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Inccpcated uder the laws of Callfornh J. C. Dionne, Pree. and Tru.; J. E. Mstin, Vie-Pres'; A. C. Menym' Jr.' Sey. Publiched the lst ed lSth of each mth at tft-10-20 Central Building, lot W$t Sinh Stret, Lc Angelc, Cal., Telephone, VAndike l5C5 ' Entered u Secod-cls3 mtter Septen$er B, lrz2, at the Pctofrle at Lc Angelea, Califmia, undcr Act d March 3, lf/9.
Douglas Fir-A total of 3O3 millr reporting to the Weet Coart Lumberrn€n's Acsociation for the week ended Janua4l 3 operated at 22.60 per cent of capacity, as compared lo 45 29 per cent of capacity for the same week lart year and an average of 65 per cent during the first five months of last year. During the preceding week tfiere millr operated at 2l.OZ per cent of capacity, which repreeented the lowert volurne of production for any week during 1930. The cxtremely. low production during the past two weelrr is accounted for in part by the holiday shutdowna, but operating plan announcements made individuatly by a Large nurnber of Wert Coast operators recently indicate to the Asociation that production will continue at a low per cent of capacity during the imrnediate future. In the 32-week period rince the week ended Nlay 24, 1930, a total of 352 mills have operated at 44.95 per cent of capacity, and have reduced their collective prod'uction by more than one and one-half billion feet.
MilI inventorier have been reduced 7.81 per cent during the pelt 32 weeks. Continued reduction of production ir anticipated by fhe Asrociation and further decreases in inventorier are expected. Stocks are badly broken with popular yard items increaringly dfficult to obtain"
Production, orders and shipments at 228 mills for the week ended January 3, were reported to tte Association rs followr: Production 6019951344 feet, shiprnents 90'005'247 leet, Ordcrs 78,815,26O feet. Orders were 29.22 per cent over prodfdtion, and shipmentr 47.56 per cent over the output.
Detailr of orders and shipmentr as reported bv thece 228 millr follow: Orders-Rail 26,1 12,746 teeti Dorneetic Cergo 29,596,36O feet; Export 13,911,409 feet; Loca! 9'194,745 feet. Shipmentr-Rail23'748,9(X) feet; Domertic Cargo 42,966,348 feet; Export 14,095,254 feet; Local 9,194'745 feet.
The California market showc very little change, but there ir a feeling in some quarterr "that we atre over the hump" and that the market rhould rhow improvement from now on. The retail demend continuer about the sarne, but in the Lor Angelec territory, sorne of the dealerr report a better demand for indurtrial itemr. Wholesalers report that the ritrurtion it the millr, due to the heavy production curtail-
ment, is strong and the milh are getting better prices than a month ago.. On mill rhipmentr, mostly on' Com,mom, wholccalera state that they are getting an increare in price of from SOc to $1.0O.
Unsold rtockr on the public dockr at San Pedro totaled 12,OI9,OOO feet on January 7. The number of lumber verrels in the California rervice f,ard*un has increased to 65.
The California Redwocid Association for the week ended January 3 reported production ftom 1O rnillc as 1r857rO0O feet, shipmentr 3,696,000 feet, and orderr 2,869,(X)O feet. For the week ended January 3, tte California White and Sugar Pine Manufacturers Asgociation reported produc{ion frorn 24 mills ar 4r(MO'OOO feet, shipments 8r326r(X)O feet' and orderr 7,719,OOO feet. With the opening of the New Year the Redwood and Pine mills report a better tone to the market. Pricer continue firm. +
The lumber movement during New Year'a weeh followed closely that of the preceding holiday week, being marked by exceptionally low production even conrid'ering the cuttomary searonal decline, it is indicated in reportr from 841 leading hardwood and softrvood mins to the National Lumber Manufactrtrers Association. Production of there mills for the week ended January 3 amounted to 132,828'OOO feet. Ordenr were 19 per cent above and shipmentr 35 per cent above this figure.
The current relationrhip of shipmentr and ordere to production for the 52 weeks of 193O ended Decemb€r 27, at reported by the regional ascociations to the National Lrmrber Manufacturers Association, follows:
Weat Coart Lumbermen's Association-p1s{ustion 7rllg,M7 M feet; Shipments 6,979,906 M feet; Orden 6'998,171 feet.
California White and Suger Pine Manufacturerr Ascosiglien-ppoduction 920,248 M feet; Shipmentr 982rE84 M feet; Orderr 960'084 M feet.
California Redwood Association-Production 337'631 M feet; Shipme'nts 3O6,747 M feet; Ordere 306'575 M feet.
Southern Pine A$ociationProduction 2r7l2r27$ M feet; Shipmentr 2,565,528 M feet; Orderr 2,528,202 M fect.
Total Hardsqo{s-ploduction 1,859,298 M feet; Shipmentr 11654,913 M feet; Orders 1'560,636 M feet.
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By Jack Dionne
' Welcome, 1931. On behalf of the lumber industry we bid Srou twice welcome. Yes, twice. Once because we are so glad to get rid of 1930. Twice. because we have great hopes for what YOU will bring.
If good will and *""u .i,"rlu" lorn n"rn you, 1931, you're bound to be a huge success. We've only got one horse entered in this race for life, and that's YOU. We've bet our whole wad on you. If you fail us, like 1930 did, we're going to be in one Devil of a mess. So please, 1931, DO something; BE something. If you won't do something or be something for your own sake, and for the sake of the name you will hand down to history, then do it for OUR sake. And do plenty of it.
Yes, 1931,.we know "": ;";""r. We admit we have a somewhat dark past to live down. We know our record isn't the best. We know we have made a considerable mess of a grand opportunity. We know we haven't progressed as we should; we haven't kept up with the march of time like we ought to have. We admit we've trusted too much to luck, and haven't done'enough for ourselves. It took us a good while to find it out, but we know it now. And we're going to do better. Honest, we are, 1931, if you'll just give us a chance.
We've made a N"* vl"r'l ,l.ot.rtiorr. 1931. We've resolved that if you'll just bring us a little prosperity, we,ll get out and do a lot for ourselves. In the past we admit ure've left everything to Time, and Chance, and providence. We kicked when the prosperity we were doing nothing to create, wasn't big enough to suit our ambitions. And we cried for help when things got very bad. We didn't understand that we had been given one oi the best and most useful of industries; one that only needed a little help from us to ride the crest of the wave. But we know it now. And in 1931 we're going to do our best for and with our business. It's a promise, that's what it is. **:k
No longer, 1931, will the mills cut boards and dimension just as they've done for fifty years, and hope the world will come and buy it. No more will the dealer sit in his office and wait for someone to drop in and take his lumber away from him. It's a promise, 1931. Do something for US, and, for the first time in our history, we'll do something for ours-g]rq".
Speaking of New Year's ideas and suggestions, Roy Dailey, manager for the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association, at Seattle. offers this: "Horses can pull a circus wagon along a dirt road. They can buckle down and haul it through a little sand or mud. But when it comes to the steep hills-where everyday horse power fails-IT'S TIME TO BRIN*G UP THE ELEPHANTS."
Mr. Dailey likens such a situation to the situation of the lumber industry at the present time, and suggests that the time has come to quit fooling around, quit sitting and wringing our hands, and BRING UP THE ELEPHANTS. He says that the concentrated power of new ideas, plus increased sales effort and co-operation, is "the elephants". And he thinks we have arrived at that point in the situation where one good push by the elephants will put us over the top, and back on the prosperity road.
The greatest boost ,", ; r;"; of building activity that the nation has known so far in 1931, was staged in Los Angeles, on New Year's day. Universal Pictures Corporation, together with a number of the Los Angeles retail lumbermen, staged the very impressive stunt. Universal is getting ready to build a lot of new sound stages and other buildings incident to their 1931 picture making campaign. So they placed their order all at once, and arranged for delivery by truck in one solid pafade of lumber. It required exactly 101 big lumber trucks to haul the order. They were well decorated with banners, etc., and paraded through the main streets of Los Angeles, and through Holtywood to Universal City, where the'trucks were unloaded, and the lumber will be used. Wouldn't a stunt of that nature, even though infinitely smaller, be a big building boost in every city and town ?
One prime reason *n, Jrrrlr* things should revive in a hurry when the upward turn comes, is because it fell off so completely last year. And of all the building materials, lumber undoubtedly suffered rhost of all. Brick, cement, lime, metal, and composition building materials were all hurt in 1930, but none of them as much as lumber.
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first thing that is dropped from the program when times get bad. Things to eat, and drink, and wear, and even the lesser luxuries may not feel it as much. But buildings and building improvements can always wait. They've been waiting more than a year now. The waiting time is about over' * r< *
It will be interesting to note the total production of lumber for 1930, when the final figures are compiled. It is likely that the total national production will be twenty to
The Eagle Rock Lumber Co., Eagle Rock, Calif., of which Emil F. Swanson is owner, is sending outa very attractive calendar this year. The scene on the calendar was photographed by Mr. Swanson in the vicinity of Lake Tahoe. in the High Sierras of California. It is a vierv of the upper end of Grass Lake, just above Fallen Leaf Lodge and the punt shown in the photograph is occupied by his father-in-larv, Mr. H. N. Tracy, who has been one of his camping companions during the past several years.
John Hutchinson, president of the Huchinson-Moore Lumber Company, Laurel, Miss., has acquired control of the Glendale Lumber Company, Glendale, Ore., according to a recent announcelnent. S. K. Ingram, of the Hutchinson-Ingram Co., Kansas City, will also be connected with the Glendale concern. A. A. Snvder will continue as manager of the sawmill.
twenty-five per cent below that of the previous year. Some species report thirty to thirty-five per cent reduction.
Cement production has not declined anything like lumber. The cement folks report their production to the Govemment, giving their ratio of production to capacity. In 1929 their ratio of production to capacity was 66.8/o. For the first eleven months of 1930 their ratio of production to capacity was 62.8%. Their stocks on hand increased 26.3%. They got hurt, but not like lumber.
"Light Frame House Construction". a 200-page illustrated prac-tical handbook for carpenters, prepared jointly bythe Federal Board for Vocational Education and the National Comrnittee on Wood Utilization of the Depart: ment of Commerce, is now ready for d;stribution and may be obtained from the district offices of the Department of Commerce, or from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., for 40c a copy, $35.00 a hundred, or $250.00 a thousand.
The book is intended mainly as a source of information for carpenter foremen, journeymen, ancl apprentices. rvho will find in the publication answers to numerous problems met in the construction of frame houses. For instance. the manual rvill enable the carpenter to determine readily the solution to such questions as the following: What are the safe spans for various sized joists? Hor'v many holes can be cut safely in joists to accommodate pipes ? What is the best way to apply sheathing and how many nails ancl what size should be used? What are the most satisfactorv ways of framing over and around openings? How shoulcl-a shbe mold be nailed? What are the most efficient mt:thods of bracing?
FNDLESS CHAINS have been such an rn.L fernal nuisance that the Savannah Sugar Refining Company thinks it is time to find a qood usi for them. The company has donated Ihree checks for $50 each to the Chamber of Commerce of Atlanta, Ga., one for the Salvation Army to buy coal, one for the Family Welfare Society to buy food and one for "a poor widow with cKildren who owes debts."
These checks will be good for one day only in the hands of any person into whose hands they fall. They cannot be hoarded or be cleared through banks, but nrust be used within twenty-four hours to buy merchanclise or pay merchandise debts. At the end of sixty days the bank on which they are drawn will cash them for whoever happens to holcl them, so the chain will not really be "endless."
By this means the donors of the checks hope to make the $150 do at least $9000 worth of circulating. If the checks change hands oftener than once a day, so much the better. The idea seems like something that ought to be put up to Professor Einstein.
Editorial from San Francisco Chronicle of Jan. 6, 1931
If f 150.00 can do f,9000.00 work of circulating in sixty days what does the Redwood industry mean to California? It pays over t500o.00 per day in taxes in this state; its total daily expenditure is ovetfl33,000.00.
Our guess is that the REDWOOD INDUSTRY is an important factor in the economicwelfare of CALIFORNIA.
Washington, Dec. 31.-In addition to its help in pointing out the ernployment possibilities in such major undertaking as the $25,000,000 construction program of three leading universities, the President's Emergency Committee for Employment is calling national attention to the millions of dollars worth of imorovements that can be made on American homes to the advantage both of occupants and the communities in which they dwell. While there is a potential market for over $200,000,000 worth of materials and labor in building extensions for schools and universities, there is believed to be a market reaching into the billions in home modernizing. Because of the plentitude of skilled and unskilled labor norv available and the extremely lorv cost of building materials this is considered a most opportune time for bringing residences up to the standarcls of beauty. comfort and efficiencv demanded bv American standards of living.
To meet this opportunity, Col. Arthur Woods, director of the Committee, has recently had compiled and distributed alist of 172 important points about the average home at rvhich replacements or worthwhile improvements can be made. This work, if undertaken generally by the home orvners of the nation, 'ivould profoundly affect the employment situation. Postponing such improvements may necessitate their having to be done at a time when labor will be scarce and materials high. It will be remembered that it took only a year and a half of war time with its limited drvelling construction to bring about a ten-year boom in house building.
The list that Col. Woods' Committee has prepared is a handy memorandum for the lumber dealer to present to customers in his neighborhood. It bears the disinterested stamp of approval of the government, whose suggestions are for the benefit of the entire nation, and it serves as a detailed reminder to the home orvner of some things he may be overlooking, but will have to attend to either now or in a higher price period. It is divided into convenient sections as follows : General exterior, 16 items; general interior, 16 items; windows, doors, frames and sash, 19 items;
porches and'steps, 11 items; floors, 6 items; stairs and stairways, 8 items; foundation and sidewalls, l0 items; roof, flashing, gutters and downspouts, 11 items; garage,6 items; the basement, 14 items; plumbing and heating, 25 items; plumbing, 11 items;lighting and power, S items; walls and ceilings, 5 items; the attic, 9 items; grounds, 5 items, and miscellaneous, 3 items.
Ifere are some items that will specially interest the lumberman:
Repairing frame rvalls, repairing or adding screens, blinds or storm windows, repairing roofing and flashing, repairing porches and steps, inclosing porches, garage repairs and improvements, repairs to fences and trellises, refitting doors and windows, refinishing walls, woodwork and floors, repairing stairs and railings, remodeling the attic, repairs to blinds and shutters, loose or shabby balconies and iailings requiring repairs, advisability of additional windows or doors, broken, loose or missing shingles, decayed porch column. bases requiring replacement, broken, loose or missing porch balusters, decayed, broken or loose floor boards, advisability of installing lattice work to hide under porch view, decayed or inefficient porch supports requiring replacement, decayed, loose or worn poich steps, lpacei between joists and sills needing fire-stopping, floor joists sagging or warped requiring slrpport or bridging, need for partitions in basement, attic or elsewhere, finisfiing unfinished rooms with plyrvood, etc., installation of ce-iling in basement or attic, shelves, closets, cupboards, bins, built-in cedar closets, remodeling mantel or fireplace fronts, new housing for plumbing and heating pipes in living quarters, replacement of rvorn doors, windows or sash, remodeling narrow doorways, relaying floors or laying thin floors ovei old. ones, replacing baseboards and molding, new treads or strings for creaking stairs, replacing old posts, rails and balusters, installing disappearing stails to attic, installation of louvres for attic ventilation, need for shelves or bookcases, advisability of providing clothes chute, telephone cabinet or built-in conveniehces.
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,, .Co,oyy..of l}l.,truc.ks contoining over ffi,Off .board fe-et _o-f lumber_ ltossing ouer Cahuenga Pass enroute to the [Jniuersal picture Studios, uniz'ersal City, L-olifornia. !h9 lym\r.was furnished by.the Hgmyond Lumbir Compony, Liunsberry & Hrrris, and E. K. Wooa Li*iti Ci., ol Lo.s Angeles. .Each truck load of lumbet carried a_sign zuhich was a quotation by eod Laem.mli, President'of the (Jniaersal Picture Cor- poration. --The sigtts read: "Unioersol is Practicing. Proiperity by B-uying_Nour'; "build;ng i eriiperiit- Nti'iiir-1s, Uniaersof'; ',Buy Noza f or Uniztersol Proslterity in 1931"; "practice .What.yo'u, fiegcir, Build"proslteritt Noi..' Wt itn i;;rii thioigi lt n ;orrr;, of Los Znset/s d Hollyzvood, the caratan u,as a
Washington, D. C.-During the past fiscal year 1,726 miles of roads and 6,175 miles of trails were constructed on the 149 national forests of the United States, according to report from Major R. Y. Stuart, Chief of the U. S. Forest Service. This represents an expenditure of $10,356,172, ol which $8,883,595 was F-ederal funds and 91,472,577, coopera- tive funds.
The estimated expenditures required to complete all roacl and trail work in the national forests is $232.588.200 which is divided into forest highways or first class roads forming part of State or county highway systems with:n or partly within the national forests, estimated to cost approximately- $19,057 per _mile; forest development or secbndary roads builtby the U. S. Forest Service, estimated to cojt $1,911 per mile, and trails at $130 per mile. According to
the present estimate, r,vhen completed. there rvill be 16,020 miles of forest highways, 5L,703 miles of forest development roads, and 149,768 miles of trails.
To date, $lll,l79,87l has been spent by the U. S. Forest Servi.ce on roads and trails, representing $89,122,195 road funds, ff2,152,933 other Federal funds, and $19,904,743 cooperative funds. This sum has accomplished the construction of 18,455 miles of roads and 53,452 miles of trails. Highways or major roads have cost an average of $14,368 per mile; forest development roads $1,327 and trails 9171 per mile.
At present there is an annual authorization of $12,500,000 for the construction and maintenance of roads and trails in national forests. Of this amount $9,500,000 is legislatively set aside for forest highrvays or major roacls and $3,000,000 for forest development roads and trails.
Mr. Tom Kennedy, of New York City, has sent to the various Chambers of Commerce_ througlrout the United States, a copy of his new song entitled, 'DON'T BUY BYE AND BYE,'BUT 'EUy BUY NOW!
LJ\sTERERS want a build. ing paper that doesn't have to be c.babiedot, yet is
light enough to be handled easily. Sisalkraft stands an amazing amount of abuse on the job-it doesn't tear or puncture in handling or bulge and stretch. It eliminates back patching. One man can handle it easily, even in a high wind, because Sisalkraft does not depend on mere bulk for its strength, but gets its amazing toughness from the crossed sisal fibres imbedded in asphalt and covered with heavykraft
paper (see illustration'below).
Sisalkraft is eemore than a building paper''. It is a waterproof, alrnost tearproof paper that can be used for every purpose on the job that re. quires strength, watertight. ness, and flexibility. It can be used as a protective covering for materials or for floors and furniture on inside work-and the same paper can be used several times because of its wearing qualities.
Write for details of our plan to sell Sisalkraft to your plastering bontraetors.
Manufacturers of Douglas fir, West Coast hemlock, Western red cedar and Sitka spruce in the territory along the West Coast of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia sold approximately 25 per cent less lumber in 1930 than during the previous year. The percentage of decline was practically identical in the foreign as in the domestic markets, Europe being the only major market area wherein important increases occttrred.
Approximately 83 per cent of the lumber manufactttred in the Douglas fir region of Oregon and Washington is used in the United States, as is 65 per cent of the lumber produced in the Canadian Province of British Columbia. Of the combined Oregon, Washington and British Columbia lumber shipments into the United States, approximately 50 per cent moves by water to California ports and to the Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantic Seaboard. The remainder is shipped to the interior by railroad. While the lumber and wood products of the Douglas fir forest region are used for thousands of purposes, the bulk of the production is utilized in individual home building, railway construction, engineering projects and in wood fabricating industries.
As 1930 closes, the \A/est Coast lumber industry is preparing for a rvinter of protracted shutdowns with consequent extremely low production. For the entire year the industry averaged 54 per cent of capacity in production, and during the last five months about 45 per cent. It is expected to average not more than 30 per cent from December 15 to February 1. Since summer, or for at least six months, the lumber industry of this region has been operating at a loss of from two,to three dollars per thousand board feet. As the total production for the region has been approximately 3,000,000,000 board feet in the past six months, the aggregate loss at two dollars per thousand rvould be $6,000,000. Average mill prices on all items in December were five dollars per thousand feet below those of a year ago and until they increase to at least slightly above the average cost of production, it is unlikely that lumber cutting in volume rvill occur in this territory. The present outlook is for very slow production schedules until spring. Recently inquiries for industrial stock and for railway car and bridge material have come to our industry in larger volume than heretofore and some firm orders have been placed. We expect more railway and industrial business in 1931 than was received in 193O.
The lumber use outlook for 1931 depends more on a revival in residential construction throughout the United States than on any other one factor, as home building is still the largest single lumber market. Fewer single homes were built during 1930 than in any year since 1924. The slump in residential construction started in the midsummer of. 1928 and the volume has declined ever since. We believe it has reached its bottom and should now, or at least early in the spring, begin to revive. Whether the revival will immediately be of consequence or not, cannot be told at
this time but we ju.dge from studies made on residential contracts arvarded this fall and building permits in August, September and October, that greater activity in residential construction will occur in the spring of 1931 than was witnessed in 1930. Important reductions in the cost of home building occurred during 1930 and in many localities houses may be built for from 1O to 20 per cent less than in 1929, r,vhich should hasten the residential construction movement and give it strength when it starts.
Stocks of lumber of all kinds in the hands of wholesalers. retail lumber dealers and industrial users throughout the United States are extremely low. Due to the decline since 7923in the sales price of lumber at the mill and to the more rapid railway and steamship service in the past ten years, dealers and distributors have gradually lowered their stocks. Business has been slow with them in the past two years, and this local stock depreciation has continued until now the bulk of the lumber in stock in the United States is in the hands of the mills. Five years ago the situation was reversed and the retail dealers and other distributors carried greater stocks than did the mills. In our judgment, the combined stocks of mills, retail dealers and other distributors, as well as industrial users, are not excessive for a market demand equal to that of 1930, and if demand increases suddenly, lumber stocks may be found to be too low.
Another movement, the penetration of western woods into new market areas throughout the United States, has been going on during this period of retail dealer, distributor and industrial user inventory depletion. Today, Douglas fir, West Coast hemlock, 'Western red cedar and Sitka spruce are in common use in thousands of communities and in scores of industries where they were unknown ten years ago. These gains are particularly noticeable in the railway car and bridge material items and in the demand from important lumber consuming areas for standard building lumber. The structural grades of Douglas fir-especially in the larger timbers-have come to be the accepted standard of the country during the past two years. This expansion in the distribution of West Coast lumber during the past five years is expected to continue in 1931. It is based on the qualities of these western woods in competition with other species and on the reduction in production in other timbered areas.
The outlook for lumber and other West Coast forest products in the foreign markets is complicated by the extremely low buying power of practically all countries and the great volume of lumber planned to be sold by Russia throughout the world as part of her five-year economic plan. The American lumberman of the west, paying taxes on his forests, and high wages to his employees, cannot compete in Europe, Africa, South America or Asia, with lumber from Russia made from confiscated timber on which no taxes are paid and logged by convicts or enforced labor whose cost to the Russian government is but a few cents a day. Seventeen per cent of our West Coast production in lumber is usually sold in the export trade but it is doubtful, in the light of Russian competition and. the depressed
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DEALERS who have already sold the New Creo-Dipts tell us that no other stained shingle ever had so many selling points. Every shingle individually finished to make colors more uniform-twice as durable as before. No pronounced variation in shade of timb even in lightest shades of gray. Even the method of packing is improved-new dustproof cartons seal every shingle against dust and dirt in transit, in your stock, on the job. Yet we have not increased price.
In addition, we have developed new roof blend treatments, and a new Antique finish for Creo-Dipt hand-split Pilgrims that is already attracting architects' and builders' attention.
If you haven't seen the New Creo-Dipts let us know. We'll be glad to send you a carton and let the shingles speak for themselves.
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16 C.alifomia Street, San Francieco, C.alif.
San Diego Dhtributor
WE ST.KINGPETERSON LUMBER CO. 'w'est Atlantic Street'San Diego, Calif.
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Eugene, Oregon, Dec. 30.-An advertisement that appeared here in a recent Sunday edition of the RegisterGuard is being widely ,circulated by the Twin Oaks Lumber Company. This advertisement, calling attention to four good reasons why this is the time to build or repair, especially urges that prospective builders take advantage of the services of locally well known skilled mechanics whose time is now available in most communities.
The four reasons this company cites for letting contracts now apply nationally. They read:
l. I-abor is abundant. Dependable men are to be had.
2. Our banks have large resources available to those who are entitled to credit.
3. Lumber, the most widely used building material, costs less today than in many, many years.
4, Other building materials are low-priced, plentiful and of. excellent quality.
Alistof the many desirable jobs that idle mechanics in town and country can be called upon to do is given by the Twin Oaks Company. It includes: build rooms in attic, enamel kitchen, make a fruit closet, kalsomining, finish or re-lay old floors, build cedar closets and chests,- concrete cellars, build garage, lay concrete walks, build vegetable room, enamel the bath-room, install fireplace, lay new shingle roof or repair old, repair culver'ts, build new feed racks, re-floor bridges, putin breakfast nook, build barns and stock buildings. build machine shed, enamel the furniture, install new closets, waterproof cellar walls, insulate the house, put up milk house, lay a concrete driveway, paint or stain shingles or house siding, build garden fence, glassin porches or poultry house, put cedar shakes or new siding on side walls, put on weatherstrips, do inside painting. install work bench in basement, and repair roof gutters.
These are some of the suggestions made in this company's advertisement. Many others will occur to home owners who have their own household problems to think of. The advertisement poin,ts out, that those who have such matters to attend to could pick no more economical time than the present, and that they are assured, in addition, of being able ,to get the services of experienced ancl competent mechanics who will do a job that will be sure to please them. They will also help their neighl>ors and their communities to get back to better times.
The Truscon Steel Company, Los Angeles, announces that E. B. McClure has been appointed General Manager of the Truscon Steel Company interests on the Pacific Coast. Mr. McClure took over his new duties on Tanuarv l
Washington, Jan. 12.-In spite of the inroads of substitutes, the wooden box industry almost held its orvn in the past two years, suffering only a 1.3 per cent decline in value of products, reports by the U. S. Bureau of the Census for 1929 indicate when,compared with figures f.or 1927. At the same time, paper box and paperboard box production declined 3.9 per cent in value, it is shown.
Total value of products in wooden boxes, cases and crates, (not including cigar boxes), in 1929 was $122,597,000. This figure covers establishments engaged primarily in the manufacture of wooden boxes. In addition, these products are made to a considerable extent by other manufacturers, as containers for their own products, and as secondary products by sawmills and planing mills. The value of such boxes and shooks produced outside the industry in 1927 was $55,946,870. The corresponding 1929 figures are not'yet available.
In l9D the Census Bureau shows the following' segregation of wooden boxes by classes and value of products:
The Western Sash & Door Co., Los Angeles, wholesale distributors of sash, doors, windows and screen doors, are sending outa series of blotter advertisements that carry colored illustrations of scenes seen on the golf course. Among the titles of the golf illustrations are: "The Fussy Foursome"; "DivotDiggers-Why Strong Men Weep and Finally Go Raving Mad"; "Starting Off Behind a Slorv Bunch"; "Doc Starts in to Broadcast His Grief" ; "The Human Boiler Factorv That AlwavsRuns Full Blast Around the First Tee"-; "Incident in-the Life of a Digger Who Lives Alongside the Qeu15s-and Who Owns a Dog": etc. You will geta great kickout of these golf cartoons.
Sawmill production in the Province of British Columbia was greater during l9D than during 1928, states a report from the vice consul at Victoria to the Lumber Division of the Department of Commerce. Production during 1929 ..las 2,3@,346,000'board feet as compared rvith 2,16O.166.m0 board feet for 1928.
Sitting and waiting and hoping isn't going to be any more practical as a business getter this year than any other year. Too much of all three is our chief trouble right now.
Tn. more the people of your community know about HARBORD Plywood, the more of this material you will be able to sell. These booklets and folders will tell them about its various uses and show them how it will save them time, money and labor in building, remodeling or odd jobs. We supply them to you free for you to distribute and will also furnish you a complete series of newspaper advertisements in "mat" form for use in your local papers or cuts to use in your regular advertising.
lJ you hooen't recefited o set oJ these helps, send Jor thern todoy oddressing the rnill or our ColiJornio representotiae. Write or rpire tor prornpt quotations and deliaeries on plywood ond doors.
You can dcpend on FLYI-OCK for cvcry ulc to whicL fir and .prucc plywood ie adapted...Theiahercnt quality of itr lumbcr ir uneurpaercd, and thc carc uacd in manufacturing ir in lsccpins.
The December issue of "The Dutch Bov Painter and -The Carter Times," published by the National Lead Com- pany, New York, contained an article on the painting of Redwood. This publication runs a Question and Answer column, and in answer to the question, "Does the painting of Redwood siding require a special formula?", the editor replied as follows: '
"Answer-You often hear that Redwood and red cedar siding are hard to paint. As a matter of fact, both of these woods are among the easiest to paint. Moreover, paint usually wears much longer on them than on the pines and other woods containing wide bands of hard summer wood. For best results, three coats of white-lead paint should be used, follo,wing the regular formulas.
"The idea that Redwood and red cedar are hard to paint is probably due to the dark brown stains, much like tobacco juice, that sometimes appear on the finish. These stains are caused by water-soluble material which comes out of the wood. As these are readily washed off, very little harm is done except that the job looks bad for a while. When Redwood and red cedar are allowed to weather for a short time before priming, the brown spots are not so likely to form. Care should be taken that the wood is drv when the priming coat is applied. It is also desirable to wait long€r than usual before putting on the body coat."
The sale of the Caddo River Lumber Company, producers of Arkansas Soft Pine, is now being handled through the Exchange Sawmills Sales Company, Kansas City, Missouri, and the Caddo Company will in the future confine its operations to the production and milling of lumber.
rtThis is a brand new year with prospetity close at hand-leds qo to wo,rk and cash in on this opportunity with well balanced stocks of Redwood.tt
The Exchange Sawmills Sales Company already sell for four other lumber mills which produce approximately 20f.,000,000 feet of pine lumber annually. The Caddo River Company will add three more mills and bring the total production to 300,000,000 feet of pine lumber.
The, Caddo River Lumber Company, manufactures Arkansas Soft Pine at Rosboro, Glenwood and Forester, Arkansas.
Other Exchange mills are located at Fisher, Clarks, Standard and Slagle, Louisiana and at Pineridge, Oregon. It is expected that this consolidation will bring about economies that will better serve both the manufacturer and the retail lumber trade.
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condition of world trade, if 1931 in this department rvill improve over 1930.
The Russian authorities have recently signed up with English timber factors for the delivery of 1,188,000,000 board feet of lumber in 1931. and a second contract has been made covering the entire production, or 600,00O units of Soviet doors in 1931, to be delivered to England. Great Britain, heretofore, next to the United States. has been the world's best buyer of Douglas fir doors. Our industry expects to meet competition from Russian lumber throughout the world, and if we except the larger sizes and special uses where our woods are preferred for their exceptional characteristics, this competition may decrease our former 'exports into the world markets.
Wednesday, December 31, marked the completion of 30 years in business in Ri,chmond, Calif., by E. M. Tilden, pioneer lumberman of the San Francisco Bay District. On that date, it was just 30 years ago that E. M. Tilden and John Eakle opened the Tilden and Eakle Lumber Co. in Richmond. When Mr. Eakle died ten vears later. the company became theTilden Lumber Company and has been operating under that name for the past twentv years.
Several years ago, Mr. Tilden acquired more yards in Northern California, until his holdings numbered D yard.s. About three years ago, due to ill health he decided to reduce his responsibilities and disposed of most of the yards, retaining the Tilden Lumber Co. yards at Richmond, Rodeo, Crockett, Berkeley and Oakland.
In addition to the lumtrer business, Mr. Tilden is president of the First National Bank of Richmond. Mr. Tilden is now enjoying excellent health, and on December 31 was the recipient of many 'congratulations from his large host of friends on his thirtieth anniversary of being in business in Richmond.
'Western Door & Sash Company, manufacturers and jobbers of sash, windows, doors, etc., has opened an office in San Francisco at room 32O, ll2 Market Street, where they will conduct a strictly wholesale business.
The office is in charge of R. S. Grant, who was for many years associated with the California Door Co., and for the last year was secretary-manager of the Millwork Institute of Northern California.
'Western Door & Sash Co. is specializing in Philippine doors and panels, and they also sell a full line of cabinet fixtures of their own manufacture.
Charles A. Balm, who for the past twenty years was connected with The Pacific Lumber Co., at Scotia, California, died suddenly on November 29. At the time of his death, he was foreman of Mill "B".
The following resolution, copies of which were forwarded to the bereaved family and to the lumber press, were adopted by the Foremen's Safety Committee at Scotia:
WHEREAS, Almighty God has removed from our midst our friend and fellow employee, Mr. Charles A. Balm; and
WHEREAS, the members of the Foremen's Safety Committee feel keenly the loss they have suffered in the death of one who gave such unselfish devotion to the safety and rvelfare of his fellow workers.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that we, the members of the Foremen's Safety Committee wish to expre,ss our sorrow and regret over the death of our fri'end, and have ordered a copy of this resolution to be spread upon the nrinutes of our meeting, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the committee transmit a copy ofthis resolution to the bereaved family and to the Lumber Press.
J. P. McGovern, P. M. Cook, A. R. Thompson.
will floor the splendid new buitdings oftbeU. S. Anny's "West Point
San Antonio, Texas
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The selection of Royal Oak Ftooring to fill the specifications of this major government enterPrise comPrises an impressive testimonial to the corectness and craft of t{remanufacturing sandard of
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A new and practical book for the use of architects ancl engineers in designing with structural Douglas fir has just been published by the West Coast Lumbermenls Association and is now available for distribution. Its title is "Douglas Fir Use Book". The book contains design tables and supporting .techni,cal data which enable a designer to figure loads and specify sizes of Douglas fir for a structure easily and with assurance. The price of the book is $1.00 per copy. It may be obtained from the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, 364 StuartBuilding, Seattle, Washington.
The new book supersedes'the "Structural Timber Handbook on Pacific Coast Woods", published by the Association in 1916, and which has been out of print for a number of years. It ,contains a number of valttable features not in the old handbook.
Since publication of the 1916 edition of the "Structural Timber Handbook", which incorpora,ted grades of No. I Common, Selected Common and Selected Structural for structural purposes, a great deal of progress has been macle in the development of structural grades. In 1923 the United States Departmen't of Agriculture issued Circular 295 of. theUnited States Forest Products Laboratory, entitled "Basic Grading Rules and Working Stresses for Structural Timbers". This circular which was published at the time the American Lumber Standards were being formulatetl was adopted as the basis for structural grades of the beforenrentioned lumber standards. It was carefully studied arrtl worked over by the American Railway Engineering Association and the American Society for Testing Materials, in cooperation with the Forest Products Laboratory ancl cotunrittees of the standardization project.
Out of this rvork came amplifica'tions of the basic systerrr established in Cir,cular 295 and the detailed provisions necessary in c,omplete sets of structural grades for the manufacture, grading and use of structural timbers, a record of the laws of structural grading, the factors ne€essar)' of in,clusion in them, notes useful to a designer in using the grading rules and working stresses recommencled for them, and a detailed analysis of the determination and caleulation of working stresses from the basic values for the various species. The results and findrngs of these bodies
are dealt with in the nerv "IJse Book" under the sections entitled "Basic Laws for Structural Grades", "Determination of Working Stresses for Structural Grades", a table showing the basic working stresses for green clear wood iu structural sizes to which grade-strength ratios can be applied to determine rvorking stresses for grades containing defects; "Calculation of Working Stresses for Structural Grades", "Grade-Ratio Values of Structural Grade Examples of American Lumber Standards", "Working Stresses for Structural Grade Examples of American Lumber Standards", and "Notes on Working Stresses for Structural Grades Complying with American Lumber Standards."
, The Douglas fir standard structural grades presented in the "tlse Book" have been reproduced from the Number Nine rules of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, the latest rules for grading West Coast woods and, therefore, .conform to the "Basic Provisions of American Lumber Standards for Structural Material". The working stresses shown are based on the recommendations of the United States Forest Products Laboratory, all of which have been developed since the old handbook was published.
The dressed sizes shown in the design tables of the "IJse Book" conform to American Lumber Standards. During the time prior to the inception of American Lumber Standards, the West Coast standards for West Coast material were in effect, being /g" off for dimension 2" thick and tl" oft for material 3" and thicker. In widths, the West Coast standards were %" ofr up to 6" and f" off for material 8" and u'ider. The finished sizes shorvn in the old handbook were based on West Coast standards. Norv, since Ameri'can Lumber Standards have been adopted, %" ofr is allorved for material 2" to (' thick, and in widths, /s" off up to 7" and f" over 8". In the case of Beams and Stringers 5"x8" and larger and Posts and Timbers 6"x6" and larger, tl" oft each way is allowed for dressing conforming to American Lumber Standards.
Other neu' sections are "Stresses in Compression or Tension Only"; the offering of a recently developed formula to determine compression stresses on surfaces inclined to the fibers; "Grading of Timber for Preservative Treatment", Working Stresses for Treated Douglas Fir", "Com-
parison of Cost and Utility Values" and'a cross reference of equivalent grades of Douglas fir of American Lumber Standards, American Society for Testing Materials, American Railway Engineering Association and West Coast Lumbermen's Association.
Another section which will be of help to specifiers and designers is that showing recommended uses of standar<l grades of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association for Douglas fir, West Coast Hemlock, Western red cedar and Sitka spruce, and the supplementary section of explanatory notes.
Other new sections show the working stresses for the West Coast Lumbermen's Association standard structural grades of Douglas fir cross-referenced with those of the American lumber Standards and notes pertaining to them.
In the design tables for Joists and Beams appearing in the !'{Jse Book", the loads given are for uniform l<lading and include the weight of the memlter, rvhereas in the old book, only the superimposed load ll'as shown. In order to facilitate the use of the tables for other loading, however, loads are extended to the spans next beyond those giving shear stresses fifty per cent greater than the grade values, and to deflections trventy-five per cent greater than at one thirty-second inch per foot of span, so that by using the proportional relations between load, span, shear and deflection for various kinds of loading, loads can be determined from the formulae offered for these methods of loading. In the case of the old book, the shear stresses and deflections were confined to their actual limit. Also. in the old handbook, loads given were based on abstract values whereas in the new tables they are based on grade values. In the new "IJse Book", besides conversion factors for rough materi.al, conversion factors appear in the design tables for material surfaced two sides and also for material surfa€ed two edges whereas in the old book, conversion factors for only rough material were shown.
Two column tables were used in the old handbook. one based on a formula adopted by the American Railway E,ngineering Association and theother based on a formula established by the Fores't Service. A few years ago, the Forest Products Latioratory developed a new column formula which has been generally adopted as a definite larv governing the strength for timbers used as columns, and upon which the tables for posts and struts in the new book have been based.
The old handbook included a table of maximum spans and maximum deflections for laminated floors uniformly loaded. In the new handbook the order was reversed, and there is shown instead, a table of loads for plank and laminated floorsuniformly loaded, and which includes a column showing the load required to extend the floor to a deflection limit of l/16" per foot of span. Together with the table for plank and laminated floors is a section explaining its application.
The "Douglas Fir Use Book" was prepared by the technical staff of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association under the direction of Chester J. Hogue, in charge of the Association's Trade Extension and Field Service Department. Mr. Hogue is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineeri and a graduate of Massachusetts Instiiute of Technology. For a number of years he was practicing architect and engineer. Mr. Hogue is recognized as one of the outstanding n'ood nse authorities in the United States.
The design tables were prepared by or under the direction of Professor E. S. Harrar, College of Forestry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
M. CORMICK'S Jobbng facilities are or' ganized with the profit-interest of California lumber retailers in mind. A ro-million feet stock in San Francisco for Northern California trade; the same at Wilmington and San Diego for the Southern
So any and every requirement is met immediately-111rck or rail shipmentr as you may specify.
how to participate in 1931 profits to be made in FIR-TEX insulated board, for which we are distributors for Northern Itisa lumber product, and no su$sdtuls-99.SVo long Douglas Fir fibre. No filler or binder.
Follorving its policy ot sharini the 1'ear's earningS with its em- ployees, The pioneer paper Company made its annual rlistribution to more than 300 employees, ac. cording to an announcement made today b)' ittr J H. plunkett, Cen- eral I\tanager of the Company
I\{arking the third annual distribution under the employee partici- pation plan inaugurated in 1928. individual enrployees share on the basis of length of service and position with the company
"Although business conditions during the past year have been looket! upon by ntany as being un. favorable. the Pioneer Paper Company has ntade a noteworthy record of sales comparing very favorably with the year 1929," stated Mr Plunkett- "This progress has been due. in a large measure, to dreater economies in manufacture and to increased service rendered our customers, together with a splendid spirit of co.operation and' interest on the partof our employees.,, Merchandising plans and policies, particularly in the sale of asphalt shingle roofing onthe time pay- ment plan, have also played an important role in the building of a successful year during 1930, accord- ing to Mr. Plunkett
Several major improvements in its sixteen acre plant have been rnade within the last year, includ- ing the erection of a new manu- facturing unitfor the production of emulsified asphalt. enlargement of the asphalt refinery, and the addition of a complete new wtng to the administration building to ac- commodate severa.l new depart_ ments necessitated by the growth of the organization.
Ploleer Paper Cmp€my to ertem.tl their best Dealers for the greatest tbe cGhg year.
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!b. J. E. Plunkett, Genera.l l{aDagar, Pioneer Paper Conpany, Ios .lnge).es, Ca]-1fornla.
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Slnceraly yours,
EUSIrTEES Of PIONEER PJPER CCMPAIY (Slgaatures of all eEployees attacheil)
At the close of a highly successful year, the Pioneer Paper Company recently followed its annual plan of dividing the year's profits among its employees by distributing "dividend" checks to more than three hundred persons on its payroll. The event marked the third yearly distribution under the ,concern's employee profit-sharing plan inaugurated in 1928.. Under the plan, individual employees receive a share of the profits on the basis of position and length of service with the company.
Although the plan has been in operation a comparatively short time, The Pioneer Paper Company reports that it is proving an excellent means of stimulating interest and loyalty on the part of the employee, and is reflected in an increased quality of product and service. "The participation of the employee in our profits," stated Mr. J. H. Plunkett, General Manager of the company, "has shown a marked influence in the character of our service to our customers, and in the quality of our products, themselves. "The plan is rapidly being adopted by many large industries throughout the United States as a definite factor toward building success upon the sblid foundation of loval and interested employees."
"While business conditions during the past year have
H. D. Mortenson, Pelican Bay Lumber Co., Klamath Falls, Oregon, has returned to San Francisco following a business trip in the east.
H. B. Hewes, Jeanerette, La., president of the Clover Valley Lumber Co., Loyalton, Calif., and a director in the Pacifit Spruce Corporafion, Toledo, Oregon, was a recent visitor at the Los Angeles office of the C. D. Johnson Lumber Co.
been looked upon by many as being unfavorable," continued Mr. Plunkett, "the Pioneer Paper Company has made a noteworthy recor'd of sales comparing very favorably with the year 1929. This progress has been due, in a large measure, to greater economies in manufacture and to increased service rendered our ,customers, together with a splendid spirit of cooperation and interest on the part of our employees."
A number of important improvements have been made in the company's sixteen-acre plant in Los Angeles. Noteworthy among these was the erection of a nerv manufacturing unit for the production of emulsified asphalt, enlargement of the asphalt refinery, an,d the addition of a complete new wing to the administration building to accommodate several new departments necessitated by the growth of the organization.
During 1931, the Pioneer Paper Company are planning an intensive sales building program covering the principal items in the line. A feature of the plan will be territorial advertising help for individual dealers, and the launching of several new products controlled exclusively by the Pioneer Paper Company and its allied manufacturers.
Arthur E. Lane, New York City, President of the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association, has just completed a five weeks' trip to the Pacific Coast. Mr. Lane spent ,considerable time on Association matters, and attended meetings arranged by wholesalers and manufacturers, at Minneapolis, Spokane, Seattle, Portland, Eugene. Ore.. and San Francisco.
H. G. Larrick, Lumber & Builders Supply Co., Solano Beach, was a recent Los Angeles visitor r,vhere he attended to company business matters and called on the trade.
W. F. O'Keeffe, Watertite Casement Hardu'ood Co.. Los Angeles, who recently returned from a five uronths' business trip to Texas rvhich carriecl him over all sections of the state reports that his trip rvas very successful. He states that among the prorninent jobs in rvhich he succeedetl in having "Watertite Casement Hardrvare" specified, included the follorving: High School at San Antonio ; Sau Benito High School ; Christian Science Church of Dallas ; Recreational Building for the City of San Antonio; Community' Theatre, at Comfort; together *'ith manl' fine residen,ces throughout the state.
The Watertite Casement Hardrvare Co. norv has dealer representation in all parts of the state of Texas, he states.
Utilizing the front portion of their main office building, the Sun Lumber Company, of Beverly Hills, Calif., has completed a building material display as an aid to homeowners and builders. An attractive rustic corner' a portion of a kitchen. a breakfast nook, and other rooms have been reconstructed in such a \\'ay as to display the products handled by the company. "We find the service not onll' attractive but helpful to the builder and homeou'ner alike". Earl C. Jameson, salesmanager of the company' states. Frank Burnaby, rvell knor,r'n Southern California retailer, is president of the Sun Lumber Compant'.
The Trojan Cupboard Company, of Burbank, Calif', are opening thL new year with the distribution of a new catalog of t-heir "Trojin" cupboards and built-in fixtures. The ne-w catalog shows illuslrations and pric-es, and copies are 'being mailJd to the retail lumber trade. T!"y.merchandise their"proclucts through the retail lumber dealers, and-Joe Williams. of the Trojan Cupboard Company, says: "It is the firm conviction of our company that shop-made cupboards for the kitchen. as rvell as cases for the bath-room and rvardrobes, should be handled by all retail lumber dealers. Since the organization of the company'. its business has been strictly wholesale." Complete service in the line of dealer helps is rendered by his company, also their representatives are pleased to make pers-onal calls on bona ficl'e prospects turned in by lumber dealers, Mr. Williams sa)'s.
YOU, who sold them, know that to be a fact. YOU, who passed up that profit last year, can add to your sales and your profits in t931.
Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co.' of Montesano, Wash., have opened an office in the Western Pacific Building, Los Angeles. E. E. Schmidt, who has been connected rvith the sales department at the company's millat Montesano for the past several 1'ears, n'ill be in charge of their L.os Angeles office.
Witnessed by a gathering of over 500 spectators, including municipal officials and industrial leaders, the corner stone of the first windowless factory-the ultra-modern plant of the Simonds Saw and Steel Cornpany, was. taid _at Fitchburg, Mass. on Saturday forenoon, December 20. This marks another decisive step in the advancement in industrial activities of the country's foremost organization in the edge-tool field.
Thomas F. Howarth, vice president, who on the same
tive and abilityof Daniel Simonds, and of his three sqns who succeeded him, and are now at the head of the company'
"This structure will embody trial construction that have not building of this size, intended purposes.
many new ideas of indusheretofore been tried in a chiefly for manufacturing
"While the application of these ideas may be new and untried, the purpose back of their adoption is not new to
date observed his 50th anniversary as an employe and officer of the company, officiated at the ceremony. Following introductory remarks by Hon. Joseph N. Carriere, mayor of Fitchburg, Mr. Howarth spoke briefly, referring to the establishment of the Simonds industries by Abel Simonds, 99 years ago. Mr. Howarth paid tribute to the late Daniel Simonds, under whose direction great advancement lvas made in the company's development.
Mr. Howarth said in part:
"In the town of Fitchburg, Mass., in 1832, Abel Simonds started in the business of manufacturing tempered steel cutting edge tools. Figuratively speak'ing, he, by that act, laid the corner stone on which has been builded the present Simonds Industries.
"In the city of Fitchburg, Mass., practically one hundred years later, we are today laying the actual corner stone for a new Simonds factory building, significant of the development of the Simonds Saw and Steel Company up to the present time. This development has been due to the initia-
the Simonds Company but has been a guiding policy of the company since its establishment.
"That purpose has been and now is to provide the best working conditions, to provide the best of service and quality of product for our customers, and to aid and encourag'e the industrial growth of the city of Fitchburg. Those things that are the best for others we truly believe are best for ourselves.
"Fifty years ago this morning I began working for the Simonds Company. I have worked for them ever since and consider it a great personal privilege to assist in laying this corner stone for the new factory and to place within it a sealed copper box containing records and data which may be of interest when opened at some unknou'n time in the future.
"This has been done. The mortar has been spread. The stone has been set in place. I therefore declare this corner stone well and truly laid and I norv turn over to the president of the company the spegial tror'vel used only on this
one occasion, to keep as a reminder of this event. M"y the ideals and visions of the Simonds Company long endure."
Responding, President Alvan T. Simonds said that the laying of this corner stone marks a new era in factory construction as rvell as an effort by this,company to make business better. He mentioned the investigation which
swer is that we do not know, and we do not believe that they know. We have always worked for the comfort and well'being of our men, and in this factory everything that science can suggest to that end has been incorporated."
General Manager Gifford K. Simonds expressed his confidence in the successful development of the new factory and methods of manufacture. He said: "In order to get
has been made by officials of the Company to determine on a more efficient method of manufacture and scientific factory construction. President Simonds stressed the investigations and research made by Gifford K. Simonds, general manager of the Company, saying the new idea islargely due to his efforts. Said Mr. Simonds: "We have frequently been asked how our men will like it. Our an-
perfect conditions in a building the first requisite is controlled conditions. We cannot control sunlight and therefore must have light control conditions. The new machines in this factory will not look like the old ones. Everything has been planned for the greatest comfort and welfare of the men who will work in this new factorv."
Cross.ett, Arkansas.-Formation of the Fordyce-Crossett Sales Company with headquarters at Crossett, Arkansas, and having for its purpose, marketing of the lumber products of the Fordyce Lumber Company, Fordyce, and the Crossett Lumber Company, Crossett, Arkansas, has been announced by officials of both concerns.
While owned by the same interests, these pioneer Arkansas enterprises heretofore have marketed their respective outputs individually. Under the new sales plan which goes into effect January 1st, the extensive operation and comprehensive plant facilities of both concerns become. in effect, a single enterprise with an attendant increase iu the range and volume of products now offered the trade through one marketing source and comprising an annual production of 50,000,000 feet of Arkansas Soft Pine, 20,000,000 of Royal Oak Flooring and 30,000,000 feet of Southern Hardwoods.
Established in the early 9O's, the Fordyce and Crossett projects have played an -important part in the industrial development of their home state. Each has been a constructive factor in the practice of scientific forestry, enabling both plants to continue supplying the trade with their present volume for an indefinite period. In addition to supporting substantial pay rolls, both have been active in providing systematic thrift and savings plans for employees, ideal living conditions for workers both at tl-re plants and in the woods, and in establishing company supervised s,chool s1'sten.rs rvhich have attained national
Ross Hostetler, manager of the Costa Mesa Lumber Co.. Costa Mesa, Calif., has announced the purchase of the Independent Lumber Co. The Independent Lumber Co. was started about three years ago by John Shroth. The stock of lumber and building materials will be moved to the Costa Mesa Lumber Co. yard, and the business of the Shroth Co. condu,cted from that office.
repute as models in both primarl'and secondarl' education.
Offi,cers of the new sales company are A. Trieschmann, president; D. C. Gates, vice-president ; L. J. Arnold, secretary-treasurer; J. W. Watzek, Jr. and E. C. Crossett,-Directors. W.H. Burroughs, who for several years past has been sales manager for the Fordyce Lumber Company, will have the same position with the new sales company. A.W. Bird, who has been sales manager for the Crossett Lumber Company, becomes superintendent of manufacturing operations, bringing to these duties a ripened experience in production and marketing. It is considered that these changes and unified sales plan constitute a constructive forrvard step which will be of direct and substantial benefit to every user of Fordyce-Crossett products.
Beginning as pine manufacturers 40 years ago, both plants have since expanded to include the manufacture of hardwood and oak flooring on a large scale. The companies' products are now marketed over a rvide territory extending from the Rocky Mountains to Nerv England. and embracing a wide range of industrial users as well as lumber yards and planing mills.
Keeping step with the progressive merchandising practices now required byhighly competitive conditions, the products of each of these mills are trade and grade marked in accordance with the recommendations of the United . States Department of Commerce and as practiced by the leading lumber trade association members throughout the United States.
Chester Minard, of the Cutter Mill & Lumber Co., Sacramento, has been reappointed vicegerent snark folSierra, Yuba, Sutter, Colusa, Yolo, Placer, Eldorado, Sacramento and Nevada counties, Calif., by Supreme Jabberrvock H. S. Morton. lle was nominated for reappointment by the members of Hoo Hoo in his district and u'as recommended by State Counselor Paul E. Overend.
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Washington, D.C., Dec. 30.-The services of E. St. Elrno Lewis have been retained by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association to address such retailer conventions as fit inwith the distinguished speaker's available dates.
Mr. Lewis occupies a unique position in American business circles as a man who has made a special study of the trade association movement in its relation to the problem of creating markets for products in the larger centers, where competition between industries is intense. He has had over thirty yeLr:' experience in advertising, sales, management, merchandising, as a general executive of an advirtising age-ncy handling a very large volume of business, as a g'en-eral executive of a large plant, as well as in the operation of his own business as ,counsel to many firms, trade groups and professional bodies.
From time to time, during this thirty year period, he has been connected with some of the outsianding-American specialty organizations, such as the National Caih Register Com.pany and the Burroughs Adding Machine Com-pany. In his advertising and sales experience he has merchandised over.seventy-five -lines of products, selling direct through retail merchants; has been sales counsel to fortv-three linis of industries; and advertising c.ounsel to over four hundred different organizations. In the past four years he has been concentrating on large groups of industry and trade through their associations, and has worked with more than one htirdred and twenty-five associations.
Recognizing his ability as a developer of nerv sales conc-eptions and plans, and as a leader of-groups, he was made the first president of the Associati,on of Njtional Advertisers; sales managers elected him a member of the exclusive New York Managers' Club;the s,teel furniture inclustrv elected him the first president of the Association of Ste;l Furniture Manufacturerii!9 was organizer and first presi- dent of the Jamestown (N.Y.) Chamber of Commerci, and .was a member of the Board of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. He has been invited to lecture on mer,chandising, sales and trade topics before the Universities_ of Harvard, Michigan, Il[inois, Iol.a, Missouri, Northwestern, Wisconsin, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and for the past seven years has been Visiting_Lec_turer on the subjects of sales and merchandising at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, IJniver-- sity of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Lewis is not an advertising agent. He has nothing to sell in the 1v_ay.of copy, adverlising space, printing, oi illustrations. He is a counselor. HiJ experience in Jiles, merchandising, advertising and marketing enables him to clarify problems and to suggest an attitude toward thenr that will, he believes, evolve a profitable solution.
The contribution by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association of Mr. Lewis' lectures to retailer conventions is part of a retail merchandising promotion plan now being matured by the National Association to- stimulate th; method of intensive selling to prospects by personal solicitation.
Racine, Wis., Dec. 30.-An old plank road was discovered buried six feet beneath the present surface of the city streets by a sewer construction crew. The road. estimated to have been built more than seventy-five years ago, was in good condition.
THE Celotex Company has learned this fact, r that: the only thing that will produce continuous and profitable turnover of a dealer's gtock is consumnr acceptance established by a broad and coruinuous national advertising campaign.
Over a period of years The Celotex Company has spent millions in magazines, newspaperE and business journals in convincing people of the merits of Celotex insulation for year'round comfort, lower fuel bills, and attic remodeling.
54 publications will carry this year''s Celotex advertising campaign-the greatest aggregation of sales power mediums back of any insulation material.
The total number of advertisements appearing in these mediums means that 132,000,000 sales power units will be used to broadcast the Celotex story in 1931.
Tell your salesmen to capitalize the nationwide preference for C.elotex-insulated homes. Send today for the Celotex Merchandising plansto help your men produce a faster, more profitable turnover.
The Celotex Company, 9L9 North 'lhe Company, 919 Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illinois. In Canada: Alexander Murray & Company, Ltd., Montreal. Sales distributors throughout the World.
Here are a couple of movie shorties.
- You've all heard the age-old story of the mail carrier who was given a day off, and went for a nice long walk. This one works the other way.
The first assistant to a big movie director is the most yessified yes-man on earth. That's the only word he is Cver allowed to use when on dutY.
So they tell of the first assistant to a famous movie director who had a day off, and spent the day walking around saying aloud, to no one in particular, just repeating over and over again-
"No. No. No. NO-O-O-O-O."
And there were the two rich movie producers who had graduated from the cloak and suit business, who were discussing how to put some punch and class into a story they had bought, and which was too weak to use.
Finally Goldberg named a famous writer of Hollywood, and said, "Let's hire him to re-write itt"
"ft vouldn't do," said Feinberg.
"Vy not?" asked Goldberg.
"He's too caustic," said Feinberg.
"To hell mit de cost," said Goldberg. "Get him."
Our veneer plant-<nothet s€rvice department of our big Loo Angeles plantoperates all the time and overtime to suPply our trade. Ve furnish anything and everything in veneers, stoclc or cut to ordet. Ve offer special setvice in veneers from any of these woods:
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California's share in the receipts from the national forests within the State is g496,977 for the fiscal year 1930, or almost 14 per cent more than for the previous fiscal year, according to Regional Forester S. B. Show of the U. S. Forest Service. This amount has iust been turned over to the State and will be distributed among the 39 counties in rvhich national forests are lo,cated. Fideral law requires the U. S. Forest Servi,ce to return to the State 25 pef cent of- all receipts from the sale and nse of timber, forage and other resources, and this annual contribution has incleasecl steadily from 952,183 in 1908.
Tree specimens found buried in a clay forrnation beneath a glacial drift about 120 leet below the original surface at 5th Ave. and Bell St., Seattle. Wash.. have-been identified by the U. S. Forest Service as a close relative of the coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens). Geologists estimate that that wood has been buried for about 40,000 years.
The Department of Agriculture stands sixth in the number of employees of all the Government departments. The personnel numbers 25,736, according to figures compiled by the Civil Service Commission. There are 20,558 men and 5,178 women. One of the largest bureaus of the Depart- ment of Agriculture is the U. S. Forest Servi,ce, charged rvith the administration and protection of 159,750,000 a&es of Government land included in 149 national forests, which has 2,170 permanent employees.
The United States now uses 4 million tons of newsorint yearly, or twice the amount required ten years ago. Newsprint _imports amount to 2.6 -million tons, largely from Canada, with Newfoundland and the Scandinavian coutttries sendir-rg small quantities. Twenty years ago this country was self-supporting as to newsprint. The forests of the Territory of Alaska administered- by the U. S. Forest Service are able to supply one million tbns of newsprint annually in perpetuity.
A plantation of big trees (Sequoia .washingtoniana) establish"4 17 years ago in the Humbug region of the Klamath National Forest in northern Californii has shown great ability to live and thrive under adverse conditions, according to reports ofU. S. forest rangers. Out of 482 big tree seedlings planted, 275 or over 50 per cent, are alive and thrifty. The 'tallest tree is 15 feet high, the average height is about 9 feet, and some of the trees are already bearing cones. The site tvhere these trees wer,e planted is hotter and contains less moisture than the situations where big tree groves occur in the Sierra Nevada,-the only p)ace in the r,vorld where this species is found grorving naturally.
The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, will occupy the entire 24th floor of the Shell Building, 100 Bush Street, starting February l.
Th9 telephone number will remain the same as ar present, GArfield 1181.
Three of the rooms will be finished in Redwood, and each of these will be a reproduction of a room in a famous old Colonial home.
Samples of Redwood and literature will be displayed in the entrance lobby.
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On January 2nd, 1931, Wm. G. Mugan, Secretary of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Company, celebrated his 47th year of ,continuous service with that concern.
on January Znd, James-t;J celebrated the 50th an'iversary of his connection with The Chas. Nelson Company, of which he has for many years been executive head. He was a nephew of Chas. Nelson, and started in the lumber office of his uncle when just a boy.
New Orleans, La., January 3-Against the possible menace of foreign importation of lumber which may endanger future prosperity of the lumber industry of the South and other p-arts-of the United States, the Tariff Commission is now .collecting data on the production ,costs and the economic conditions surrounding the industry. On the strength of these studies, this government will probably decide, within the next several months, whether the present duty of $1 per thousand feet. board measure, will be incre.ased., to protect American labor and investment from unfair foreign competition.
Nelson Courtland Brown, professor of forest utilization at New York State College of Forestry (Syracuse, N. Y.), and representative of the Tariff Commission, reached New Orleans several days ago, and began collecting producingcost data on Southern pine from the Southern Pine Association, and representative Southern mills which requested that the pine industry be included in the Tariff Commission's investigations.
Everyone engaged in the lumber industry is doubtless familiar with the darkey calendars issued each year by the Moore Dry Kiln Company of North Portland, Oregon, and Jacksonville, Florida. The drawings by James P. Alley, famous creator of "Ifambone's Meditations" which appear in thedaily newspapers of the South, are exceptionally clever.
The new 1931 calendar is just off the press, and shows old Un,cle 'Neas fishing in a "hog wallow" near his dilapidated sawmill and logging operation, which is shut down due to the 1930 business "repression".
The calendar picture is entitled "The Optimist"
By writing the Moore Dry Kiln Company either at North Portland, Oregon, or Jacksonville, Florida, a free copy of this interesting calendar may be obtained.
TheAtlantic Lumber Co., Bell, Calif., announces the addition of a roofing department to their business. Ralph J. Starkey will be manager of the new department. Dewitt Caspary and Max Gardner are the owners of the Atlantic Lumber Co.
Executives from the Northrvest offices of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. rvho attended conferences at the home office in San Francisco in thefirst week in Ianuary included E.R. Wade, of the Portland office; A. A. Gay, manager of the mill at St. Helens, Ore.; J. W. Thompson, manager ,of the Port Gamble and Port LudIow mills; Paul Freydig, logging manager, Seattle, ancl Clyde Sutherland, manager of the piling department, Portland.
R. S. "Bob" Osgood, Los Angeles, Southern California manager of the Wheeler, Osgood Co., is back at his desk following a business trip to the company's plant at Tacoma, Wash., where he conferred with officials of the company.
George C. Cornitius, George C. Cornitius Hardwood Co., Inc., San Francisco, was a recent Los Angeles visitor where he spent a fer.v days calling on the hardwood trade.
H. W. Gustafson, general sales manager of the Coos Bay Lumber Company, San Francisco, returned Januarv l0 from a business trip to the company's operatiqns at Marshfield, and to'Portland and Seattle.
Robert C. Parker, Manager of the Portland, Oregon, office of the E. K. Wood Lumber Co., has been spending his vacation in California visiting his relatives at Oakland. He also visited the company's offices at San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles.
Bruce Burlingame, Los Angeles, spent a few days at Pittsburg, Calif., around the first of the month r,vhere he attended a salesmen's meeting of the Redwood Manufacturers Company.
C. E. Dant, Dant & Russell, Inc., Portland, Oregon, was a recent California visitor where he spent several days in San Francisco and Los Angeles conferring with the company's California representatives, Tom Dant, of Los Angeles, and R. C. Turner, of San Francisco.
W. W. Wilkinson, Los Angeles, District Manager of the Oregon-Washington Plywood Co., left for a business trip to Honolulu and Hilo on January 3, on the "City of Los Angeles," to make a survey of the plywood market in that territory. He plans to return to Los Angeles on January 2)
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A big business house had a cashier's job vacant, and received an application from a man who listed his assets and pUitities for the prospective employer as follows:
f "Assets: A wife and three children, a home in the coun[ry without a mortgage, $2,000 cash in savings bank, $3,200 lt iberty Bonds, $+,OOO other securities, $20,000 insurance, fbmber of a local churth, a good temper, habit of getting up early, good health,age 42, never been in court for anything.
"Liabilities: Lost my last job for taking a certain stand on too much efficiency when an efficiency man was brought into our midst; believe strongly in the human equation in business: rather self-opinionated; spend a bit too much on clothes; like a good drrink of liquor when I can get it."
They say he got the job.
Make this a day. There is no gain In brooding over days to come; The message of today is plain, The future lips are ever dumb.
The work of yesterday is goneFor good or ill, let come what may; But now we face another dawnMake this a day.
Though yesterday we failed to see
The urging hand and earnest face That men call Opportunity; We failed to know the time or place For some great deed, what need to fret?
The dawn comes up a silver gray And golden moments must be metMake this a day.
The day is come; the time is now; No better hour was ever hereWho waits upon the when and how Remains forever in the rear.
Though yesterday was wasted stufr, Your feet may yet seek out the way, Tomorrow is not soon enoughMake this a day.
Perform on promises. It six minutes to disappoint a customer. and six mont get him back again.
"He that loveth his abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of ing in him.
"But he that his brother is walketh in and knoweth not in darkness, and whither he goeth, because that da has blinded his eyes.
"That which we seen and heard declare we unto you that ye may also have fellowship with us."
"Your daughter recites nicely," the professor's wife said to Mrs. Malaprop at the church social.
"I'm goin' to give her a.course in electrocution," said Mrs. Malaprop. "Sort of finish her off, you know?"
BEN FRANKLIN SAID
"Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business that temptation may miss her aim. The bird that sits is easily shot."
A family moved from the big were told that they should get a to'the subudbs and h dog to guard their premises at night. So they ht the largest dog they could get for sale at a kennels.
was entered and robbed, Shortly afterward their while the big dog slept. he housekeeper went to the dog dealer and told him
"Well, what dog to wake no\trr," said the dealer, "is a little big dog."
In youth acquire that which you requir{for the deprivations of old age; and if you are mindful |hat old age has wisdom for its food, you will so en€q1 ylurself in youth that your old age will not lack sustenanc\lAs a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a liie well used brings h"ppy death.-Da Vinci.
A new American Legion Post, to known as "The Lumbermen's Post", is being organized in the Los Angeles district. Anyone interested in joining the new Post may communicate with J. A. Brush, of the W. E. Cooper Lumber Co., 2035 E. 15th Street, Los Angeles, or Leo E. Hubbard, Hayward Lumber & Investment Co., 410 San Fernando Road, Los Angeles.
The first meeting of the Post will be held on Tuesday, January 20,1931.
The first 1931 Tri-monthly Meeting of the Pa,cific Coast Division of the National Association of Wooden Box Manufacturers will be held at the Hotel Sir Francis Drake, San Francisco, California, on Wednesday and Thursday, February 18th and 19th, 1931.
This will be a "round table" meeting to dis,cuss matters of industry, organization, trade promotion, rnerchandising, production methods, etc., etc., and will be similar to previous meetings held by the Pacific Coast Division of this Association. The Association hopes thatthis gathering will bring together the Wooden Box manufacturers from all parts of the Coast.
The first day of the San Francis,co meeting, (February 18th), will be open to all Wooden Box manufacturers and others interested in the industry. The session to be held the second day, (February 19th), will be open only to members of the Association, or their representatives. All motions passed at the February 18th session are subject to ratification by members at the session to be held February 19th.
The Association extends an invitation to all Wooden Box manufacturers. and others interested in the industry, to attend the San Francisco meeting on February 18th and 19th.
The Nicolai Door Sales Company of San Francisco have been appointed the Northern California representatives for "Woodweld," nationally known glue, manufactured by George H. Osgood at Tacoma. A complete stock of this glue is carried in the San Francisco warehouse. It is put up in various size packages, ranging from ten pounds to two hundred and fifty pounds.
According to Larue Woodson, manager of the Nicolai Door Sales Company in San Francisco, their glue sales have exceeded all expectations.
There is rejoicing in the home of C. C. Stibich, manager of the San Francisco ciffice of the Pickering Lumber Company, over the arrival of a baby boy, Donald Clinton Stibich, born January 2 at the Children's hospital, San Franctsco.
Cold weather brings a defnite fire hazard, when heating equipment will not handle safely the extra load desired. It is vitally important that defective stoves be repaired or replaced, pipes kept in good condition, floors protected by fireproof mats, and fuel properly and safely stored. Furnaces should be in proper condition, with ample clearance above them, and furnace pipes should be clean and adequately covered to protect floors and walls.
The three-fold purpose of Lumber Mutual Insurance is to prevent 6res if possible, to pay losses fairly and promptly, and to reduce insurance cost. It offers safety and saving in specialized protection and substantial dividends.
Any of our companies will giae you lull information about our fire preaention se.rvice, the protection guaranteed b9 our policies, and our cost' reducing dividends.
Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 31.-Book agents, aluminum kitchen-ware salesmen and patent medicine representatives find customers in every city every day in their house-tohouse canvass- Why not building materials? The St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company, of Tacoma, 'Washington, asked itself this question and sent out to its own sales organization, to various trade papers and to several of the other Northwest lumber manufacturers who have their own sales organizations, a bulletin, urging the retail dealer to go out after remodeling and modernizing jobs. In soliciting the co-operation of its sales force to this end, it said: "If we could get even any considerable percentage of dealers throughout the country working along these lines and going after business it would increase the volume of the lumber business to such an extent that the mills in the Northwest would have to run day and nightto take care of the demand." The idea has now been put to a test.
Reports are that sixty percent of the home-owners, so far approached, were prospects for improvement work of some kind. So successful has been the campaign that plans are afoot to extend the effort and salesmen will be provided with a list of 130 suggested home improvements involving the use of lumber.
The home owner is often oblivious to much-needed repairs and improvements until they are brought to his attention. Take the house in which you live, either as owner ortenant. There is scarcely a day that passes but what some slight defect in construction needs renewal or correction. The home is subconsciously taken for granted. Not until the front step collapses, or the roof leaks, the kitchen spigot goes on a strike, or a squeaking shutter keeps you awake, does the impulse come to remedy the trouble-
The engineer takes pride in the locomotive in which he spends the greater part of his 1ife. He safeguards it from, decreased efficiency, tightens a screw here-loosens another there; lubricates, cleans and polishes. By correcting the first signs of trouble, he saves a large expenditure at a later date.
A vast unexplored territory awaits the alert retailer.
Never before in the history of the lumber industry has such an array of retailer aids been available, without charge, for his benefit. The National Lumber Manufacturers Association is in close working relationship with thirty-two retail lumber associations, making a formidable list of retailer aids available for them.
The N.L.M.A. has available for distribution a free newspaper mat service, affording home building, modernizing, remodeling and small house suggestions.
"Lumber Facts", a periodical service folder, ofiers selling points for lumber and wood products; gives detailed drawings not readily available through existing plan services, and informative material about lumber and wood products manufactured from lumber. A pocket container is furnished with the initial consignment.
Sales leads, resulting from N.L.M.A. advertising and publicity are cleared through retail secretaries who, in turn, send 'them to individual lumber dealers in position to follow up the prospect and supply his lumber requirements'
The Association maintains an agricultural engineer at the Chicago of ice rvho is continuously available for specialized work in the promotion of lumber uses on the farm. He accompanies agricultural trains that stir up a market for lumber. An unusually profitable cooperative effort is maintained with and through the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Association publications in quantity lots of trventy-five or more are available at one-half the production cost for distribution by dealers to their customers or prospects. Single copies of these booklets are free to lumbermen. They have been successfully used 'by lumber dealers as a means of stimulation by sending them to customers and prospects and the dealers' names are imprinted at low cost.
There is also available for campaigns, in line n'ith that being conducted by the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company, a list of suggestions on rvhat can lte done u'ith lumber in every part of a house. There are several hundred items and the salesman will find these leads of invaluable service,
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C. D. Terwilliger, general manager of the Clover Valley Lumber Company, Loyalton, was elected president of the California White & Sugar Pine Manufacturers' Association'at the annual meeting of that organization held at the Pala'ce Hotel, San Francisco, January 9.
W. E. Lamm, president of the Lamm Lumber Company, Modoc Point, Ore., rvas elected vice-president, and R. D. Baker, president of the Lassen Lumber & Box Company, Susanville, was re-elected treasurer.
Bernard F. Scott rvas re-elected acting secretary-manager.
Statistics covering approximately 90 per cent of the total production of Philippine mills show lumber inventories at the end of O,ctober to be only 2 per cent over last year, rvhile lumber production during the month of October was 37 per cent less than the same month of last year, a,ccording to a radiogram frorn Trade Commissioner E. D. Hester at Manila to the Lumber Division of the Department of Commerce.
Philippine lumber production for the reporting mills during the first ten-month period of this year amounted to 772,426,NO board feet as compared with 196,093,000 feet for the same period of last year. For the month of October production amounted to 13,500,000 feet as compared with 2l,7n,O0O for October of last year. Mill inventories at the end of October were 45,400,000 feet compared rvith 44,500,000 feet last year.
Oakland, January 9.-The following statement was released today byMr. L. H. Bill, President, Fageol Motors Company.
"The idea of a merger of the manufacturing and sales organizations of the Fageol and Moreland companies as advanced by Mr. Watt L. Moreland, Vice-President and General Manager of the Moreland Motor Truck Company, has been definitely declined by the officers of the Fageol Motors Company. After going into the matter quite thoroughly it seemed impracti,cal to carry out the idea of a merging of interests at this time.
"The new model Fageol Flyer recently announced at $900.00 opens new markets for the sale of Fageol trucks. With our strong direct factory Branch and Dealer organization we plan an extensive sales program along with several inovations in mass transportation and advanced truck features whi,ch we will announce in the near future."
E. R. Wade, Portland, and A. A. Gay, St. Helens, following the conference of company officials of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. re,cently held at San Francisco, spent a few days in Southern California where they visited the company's Los Angeles office. Accompanied by "Friday" Freeland, they also spent a few days at San Diego before their return to the Northwest.
There are many sales features in California Redwood for the retail lumber dealer. It possesses so many qualities that conribute towards superior construction for both interior andexterior purposes, that the lumber retailer who fails to stock Redwood is missing aready sales outlet.
Tell your customers about its colorings, its immunity to decay, adaptability to paint and finish, its strength and all around durability.
A Redwood customer becomes a satisfied customer, and satisfied customers are a ready asset.
Hammond's operate a Redwood milt at Samoa, Calif. You can depend upon the quality andworkmanship of every foot of lumber manufactured thete.
Tuerday, Jan. 6, l93l
Ilappy New Year, folks, may ev€ry hour of your life in 1931 be a haPPY one. We wish that sin' cerely.
In our first edition of this page for this Year we want you to know that we are better Prepared to serve your building needs than we have been in the past. In the first Plac€ we have an added Year of experience. We have been in this business for twenty-six years and are still learning. We don't claim to know it all yet but we should be able to assist you in working out y;ur building prcblems'
We have bought a new truck. It isn't iu service yet but will be smn with rollers'n everything. The driver will be the same one who has been so accommodating for the last several years,
I{e'll crank your Ford or he'll hold your baby' He tries to give service and we don't mean maybe.
We have put down a nice oak flmr in our o{fice. It isn't one of the most expensive grades, either, but polished and waxed, it lmks rich. We have nrade other changes and improvements to our old office space to make it a regular building store.
We have put in a line of paint. PABCO is the brand, made by an old established company with a reputation. They guarantee satisfaction or your rnoney back.
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The cans have at right pretty label on the outside and made a nice display on the shelves. You won't be disappointed when you have used the contents, -either.
We have had a little builder's hardware for some time llut lots ol people didn't know it. We have added to the stock and put it out where it can seen.
Clifford F. lVlessinger, formerly vice-president and general manager of the Chain Belt Company, of Millvaukee, rvas elected president at the l)ecemlter lneeting of the Board of Directors, succeeding his l>rother C. R. Messinger, who resigned to become presiderlt of the Oliver Farm E,quipment Company, January l. C. Il. Messinger was elelcted Chairman of the Board of the Chain l3elt Company.
G. K. Viall, lVorks lVlanager since 1929, and connectecl rvith Chain Belt Compan)' since 1921, r'r'as electecl a vicepresident.
C. F. Messinger has been with the Chain Belt Company since 1911, when he graduated fronr the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. In the same year. he entered the Chain Belt organization as a sttldeltt apprentice-he lr'ent through the regular apprentice course, serving in all shops ancl departments of the company. In 1913, he was macle Advertising Manager, and in 1916, Sale.s Manager of the Construction Equipment Division. He became General Sales Manager i; 1920, Vice President in 1922, and General Manager in 1930, a position in rvhich he continues.
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We have spent all extra moneY at a when we didn't have to in order to give the building public an added service and to make it nrore convenient for them to get what they want with less trouble. We have Iaith in Corona and her future.
E. D. Kingsley, president of the West Oregon Lutnber Co., Linnton, Ore., recently paid a short business visit to San Francisco, where he conferred rvith t-he WendlingNathan Co., California agents forthis firn'r's rvell-knorvn West Oregon Super Finish.
Mr. Kingsley reported that the West Oregon Lumber Co. has resumed logging operations in their tract of fine old grorvth yellow Douglas fir timber, and that the first logs taken out this year are among tl,e finest he has ever seen'for the manufacture of high-grade fir finish.
Sinie 1927, he also has been president of The Stearns Conveyor Company, a wholly owned subsidiarl' of the Chain Belt Company. He is a <lirector. of the Chain Belt Company as well as of the Sivyer Steel Casting Company, the inteistate Drop Forge Companv, the Fecleral MalieabLe Company, and the National Bank of Commerce. The regular quarterly dividend of 621 cents per share on the cor-r-rmoli stock was also declared at this rneeting pa1'able February l5 to stockl-rolders of record Fellruarv l.
F. A. Diekhoff, foreign representative for the Simonds Sarv & Steel Company, called on the saw mills in Northern Mexico last November in his new Stinson Cabin Monoplane. The ship is specially built so that it is interchangeable with wheel landing gear and floats. Wliile in the Orient, Edo Floats rvill be used.
After completing his trip through Mexicq, he rvill fly to San Francis.co, and then ship the plan'e to Japan. From Japan, he will fly to China, Philippine Islands, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, F.M. S., Siam, Burma, and British East India. Later he will make a trip through Central and South America.
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A BILL-S. 5370
To prohibit importation of products of convict, forcecl or indentured labor, and for other purposes.
"Be it enacted by the Senate ancl House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assenlbled, That all goods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, produced, transported, handled, loaded, or manufactured wholly or in part in any foreign country by convict labor and/or forced labor and,/or indentured labor under penal san,ctions shall not be entitled to entry at anv of the ports of the United States, and the importation thereof is hireby prohibited; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to prescribe such regulations as may be necessary for the enforcement of this Act. This Ac[ shall not apply to goods, wares, articles, or merchandise so mined, produced, transported, handled, loaded, or manufactured of classes rvhich are not mined, produced, or manuf4ctured in such quantity in the United States as to meet the consumptive demands of the United States.
"Sec. 2. "For'ced labor," as herein used, shall mean all work or service which is exacted from any person ttnder the menace of any penalty for its nonperformance and for which the worker does not offer himself voluntarily, or from whi,ch he is not permitted voluntarily to withdrarv. Labor, in the mining, production, transportation, handling, loading, or manufacture of goods, wares, articles, or merchandise, performed in any country in which the general go,rernmental labor policy-or the prevailing labor practice is forced labor, as herein defined, is for the purpose ot thts Act, forced labor.
"Sec. 3. This Act shall take efiect April 1, 1931."
The above bill was intr'oduced in the United States Senate on December l5 by Hon. Frederick M. Steiwer, Senator for Oregon. The bill has been endorsed by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association.
The Steiwer bill is intended to ,clear up the present legal entanglements which have operated to prevent the United States Department of the Treasury giving adequate protection to the lumber industry of this country by barring shipments of lumber from the White Sea area of Russia, although evidence that the Russian Government uses 'convict la6or in the logging woods where the timber is produced, throughout this alea, is in the hands of the United States Government, and the fact of such employment is rvell known throughout the world, the Association states.
Rulings of the Treasury Department on the matter of Russian lumber importations have been to the effect that, under the present law, it must be Proven that each shipment was the result gf convict labor.
The Association states that this bill needs the support of lumbermen, Chambers of Commer,ce, organized labor' newspapers and business men generally, and urges tha-t letteri be sent to senators asking their support of the bill. The bill will come up for action in January.
Stewart Mathews, purchasing agent and secretary of the Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Mills, Bellingham, Wash., is spending a few rseeks' vacation in Los Angeles' While in Southern California he is making his headquarters at fhe company's Los Angeles office:
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It is well known that the growth of a tree in diameter is shown in the so-called "rings" of annual growth. These rings are simply the material that is added aiound the tree underneath the bark each year. The outer cells, just inside the bark make up the living active portion of tht tree and each year's product is plainly marked off from that of the preceding year. It is in this manner that the rings are formed.
It is perhaps not so well understood popularll' that each ring. is made up of two parts : first the inner light-colored portion known as "springwood"; and, second, an outer darker portion knorvn as "sltmmerwood". During the spring months the tree grows faster than it does in the summer and the cells produced at that time are larger and hav'e thinner walls. The summerwood cells have thicker walls and are smaller. Summerwoocl, therefore, gets more solid wood substances than springrvood and is ?arker in color. The two parts of the annual ring are much more noticeable in the softwoods-that is the conifer<lus treesthan in the hardwoods.
The proportion of springrvood to summer.rvoocl lurtrber
h-as a,n important effect upon the strength, properties and physical characteristics of the lumber.
In some species the springwood blends into the summer: wood and in this condition makes for uniform texture. easier working and a small amount of shrinkage and swelling of the lumber. In other softwoods the trJnsition from springwood to summerwood is more abrupt, the proporiion of summerwood is larger and the rvood is strongir, and the two parts of the annual ring can be seen clearly.
Owing to the importance of ihe composition of iumber rvith respect to the varying proportions bf springvvood and summerwood, the National Lumber Manufacturers Association has issued a leaflet-No. 9-in its Lumber Facts series thatfully treats of this subject.An earlier leaflet in the series, Lumber Facts No. 4, dealt with the subiect of softwoods and hardwoods in general, the relation of softwood to hardwood and the subject of annual growth rings. Thesg two leaflets presented in compact,- basily understandable, form the most essential facts rvhich puichasers and users of lumber should know regarding-the natural composition of the material.
Don't let the depression talk detour your mind from the ever present fact tfiat what -you get out of 1931 is going to depend entirefu upon what you put into it.
Look at it this way: Every time you sell a prospect \(/eaver-Henry roofing, you are doing him a lavor. You are aiding him in improving thc appearance of his homc, consequently increasing its value. You are preventing what is bound to happen, as shown above, if thc homc isn't rercoled in time. Thus you are saving him money. And any time you show some onc how to save money he'll admit it's a favor. Selling with those thoughts inmind is easier, smoother, morc convincing.Tell them the story of double repairing expense. Many prospects are bound to keep putting off their re-rool iobs until it's too latc and leaks have ruincd interio, surfaces. Mostly, they don't real-
ize this is going to happen. They have to be told ' ,, ' and then convinced.
Because you are a Weaver-Henry dealer, toolet, or contraclor, we ate interested in your sales and how to help you increasc those sales. You make more profit, everybody makcs mote profit; Weaver-Henry rooling protects morc homes, proyes its sterling qualities to more home owners and consequently more home owners demand your rooling '] >' ' D it's Weaver-Henry by thc way.
This year Weaver - Henry roofing is going on more homes than ever before, and thc real rainy season is just beginning.... Drawyour own conclusions; they should bc optimistic.
