Yard, Mill, Office and Road

What Live California Lumbermen are Doing.

TACOMA PLANING MILL MAN STOPS IN STATE ON WAY H'OME FROM EASTERN TRIP

K. E. Em,erson, secretary of the Tacoma Planing Mill Company and one of the live and progressive lumbermen of the Northwest, 'i,isited in California last week on his' return from a trip to Boston, New York and other citie.s along the Atlan'tic Coast and Middle W,est. While in Los Angeles he conferred u'ith F. A. Castetter, representative of l.ris concern in the South.

Mr. Emerson reports that industrial conditions in the East are improvir.rg very satisfactorily and 'that the big shoe factories and .textile plants of New England are getting back to a norrnal basis. He says that many employers in that part of the country are fearing a labor shortage next Spring.

"Demand for fir, redwood and other is growing rapidly," he says. "The customed to use wood from the Paci{c

West Coast woods East is getting acCoast and likes it."

Manteca Lumber Company Is Sold

The business and property o,f the Manteca Lumber Company at Manteca was sold a short time ago by C. V. Strom, the orvner, to John A. Boberg, owner of the Manteca Hardware Company. Mr. Boberg, who started the busine.ss about 15 years ago, later selling out to Mr. Stro'm, will assume personal,charge.

PEOPLES LUMBER CO. AT VENTURA TO BUILD

Actual construction work has started on th.e handsome new office and sales room of the Peoples Lumber Company at Ventura. ifhe old buildings on the site at Fir and Meta streets have been moved. When completed this new office will be one of the most modern and most attractive along the southern toast. The business of the company is rapidly expanding ancl the improvements are necessary to take care of the growing trade.

BUHL'ER-SISSON TO EXPAND AT HIGHLAND

Ground has been acquired by the Buhler-Sisson Lumber Company adjoining their present yard at Highland Park and within a very short time the prop.erty will be developed with an extension of the plant. H. K. I\fatherly, local manager of the company, reports thert the Highland Park district has been doing a splendid building business lately.

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Yv\/. H. BONE REBUILDING PLANT AT MORGAN HILL RECENTLY DAMAGED BY FIRE

W. H. Bone of Morgan Hill, is now restocking his retail lumber yard and is rebuilding the box factory and planing mill that was destroyed by fire 'last September. Stock is now arriving for the yard, and Mr. Bone eipects to have the box factory and planing mill ready for business by N1arch 15.

New machinery will be installed to take the place of that da'maged by fire.

Mr. B,one expects to have one of the most complete planing mills and box factories in the state for the iize ol the town. Business is good and the prospects for the present year are excellent.

FRIEND & TERRY TO OPERATE PLANING MILL

Arrangements have been completed for the early operation of the McSwain planing mill at Sacramento by Friend & Tery, the weil known retail yard firm of that city. The mill is convenient to the Friend & Terry yard and has been operated by the McSwain interests for the last several years under lease. New machineiy is being installed and other substantial improvements aie being -made, so th.at when complete this will be one of the most modern plants in the tate.

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