The California Lumber Merchant - January 1936

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two-inch lap joints and are single cemented and nailed. New Method is applied with four-inch lap and is double cemented and double nailed.

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Charlie Bird Arranges Luncheon at Stockton Honoring Jack Dionna

Charlie Bird, the well known Stockton lumber leader, attended the Hoo-Hoo Club dinner at Oakland on Monday, January 6th, and immediately arranged for a luncheon of the lumber dealers of the Stockton territory to be attended by Jack Dionne the next noonday, Tuesday the 7th, at the Stockton Hotel. There were thirty-five lumbermen present from the Stockton territory. The program was entirely informal. Mr. Bird presided. He introduced "Gus" Russell, of San Francisco, who introduced Mr. Dionne. The latter mdde a mixed business and humorous talk for thirty minutes. He paid particular stress to the wonders that have been done at the new Port of Stockton, and predicted that it would continue to bring wealth and prosperity to that entire portion of California.

SALESMEN VISIT FORT BRAGG

Fred Burgers, salesman for Union Lumber Company in the San Joaquin Valley and Coast Counties territories, made a trip between Christmas and New Year's to Fort Bragg, where he renewed old acquaintances and looked over the company's operations.

L. E. "Eat" Grimes, Union Lumber Company salesman, spent the Christmas holidays at Fort Bragg.

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Redwood Lunch Club Holds New Year" Meeting

The New Year's meeting of the Redwood Lunch Club, held at the Commercial Club, San Francisco, December 30, brought out a fine attendance.

Entertainment was provided by Charlie Marshall and his Mavericks of NBC. Their singing and musical program included numbers on the accordion, mouth organ, violin and guitar.

The attendance was as follows:

John Klass, Jim Farley (Chairmat), C. L. Thompson, G. A. Kramer, Edric E. Brown, Lew Blinn, Max E. Cook, and Herb Klass, The Pacific Lumber Co.; Henry M. Hink, Vincent Kemble and Harry Hood, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co.; Howard Abbott, Ray Shannon, C. Hexberg and Clarence Broback, Union Lumber Co.; Milton Johns and Ray Whitby, Redwood Sales Co.; Maurice Casey and C. E. DeCamp, Redwood Manufacturers Co.; H. T. Alzina, Santa Cruz Lumber Co.; H. A. Libbey, Don Holcomb, L'ewis Godard, Ralph Myers and M. L. Booth, Hobbs, Wall & Co.; J. H. Holmes, Fred Holmes and John Freeman, Holmes E,ureka Lumber Co.; "Chuck" Griffen, Monterey Bay Redwood Co.; E. E. Abrahamson, R. E. Caldrvell, Bob Bryson and Frank Engall, Hammond & Little River Redwood Co.

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Flammond & Littlc River Redwood C'o..------,2, Hill 8, Morton, fnc. ------------------,--------------,----,r9

flogan Lumber Co. ---------------,--- ------------------23

Holmes Eureka Lumber Co. ---------------- -------- -2,

Lfoover, A. L. ----------- -------------2O

Cadwalhder-Gibson Co- Inc. -----------------------19

California Builders Supply Co. -, --------- -------21

Califomia Panel Ec Veneer Co. --------------------r5

California Redwood Association C,eloter Company, The ,Chamberlin & Co- W. R. ------- -----, ---------------2t

Crosset Vestern Company -- ---------,------------- -- 9

Dolbeer & Carson Lumber C,o. ------------------, -2t

Doud, D. H.. ------------- ---- -------- 7

Elliott Bay Sales Co. ,------ ----- ------23

Ewauna Box Co. -------.2t

Findlay Millar Timber Co. --,,--------

Forsyth Hardwood Co. ------,,---- --- ----21

Gorman, George W. ------ --.--- --- --.-..-----------.23

Johnson Lumber Corp., C. D. -----------------------23

Koehl & Son, Inc., Jno. V. ------------------------.2t

Lawrence.Philips Lumber Co. -,---------------------.23

Lumber"nren's Cr6dit Association --,,-------------.25

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E. MARTIN Managlng Editor and Advertiring Mamger

THE CALIFOR}IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

JackDiorne,publ*lr*

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Coastwise Lumber Tonnage Practicalfy Afl Tied Up

The full effect of the coastwise steam lumber schooner tie up wiur felt in California ports during the past week. Lumbet cargo arrivals at Los Angeles harbor totaled only 4r6E3r0fi) feet for the week ended December l1 as compared with 12'1811000 feet for the previous week. 60 coastwise lumber veesels are reported tied up due to the dispute.between operatots and crews (wer working hours and overtime pay, and only a few vessels are operating. The Sailorst Union is demanding a 6-hour day and ll.OO an hour overtime while in po,rt. Thete is no prospect of an early setdement in sight.

The California demand is good. With the coastwise lumber tonnage practically all tied up, a considerable diversion of usual water shipments of Fir lumber to railroads for California delivery is repoted from the Columbia River. section, and shipments from rail mills have greatly increased in volume. Prices on both Fir commons and uppers have advanced during the past three weeks. Part of the increase on uppers is due to the increased demand fot high grade logs by the plywood manufacturers.

Shipments of Redwood are moving by rail from all Redwood mills with rail connections. Supply of dry uppets is increasing. Eastern business is holding up well, considering the season of the year.

Red Cedar shingle prices are strongert and an eady advance is looked for.

New business reported to the Vest Coast Lumbetments Association for the week ended Jamrary 4 by 2Ol mills was 101'-

Built-in-Fixture Prospects Better

"We did 50 per cent more business in 1935 than we did in 1934," said Ray B. Cox, r'ice president and general manager of Peerless Built-in-Fixture Co., Berkeley, a few days ago to a representative of this paper.

"December was an exceptionally good month, and prospects for the coming year are better than any time in the last four years.

"Our best business is coming from the Coast Counties, both north and south, and from the northern part of the Sacramento Valley. Retail lumber dealers are displaying more interest in the sale of kitchen furniture than for some time past."

Mr. Cox concluded by stating he looks for an increase in the prices of his firm's products during the first half of the year, due to new taxes, and the increased cost of materials.

24Er2O8 feet against a productio,n of. 67rO27,860 feet, and shipments of 7715@1976 fet. Current sales were 51.O per cent over production, and shipments wene over production by 15.6 per cent. The orders booked for the week were approximately .11,0001000 feet under the total for the preceding vrcek.

The unfilled order file at these mills stood at 47EA64,622 feet, approximately 23rq)O,O0O feet over the week before. The aggregate inventories of these mills are 12.6 pet cent less than at this time last year.

The Association reports the volume of new busines continues to be heavy for the tirne of the year. Placement.of orders frorn California has dropped olf sharply due to the marine strike. The Atlantic coast rail trade is active. Expo,rt is quiet' ,F

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The Western Pine Association for the week ended January 4, ll4 mills reporting g ve orders as 40r116rfi)0 feet, shipments .|2,884,OOO feet, and production 27,140rAO0 f.eet. Orders were 47.8 pe cent over production, and,21.9 per cent over shipmelts. Shipments wete 2l.l lr€r cent above pnoduction.

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The California Redwood Association reported production of 15 mills for the week ended December 28 as 7,757,000 feet, shipments 2r97tr000 feet, and new business 414891000 feet. Orderc on hand at the end of the week were ,8,O22,OOO feet. Fifteen identical mills repo,rted production 22 pet cent gr€ater, and new business one per cent less than for the same week last yean

The Southern Pine Association, 104 mills reporting, for the week ended January 4 gave orders as 2613111000 feet shipments 30,032rfi)0 feet, and production 2612611000 feei orders for the urcek c/ere 0.19 per cent above producion, art 12.79 per c.ent below shipments. Shipmen$ were 14.36 pet cent above production. Orders on hand at these mills totded 7rr044r0J0 feeq equivale^a to rr478 cars. Total stocks on hand, January 4, at 92 reporting mills aggregated t46r337rOOO feet, t 91 per cent of normal and 4 per cent below t'his time last year.

Jack Dionne to Speak at Lor Angeles Meeting

The Lumber & Allied Products Institute will hold a dinner meeting at the Hotel Clark, Los Angeles, trn Friday evening, January 17,1936, at 6:15 p.m. Jack Dionne, Publisher of The California Lumber Merchant. will address the

meeting.

tANKS in the LCO PLATFORM r936

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To produce a complete line of dependable Redwood Products... PALco Lumber... PALco Bark... PALco Shingles and Shakes... PALco Septic Tanks and Poultry Feeders. so that through pooling your shipments you can gain greater flexibility and faster turnover

To maintain a source of supply second to none in the industry. This includes (1) adequate timber for generations to come. (2) the most extensive curing facilities in the Redwood industry...and (3) complete modern mills at Scotia where an entire communiry gives its constant endeavor to make PALco stand for "Redwood at its best."

lfbese are 3 reasons utby ntore retailyards buy

Vagabond Editorials

By Jack Dionne

It was Monday night, of the sixth day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-six. And I knelt down before I crawled into the hay, and said: "Oh Lord ! I thank Thee for those nine old gentlemen in the black robes, at Washington ! What they have saved us from only Thou knowest."

And what they are "airr-g";g-to save us from, I have a very definite idea. The same stick that tarred AAA cannot help but do likewise to other iniquities built upon the same philosophies and the same foundations. And as each one hurries on its way to the eternal promiscuity from whence it came, conditions in this country will improve. ,B**

The definite improvement which we are all noticing and concerning which we are all rejoicing, began exactly at the hour when those nine old gentlemen in Washington put the coup de grace to that first monstrosity which did so much to hamper business recovery and darken the souls of men _NRA.

And the same sort rr r"r**U J.rrg" "r,u urge unquestionably will follow the destruction of AAA. There will be mouthing and mumbling with regard to finding substitutes for same, just as there was after the NRA debacle. But don't worry. There won't be any, any more than there were with NRA. Even our rubber-stamp Congress is going finally to learn that passing unconstitutional and un-American legislation is not only bad statesmanship, but bad politics. ***

The most vicious piece of legislation still remaining on the Federal statute books is the Wagner Labor Law. That it will go the way of AAA and NRA as soon as the nine old gentlemen reach it, there can now be no doubt. And THAT eventually will be indeed a blessing. Class-hatred, social unrest, unemployment, and trouble galore cling tightly to that measure. When it dies, an army of men will find employment who cannot find it now. ***

Yes Sir ! I think we will see tremendous improvement in business as a result of the AAA decision. I am entirely unwilling to believe that any man ever thought it was constitutional. They simply thought it would "get by" ,over that well-worn ttemergency" route. ***

Just stop and consider it a moment. (That is quite the

thing to do with the departed). They deliberately reduced the production of crops for the specific and definite purpose of raising the price of farm products. So Mr. Consumer paid the difference. Then, to get the cash with which to pay the farmers for NOT producing, they charged heavy processing taxes to the manufacturers and refiners who further handled those crops and products. Unless that manufacturer and industrialist was entirely bereft of reason, he looked upon that tax as simply an additional cost of doing business, and added it to his cost, and to his price. So Mr. Consumer (the most forgotten of all the "Forgotten Men") paid it once more.

All AAA did to the consumer was punch him in the stomach, and as he bent forward in agony they brought the other fist up under his jaw. Outside of that they treated him fine.

It was all to help .n" ,;,r:, l, "o,.r"". Helping the fellow who has to do the paying and who outnumbers the farmers many times over, didn't enter into the picture. But when the Supreme Court got hold of it the nine old gentlemsn-si:( of them, anyway-soon discovered that the chief actor had been left out of the picture. So they took a big chunk of chalk and marked it N.G. and threw it out the back window. **rk

Watch and see how definitely and provably business recovery and improvement is accelerated ! Of course there will be apparent great roars from the farmers. According to recent figures published throughout the land Mr. Wallace now has NEARLY ONE AND ONE-HALF MILLION PEOPLE ON HIS GOVERNMENT PAYROLL. I have no doubt but that many salary-getters will be able to arouse considerable interest among their customers. But it will pass, as the roar over NRA passed. And better things will come.

The decision directly lifts the morale of business of all sorts because, as the Supreme Court decision wisely says, if they can do that trick with farm products, they can do it with ALL industry. Sure ! Business has been thinking that all along. And the knowledge that such a broad-sword no longer hangs over their necks is going to help a lot.

Hard luck dogs the heels of the lumber business on the Pacific Coast. At a moment when every root and branch of the industry from Bellingham to San Diego is almost booming, building permits soaring, lumber buying fast and furious, lumber folks not only buying for present needs but stocking up in anticipation of big and better trade this year, reports on every hand of volume of business hugely increasing-comes more labor trouble.

No one is going ,o *rialr* a*an about the situation, so deadly serious has it become. It might, indeed, be dangerous to state the facts. But the lumber folks know and discuss them with lowered brows and tense emotions. Lumber hauling ships tied up everywhere, the water movement of lumber at a standstill when for the first time in five years there is a great need and demand for lumber. If I were to write the things these lumber folks who own lumber hauling boats have been telling me for the past two weeks, it would stagger belief. And what kilts their souls is that the backing, encouragement, and assistance of our own Federal Government seems to be the basis for most of the trouble.

what is sauce for the ;"": ,: not always sauce ror the giander, however. While the lumber and building industry suffers and the water hauling business stagnates, the rail-

roads from the Pacific Northwest to California markets are swamped with business, transferred from water to rail shipment. Many mills with orders to fill, change to rail and pay the difference, two or three dollars a thousand more. The water trouble has just started. Most men believe it will be of considerable duration. ***

Signs and reports of business improvement in various territories and in numerous lines of business and industry, continue to pour in. Improved facilities for financing building seem to prevail throughout the land. That this will be a building year in spite of politics and everything else, is now the confirmed opinion of many wise men. 'When a nation needs buildings and building things as badly as this nation does, the tide once started will leap all hurdles.

The age-old weakness "; ; rlrtu". industry toward the curse of price-cutting is (besides the labor situation on the Pacific Coast) the most difficult fy in the ointment. After six years of no business and no profit it would seem that the lumber folks would have learned a lesson, and would use their every ingenuity to get a decent profit on their products, now that the swing has come the other way. Yet the reports of price cutting seem general; and most regrettable.

Business Outlook For 1936

R. F. PRAY, Sales Manager, The Red River Lumber Company, Westwood

The prospects for next year's business, from a statistical stanclpoint are generally encouraging. The stocks on hancl at the mills are below the average normal supply. Lower than at this time last year which was also below normal.

The order files of most of the manufa'cturers show a verlcomfortable condition. There are only a few items on which any considerable reduction of price would seem necessary or advisable.

The demand for low priced and medium priced residences, in which lumber is an important item in constru,ction, is becoming more insistent tb meet present conditions. By spring there should be very little unsold dry lumber in the hands of the manufacturers.

If the government's long pending building program actually takes place the lumbermen should be in the best position they have held since 1929.

At Westwood, during the past year we have been operating our sawmill on two 4o-hour shifts a week and our plyu'oocl factor,v on three 40-hour shiits. At this time u'e have logs decked at the plant in suffr'cient quantity to assure continuous production through the period of deep snow rvhen logging is suspended. We will continue to favor mixed car shipments.

Our log cut for 1935 r,vas one-third more than in 1934 and our shipments 4O per cent in excess of 1934.

E. T. ROBIE, Au'burn Lumber Company, Auburn

I am unable to predict rvhat 1936 has in store for our section. 'We are quite certain there rvill be but little business for the next three months at least. We are in hopes of having fair spring and summer business.

Our fruit g'rowers have made no monev for several years. If they have a change for the better in 1936, we can expect a better fall business.

HARDWARE OUTLOOK BRIGHT FOR 1936

The year-end in hardware has been a period of pleasing contrast with even the favorable records,set at the end of 1934, says }fardware Age. A year ago conditions had started to look up. Now the upsrving of the betterment s€ems so much more securely established that repetition of this fact is becoming monotonous. At present business is accepting more as a matter of fact a widespread improvement, which last year at this time seemed doubtful as to its extent of duration. Hardware stores have really been busy, and some merchants have had to put on extra help.

HARRY T. KENDALL, Vice-Pres. & Gen'I. Manager, Weyerhaeuser Sales Company, Saint Paul

We think that 1936 rvill see a marked increase in the consumption of lumber but, nnless serious labor troubles interfere with the production and transportation of lumber, 'we do not think the demand will be broad enough to produce any large increase in lumber prices. Modest increases are necessary, due to the increased costs of operation, but there is still ample capacity at mills norv running to take care of any increase in demand that we nolv foresee.

JOHN C. LrGHT

Light Lumber Co., Miami, Arizona

1\{y observation is that business has not been n.hat dealers expected in the final wind up of 1935.

Generally speaking, business has picked up throughout the State. Yes, but it has been mostly Federal money.

Although the federal better housing agencies have rvorked hard to put the big deal over, people hesitate and clo not want to go farther in debt until lve have a more substantial basis than the PWA and Federal iobs.

The thinking man in business orrvorking at labor says the job is too uncertain, the wage too low considering the high cost of living to justify further indebtedness. What we must have to bring back permanent prosperity is real production.

Our mining camp is now employing 6 days a week, 8-hour shift, full time at paid at the shut-down.

probably 1500 men, the same l'age they

This is real production-cooperation money. No ERA, PWA or Federal .money used in this mining business. They have bought lumber for their mining needs lavishly in the past 60 or 9O days but this is bought direct. The retailer has to get his in an indirect'way. So far mighty little has come our way.

M. L. EUPHRAT.

Wendling-Nathan Company, San Francisco

We are of the opinion that there is going to be a very satisfactory volume of business during the year 1936. The last half of 1935 shorved a very considerable ancl uniform improvement, continued right up to the end of the year, and seems to have marched right into 1936.

FURNITUIRE TRADE INCREASE FORECAST

New York, Jan. S.-Housing constrnction plans and normal progress of recovery hold the promise lor a 25 per cent increase in business for the furniture industry in 1936, according to Frank E. Seiclman, trade authoritl, and statistician.

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San Joaquin Vall"v Lumbermen's Club Honors Jack Dionne Vith Delishtful Banquet

On the evening of Tuesday, January 7th, The San Joaquin Valley Lumbermen's Club honored Jack Dionne, Publisher of The California Lumber. Merchant, rvith a very delightful banquet which was served in the ballroom of the Hotel Californian, Fresno. Call for the dinner was made by President George Burnett who likervise presided at the banquet. There were about one hundred and twenty-five lumbermen and ladies present. Orchestra music and special vocal numbers entertained the guests while dinner was being served. President Burnett expressed his high approval of the occasion, paid his compliments to Mr. Dionne, and then introduced "Gus" Russell, of San Francisco, who in turn introduced the speaker. Mr. Dionne spoke mostly in light-hearted vein, told many stories in various dialects, anil also discussed business prospects and conditions in most optimistic manner.

The foliowing attended the meeting:

Directors

G. C. Burnett, President ....,.,Burnett Lumber Co., Tulare

F. D. Prescott, Vice-President ........Valley.Lumber Co., Fresno

B. B. Barber, Secretary ....San Joaquin Lumbermen's Club, Fresno

H. C. Kofoid H. C. Kofoid Lumber Co., Caruthers

Dean Cook Madera Lumber Co., Madera

Chas. L. Marsh. Hammond Lumher Co., Madera

E. E. Schlotthauer .. .Willard Lumber & Supply Co., Fresno

Burton Boyle.. .Cross Lumber Co., Cbalinga

Members

H. N. Kofoid ..H. C. Kofoid Lumber Co., Caruthers

J. J. Eymann Western Lumber Co., Reedley

A. P. Wedel .Western I-unrber Co.. Reedley

Glenn Eymann .Western Lumber Co., Reedley

Paul Galle ...Western Lumber Co., Reedley

F. B. Trull ....W. B. \{arch Lumber Co., Ivanhoe

C. T. Mathis .....W. B. March Lumber Co., Ivanhoe

Kenneth Seeley Seeley Lumber Co., Fresno

Chas. Mosier ....Seeley Lumber Co., Fresno

Ray Dudley .....Kellner Lumber Co,. Fresno

C. W. Krumholz .. ....Kellner Lumber Co., Fresno

Vic Bengston ...Bengston-Holt Lumber Co., Fresno

John Holt. ......Bengston-Holt Lumber Co., Fresno

E. M. Prescott .Prescott Brick & Lumber Co., Sanger

David S. Mirtzwa ...Prescott Brick & Lumber Co., Sanger

L. E. Taylor .Prescott Brick & Lumber Co., Sanger

Chas. Schaffer ......Citizens Lumber Co., Kingsburg

Vii'gil Schoeneman . .....Citizens Lumber Co.. Selma

John McNally .Hammond Lumber Co., Madera

E. P. Ruth Reedley Lumber Co., Reedley

C. L. Faucette ..... ......Cross Lumber Co.. Avenal

Walter S. Found .....Merced Lun:ber Co., Merced

A. H. Chalfant...... .....Valley Lumber Co., Fresno

L. L. Walker ....Va|ley Lumber Co., Fresno

L. A. Micarelli ......\ralley Lumber Cb., Fresno

George A. Cowman ....Valley Lumber Co., Hanford

O. V. Martin .Valley Lumber Co., Selma

Carl Nystrom .....Valley Lumber Co., Selma

H. R. Hatlmark .....Tutare County Lumber Co., Visalia

E. C. Coombs .....Fovi'ler Lumber Cb., Fowler

H. C. Kinnee ...Valley Lumber Co., HanfSrd

W. E. Bennett..... .....Valley Lumber Co.. Fresno

Morris Pool... ...Valley Lun.rber Co., Fresno

W. K. Kendrick .....Valley Lumber Co., Fresrlo

Robert Kimble .Valley Lumber Co., Hanford

N. Lange .Valley Lumber Co., Fresno

T. J. Bone .......Valley Lumber Co.. Fresno

M. E. Malott ..Central Lumber Co., Lemoore

C. S. Dunham .Central Lumber Co.. Hanford

Chas. A. Thomsen ....Central Lumber Co.. Lemoore

Aaron Maisler..... ......Maisler Bros. Lumber Co.. Fresno

A. E.Jacobsen ......Maisler Bros. Lumber Cb., Fresno

Ben Maisler ......Maisler Bros. Lumber Co., Fresno

W. L. Neal Maisler Bros. Lumber Co.. Fresno

C. J. Bush Maisler Bros. Lumber Co., Fresno

W. R. Curry Maisler Bros. Lumber Co., Fresno

Chris Sommers, Jr. . ....Maisler Bros. Lumber Co., Fresno

H. Milton Cross Cross Lumber Co.. Merced

Alberta R. Brey .....Brey-Wright Lumber Co., Porterville

Frank Baxley ..Brey-\Vright Lumber Co., Porterville

J. F. Wright ..Brey-Wright Lumber Co., Porterville

Hal Baldwin ..Swastika Lumber Co., Fresno

G. D. Weyant ...Swastika Lumber Co., Fresno

J. C. Ferger Swastika Lumber Co., Fresno

F. L. Hand Swastika Lumber Co., Fresno

R. O. Deacon ..R. O. Deacon Lumber Co.. Lemoore

George Haire .R. O. Deacon Lumber Co.. Riverdale

J. J. $iegfried ..R. O. Deacon Lumber Co., Lemoore

H. R. Penney ...Burton-Doak Lumber Co., Lindsay

George E. Doak Burton-Doak Lumber Co., Lindsay

Paul C. Clore .

C. S. Pierce Lumber Co., Fresno

Frank Minard . C'. S. Pierce Lumber Co., Fresno

Bud Waterman C. S. Pierce Lumber Co.. Fresno

Alfred J. Crow C. S. Pierce Lumber Co., Kerman

Frank Kidd .....Burnett Lumber Co.. Tulare

Imogene Brack . ....San Joaquin I-umbermen's Club, Fresno

Guests

A. J. "Gus" Russetl ...Santa Fe Lurnber Co., San Francisco

Elmore W. King .The King Lumber Co., Bakersfield

F. J. Waterman, Secretary....Hanford Lumbermen's Club, Hanford

Jack Stahl F. H. A. Representative, Fresno

Earl M. Galbraith..Hayward Lum. & Investment Co., Los Angeles

F. W. Burgers..... ......Union Lurirber Co.. San Francisco

Jerry Stutz Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco

Lawrence E. King.Hayward Lumber & Investment Co., Bakersfield

Chas. S. Curran........Bakersfield Sandstone Brick Co.. Bakersfield

W. E. Peterson......Bakersfield Building Materials Co., Bakersfield

Art. H. Curran. ..Coalinga-Kettleman Lumber Co., Coalinga

Raymond Grey .. .....Taft Lumber Co., Taft

Harold J. Fo-d ....Yosemite Sugar Pine Lumber Cb., Merced Falts

Harry R. Cayford. ......Fresno Builders Exchange, Fresno

Chas. R. Thompson. ....Thompson Construction Co., Fresno

Chas. W. Stewart. .....Stewart & Nuss, Inc.. Fresno

Claude Nuss . Stewart & Nuss, Inc., Fresno

Monroe Park .....Yosemite Portland Cement Co.. trferced

Jess Triscuit Pacific Portland Cement Co., San Francisco

A. W. Bernhauer ....Fresno Planing Mill, Fresno

Les Sterett .....Fresno Planing Mill, Fresno

J. C. Snead ....Wendling-Nathan Co., Fresno

O. G. Grimes .......The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco

Paul H. Keane . .Johns-Manville Co., San Francisco

George Kennedy Fresno

Mrs. J. F. Wright Brey-Wright Lumber Co., Portervilte

HAVE vou ..U|ILLIR TRIED ]|[ARTS)'?

We manufacture two kinds of Fir lumber at our sawmill at Warrenton. One is well manufactured, carefully graded FOHC stock (free of heart centers). sell this attractive stock in standard grades and guarantee it entirely free of heart centers.. "choosey" retailer will appreciate the'quality of this stock. .

OUR OTHER KIND IS CALLED ,,MILLER HEARTS"

Here is something rcally new and interesting in Fir lumber. At least a sufficient number of dealers have found it interesting so that we have a continual heavy order file for ttMiller Ffearts". fn a year's time we have built up a big reputation for this special product of ours. "Miller Hearts" are a special 2x4 made only in one grade. Ve make this specialty from HEART CENTERS ONLY. We manufacture and select it with particular care. OrIy sraight, flat lumber is used. The edges are eased. The ends are double-*immed to make them perfectly square. Then the ends are painted red. You never saw better looking lumber, straight, flat, square-ended and red-painted. It is fine stock to show the customer. The fiber of this stock is very light. ft contains only the small knots to which Fir centers are susceptible. It handles, nails, works, and paints with great ease. For interior use it is grand lumber. It is easy to sell.

We would like to interest the California trade in our two special kinds of Fir, FOHC in standard grades - - and in "MILLER HEARTS".

A CAR \flLL CONVINCE YOU -

Signs of lmprovement

COAST BANK DEPOSITS GAIN 17 PER CENT

Far removed from the banking troubles of two years previous to 1935, Pacific Coast banks reported striking gains in deposits during the year.

- Reports from thirty-one large city banks, ,collected -and tabullted by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, showed these outstanding developments in 1935:

Demand deposits in,creased 17 per cent to $778rW_0rQ9.

Time depoiits increased 6 per cent to $1,041,000,0m'

Total loans rose 3 per cent to $938,000,00O.

Investments bulged 14 per ,cent to $1,218,000,000.

Reserves expanded 17 per,cent to $183'0OO,m.

G. M. SELLS 1,278,996 CARS IN 1935

General Motors Corporation reported January 8 that 1935 sales to consumers in the United States totaled 1,278,996 cars and trucks compared with 927,493 ]n 1924.

MONTGOMERY WARD CO. SALES REACH

ALL-TIME HIGH

Chicago, Jan. 8.-Montgomery Ward & Co. today reported sales of $287,593,356 fur the 11 months ended Deiember 31, the highest for any'corresponding period in the company's history. The total was an increase ol 17 pet cent over the corresponding 1934 period. , December sales also were the best in history, totaling fi39,474,902, an increase of 13 per cent over December, last year.

S. F. HOME PERMITS UP 210 PER CElr.IT

The number of building permits for San Francisco homes increased 2lO per cent last year, as ,compared with 1934, and total value of home ,construction increased 226 per 'cent, figures released yesterday revealed.

In money figures the value of new homes constructed last year within the city limits amounted to $3,624,273, as against $1,110,734 during 1934.

Exclusive of. $1,2\2,622 in additional bridge construction permits granted during the year, the total value of building permits for all type of 'construction in the city was $11,304,790, compared with a total of $7,328,372 f.or 1934. Including the bridge ,construction permits, the grand total for 1935 was $12,517,4I2.

COAST STEEL VOI]UME LARGEST SINCE 1929

Aggregate steel tonnage sold in the 1l Western states in 1935 was 448,7A2 tons-the best showing since 1929 and 2I per cent betts than the 370,592 tons in 1934. The outlook for 1936 business seems particularly good.

iDECEMBDR IRON FIGURES HIT 6.YEAR HIGH

According to statistics recently issued prodqction of 2,116,534 gross tons of pig iron in December was the highest for that honth since 1929, and compares with 2,836,9t7 tons that year.

B. & L. ASSOCIATIONS MAKE PROGRESS

Every building and loan association now operating _in California has sufficient assets to pay out eventually to' its investors 100 cents on the dollar, Louis Drapeau, state building and loan commissioner, said in San Francisco, .January 5. .-

"Wiah the rapid recovery of real estate values in California, the rehabilitation may be accomplished sooner than any of us anticipate," he declared.

COAST BUILDING HAS BEST PERIOD IN FIVE YEARS

Building had its biggest year since 1931 along the Pacific Coast last year.

Permits issued in the Coast's 10 largest cities during 1935 totaled roundly $76,000,000, more than double the $37,000,000 of 1934.

Oakland topped the list in percentage gain, the $9,685,000 permits issued there being 246 per cent more than in 1934.

Los Angeles, with $31,672,m, towered above other Far Western .cities, while more than doubling the 1934 building permit values. Long Beach, with $6,864,000, gained 161 per cent over the pre'ceding year, and Spokane, with $1,564,000, also more than doubled the 1934 showing. San Francisco had $11,304,000 and seattle $3,575,000 in 1935.

Permits issued in the 10 largest Coast cities :

December building in these 10 cities $'as up 148 per cent over the 1934 month. The total was $7,649,000 roundly, against $3,084,000 in the i934 final month.

Seattle had a whopping big month, with some $940,000 in permits, contrasting with the poor month last year, with $98,000. The gain was 859 per cent over a year ago and 160 per .cent over November, when permits lvere roughly $362,000.

Al1 the 10 cities but San Diego had gains over a year ago for December. Those besides Seattle with gains of more than 100 per cent were Los Angeles, 193 per cent; San Francisco, 182'per cent; Oakland, 235 per cent; Portland, 127 per'cent; T'acoma, 157 per cent, and Spokane 145 per cent.

December Permit Values

(In thousands of dollars)

FARM MAC}IINERY SALES UP 75 PER CENT

Sales of agricultural machinery manufacturers during 1935 are estimated to have exceeded 1934 by about 75 per cent, ac,cording to the Standard Statisti'cs Company.

PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS SHOW BIG GAINS IN LIFE INSURANCE SALE,S

fn,complete returns from major life insurance companies indicate that the people of the United States "went to town" in purchasing life insurance and investments in annuities during 1935.

Early estimates are that the life insurance ,companies have, in the aggregate increased their assets to the total of more than $23,0m,000,000.

D. H. Doud Opent Los Angeles Ollice Opens San Francisco Sales Office

D. H. (Don) Doud has opened a. sales office in the Petroleum Securities Btdg., Los Angeles, and will represent the Anderson & Middleton Lumber Co. of Aberdeen, Wash.; Polson Lumber & Shingle Co. ancl Polson Mill Company of Hoquiam, Wash.; and Hart Mill Company of Raymond, Wash. These mills manufacture Old Growth Douglas Fir, Hemlock and Spruce with a combined daily capacity of 1,000,00O board feet. The Polson Lumber & Shingle Co. also make the well known Shawnee Brand of Western Red Cedar shingles.

Anderson & Middleton Lumber Co., Polson Lumber & Shingle Co. and Polson Mill Company, long established lumber manufacturers in the Grays Harbor district with large timber holdings, have been cargo shippers into the California market for many years. The Hart Mill Company, recently organized, have taken over the Hart-Wood Lumber Co. mill at Raymond on Willapa Harbor and are well equipped to handle California cargo shipments.

Mr. Doud has been connected with the sawmill end of the business in the Northwest for a long period and is widely known to the California lumber trade' He was formerly sales manager for the Defiance Lumber Co. at Tacoma, Wash.

Bill Clarkson \(/ith Chamberlin

W. J. "Bill" Clarkson, well known Bay district lumber salesman, is now with W. R. Chamberlin & Co. San Francisco, covering the San Francisco, East Bay and Peninsula territories.

KEEPS IN TOUCH WITH CALIFORNIA SITUATION

I enjoy very much keeping in touch with the California situation through your paper, and this is about the only news that has reached me during the two years I have been away from Los Angeles.

H. Bruce Wiscomb, Eastern Sales Manager, Harbor Plywood Corporation, Chicago, Illinois.

Clover Valley Lumber Company, Loyalton, Calif., has established a sales ofifice at Zffi California Street, San Francisco.

Announcement is made by vice president and general manager C. D. Terwilliger that C. W. Kempter has resigned his position with the California Pine Box Distributors, and is again associated with the Clover Valley Lumber Company, in charge of their San Francisco sales office.

Leigh R. Putman

Leigh R. Putman, vice president and market editor of American Builder, died suddenly at his home in Evanston, Ill., December 28, due to a heart attack. IIe lvas 6O years of age.

He was born in Fayetteville, Ark., and after completing' his school and college training became connected with the lumber business in Arkansas. His advertising and merchandising ability as a retail dealer and his sales promotion work attracted wide attention of Southern Pine manufacturers and in I9l7 he was appointed manager of Advertising and Trade Promotion for the Southern Pine Association with headquarters in New Orleans. He served in that position until late in I92O when he was selected as executive director of the newly organized American Wholesale Lumber Association, which post he filled until the organization was merged with the National Wholesalers Association. Early in 1925 he again became connected with the Southern Pine Association'as merchandising counsel serving until December, 1931, when he became affiliated with the American Builder in Chicago.

He is survived by his wife, a daughter and four sons. Funeral services at Fayetteville, Ark., on December 31.

Enters \(/holesale Business

P. E. "Pete" llanson has opened an office in the Financial Center Bldg., Los Angeles, where he is carrying on a wholesale lumber business in softwoods and hardwoods' "Pete" is well known in Pacific Coast lumber circles. He was formerly in the wholesale lumber business in Seattle for many years, and also operated a retail yard there for four years.

STEAMERS

Aberdeen, Waelr" Santiam Floquiam, Vach. Trinidad

Batbara Cates

Aberdeen, \Pash. Dorothy Cahill

Raymond, Vach. Edna Chrictenron

Branch Ofices: SEATTLE National Bank of Commerce

Jane Christenson

Annie €hristenson

Edwin Christenson

Catherine G. Sudden

Eleanor Christeneon

Charles Christenson PORTLAND

200 Henry Bldg.

c( MY FAVORITE

By Jack Dionne

Ag"

not guarunteed---Some I have told

for 20 years---Some lecs

Not Much o[ a Change?

These two men were arguing furiously over something, and one of them said:

"Listen, Bill. You don't agree with anything, or any, body. I'll bet you don't even indorse the Ten Commandments."

The other one said, casually: "Well, you make one small

change in them and I'll go right along with them.,'

The first one said: "What small change do you lvant made?"

And the pessimist said: ,'Just strike out that word "NOT'all the way through.

Roy Barto Tells How Filipinos Painted Al Koehl's Sagh and Door Schedule Knots on Their Finest Cabinet \7oods has Come Into General Use for to Make it LookLike Douslas Fir Figuring Millworlc Prices

Roy Barto, President of Cadwallader-Gibson Company, of Los Angeles, tells a delightful story of how far the Filipinos will go to emulate American things. Some Philippine capitalists built a very delightful hotel at a watering resort about sixty miles from Manila, and they trimmed it, and built its many pillars out of the most valuable wood that grows on the Islands, Narra. Narra is heavier, stronger, costlier, and more beautiful than almost any other Island wood. But after they got all this clear, marvelouslygrained cabinet wood in place, they proceeded to paint knots all over the exposed portions, to make it look like that wonderful Douglas Fir. And there it is today, with the knots in plain sight.

To imitate something from America they took one of the most beautiful and valuable of woods and painted it to look like common softwood building material. And, as Mr. Barton says: "Life's like that."

ROY BLEECKER VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

G. R. "Roy" Bleecker, formerly in the lumber business in San Francisco, and now of the Portland office of the Western Lumber Co., Westfir, Ore., left San Francisco for PortIand January 4 after spending several days in the Bay district on business.

E. S. CANTON VISITS COAST MILLS

E. S. Canton, Canton Lumber Sales Co., Minneapolis, was a recent visitor to the Pacific Coast. He called on a number of mills in the Northwest, and visited the operations of The Pacific Lumber Co. at Scotia, Calif., and their main office in San Francisco.

FRANK ADAMS IN SAN FRANCISCO

Frank R. Adams, of Chicago, Eastern sales manager of The Pacific Lumber Company, has arrived in San Francisco for a visit to the company's main of;fice and their plant at Scotia, Calif.

Al Koehl, owner of the firm of Jno. W. Koehl & Son, Los Angeles, derives much satisfaction in the realization that his pet business hobby, his Koehl 335 Sash & Door Schedule, has come into general use for figuring door and millwork prices all over Southern California.

Fifteen years ago Mr. Koehl began working on this system for figuring door and millwork prices. He put in a wealth of time and effort on the proposition, and in LSZS he issued his first edition of the book. Little by little its worth became understood by his fellow manufacturers of doors and millwork, until today about 75 of these detailed and interesting books are in constant use by makers of millwork in Southern California, with a scattered few in the northern part of the state. He hopes to see it come into general use all over the state because of the wizardry with which it figures door and millwbrk prices, almost at a glance.

Mr. Koehl reports that the business volume of his own concern, Jno. W. Koehl & Son, increased 75% in 1935 over 1934,and is still on the up grade. They make a specialty of the highest class of special built doors and millwork.

RETURNS FROM EASTERN BUSINESS TRIP

R. A. Simeral of Portland, Ore., general manager of FirTex Insulation Board Co., was a recent visitor at the company's Los Angeles office where he conferrecl with Stanley Moore, their Southern California representative. He had just completed an extensive business trip through the Middle 'West, East and Southern states. He also visited the plants of the Insulite Co., International Falls, Minn.; Wood Conversion Co., Cloquet, Minn.; Oswego Board Co., Oswego, N. Y.; Armstrong Cork Products Co., pensacola, Florida; and the Celotex Co,, New Orleans.

L. W. MacDONALD VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

L. W. MacDonald, MacDonald & Bergstrom, Inc., Los Angeles, was a recent San Francisco visitor on business.

Charfie Miller, of Oregohr Says There is Something Ne* in Lumbeb-"Miller Hearts"

Charlie Miller, of Warrenton, Oregon, one of the very well known young men in the lumber manufacturing business in that good lumber producing state, brought his family to Southern California during the holidays, and spent some time visiting with many old friends and business associates in California territory. His official name is C. E. Miller, Youngs Bay Lumber Company, Warrenton, Oregon.

It has been frequently said since time began that "There is nothing new under the sun." And the thought has been often tongued that this particularly refers to the lumber industry. But Charlie Miller has been demonstrating for the past year or so that there IS something new in lumber. He calls that new thing "Miller Hearts," and he is prqud indeed of the proposition. Here is the story:

When he took charge of the operations of the youngs Bay Lumber Company he began manufacturing and selling Fir lumber guaranteed to be FOHC, meaning, free of heart centers. He assures his trade that all of his lumber is that way, EXCEPT his "Miller Hearts" which are ALL heart centers. You see, when he started making FOHC lumber, it left him with an unusual amount of heart center stock on hand. And he set to work to discover what best to do

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with same. As all lumber folks know the heart centers of the Fir tree are wide-grained, light in weight, free of big knots but susceptible to the small knots that abound in the heart of that tree. So he began the very careful and special manufacture of two-by-fours made entirely from these hearts. He used only the straightest of lumber, with easededges. He began grading and selecting these very carefully. He double-trimmed the ends to give each one a perfectly square end. Then he painted the ends with red paint. It made the nicest looking two-by-fours he had ever seen. So he gave them a special n3nls-"\4iller Hearts." That is both the name and the grade. He put a flat price on them, and started offering them for sale as a special product. And at the end of a year he finds himself over-sold on these "Miller Hearts," with a well established trade that has tried them and found them very useful and desirable as building material for inside use. They are light, easy to handle, nail, and paint, they look grand in a pile being straighter and with better looking ends than ordinary lumber, and Charlie Miller is very proud of his creation and their acceptance. "Miller Hearts" is indeed his business baby. So there IS something new in lumber.

l/"tty*""/ sTnns

Come to tbe Conoention!

AT THE-REQUEST of your Association,we will present at your_anoual meeting our new all-sound motion picture, the"HOMB OF fHE TTOODEN SOLDIERS." This picture was made in Hollfrood with an all-star cast. "HOME OF THE TTOODEN SOLDIBRS" ushers in a novel method of visual selling and experts proclaim i1 16a1vsl of-the iidustrial age.

Descriptive literature is av_ailable telling the story Of CERTIGRI,DE RED CEDAR SHINGLES and will be sent to you uDon request, without expeise ! *t.x

SI.IINOLE BUREAU

A LONCFFE NE

He was showing a (riend {ound ultra-modern house.

"There are lots of boinf about that I like," said the candid friend, "and thelqfre I do not understand. Why, for instance, theYound in the front door?"

"Oh, that's for circular "-Montreal Daily Star.

NOP ECTS

A story of Atherton: Winston S. Churchill-told by Gertrude

"shortly after he left the Conservative side of the House (of Commons) for the Liberal, he was taking a certain young woman down to dinner, when she looked up at him coquettishly, and remarked with the audacity of her kind:

"'There are two things I donft like about you, Mr. Churchill.'

"'And what are they?'

"'Your new politics and mustache''

"'My dear madam,' he replied suavely, 'pray do not disturb yourself. You are not likely to corne in contact with either."'-Atlanta Journal.

AH! THESE SCOTST

Two Scots were mountaineering in Switzerland, when one of them slipped and fell into a crevasse. The other, peering over the edge, saw his companion holding on almost' by his fingernails.

,M ?" shouted the man in safety. thatr" the other, "but if ye run down to the village rope I'll try to hang on here till ye come back. H heaven's sake !"

and was gone nearly an hour. Suddenly his face appeared again over the edge of the cliff.

"Are ye still there, Macpherson?" he called down.

t'Ay"," in a low, weary tone. "Have ye got the rope?"

"No, indeed. The dirty dogs in the village waflted twa pounds for it !"

REASON UGH

A man eggs for ttBossrt' said somethin'else. mornin'."

"'Why not?"

waiter, "mebbe you better tak' not care to reckermend de aigs dis

the white man. "Aren't they fresh?"

"f don't know ef they is or ef they ain't, 'cause to tell you de truff we ain't got none."

DEATH AND GENERAL PUTNAM

By Arthur Guiterman

His iron arm had spent its force, No longer might he rein a horse;

. Lone, beside the dying blaze

Dreaming dreams of younger days Sat old Israel Putnam.

Twice he heard, then three times more A knock upon the oaken door, A knock he could not fail to know, That old man in the ember-glow.

"Come," said General Putnam,

The door swung wide; in cloak and hood Lean and tall the pilgrim stood And spoke in tones none else might hear, "Once more I come to bring you Fear t"

"Fear?" said General Putnam.

"You know not Fear? And yet this face Your eyes have seen in many a place Since first in stony Pomfret, when You dragged the mad wolf from her den."

t'Yes," said General Putnam.

"Was I not close, when, stripped and bound, With blazing fagots heaped around, You heard the Huron war-cry shrill? Was I not close at Bunker Hill?"

"Close," said General Putnam.

"Am I not that which strong men dread On stricken field or fevered bed On gloomy trail and stormy sea, And dare you name my name to me?"

"Death," said General Putnam.

"We have been comrades, you and I, In chase and war beneath this sky; And now, whatever Fate may send, Old comrade can you call me friend?"

"Friend," said General Putnam.

Then up he iose, and forth they went Away from battle-ground, fortress, tent, Mounatin, wilderness, field and farm, Death and the General, arm-in-arm, Death and General Putnam.

-From Death and General Putnam (E. P. Dutton New York). & Co.,

Redwood Shingle Bureau Prepares Frce Conespondence Course

One of the progressive steps being taken by the Shingle Bureau of the Califqrnia Redwood Association is the publication of a free correspondence course for Redwood shingle applicators.

L. L. Witty, in charge of the Shingle Bureau, is the originator of the idea, and it is his belief that more than 2,500 individuals in various pa.rts of the country will take advantage of the opportunity to make themselves better shingle applicators and shingle salesmen.

Asked for some particulars about the course Mr. Witty said:

"The course will consist of 12 lessons which will cover all phases of shingle application, the history of Redwood, and methods of selling the consumer.

"The course will be taken by lumbei dealers and men that they select, lumber salesmen and dealers' salesmen. Redwood salesmen have been busy securing from the lumber dealers the names of one or more local men interested in improving their work and earnings. These may be young carpenters' helpers or regular shinglers who want information on up-to-date application methods.

"The twelve lessons, one of which rvill be mailed each week, are summarized as follows: (1) History of Redwood -Redwood shingles-competitive shingles. (2) Exposure, nailing nails. (3) Sheathing-Roof Foundation. (4) Rakes, Eaves, Ridges, Hips. (5) Valleys-Flashings. (6) New Work. (7) Old Work-Recover. (8) Sidewalks. (9) Thatch and Fancy Application. (10) Estimating-Measuring. (11) Selling Methods. (12) Selling Methods."

Best December in Years

"Our Northern California business was the best in many years," Arthur B. Griswold, manager of the San Francisco office of C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation, stated recently, and added that their prospects look bright for good business in the coming year.

HARRY OFFICER VISITS

Harry Officer, of Dant & Russell, Inc., recent business visitor to San Francisco, known in lumber circles, having spent a there.

S. F.

Portland, was a where he is well number of years

"Farm Uses For \Testern Pine"

Portland, Ore., December 29th-The Western Pine Association of Portland, Oregon, has recently announced a new publication entitled, "FARM USES FOR WESTERN PINES," which is now ready for general distribution. While the purpose of the booklet is clearly indicated by the title, the subject matter contains reliable information of particular interest to users of materials in the farm areas and for the dealers serving the country trade. The suitability of Ponderosa Pine, Idaho White Pine and Sugar Pine for specific uses in farm buildings is well presented.

The new booklet is a lGpage brochure, profusely illustrated from photos and drawings depicting the ,convenience and utility of typical farm structures. One feature of the illustration is a photographic reproduction showing typical pieces of several standard grades of pine lumber, thereby conveying a more tangible idea of the characteristics of the grades that are described in the text. Other illustrations depict several types of modern barns, corn cribs, poultry equipment, hog houses, etc.

This little book fills the need for the type of literature that will appeal to farmers and aid dealers in pushing the sale of lumber and especially the Western Pines for logical uses in the agricultural regions. An adequate supply will be kept available by the Association and reprints made as required for future nedds from which quantity lots will be sold at a very reasonable price as a service to dealers. Single sample copies of the booklet will be furnished free to any dealer or on individual request upon application to the Association.

Had 5A% Increase Over 1934

A fifty per cent increase in 1935 business over 1934 is reported by W. H. O'Neill Lumber Co., hardwood importers, San Francisco. Mr. O'Neill states that they are getting new business from Philippine Mahogany from the East as a result of the Association's trade promotion work, and that they had a large percentage increase in importations of Japanese oak, birch, beech and maple.

E. A. MIDDLETON

LOS ANGELES VISITOR

E. A. Middleton, general manager of Anderson & Middleton Lumber Co., Aberdeen, Wash., is a Los Angeles visitor.

Large Shipments of Redwood Coofing Tower Stock Go To South Africa

Ricardo J. Gutierrez, wide awake manager of the Redwood Export Company, reports the handling of a number of large shipments of California Redwood cooling tower stock. In far away South Africa, in the town of Vereeniging, near Johannesburg, the Victoria Falls Power Company is erecting five cooling towers, using about 200,000 feet of Redwood lumber for each tower, or a total of approximately one million feet of California Redwood. This large order was filled by the Hammond & Little River Redwood Co. at

pany and its alert agents have worked for years on the London architects. Another example of this kind of constructive selling is the shipment of Redwood cooling tower stock for Bombay, sold through Wm. Jackson Co., agents for the Redwood Export Company in Bombay and with head offices in London. During the past eighteen months export shipments of California Redwood lumber. for cooling tower stock alone, have amounted to about one and a half million feet. A large part of these recent shipments comprises stock manufactured bv Hammond & Little River Redwood Company.

Change in Name

Effective January 1, 1936, the name of the Johnson Anarvalt Lumber Co. rvas changed to the Anawalt Lumber & Materials Co. The announcement states: "Our President, A. Burlangame Johnson, passed away in July, 1934, after a mutually satisfactory association of over twelve years. Several years before Mr. Johnson's death, H. F. Anawalt and Bernard Anawalt entered into an agreement to purchase Mr. Johnson's entire interest, the transaction being consummated with his heirs shortly after his death. We feel that a name more indicative of both ownership and scope of operation is advisable."

There will be no i:hange in the long established policies of the company. The only change in personnel of the company is the installation of W. C. Reiger as secretary and auditor. Mr. Reiger has been acting as the company's auditor for years. F. C. (Tobe) Lamar will continue in charge of their Tujunga yard, and the main office of the company will continue at Montrose.

Won't Kick ,I 1936 Equals 1935

their Redwood mills in Samoa, on Humboldt Bay. Four more towers of the same size are to be built by the same power company, bringing the total footage of California Redwood lumber for this purpose to more than one and three quarter million feet. Still another order for Redwood cooling tower stock, amounting to approximately 200,000 feet rvas shipped, through Redwood Export Company orders, for the municipality of Johannesburg. Last year a shipment of California Redwood was sent to Pretoria, South Africa, for construction of two'cooling towers by the Pretoria Iron Works. Mr. Gutierrez gives much credit for all this South African business to the company's live wire agents there, Emile Levy & Co., Ltd. Thev have represented the Redwood Export Company in that country for eight years and have given splendid co-operation in promoting the merits of Redwood in a most constructive manner. This is especially true of C. R. Thompson, the partner in Emile Levy & Co., Ltd., who handles the sale of Redwood for his company. Many of the South African firms have headquarters in England, where the Redwood Export Com-

H. H. Barg, Barg Lumber Company, San Francisco, hardwood importers, says that his company had a very good year in 1935, and that when the uncertainty due to the presidential election is taken into account they will have no kick coming if business in 1936 is equal to their 1935 total.

Hiscox-Guthrie

Richard G. Hiscox was married to Miss Esther Guthrie at Modesto, California, December 26, 1935.

Mr. Hiscox is president of the R. G. Hiscox Lumber Company, Berkeley. They will make their home in Berkeley.

ED GREEN VISITS LOS ANGELES

E. L. "Ed" Green, vice president in charge of sales, Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, spent a few days in Los Angeles around the New Year.

Where a million leet ol Calilornia Red'wooil lumber is being useil in build" ing fiae large cooling touers near lohannesburg, South- Alrica, Th9 luinbbr .ot iold throuih the Reilwood' Export Company anil manufactured, N the Hammonil mills at Samoa, Humboldt County, California.

A. S. Murphy Presidcnt Redwood Ass'n

A. S. Murphy, president of pany, San Francisco, is acting Redwood Association.

MAKES NORTHWEST TRIP

Phil Gosslin, salesman for James L. Hall, San Francisco, returned recently from an automobile trip to the Northwest. He drove up the Redrvood and Roosevelt Highways and spent a few days at the Smith Wood-Products Company's plant at Coquille, where he made himself better acquainted with the manufacture of Port Orford Cedar. He also visited the mills of Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Mills at Bellingham, and on the rvay south spent the Christmas holidays with his mother in Portland.

VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

C. D. Terwilliger, vice president and general manager, Clover Valley Lumber Company, Loyalton, Calif., spent a few days at the company's San Francisco ofifice at the end of the year.

ONE YEAR OF PLEASURE READING

Find herewith my check for one year of pleasure reading-no fooling.

Fred L. Jones, Lumber and Salvage Yard, El Verano. Calif.

HILL & UIORTOII, IIIG. ANNOUNCE

They are now warehousing, and are distributors for the following:

ll. S. GlrpcunBoollng

Harbord Plywood

Along with their regular line of Douglas Fir - Ponderosa and Sugar Pine - California Redwood Red Cedar Shingles

Direct Representativee:

BOOTH.KELLY LUMBER CO.

Vendling and Springfield, Ore.

Convention Dates

Jan. I4-16-Northwestern Lumbermen's Association, Minneapolis, Minn.

J^n. 76-17-Carolina Retail Lumber & Building Supply Dealers' Association, Greenville, S. C.

Jat. 16-18-Mountain States' Lumber Dealers' Association, Denver, Colorado.

Jan. 2l-23-Middle Atlantic Lumbermen's Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Jan. 22-14-Indiana Lumber and Builders' Supply Association, Indianapolis.

Jan. 23-24-West Virginia Lumber & Builders' Supply Dealers' Association, White Sulphur Springs, West Va.

Jan. 28-3o-Northeastern Retail Lumbermen's Association, New York,

Jan. 29-37-5outhwestern Lumbermen's Association, Kansas City, Mo.

Feb. 4-7-Michigan Lumber Dealers Association, Detroit.

Feb. 5-7-Retail Lumber Dealers' Association of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh.

Feb. 11-12-North Dakota Retail Lumbermen's Association, Bismarck.

Feb. 11-13-Illinois Lumber & Material Dealers' Association, Chicago.

Feb. L2-14--Kentu'cky Retail Lumber Dealers Association, Louisville.

Feb. l8-20-Wisconsin Retail Lumbermen's Association, Milwaukee.

Feb. 19-2l-Nebraska Lumber Merchants' Association. Lincoln.

Feb. ZU2?-Western Retail Lumbermen's Association, Portland, Ore.

Feb. 20-Z2-Yirginia Lumber & Building Supply Dealers' Association, Richmond.

Feb. 25-26-Iowa Association of Lumber & Building Material Dealers. Des Moines.

Feb. 26-2*-Ohio Association of Retail Lumber Dealers. Cincinnati.

Mar'ch 11-12-South Dakota Retail Lumbermen's Association, Huron, South Dakota.

TRADE.MARKED . SELECTED . FTRM TBXTURED

The Pacific Lumber Compresident of the California

'3Bradteytt Hardwood Floorlng lneullte llraflboard and fnsulatlon

Ten Years Ago Today

From the Files of lhe California Lumbet Merchant, January 15, 1926

This issue carries an article with photograph of the A complete and comprehensive report of the California Boulevard Mill & Lumber Co. plant at Oakland. Lien Law by L. D. Gilbert appears in this issue.

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The Norman Light Lumber Co. has opened a yard at Phoenix, Ariz.

Three yards of tte cibinL"lro.. Co. at La Jolla, Mis' sion Beach and Pacific Beach have been bought by the Western Lumber Co. of San Diego.

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A phcitograph of a large moving picture set constructed by the Fox Film Company in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, appears in this issue. The set is built of wallboard which was furnished by the Schumacher Wall Board Corp.

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A memorial meeting in honor of Bolling Arthur Johnson was held December 22 by the Portland Hoo-Hoo Club. Carl Crow acted as chairman. C. D. Johnson, whose llooHoo number is 143, paid a fine tribute to the deceased brother whom he had known for many years.

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The Diamond Match Company have started construction on a new yard at Dunsmuir.

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Hobbs Wall & Company will spend approximately $300,000 at the company's mill and logging camps near Crescent City.

A. W. MIDDLETON VISITS LOS ANGELES

A. W. Middleton, president of Anderson & Middleton Lumber Co., Aberdeen, Wash., has returned to the Northwest after spending the holidays in Los Angeles,

NEW ARRIVAL

A baby girl, Charlene Dodge, arrived at the Peralta Hospital, Oakland, December 19, to gladden the hearts of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Dodge, of Berkeley.

Mr. Dodge is associated with MacDonald & Harrington, wholesale lumber dealers, San Francisco.

VISITS CARMEL AND S. F.

A. W. "Bates" Smith, of the Los Angeles office of MacDonald & Harrington, San Francisco, recently spent a week-end at Carmel, and visited the company's head office in San Francisco, December 16. He made the trip by automobile.

Frank R. Titcomb, who has been manager of the Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Co., Snoqualmie Falls, Wash., has been appointed assistant general manager of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company with headquarters in Tacoma. C. H. Ingram has succeeded Mr. Titcomb as managbr of the Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Co. ***

Grays Harbor made a new record for offshore shipments in 1925 by shipping 600,@0,00O feet. With coastwise cargoes included, the port shipped well over a billion feet during the year.

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The Rush Lumber Company yard at Tucson, Ariz., has been sold to the Mulcahey Lumber Co.

Los Angeles in 1925 imported approximately 1,200,000,000 feet of lumber. This large movement of lumber exerted a big influence on industry in the Los Angeles metropolitan area which in 1925 turned out ir-r excess of $1,202,677,0A0 worth of manufactured products in its 550O factories'

Minton Lumber Company, Palo Alto, have moved to larger quarters.

OFFICE REMODELED_ADD NE\I/ EQUIPMENT

The Geo. M. Huff Lumber Co. of Los Angeles have remodeled their office, the interior being trimmed in Knotty Pine and the ceiling finished with U. S. Gypsum Weatherwood Insulation Board. They have also installed a new traveling electric crane and burner.

F. M. SLADE BACK FROM S. F. TRIP

F. M. Slade of Los Angeles, California sales representative for the Edward Hines Pacific Coast Lumber Co., has returned from San Francisco where he conferred with R. F. van Deinse of Portland, Ore., manager of the company.

LEAVES FOR NEW YORK

Edric E. Brown, manager of the Bark Products Division of The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, has left on a business trip to New York.

Reprerenting in Southern California, The Pacif,c Lumbcr-Company-Wendling-Nathan Co.

David T. Mason, Manager \(/estern Olin H. Carter Made General Superintendcnt

Pine Ass'n, Resigns

Portland, Oregon, Dec. 3l.-David T. Mason, Manager of the Western Pine Association of Portland, Oregon, today announce<l his resignation as Nlarrager of the Association, effective follo'n,ing the annual rneeting in February.

"In taking this action," Mr. Mason said, "I have in mind returning to my former rvork as Consulting Forest Engineer, in rvhich field I hope to serve our industry, especially in the process of forrvarding the industry and public programs of forest conservatior-r set up by the conference of industry and public representatives held under Article X of the Lumber Code."

"I shall leave the Association work rvith real reluctance, for it has been a great satisfaction to work rn'ith manufacturers of the 'Western Pines in dealing with the many problems of the past few years. Especially I dislike to interrupt the pleasant personal relationship with the Association staff, officers and members. But in making this change I not only hope to be useful to the industry, but also hope to maintain the many pleasant personal friendships which have grown up during the past few years."

During the later period of the Lumber Code, Major Mason served as Executive Officer of the Lumber Code Authority in Washington, D. C. For many years previously he was engaged in consulting forestry rvork under the firm name of Mason and Stevens in Portland, in rvhich capacity Mr. Mason lvas associated with the late Carl M. Stevens. This announcement will come as a distinct surprise to his host of friends in the industry.

Santa Fe Lumber Co. Yards--Other Changes

A. J. "Gus" Russell, Vice-President ancl General Manager of the Santa Fe Lumber Company, of San Francisco, announces effective January first, the appointment of Olin H. Carter as General Superintendent of all Santa Fe lumber yards, including the big operation at the Port of Stockton.

Mr. Carter has been manager of the Port of Stockton plant of Lumber Distributors, Inc., a Santa Fe Lumber Company institution, since its inception a year ago. He got his early lumber training in the Pacific Northrvest. Coming to California years ago he was assistant for years to that lamented veteran of the San Joaquin Valley, Joe Martin. He became manager of the Fresno Lumber Company after the death of Mr. Martin. Later he rvent to the Palo Alto Lumber & Roofing Company, at Palo Alto, as manager, and from there to Stockton. The appointment of X{r. Carter to his new position is for the purpose of relieving Mr. Russell of many of the duties and responsibilities rvith reference to their yards that have occupied much of his time in late years, and he considers Mr. Carter splenclidly fitted for the work.

W. L. Calvert, who has been assistant to Mr. Carter at Stockton for the past year, is promoted to the management of the plant of Lumber f)istributors, Inc. Ed Gilbert, former St. Mary's football star and recently at Dallas, Oregon, for the Santa Fe Lumber Company, has been transferred to Stockton and given the position of assistant to Mr. Calvert.

Lumber Distributors. Inc.. norv carries four and one-half million feet of stock on hand at their Port of Stockton plant, and is enjoying a wonderful business, shipping everything from plywood rvall-board to large timbers to the lumber dealers o{ the adiacent territorv.

Business 50% Up in 1935

"Our business showed a 50 per cent increase in 1935 over 1934, and we are looking for further improvement in 1936," said Chas. G. Murra, manager of Paramount Built-in-Fixture Co., 1807 E. 12th Street, Oakland. recently. "Business has been very good in the East Bay area, both modernization and new construction, and we are graduail-v extending our territory."

East B.y Club Has Big Crowd lor First Meeting of Year

More than 100 lumbermen, one of the largest gatherings at a regular meeting in the club's history, attended the opening dinner meeting of the year of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club, held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Monday evening, January 6.

Jack Dionne, publisher of The California Lumber Merchant, was the speaker of the evening. IIe was introduced by Earle E. Johnson, chairman of the entertainment committee.

President Gordon D. Pierce presided, and in the course of his remarks commended the fine work of Miland R. Grant and his committee for their handling of the Christmas grocery keg distribution, which broke all former records with a total of 457 kegs.

Henry M. Hink made the report for the committee, giving in detail the amount of food purchased by the lumbermen for distribution to the needy families of the East Bay. Adjutant Earl M. Williams of the Salvation Army expressed his appreciation of the generosity of the lumbermen.

Sewall Morton conducted an old-fashioned roll call, and srn'elled the club's coffers to some extent with fines. The door prize of $15 was won by Clem Fraser. Music was provided by the Patricia Maddern Trio. The attendance was as follorvs: Henry Meyer, Oakland Lumber Co., Oakland; Frank Teakle, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Oakland; Chas. Haagenson, Oakland Lumber Co., Oakland; Geo. T. Gerken, Sunset Lumber Co., Oakland; Paul M. P. Merner, Merner Lumber Co., Palo Alto; Z. H. Mauvais, Sunset Lumber Co., Oakland; Homer B. Maris and J. D. Maris, Maris Plywood Co., San Francisco; A. V. Lucas, Castro Valley Lumber Co., Castro Valley; Ed F. Larson, Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland; Chas. S. Lamb, Chas. Lamb Lumber Co., Emeryville; J. Ross Kinney, Zenith Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland; Earle E,. Johnson, Eureka Lumber & Mill Co., Oakland; A. B. Johnson, Jr., A. B. Johnson Lumber Co., San Francisco; R. A. Hiscox, Berkeley; Henry M. Hink, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco; R. E. Hills, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco; Judge George W. Hickman, Albany; J. J. Helm, Sunset Lumber Co., Oakland; Lloyd Harris, Elliott Bay Sales Co., Oakland; H. M. Gunton, MacDonald & Harrington, San Francisco; Robt. S. Grant, National Mill & Lumber Co., San Francisco; M. R. Grant, Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland; George W. Gorman, San Francisco; Lewis A. Godard, Hobbs, Wall & Co., San Francisco; Prof. Emanuel Fritz, IJniversity of California; John Freeman, llolmes Eureka Lumber Co., San Francisco; Garnet Fraser, Detroit Graphite Co., Decoto; Clem Fraser, Loop Lumber & Mill Co., Alameda; S. C. Forsey, Eureka Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland; Edwin D. Fletcher, Oakland; M. L. "Duke" Euphrat, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco; F. W. Elliott, Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., San Fran-

cisco; F. A. Egnell, Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco; Earl R. Davis, East Bay Lumbermen's Institute, Oakland; Ray B. Cox, Peerless Built-in-Fixture Co., Berkeley; D. Normen Cords, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco; C. Fred Cooper, C. F. Cooper Woodworking Co., Oakland; Max E. Cook, The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco; Edward Coleman, Boorman Lumber Co., Oakland; Wm. Chatham, Jr., Loop Lumber & Mill Co.; M. B. Carter, Hogan Lumber Co., Oakland; R. J. Bryson, Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco; T. T. Branson, Melrose Lumber & Supply Co., Oakland; C. S. Brace, Stockton Lumber Co., Stockton; M. L. Booth, Hobbs, Wall & Co., San Francisco; Jack P. Boorman, Boorman Lumber Co., Oakland; B. J. Boorman, Boorman Lumber Co., Oakland; G. F. "Jerry" Bonnington, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco; W. T. Black, The California Lumber Merchant, San Francisco; Chas. G. Bird and Donald G. Bird, Stockton Lumber Co., Stockton; H. C. Berry, Oakland Lumber Co., Oakland; Charles M. Barker, B. F. Sturtevant Co., Berkeley; E. E. Abrahamson, Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco; Chris i\{. Wininger. Pyramid Lumber Sales Co., Oakland; R. O. Wilson, R. O. Wilson Lumber Co., San Francisco; Arthur Williamson and Kenneth J. Shipp, California Builders Supply Co., Oakland; Larue Woodson, Wheeler Osgood Sales Corp., San Francisco; C. J. Sheehan, Sheehan-Ballard Planing Mill Co., Berkeley; Adj. Earl M. Williams, Salvation Army, Oakland; Glenn B. \Marner, Nicolai Door Sales Co., San Francisco; Brooks Walker, The Red River Lumber Co., San Francisco; H. F. Vincent, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., San Francisco; Frank W. Trower, Trower Lumber Co., San Francisco; G. C. Troth, Oakland; C. S. Tripler, Oakland; "Tom" Tomlinson, Paramino Lumber Co., San Francisco; W. Tilden, Tilden Lumber Co., Berkeley; A. F. Tavlor, Castro Valley Lumber Co., Castro Valley; Taylor Sublett, J. E. Higgins Lumber Co., San Francisco; C. I. Speer, Zenith Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland; Reginald Smith. Smith Lumber Co., Oakland; J. A. Smilie, Oakland; Jos. W. Simpkin, Oakland; Gordon D. Pierce, Boorman Lumber Co., Oakland; F. K. Peil, Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco; B. Schwartz, Oakland; Lloyd Turner, Oakland; C. I. Gillen, Oakland; F. Paramino, Paramino Lumber Co., San Francisco; Jas. B. Overcast, Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland; W. H. Nigh, Shevlin Pine Sales Co., San Francisco; J. M. McTaggart, Eureka Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland; Geo. W. Brown, Oakland; P. T. Burns, Vallejo; H. Servall Morton, Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland; Carl R. Moore, Moore Mill & Lumber Co., San Francisco; Nels Quist, Quist Bros. & Co., Hayward; Arthur A. Hiscox, Berkeley; Magnus }Iansen, Oakland; W. A. Farrar, Oakland; Frank F. Fee, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Oakland; G. W. Sechrist, Loop Lumber & Mill Co., Alameda; A. R. Golden, HilI Lumber & Hardware Co., Albany; Ed Galpin, Merner Lumber Co., San Jose; Geo. Clayberg, Oakland.

BI]YEB9S GUIDB SAN FBAITCISOO

LUMBER

Cbambcrlin & Co, W. R,th Flffi, Fifc Bldgr. ............DOus!a.5a?0

Dolber & Cam Lunbr Cq. ?t Machst Excbangc Bldg.......SUtter 7150

Geoge lV. Goman 310 Saroome St. ..............,....D()|rg!u 33tt

HaIl, James L., 1026 Millr B!dg.,..................Sutter l3t5

Hmmond & Littlc River Redwood Co310 Sansome SL ...,......,.........DOua|a. lStt

Holmer Eureka Lumba Co.1306 Finucbl Ccnter Bld3.......GArficld r02r

C. D. Johuso Lumber Corp2fl1 Califomia Street.,...,......... G.Arfield C25t

MacDonald & Hanington Ltd., fa Califmia Street....... ....,,...GArfrcld t303

McCmisk, Chas. R., Lumber Co., {ll Muket Street.,...,.....,......DOu3|u 256f

Mm Mill & Lmbcr Co., 125 Markqt StEt ............,...EXbrok llTlt

LUMBER

Pacific Lubcr Cq Thc lO Burh Strei..,..,.....,........GArfictd tttr

Red Rivcr Lumbcr Co, 315 Mru&rak Bldt...............GArficld 0!22

Suta Fe Lumber Co- f0 Califorrh Strct............KEany 2074

Scbafer Bru. Lumber & ShlDtb er., 1208 Fifc Bldg.......................SUttar l7ll

Shevlin Pine Sales ColGtlt Mmadnak Bl

Suddeu & Christemon, dg. ...........KErmt 70ll 310 Sumc Stre€t................GArficld 2t{6

Trcwer Lmbr Cc, ll0 Muket Strcet.................,..Suttcr 0,t2!

Union Lmber Co., Ciockr Building .....,..............Surtcr Euo

Wodling-Narh.- C6. U0 Mark.t Street ...........,......Suttcr 5363

E. K. Wod Lubcr Co. I Drum Street....................KEamy 3?10

Wcyerhacurr Salcr Cof .|, Cdifomi. Stre€t...........,...GArfield tr?{

LUMBER

Hill & Mortoo, Inc., Dmnisu St Wharf ..'.........ANddr f07l

Hocan Lmber Cmpany, -2nd & Alie Strets.............Glanmrt 66al

Pwmid Lumber Sals Co., - ,ll5 Pacific Building ....."'...Glencourt t293

E. K. Wood Lmber Cc. Frederick & KinS Stt.....'.......Fruitvale 0ll2

HARDWOODS

HARDWOODS AIYD PANELS

Forryth Hardrrod Co355 Baychm Blvd. .......,......,ATntc |lsl

White Brother,Fifth and Braman Strek .........SUttcr ltlli

SAI;H-DOORS-PLYWOOD

Buckley-Lmba Dealerc' Supply Cmpany. Ul Sutta Building...,,.........,...SUirir caOr

Niolai Door Saler Co., 30,15 lgth Strect .,.....,............Mlsiotr ?!a

Oregon_-_Washington Plywod Co., 55 New Mmtgomery Stret.......GAr6ctd tlal Whceler-Os-god Saler Corpontion, 3045 reth St. ....,. ,., .'. ..VAlencia ZZ{t

CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLES-PILINGTIES

Hall, James L, ............-.. .-. 1026 Milh BIds. ...................SUtrGr l3t5 McCm_igk,_ Cbar. R., Lumbcr Co, a6l Mrrkct Stret. ,. .Dougla. ZSal

PANEI.S-DOORS-SAIIH

'Elltott Bay Saler Co., ll2{ Brodvay ....Hlgrtc Zlt?

Calilmira -Bu{den Supply Co., 501 ,th Avenue .................,ANdcc lf$

\f,festcm Dm & Suh Co. Slh & Cyprer Sti ............,.LAk6ide f400

Strable Hardwod Co, 53? Fict StGt.,...............TEmplebrr 55ll,l White Brcthers, 500 High Street ..................ANdow 1600

LOS ANGELNS

LUMBER

Bokstaver-Bums Lumber Co.'

550 Chamber of Comerce Bldg...PRospcct @:ll

Chuberlin & Co., W. R.' 3lt West Nirtb SL,.,............'TUcker l,l3l

Dolbeer & Canon Lumbs Co., r29 Shell Building.............. "..VAndike t792

Dru4 B. H., dll Petrcleum Seurities Bldg. ..PRGp€ct 2E23

Hmnod & iittI" River Redwood Co, l03l So. Brodway ...............PRcpect O$l

Holnes Eweka Lumber Co.. 7ll-712 Archltectr Bldt. .,........Mutual tltt

Hovr, A. L.. 70(l So. L: Brca Avc. .,....,.........YOrk ll6E

C. D. Johnsot Lumber Corp., 6|tl Petrclem Smritiec Bldg....PRcpect lf65

Larene-Pbilipr Lmber Co., 631 Pctroleum Smritia Bldg...PRcpect 0229

MrcDodd & Bcrgatrom, Inc73il Petrclcum Scorltier Bld8...PRcp€ct Tftl

MacDmld & Hanington, Ltd., 5{? Petrolem Securities Bldg....PRcped 3la

McCoalck, Chr. R, bimbcr Co.tu lfr|;r ,rb sL-..............'....TRiniV 52{r

Pacilic lmbcr Co, Tbc 7D Sc h Bn Arc. ................YOr|r lllt

LUMAER

Patten-Blinn hnbcr Co-

5A E. sth St. ....................VArdike 2321

Rcd Rivsr Lumbcr. Co..

7o| E. Slauro ,CEntury 290?t

Suta Fe Lmber Co., 3lt Fimcial Ccntcr Bld8r...,...VAndike 4471

Scbafer Bra Lumba & Shiagl,a Co., lZAt W. M. Guland Bldg.......,.TRinity f7r

Shevlin Pine Sales Co.,

32E Petrcleum Securitier Bldg. PRepect 0615

Sudden & Chrbtenson, 630 Berd of Tnde Bldg. ........TRinity ttll

Union Lurber Co.

9A W. M. Gariud Btd3...........TRinltr22s2

Wendling.Natiu Co., 7|I| Se Ia Brea .A.rc. ..............YOrk lf3t

E. K. Wod Lmber Co, 4701 Suta Fc Avc. ,.............JEffcnm tlll

Wcyerhaeusa Salea Co., t|9 Pcboleum Seqritia Bldt...PR€p.ct 55t0

CREOSOTED LUMBER_POIJS-PILINGTTES

McCmlck, Cb* R- L-bcr Co, u7 wqt rth sL ................TRhtt sr|r

Reilly Tar & Chemiql Cqp. si6 W. Fiath Street...L...........Muruat aart

HARDWOODS

Cadwallader-Gibsn Co., Inc., 362t Minea Ave. ..................Angelus lll6l

Findlay Millar Timber Co, lll W. Seventt St. ..........,.,..TUcker 9126

Perfectio Oak Flooring Co., EzO E. f,)th St...................PL@nt 410,1

Stant6, E. J., & Sm, 20511 Eut 3Eth Str?et.....,......CEntury 2e2rr

SASH-DOORS-MILLWORK

PAI\IEI.S AND PLYWOOD

Buckley Lmber Dealers' Supply Co., 53t Petrolem Seorities Bldg...,PRcpect 5E50

Califmia Paul & Verer Co., 155 Sq Alameda SL.....,. -....,...TRinity 00ti?

Elliott Bay Sales Co801 Petrcleum Securitiec Bldg.,.PRcpect l6t0

Kehl, Jno W.. & Sma 6li2 So. Myen St. .........,....,.ANgc|ur tltl

Orcgon-Warhington Plywod Co., 3lt W.st Nintt Strctc .............TUcLc lltl

Rcd River Luber Co., ?@ E. Slauc6 ..CElturt tt@l

Wheler-Osgood Salcs Ccpmtioq 2153 Samelto St. .....,.........TUcLcr /tl.l

Comments on New Redwood Shingle Folder

The following comments on the uerv shingle folder', recently issued for distribution by the retail lurnber trade to their ,customers, 'have been received by the Shingle Bureau of the Calfiornia Redwood Association: Eagle Rock Lumber Company.-Your new Redlvood Shingle Folder is the best thing of its kincl we have seen.

Ganahl Lumber Company.-We rvill use Shingle Folder to advantage to move more Redwood shingles.

is very attractive of these for you.

J. D. Halstead Lumber er will be of great value

Redwood Shingles.

Melrose Lumber & Supply Cornpany.-IJelieve this to be tl"re best looking bit of shingle advertising we have seen and think it rvill help in more Redwood shingle sales.

and it rvould please us 'to distribute sorne Companl'.-\Ve believe this foldto irs in promoting the sale of piece of advertising.

- The Greater City Lumber Company.-Think fine literature. Can use it to good advantage.

Hogan Lumber Company.-A very attractive Shingle Folder.

.this very Redwood

1. D. H-lstead Lumber Company.-Thank you for this Hammond Lumber Company, Ne'iv Orleans'-We desire to take this opportunity to congratulate you on the attractive manner in which you have gotten up this folder, and we are parti'cularly anxious to make a drive for more shingle business after the turn of the year.

Gibbs Lumber Company.-The Redwood Shingle Folder is fine. We are glad to see this development in getting back to wood shingles.

Hammond Lumber Company, Colton'-We believe yott are on the right road. as the idea is to let the pul>lic know rve have been selling more Redrvood shingles than any others.

Hudson Bonney Lumber Company'-We think the Folder attractive and feel that it will produ'ce results.

Oraling-Funch Lumber Company.-Your Shingle Folder

SUPERUIS|IRY SERUICE

GTPIIAT FUilIIS

The Brookmire Supervisory Service undertakes the supervision, or management, of capital funds for Individuals, Banks, Estates and Institutions.

We shall be pleased to explain this division of Brookmire Service to any interested person who has, or controls, investment funds which are in excess of $50,000.

BROOITMIBN

Cornoration ^ Inuestrnent Counselors and found"dtgC4 Q Ad^;rirrrotiueEconomists

551 Fifth Avenue, New York

Hobbs-Wall l-rumber Company.-We think this one of the most attractive pieces of literature the Association has ever put out.

Wood Bros. Company.-It is an excellent piece of advertising.

Bay District Lumber Company.-These are fine.

Swift Lumber Company.-shorvs how easily u'ood uray go over wood.

- Concord Lumber Company.-Very attractive.

Glenwood Lumber Cbmpany.-I3est shingle pamphlet ever seen, E. J. Stanton & Sons, Inc.-Ilxcellent piece of advertis-

ino Mendocino County folder is really good.

Retail Luml>er Company.-This

Loop Lumber & Mill ComPanY.-We est thing of its kind that has ever beert

think it is the finput into the hands

i i I { of the retail dealers.

Diamond Match Company, Chico.-We think this is a very fine advertising medium.

ir,onin Lumber - Comparty.-Yottr Recln'ood Shingle Folder is a work of art.

San Jose I-umber Company.-Our cornpliments on this. It is a winner, I feel sure.

Consolidated Lumber Company.-shoulcl lle made to fit a 4x6l envelope.

Ganahl-Grin-r- Lumber Company.-Your Shingle Circular is the best one we hal'e seen.

Mullin Lumber Company.-Your folder is the ever.

Lloyd Bittenbender.-Your Shingle folder is out".

very best a "kttock-

Palmclale Pioneer Lumber Company.-This' in nly min<l, shoulcl get Redwood business. The Folder is l>earrtiful and gives some true facts of the roof.

Valley Lumber Companl'.-(W. K. Kenclrick)' This little folder seems very attractive.

Wightman Lumber Company.-We think this is a very attraclive folder and ought to bring some results.

Patten-Blinn Lumber Company, Riverside.-Suggest shortening so can be put in ordinary size envelope.

Barr Lumber Company.-Your folcler verv attractive.

Atascadero Mill & Lumber Company.-Folder very attractive. Should help sell Recln'ood shingles.

Frank LaPorte.-This is a verv attractive Folder and strikes me as an ideal rvay in which to convey an importarrt message to prospective buyers.

Pasadena I-ttmber Company.-Will you accept our conlpliments on thc fine appearing Folder.

- Hayu'ard Lumber & Investment Company, Bakersfield.I beli-eve this (folder) should help us materiallv ir-r the sale of wood shingles.

H. A. Laki, Garden Grove.-This is one of the most beautiful pieces of literature I have ever seen. You certainly are to be ,congratulated on putting ottt sttch a fine circular.

Lolgta Lumber Companl'.-The Folder is man'elous and should be a valuable advertising medium

Diamond Match Company, Grass Valley.-'Ihese are fine folders.

Palms Lumber Company.-My hat is ofi can use two-hundred to good advantage.

Dixon l,umber Company.-It's putting top" as it should be.

S. P. Milling Company, Sbledad.-Accept this fine piece of advertising matter.

to you and we

Redwood "on

our thanks for

Danville Warehouse & Lumber Company.-Think size should be smaller.

Lumber & Builder Supply Company.-Think should be shorter size for mailing.

Stockton Lumber Company.-We think your Shingle Folder is a "knockout".

Henry Laws Company.-These are fine.

Hayward Lumber & Investment Company, Riverside.This folder is a very attractive one and one that will bring attention to a real roof. We are selling lots of Redwood Shingles.

Builders Materials Company.-We think the enclosed Folder is a fine one and something that the Shingle industry has been overlooking for a long time.

Maisler Bros. Lumber Company.-Very good. It will help new selling.

United Lumber Yards, Inc.-Allow us to congratulate yoi on your Redwood Shingle circular. It seems to be verv neatlv done and should have some ,effect on the use of Redwood Shingles.

Diamond Match Company, Petaluma.-I think these new folders, in color, are fine and if they are widely distributed they should bring in some shingle business.

Whiting Mead Lumber Company (Main Office).-We, wish to compliment you on the very attractive Folder for Redwood Shingles.

Buena Park Lumber Company.-Size should be cut down. T,he rest of it is a fine j,ob, easy to read and look over.

Shattuck Lumber Company.-We'consider this is a very comprehensive and attractive folder and should bring some results.

Merner Lumber Company.-This folder is quite attractive and should be of value in promoting the sale and use of Redwood shingles.

Spaulding Lumber Company.:We consider this a very attractive Folder and believe it should be of ,considerable benefit to us.

G. A. Good Lumber Company.-Folder very attractive, but as a stuffer for envelopes it is too long. Recommend smaller size.

Menefee-Scott Lumber Company.-We think the idea is excellent and well gotten up.

COMPLETES SURVEY OF NORTHWEST MILLS

Brooks Walker, representative of The Red River Lumber Company, returned to San Francisco recently after making a series of four trips in the course of which he covered Northern California, all of Oregon and Idaho, and all of Washington except the southwest portion.

The trips were made for the purpose of picking up and trading ofr information on mill operation, and to gather information on timber supply adjacent to the mills, and primarily to encourage mill owners who have cut out to come to California to operate in The Red River Lumber Compiny's timber holdings.

WILLIAM VAUGHAN VISITS S. F.

William Vaughan, president of the Coos Bay Logging Co., North Bend, Ore., was recently in San Francisco on a business trip.

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Lumber Industry Climbs 75 Per Cent Above D"pression Low

Washington, D. C., Dec. Zo.-Lumber production in the United States in 1935 climbed back from the depression low record of 1O billion feet in 1932 (about the same as in 1869!) to approximately L7l billion feet, as compared with 15r/, billion feet in 1934, 14 billion feet in 1933, and a normal production of 37 billion leet in 1929. In the last quarter of 1935 softwood lumber production was approximately 4O per cent greater than in the last quarter of 1934, and consumption during the last half of the year was approximately Z0 per cent above that of the corresponding period of. 1934.

Residential building, which is the largest factor in lumber consumption, was, in floor space contracted for, nearly 2l trmes that of 1934 during the last part of 1935 and is expected next year to be double that of 1935 which would make it the largest year since 1929. Such an increase in residence building, if other factors show similar gain, would signify an increase of lumber production in 1936 to around 25 to 26 billion feet or about equal to the 1930 lumber output. The industrial demand for lumber has been gaining rapidly and all the signs point to an approximation of industrial consumption next year equal to that of 1931 and perhaps to 1930. Employment has been slowly gaining during the last part of 1935 and rvith present tendencies should begin to approximate in 1936 at least the "normalcy" of 1930-31. These forecasts will be somewhat affected by the results of increased imports of lumber under the new Canadian-American trade agreement, which r,r'ill become effective in January.

Resumption of normal production by the lumber and timber products industries (sawmills and logging operations, which is the most important in the forest products group) will be noticeably advantageous in some 30 states in which the forest industries are important. The lumber and timber products industry was in 1929 the leading one in 10 states in respect of the number of wage earners; it led in 9 states in amount of wages, and in 6 states in the value of products. Despite the exceptional effects of the depression upon it, it is still the leading industry in 8 states and the second in 5 states, the number of wage earners being the criterion. In the State of Washington, in 1933, the lumber industry employed 45 per cent of all the wage earners; in Oregon 48 per cent; in Mississippi 41 per cent; Idaho 42; Arkansas 38; Louisiana 27, and New Mexico 35.

The forest products industries (including lumber and its manufactures) is fifth in number of wage earners in a national count of 15 general industrial groups; seventh in payrolls. and ninth in total value of products. It is exceeded normally in the number of wage earners only by the food, textiles, machinery, iron and steel groups.

Up to 70 years ago the Northeastern states led in lumber production in the 80s and 90s the Lake States took the lead; at the turn of the century the South was in the van;

and now leadership is conceded to the far western states. Washington and Oregon have been the leading lumber producing states since 1920, with Louisiana, Mississippi, and California not far behind. California is now third on the list. Southern pine is the leading species in point of production; then come Douglas fir, Ponderosa pine, oak and white pine. Of the hardwoods, gum ranks next to oak and maple is third.

It is estimated that nearly 6O per cent of all iumber goes into building and construction. Boxes and crates require about 15 to 16 per cent; the railways directly use 8 to 9 per cent, and exports absorb about 7 per cent, leaving somewhere around 11 per cent for the fabricating industries. Lumber is the major material used in residence building; approximately 80 per cent of the residence strgctures of the United States are at least lumber framed.

Frank N. Gibbs Shows Comparative Cost of 5-Room Bungalow

Frank N. Gibbs, Gibbs Lumber Co', Anaheim, has prepared some interesting figures which show the comparative cost to the consumer in Orange County of a S-room bungalow on which he has made an estimate as of October I for each year since 1920.

The material bill consists of the follorving quantities: Rough Lumber, Redwood and Fir ..4O77 feet Fir FloorinC S5ofeet Redwood Novelty Siding ' . .150O feet Cedar Shingles . 350 feet Inside Finish, Fir Sanded - .I226leet OutsideFinish,Redwood ..'.456feet

Mouldings, Redwood and Fir ' 344leet Oak Flooring, sfxll2 2nd Plain White . 480 feet Windows and Doors (24 openings).

Drayage.

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the S-room bungalow for the various years

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Here is a fact regarding dimension that is not generally understood. California Pine, S4S to l -9/ 16 inch when dty, is practically equal to | -5/8 inch which is surfaced while stock is green.

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