Tacoma Lumbermen Advertise Merits of Industry in Their City

That Tacoma, Washington, is to lumber what Pittsburgh is to steel, Detroit to automobiles or Akron to rubber is being emphasized and. called to the attention of the'lurnber buyers of America;t$rough the campaign of. the Ta'coma Lumbermen's Club, the first advertisement of which tppeared in the CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT of January 1, followed by a second in this issue.

In heralding to the world their claim that Tacoma is the "Lumber Capital of America," the Tacoma Lumbermen have assembled a startling array of facts. In the district which centers in and tnarkets through Tacoma, more than four million feet of lumber was cut every eight hour working day d,aring 192. More than ten thousand men are em'ployed by the mills and forest product factories of this district.

Besides its enormous production of rough and finished lumber, Tacoma has the ldfgest production of fir doors, fir veneer panels and wooden ,columns of any city in th,e world while its planing m;ill and wood,working industries have been developed to a greater extent than those of any other Western city.

Its transportation facilities are especially favorable as fifty of the sixty-thr:ee mills from which, reports were obtained do business both by rail and water.

Forest products manufactured include rough and finish.ed lumber of Yellow Fir, Western Hemlock, Red Cedar and Spruoe; shingles ; Iath ; cross arlns ; fir conduit; columns; sash, doors, frames; box shooks; egg cases; berry crates; broom and mop handles; wood containers ; fir car sills, framing, decking and stringers; bridge material; silo and pipe stock; piano keybeds, garage doors and bee hives.

"The object of the :campaign," explains A. H. Landram, president of the Tacema Lumbermen's Club," is to give to the men who are buyers of lumber and forest products an adequate conception of the enormous production in this city and the exceptional facilities for shipping and carin,g for special orders. We a:e also addressing it to the mert who are looking for a location for woodworking industries which require such advantages of rail and watersites, cheap electric pow.er and abundant raw material. While we now lead the world in many of these lines there is still plenty of room for the developm.ent of others."

IVlingled with the business emphasis of this campaign, a strong appeal is also being made for those interested to visit Tacoma and enjoy its remarkable ,climate and scenic attractions-to get acquainted with the city at first hand. Illustrations of the famous mountain which towers above the city, located almost in its "doorward," lend an attractir.e touch to the advertisements.

wM.J. BETTTNGEN LUMBER CO. TO TMPROVE ITS . TERMINAL F'ACILITIES

Arrangements have just been completed by the William J. Bettingen Lumber Company of Pasadena for use of the terminal facilities of the Hammond Lumber Company on terminal island for distributing purposes, pending such time as the Bettingen interests obtain facilities of their own.

William J. Bettingen, president of the company, states that the rapid expansion of the business, necessitates better distributing facilities, and in anticipation of this circumstance negotiation has been in progress for some weeks for harbor facilities. However, the company has been unable to secure a satisfactory location, but has been able to make arrangements, for the present, with the Hammond Lumber Company for the use of their Terminal Island plant for distributing purposes.

"Prompt and efficient service to the customer is the aim of the Bettingen Lumber Company, and to gain this end transportation will be established by a fleet of Bettin,gen Lu,mber Company's trucks between Terminal Island and the various local yards," says Mr. Bettingen.

"It is the desire of the Company to arrange this distribution so 'as to effect a large saving in both price and service to the many customers of the company. It will also enable the company to enlarge the territory in which they expect to s,erve, and which the company is planning to do in the near future. The locations that will profit immediately by this arrangement are Eagle Rock, Montrose, Monterey Park, East San Gabriel, Arcadia and Monrovia."

New Mill For Siskiyou County

August Gamble, fiscal agent for the Gazelle Lumber Company, a corpor,ation recently organized to operate a pine manufacturing mill in Siskiyou county, has opened offices in the Kerckhoff building, Los Angeles. The company haS obtained a large tract of high grade pine timber convenient to the Souther'n Pacific railroad and purposes to erect a first class mill, build a rai{road and install the necessary logging equipment to develop the property. Al number of rep-' resentative California lumbermen are interested in the enterprise.