floor; the end walls are furred out and covered with heavy paper to protect the caps and square ends of the lumber; the ceiling is covered with heavy paper to protect the load against cinders and dust that may come through the roof and eaves, and finally the non-loading door is stripped with four-inch strips and calked and covered rvith paper.
After all this has been finished, a generous layer of clean shavings or sawdust is placed on the car floor. Then the
A mell-of-a-hess, and though it is typical of the aaerage empty shunted to the loading platform, it of course cannot be ond will not be used for -Square until ezterything that might mar the tumber is sot riit of , anit ,ririi;j:o:*'pt,
or dirty shoes are taboo, for they too readily sully bright, ciean lumber or its colorful caps.
In selecting cars for cargo-loading 4-Square, preference is given to wooden cars because of their tigtrtei construction, and it is well to emphasize that "selecting" means exactly what it implies, for "any old empty" that may be in the yards is not suitable for 4-Square cargoes. The-car selected must be in good condition or one that can be easily made so. After it is decided that an empty is suitable or can be made suitable for 4-Square loading, the car is swept clean of any debris that may be in it. The next step is io remove nails and repair other defects in the car walls and floor. And then to make doubly sure that the car is free from grime or grit that might scratch or deface the lumber, the car is given a thorough cleansing with water. After the car has dried, furring strips are placed on the side walls
S|ecial attention is given to the end unlls to protect the caps on the 4-Square packages and the square ends of the I* .ber. Protecting strips are placed on both sides of Proiecrtng bolts, iron braces, etc., and faced with conugated fibre board dr chip board. Unli,ned corrugated metal ends are lined with battened door sections to the required height.
car is ready for loading with 4-Square packaged lumber. Loading is begun in a corner opposite the loading door. The 4-Square packages, which are grouped by item, are loaded in tiers the full length of the car, up to within five feet of the ceiling. The loaders work across toward the loading door, breaking package joints horizontally and vertically so there will be no lapping and loading each item separately to keep the various items grouped and to avoid the necessity of walking on the packages.
This part of the load is then leveled off with ASquare items or better grades of regular stock. After being leveled, a layer of any loose boards or dimensions is applied to make sure that the 4-Square is covered over. This layer of boards is covered with red rosin paper over which another layer of boards is placed.
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In cases of "pool car" orders, as each unit of the order is completed, it is separated from other parts of the load by strips of lath, twine or paper.
If this procedure accommodates all of the 4-Square lumber that is to go into the car, the load is completed with common boards, though. these are loaded differently from 4Square packages. First, a 4x4 is placed on the load (across the car) about 12 feet from each of the end walls and an-
the center for the full length of the car; and finally the corners next to the loading door are filled. Then the load is made tight with bulkheading across both doorways. In event the order contains loose boards, these are used for filling in the corners back of the bulkheads, the loading space through the center of the car being reserved for packaged stocks.
And the last step. After the load is all in, the doors are
The lower portion ol the cargo is finished ofr at conaenient height lor unloading. The top layer, it will be noted, is one item, ond canies out the all.ot-each-item-in-one-ploce frinci|le. This loading tnakes unloading easier, and also prouides a proper foundation for the top load. chored securely in place. The boards are Ioaded over these, as shown in the illustration, one end against the end wall of the car and the other end over the cross member; pieces 8 feet and shorter are doubled. It has been demonstrated time and time again that loads with one end thus tilted over a bunker and the other at a lower level, will stand without shifting all the vicissitudes of switch yard handling.
In event cargo-loading to the prescribed height of five feet from the car ceiling is not sufficient to accommodate all of the 4Square lumber in the order, a layer of paper is placed over the first portion of the load, and car-loading style is continued. First, the car corners opposite the loading doors are filled to a width of approximately 2 feet 6 inches, to edge of door; then cargo-loading is resumed down
All of each item is loaded in tiers to a limited'height anil in one place, This is one of the cordinal.rules of cargo-loadingthe motive being to facilitatc unloading and zaarehousing at the retail ilealey's plant.
sealed with a sheet of red rosin or kraft paper. If it is not necessary to use both doors for loading purpos€s, the nonloading door is sealed before the start.
As is obvious, cargo-loading of 4-Square packaged lumber and the other items that make up an order is, to say the least, a painstaking job. Loaders must be carefully trained, and considerable extra expense is involved, But retailers who take pride in clean, bright lumber stocks, who appreciate the merchandising atmosphere which carefully p_ackaged lumber imparts to their sheds, all agree that th-e time and effort put forth to insure the receipt of ttre lumber !y lhem in A'1 condition, are time and effort well spent. And in addition, they benefit by the easier unloading and consequent lower handling costs.
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world, thousands of people from the four corners of the earth visit it each year. Efiicient wo.od-using practices as demonstrated in the Canal Zone, therefore, have far-reaching efiects, and a knowledge of them is taken back by the visitors to the countries from which they come. For this leason, and be'cause it realizes that their effect on the consumption of American lumber in foreign countries is bound to be considerable, the National Committee on Wood Utilization is keenly interested in following wood-using methods in the Canal Zone.
Mr. Oxholm is now preparing a report'which will be submitted to the Governor of the Panama Canal,.in which he gives the results of his findings, pointing out how the recommendations of the Cornmittee may be put into practice in the various departments of the Canal. With the splendid cooperation which Mr. Oxholm received from the Governor and his aides, there is no doubt that the Panama Canal will be among the first to take advantage of any developments in efficient wood utilization.
Following the completion of his work in the Canal Zome, Mr. Oxholm held conferences with builders, architects, engineers, and contractors in the Republic of Panama, thiough affangements made by the branch ''office of the U. S.-Department of Commerce in Panama City.' 11 yas the censehsus of opinion of those attending these bonferences that dissemination of knowledge in the foreign field in regard to American wood using practise,F, with particglar relerence to building and construction'inethods, would lead to an increased and more intelligent use of American lumber in those countries.
It was pointed out that few of the consumers in the tropics have any definite idea in regard to American, lumbef grades, and that faulty construction results from the wrong use of various grades. The unanimous opinion was that iJ American exporters would protect the interests of the ultimate consumer abroad by furnishing grade nrarked stocks su,ch as for years have been furnished by European exporters, the consumer would receive greaier satisfaction from the use of our lumber. The use of end-matched southern pine lumberrvas demonstrated by Mr. Oxholm" by means of samples from a shipment made by the Southern Pine Association and the audience expressed itself as keenly interested in the economies ppssible through the use of this stock.
Native woods are used to some extent on the Isthmus, but the cost of getting out the logs is heavy, and in most instances American lumber may be imported at a lower cost. As a curiosity, Mr. Oxholm pointed out that he saw huts in the jungle built of rnahogany framing, with the siding made from discarded American boxes and the whole building whitewashed.
Thir raw will cut quickly and econornicelly on eithcr herd or roft wood. Whcthcr ripping, cutting-ofr or mitering, it will rtand fert hand fccd without rubbing or ovcrheeting. Thc rucccrful pcrformancc of Simonds Sawr, Kniver and Filer ir duc to the fact that they are backed by Sinondr manufacturing
crpcriencc of ncarly a century.
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E. T. Robie, Auburn Lumber Co., Auburn, Northerrl District vice-president of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, was a San Franciscr Bay visitor last week.
Hawk Huey, Phoenix, well known Arizona lumberman, spent the Christmas Holidays in Los Angeles. He was accompanied by Mrs. Huey.
One of the most attractive pieces of sales literature ever issued by a manufacturer is ihe new Philippine Laminex Door catalogue issued by The Wheeler Osgood Company of Tacoma. Wash.. for distribution to retail dealers who stock Laminex doors.
The book contains illustrations in colors of a number of artistic entrance doors of exclusive design, only a limited number of which will be sold in any one city. The color pictures will be of the greatest assistance to the dealer in selling these high grade stock front doors.
Dealers can obtain specifications and full information cn these door designs from The Wheeler Osgood Company, 1600 E. Washington St., Los Angeles; L.J. Woodson, 112 Market St., San Francisco,':r from the home office of The \Mheeler Osgood Company, Tacoma, Wash.
Announcement is made by Foster Bros. fnc., San Francisco, that they are retiring from the wholesale lumber business, in order that Paul S. Foster and his brother, A. W. Foster, may devote themselves to their many other interests; and that their wholesale cargo and rail business will be continued by M. J. "Ben" Byrnes, who was vice-president of the original concern.
Mr. Brynes will carry on the business at the same address, 2M California, with the same telephone number, DAvenport 1100, and with the same sawmill connections.
The United States Civil Service Commission announces the following open competitive examination
.Applications for junior range examiner must be :n file with the Civil Service Commission at Washington, D. C., not later than March 5.
The examination is to fiIl vacancies in the Forest Service and in positions requiring similar qualifications.
The entrance salaries range from $2,000 to 92.500 a year. Higher-salaried positirns are filled through promotion.
The duties of appointees will be in subordinate assignments on such lines of work as rang'e reconnaissance and surveys, range management, and range development in general; ranger district administration; wild life management; and research in range management, silviculture, ecology, forest protection, watershed protection and economics at forest and range experiment stations, or in Washington.
Competitors will be rated on range management, botany, a thesis to be submitted to the examiner on the day of the examination, and on their education and experience.
Full information may be obtained from the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C., or the Secretary of the United States Civil Service Board of Examiners at the post office or custom house in any city.
Ralph P. Duncan, general manager of the Mer'ced Lumber Company, Merced, was in San Francisco last week on a business trip.
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A new book, "Remodel and Modernize Your Home," published bv the Dernier Service Bureau of Los Angeles. is now ready for distribution and will be used in cooperation with the Material Dealers, Loan Associations, Building Crafts, Civic and Commercial organizations, who are contemplating carrying on modernization campaigns. The book has been compiled by Flovd A. Dernier and shows how the home owner can arrange his present home both in exterior appearanae and add to the conveniences of the interior, through the application of modern thoughts.
The book is very attractively arranged, is beautifully illustrated, and covers all phases of remodeling and modernization which should be of particular interest to those who are desirous of bringing about transformations in their homes. The cover of the book is unique in that it portrays the beauty of a wood veneer stained in brown.
Among the various subjects covered are: Remodeling and Modernizing-A timely Movement; Modern Roofs; Modern Doors and Windows; Exteriors and Sidewalls; Transformation in Homes: Floor Plans: Added Room Conveniences ; Home Interiors ; Shades, Draperies and Screens; Sleeping Porches and Closets; Wall Coverings; Interior Trim; Floors; Fireplaces; Location of Electrical Fixtures; Breakfast Nooks and Alcoves; Children's Rooms; The Housewife's Workshop; Kitchens, Telephones in the Hom,e; Dressing Cabine,t and Laundrv; Hardware and Gas Appliances ; Paint; Trees, Flowers, Shrubs and Lawns and Insurance Information.
The book should prove invaluable to home owners and those interested in the remodeling and modernization movement.
Warren S. Tillson, manager of the Modesto Lumber Co., Modesto, was a recent visitor tr the San Francisco Bay district.
The t. W. Blinn Lumber Company of Los Angeles has already taken steps to promote the use of Douglas fir as an interior finish lumber and.are now devoting considerablq time towards placing this wood on the market in a more attractive manner, not only by careful bundling but by a critical selection of texture for the different purposes for which it is intended.
In discussing their promotional plans for Douglas fir finish with a representative of The California Lumber Merchant, L. A. Beckstrom, sales manager of the L. W. Blinn Lumber Company, stated:
"Many pleasing effects in Douglas fir can be brought out by the various treatments, also there is beauty in the natural finish of fir, which is obtainable in highly figured slash grain and in vertical grain of high textuie. If fir finish is manufactured with a thought of its pleasing appearance, aE well as its utility in the home or building, if will receive the respect and attention of owners and-architects. It is only reas_onable to believe that Douglas fir will find its way into the finest construction when pioperly handled and th-e L. W. Blinn Lumber Company tris ilready taken steps to handpick their fir finish to fromote the use of the wooh.,'
The West Coast Lumbermen's Association will erect and exhibit a nailed wood oil derrick at the Oil Equipment and Engineering Exposition to be held in the Shiine Auditorium, Los Angeles, March 16 to 23,.
The derrick will be either 122 f.eet or 136 feet high, and will be buil't in accordance with the standard plans proposed by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, as a result of investigations made in the past year, and tests made in the last two years of various types of derrick leg sections, at the University of California.
In addition to the derrick it is expected that walking beams and other rig members will be exhibited, as well as a display of grade-marked lumber.
F. A. and W. T. Wilson of Wilson Bros. & Comoanv. San Francisco,. spent the holidays in Los Angeles. 'Duiing their stay they made their headquarters at the company's office, which is under the direction of Bill Glenn.
Eve, while walking thru the garden, Paused beneath the wisdom tree. Where a ripe and rosy apple Hung and swayed most temptingly. "Oh," she mourned, "I must not pluck it !" But with many a honeyed mot, In her ear the serpent whispered, "Beauteous Eve, why not, why not.?"
When our Franklin saw the lightning Darting thru the threatening cloud, And heard the roaring thunder's Detonations long and loud, "Might a goodly power," he queried, "From the clouds be lured and caught?" And a voice-perhaps the serpent's, Answered, "Try it man, why not ?"
When earth's mighty ones and fearless Cast all foolish qualms aside, And in ecstacy of spirit, Strange, unbroken steeds bestride, 'Tis because a dream allures them fn some silent, lonely spot, And a voice-maybe the serpent'sSays to them, "Why not, why not?"
Dreams and visions thru the ages, Leading on to wondrous things: Broken chains of superstition, Toppling thrones of tyrant kings Are the net results, I'm thinking, Of that legendary plot, In which serpent, fiend, or angel, Whispered first, "Why not, why not?"
-Adeline M. Conner.George C. Cornitius, president of the Gerrge C. Cornitius Hardwood Co., Inc., of San.Francisco, has just retlrrned to his desk from Los Angeles and reports that the New Year is opening up very satisfactorily for his firm. He reports the sale of 500,000 feet of Philippine Mahogany and Jap Oak and Birch for the first seven days of this year.
Cargo arivals into San Francisco Bay, month by month for the year ended December 31, 1929 were as follows:
The United States Civil Service Commission announces the following open competitive examination: Applications for junior forester must be on file with the Civil Service Commission at Washington, D. C., not later than February 18.
The examination is to fill vacancies in the Forest and Indian Service and in the Bureau of Biological Survev, and in positions requiring similar qualifications.
The entrance salaries range from $2,000 to $2,500 a year. Higher-salaried positions are filled through promotion. '
The duties of appointees will be in subordinate work on such line of work as timber sales, such as scaling and marking timber on small sales; improvement in the con.struction of roads, trails, and other engineering works; timber cruising and mapping; forestation, both nursery and planting projects; protection from fire, insects, and dis-eases; wild life management; ranger district administration; and research in silviculture, products, range management, and economics at forest and range experiment stations, or in Washington Competitors will be rated on forest management, utilization, a thesis to be submitted to the examiner day of the examination, and on their education and lence.
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Full information may be obtained from the United States Civil Service Commission at Washington, D. C., or the Sec. retary of the United States Civil Service Board of Examiners at the post office or custom house in any city.
Plans for t*ris attractivc home can bc furnished by thc Lumbetments Se$ice Association Fay Building, Los Angeles.
A nlnutr ud accmtc guldc to a"[ branchec o{ tha Lunb6 Indu3try ot Warhingtd, Orega, Calffmia, Idaho, Mmtua, Coldado, Nmda, Arlm' Nw Mexlco, Suth Dakotan Utab, Wyming, Alu&a, Bri".t' Columbia, the Phtlppirca and llawaii.
In paacuel infmtim gim irhdee Prealdent, Mangr, Supcrin- tardeng Salr Muager, Purchadrg Agcnt lDd Marter Mehuic. A Co' pht Ult ti mchirsy and equipmg dally epsctty, ap*ies of wood awed, etc,, enabla thc Seller to tbe Induby to elct Sahc Prcpccte and Luber Buyrs to plae orderg ud inquirlier htallilratb.
Abreast of the advancement in modern mechanics, comes the announcement by the Simonds Saw and Steel Company, Fitchburg, Mass. of a decided improvement in the manufacture and quality of high speed steel machine knives. From its headquarters the Simonds Company to- day releases the story of the successful culmination of experiments and research toward the goal of a greatly improved machine knife, the Chromium Plated "Red Streak" High Speed Steel Planer Knife.
This nerv knife is being installed in plants throughout the wood-using industry and a scientific check on it, made in a number of plants in various sections of the country, establishes the fait that it develops much greater service than the usual run of thin knives. Tests have shown that this new knife, chromium plated, operates with perfect success on kiln-dried stock, giving more than 25-per cent longer life and from 2OO/o to 3N/o longer time between jointings on green lumber. Knives with the cuttingedge back beveled are not affected by Chromium Plating but on al,l other High Speed Steel Knives whether srlid or welded edge the new treatment gives these fast feed knives greatly increased cutting service.
The National Clean Up and Paint Up Campaign Bureau isin receipt ofa letter from the "Cal,cutta Municipat Gazette," official organ of the Corporation of Calcuita, India, requesting full information about the method of organizing and conducting a Clean Up and Paint Up Campargn.
The letter, which is from Amel Home, Editor of the "Calcutta Municipal Gazette," includes the following para- graph:
"It would interest us very much to learn about the activities of your organization and to publish in the Gazette from your publications excerpts which, we believe, will aid in suggesting new ideas to Municipal Officers and Councillors in this country who read the Gazette. We shall welcome your allowing us that opportunity."
Full information has been sent to India bv the National Clean Up and Paint Up Campaign Bureau.
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Retail Yard and Complete Building Material Store, County Seat Town, 11,000, Southern California. Will lease Yard Site on 7 per cent net return on investment but want to sell improvements. Investment necessary in fixed assets not over $15,000. Address Box C-289, California Lumber Merchant.
Experienced bookkeeper-Cashier-Estimator-Salesman-Yard Manager-open for position-go any place. Address, Box C-296, California Lurnber Merchant.
Wantecl position, manager or salesmanager, Lumberman with 16 years' experience. Best of reference. Any time after January 1st. Address Box C-299, California Lumber Merchant.
Retail lumberman with experience in general office work, estimating, bookkeeping, shipping, etc., wants permanent connection with Los Angeles retail concern. Has been connected with the retail lumber business in Los Angeles for several years. Can furnish good references. Would appreciate an interview. Address Box C-301, care California Lumber Merchant.
With real punch to represent a Fir sawmill in Los Angeles territory on commission basis. Must have favorable acquaintance with the Cargo trade. No objection to an established man now selling other species, if does not compete, provided he has knowledge of Fir Lumber. State fully record of previous selling experience. Box C-302, California Lumber Merchant.
Association Secretary ten years' experience and handling of Lumber,men's Associations or successful-can show results-Address, Box fornia Lumber Merchant.
POSITION as organizer Clubs-very C-295, Cali-
Desires to sell Planing Mill business to energetic young man who is anxious to take over a well established business. Plant is located in Southern California and has been in operation for many years. Will sell stock, machinery, all office fixtures, anci will lease the real estaie. Will seli'at very reasonable terms. Address Box C-30O, care California Lumber Merchant.
One yard manager with experience in California or Arizona. One bookkeeper with lumber experience. Applications kept st,rictly confidential. Hayward Lumber & Investment Company, P. O. Box 155, Los Angeles.
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Cut Off Saw, 3 H.P. Motor Blower System Complete UARCO Ticket Machine.4 Roll No.77 Mimeograph Cary Safe 42" High resS Box C-303. Care California Lumber Merchant.
An ideal drawing and estimate sheet, correctly scaledindispensable for Retail Lumbermen, excellent sideline for Salesmen. For samples and information, address, PBL Safety Calculator Co., Box 1878, Pampa, Texas.
The office of tihe California Lumber Merchant is constantly receiying applications, from both men and women, desiring work with lumber concerns. Mot of these have had previous lumber experience.
When you are in need of help of any kind, either office or yard, why not get Ore habit of calling us first and grrittg ur an o'pporhrnity to be of seryice to you as well as to ttose needing employment? There is no charge with t{ris service, to employer or employee.
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MOOt throughout of California W'hite Pine cut from Long-Bell forests, the King Long-Bell Door possesses all the advantages afforded by this ideal door wood, plus the advantage of Long-Bel[ manufacture. It is a door made to last the life of a building.
It is a door in keeping with modetn architectural demands. Attractive flush moulding accentuates the panel and adds to the simplicity of design which is so much desired today. The 3-ply, rotary cut veneer panel, inset firmly into stiles and rails, gives added strength and will not work loose and rattle. Veneered styles with built-up cores give additional assurance against warping. It takes any finish readily, and costs less to fit, mortise and hang than doors of other woods, Guaranteed. Available through retail lumber dealers.
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