Wood panelled walls, in the days of solid panels and special mill: work, were costly. Today, with plywood panels and standard mouldings, their cost compares favorably with the ordinary wall treatmente. Dealers are developing new business in this field, both in new construction and re-modelling jobs.
RED RMR "Paul Bunyan's" CALIFORNIA PINE PLYWOOD and WALLBOARD gives the builder "old fashioned pine" texture with the grain figures brought out by rotary-cutting. Their variety and beauty appeal to the discriminating designer but their cost is no rnore than other plywoods.
RED RIVER "Paul Bunyan's" CALIFORNIA PINE takes a wide variety of rich finishes in stains. For paints and enamels this even textured soft pine covers smoothly and economically with a alving in material and labor. RED RIVER plywoods are re-dried'after gluing, under humidity control that balances the moisture sen[sn[AT NO EXTRA COST.
DEALERS can stock RED RMR PANELS with conservative inventories, and minimum handling cost, with Red River Mixed cars, lumber, mouldings and plywood.
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' The National Lumber Manufacturers Association reports that lumber orders booked by 1f85 mills for the week ended January 2O wete 26 per cent higher than those of the preceding week. This is the first time in several weeks that orders exceeded production.
Production of the mills was given as t45r46lrOOO feet; shipments 135,E65,0q) feeg and orders 16916081000 feet.
New business reported to the Vest Coast Lumberments Association by 487 mills for the week ended January 20 totald 851095,810 feet as against a production of 7212151815 feet and shipments of 5816101892 f.eet. Shipments were under production by 18.8 per cent, and current sales were over production by 17.9 per cent. Orders booked during the week by this group of mills were over the preceding week by 2VTOOATOOO f,eet ot 37.3 per cent.
The increase in business for this week over the previous week is believed by lumbermen to be because of the publication on lanuary 12, to become efrective January 22, of. an amended minimum price list covering items of Douglas fir and Vest Coast hemlock, the Associatlon sltes. *
The Vestern Pine Association for the week reported new business from 133 mills as 3lr723,NO feet; shipments 2813501000 feet and production l8r474rOOO f.eet. Orders werc 71.7 per cent over production and 11.8 per cent above shipments. Shipments were 53.4 per cent above production.
The direct'ors of the Southern California Lumber Code Administrative Authority met at Los Angeles on Tuesday, January 23, 1934. A1l districts were represented at the meeting. Terms of sales, rules and regulations governing conditions of retail sales in Southern California were adopted and forwarded to Washington for approval.
The exe'cutive 'committee released the information that the modal overhead ,cost on lumber for selling and administrative expense in Southern Californii was fixed by the NRA at 23 per cent of cost at the yard plus a handling and delivery ,cost of $5.60 for the Los Angeles trade area and $5.20 or $4.80 in other areas depending on the population. The modal minimum on other building materials not sold on a b'oard foot basis was fixed at 42 oer cent of cost at the yard,
The California Redwood Association for the week ended January 20 reported production fuorh 22 mills as 611811000 feet; shipments 513051000 feet, and ordets 3r355r(/0o Leet Orders on hand at the mills at the end of the week were 321 zt5rOOO feet. Twelve identical mills repotted production 59 per cent greater and new business 9 per cent greater than for the same week last year.
353 hatdwood mills gave new business for the week ended January t3 as llr3TTrOOO feet, or 46 per cent below production, and shipments as 111195;00O feet, ot 47 pet cent below produc- tion. Production was 2110251000 Jeet.
_ The California cargo market is dull. The retail trade reports business quiet and spotty. The Lumber & Allied Products Institute issued a new retail lumber price list for the Loo Angeles district on January 24, which raisei the prices of No. 1 common Fir f4.00 per M feet, No. 2 common Fir f3.00 per M feet, and No. 3 common Fit $2.OO pet M feet. Uppers advanced f5.00 per_ M feet, excepting Douglas fir finish w-liich is raised ll0.0o. Redwood commons advanced 15.00 per M feet These advances follow the Code raises of the manufacturers.
Unsold lumber on the public docks at Los Angeles harbot totaled 742rOOO feet on lanuaty 22. Lumber receipts at Loc 4ng"ler hatbor for the week ended January 27 totaled 5,7o9poo feet as against 5r984r0OO feet for the preceding week. 57 ve-ssels were operating in the coastwise lumber service on January 22; 47 vessels were laid up.
John G. Ziel announces that effectiv-e January 1, following the liquidation of Barg, Ziel & Co., he organized his own firm under the name ol ZieI & Co. to carry on in the offices of the old company, Room 714, 16 California Street, San Francisco, the business of hardwood importers.
Mr. Ziel also announces that Ziel & Co. have been appointed exclusive representatives for the United States of Basilan Lumber Co., Inc., of. Zamboanga, P. f., one of the four largest Philippine mills, and also for the Asiatic (Gartner) Lumber Co., of Otaru, Japan, manufacturers of Japanese oak and bir'ch, thus continuing the principal hardwood activities of the old firm.
His concern also import other foreign woods such as spotted gum, ironbark, teak, etc., Mr. Ziel states.
Representatives of various Northern California retail dealer organizations met with directors of the I{umboldt Split Products Association at Scotia on Thursday, January 18.
The meeting was called to discuss problems of mutual interest; and especially the matter of the tru,cking of split products to the consuming territory.
Warren E. Innes, secretary, Humboldt Split Products Association, presided, and those present were: W. N. Shifflett, Napa Lumber Co., representing Sacramento and Sonoma County dealers; W. O. Mashek, United Lumber .Yards, Modesto, representing the Central Valley Lumbermen's Club; W. K. Kendrick, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno, representing the San Joaquin Lumbermen's Club; H. J. Ford, secretary, San Joaquin Lumbermen's Club; F. R. Lamon, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco; E. L. Green, Union Lumber Co., Fort Bragg, representing Sonoma County and Mendocino County producers; Jim Farley, The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco; E. E. Yoder, The Pacific Lumber Co., Scotia; W. J. Cummings, Northwestern Pacifi,c Railroad; Alex Masson, president, Humboldt Redwood Split Products Association, and the following directors of the Association : Frank Dunn, Fortuna; Fran,cis Tann, M. F. Mitchell Co., Carlotta; James L. Skiffington, Scotia; Matt Elich, Weott.
Harry J. Graham has been appointed Director of Sales for the Pacific Coast for the Pioneer-Flintkote Company. He was formerly sales manager for the Pioneer Paper Company and took over his new duties when the Pioneer and Flintkote organizations recently consolidated. Mr. Graham was connected with the Pioneer Paper Company for the past trventy years in their sales department and is widely known with the lumber and hardware trade on the Pacific Coast. He will continue to make his headquarters at the company's Los Angeles office.
Mrs. Rose Blocklinger Twohy died at her home in Los Angeles, Sunday, January 14,1934. She was 76 years of. age. Mrs. Twohy was born in Dubuque, Iowa, and had been a resident of Southern California for the past twentyseven years.
She is survived by her husband, E. J. Twohy; two sons, Arthur E. Twohy of the Twohy Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and Charles G. Twohy of Riverside, Calif., and a brother, E. A. Blocklinger, president of the Chiloquin Lumber Co., Chiloquin, Ore.
Funeral services were held in the Wee Kirk o' the Hea' ther, Glendale, Calif., on Tuesday afternoon, January 16.
On the farm, under the exacting conditions of exposure and service in barns, silos and houses, California Redwood's superior characteristics grtarantee long life, and economy of initial cost as well as maintenance,
The durable grades of California Redwood should be taken advantage of by the farmer in his choice of wood for such uses as sills, flumes, stock tanks, headgates, well casings and fences.
Bv Jack Dionne
Don't think that pompous dignity, On your map should always rally, For the sign I much prefer to seeIs a grin on your Rand-McNally.
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"The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like lightnings." (Nahum, Chapter 2, Verse 4). Who says our traffic conditions are strictly modern?
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Socrates walked one day on the streets of Athens, the city of many gods, and one Athenian seeing him said to another: "There goes that INFIDEL Socrates-he thinks there is ONLY ONE GOD." An infidel is a rnan whose opinion disagrees with your own.
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Ah ! Those headlines again ! "Johnson Assails United States Senators" ! "Johnson Cracks Down" ! etc. Atta boy, GeneraMf you don't keep them subdued some of those Senators are going to get the idea that they are supposed to represent the American people in the halls of Congress.
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Trying to keep up with the thinking of the hour keeps me continually dazed. .If my logic is sort of befuddled, charge it to that effort. I just can't tune my dumb mentality to fit the logic of today. I add two and two, and I get four. I subtract two from four, and I get two. Every time ! No matter how hard I try, I get the same answer. Which marks me, of course, as utterly impractical to help solve the problems of the moment-or to understand them.
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The other night at a movie there was shown a short political talkie. And when some man demanded to know who is going to repay the billions of dollars we are broadcasting in this land today, almost that entire audience laughed derisively. I gathered that the answer to that is the same as the answer to the time-honored question"What's good for a cold besides whiskey?" The answer is -"!l/fus cares?"
Somehow I can't help thinking that maybe it's myself, and my children, and their children's children for all time
to come, who will have to pay it. Just old-fashioned thinking, I guess. ***
Take the proposed continued reduction of maximum working hours under codes. I try in vain to make the philosophy of reducing working hours toward the vanishing point, and increasing wages toward the rnoon, fit in with my old-fashioned concepts of business. And, I just can't make it add up right. I know the mistake must be mine, but I can't do it.
The fixing of maximum hours and minirnum wages is a good philosophy, and one with which I heartily agree. But when this depression ends it will be when we create sufficient NEW jobs to take care of our people, and not by a continual multiplication of those sharing present jobs.
No matter how hard I try I always come back to the same conclusion, namely, that before this depression is all over those who survive will learn more about hard work than they ever dreamed of before. This wound will be healed by industry-not INACTMTY.
Of course we all know the type of employer Mr. Roosevelt has in mind when he speaks of the rights of the worker to a better division of the fruits of industry. He means the well-known whole-hog, better-than-thou, old-feudallord type which has flourished in every industry and in every district, who pays his labor as little as possible in order that he and his may drink deep from the wells of luxury, with no sense.whatever of the rights of ,,the other fellow," no interest in or fellowship for the under man; no idea of stewardship towards those who help build his prosperity. The world has always had these game-hogs. I pause right here to heartily indorse any reasonable method of exterrninating that breed. ***
Yet I am mindful of the New Year's statement of R. M. Farrar, a banker friend of mine (I am one of the few men left bold enough to still claim the down-trodden banker as friend) who calls our attention to the fact that in spite of the examples of injustice that abound ,,we have more comforts, conveniences, and blessings than have the people of any other land or any preceding generation." Right ! There is less disparity between rich and poor, between high and
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low, between employer and employed, than there ever was before since this old world was born. Friendship and fellowship between man and man is greater than ever before. ***
Let us now approach in our light-hearted fashion a very simple subject-money. Now THERE'S a subject ! It's a subject that very, very few people know anything about. (If I were under oath and had to tell the truth I'd say it was a subject that NOBODY knows anything about, because I know some mighty smart financiers, and they admit they. don't understand money, and I'm sure they know more about it than do 'the "absdnt-minded professors" of the brain trust, because they've had some). :k**
I won't claim that I even faintly understand our present monetary plans, or what the devaluation of the dollar means. When they voted the new law through Congress the other day, some frank Congressman offered to bet that there were not twelve men in Congress who could explain the thing to their constituents. Some men always want cinch bets ! Ten to one there isn't ONE man in Congress can do it would be a fairer wager. And, if one COULD it wouldn't make any difference because none of his constituents could understand him.
The more $nart men I talk to on the subject the dizzier f get. An unquestioned brainy man told me the other day that devaluation meant infation, and that we must have inflation, and get money in circulation, before business can revive and create millions of needed jobs. About the same' time one of the leading financiers of the nation told me
emphatically that until we get "sound money', there will be no confidence on the part of the money powers, and no relaxation of the money stringency. As between the two I lean toward the second man, BECAUSE HIS GANG HAS GOT THE MONEY AND IF THEY WON'T TURN IT LOOSE BUSINESS CAN'T PICK UP MUCH MORE.
You know I've been a"rrt", lo., ,r, these columns for months that if the government would offer home builders the same proposition they offer public works builders, the depression would be over. Yes sir, every one of the millions now employed in artificial work, would get real jobs immediately. We'll have a building boom in this country the very day we find a market at low interest rates and over long terms of years, for building paper. And even at regular interest rates, a market for first-class new building mortgages would cause the business sun to shine. Take the money that is now in our savings banks and invest it in such paper, and the word "depression" would soon become obsolete. ***
I've got another fool idea that I think will help. And it looks as obvious to me as Robert Ingersoll's ans\f,er to Henry Ward Beecher. One day Beecher asked the great Agnostic what he would do if the Lord asked his help in making the world better. Ingersoll replied that he would make HEALTH CONTAGIOUS instead of disease.
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The wisdom of that answer seems obvious. And, it seems just as obvious to me that our chief trouble today is that we put heavy penalties on people who invest their
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MR. JACK DIONNE, 318 C.entaoldldg., IhE Vest Sirth Sr., Ior Angeles, C.oiE!. Enebse,d fid ,2O0 fot uhich setd tnc a aow ot "Cuiltd Fun."
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money in helpful ways, and let the guy with money who could help but won't, t.
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Suppose a man has a million dollars in idle money today, and wonders how best to put it to work. On the one hand he can invest it in a business enterprise, where it wiU create employment for many men; where it will create business, and commerce, and transportation, and put money into needed circulation. On the other hand he can play safe. He can buy government securities; or ho can put it into savings and draw interest. Neither of the latter courses are the least bit helpful. The first is extremely so.
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If he decides to take the first course and invest the money in business enterprises, he immediately finds himself hedged about with all sorts of rules and restrictions that scare the life out of him. We tell him just how he can, and how he cannot run his business. We tax hirn every time he turns his head. And, finally if he overcomes all the obstacles that beset the path of business today, and makes some moneyr w€ take most of it away from him.
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And, we absolutely encourage the investment of money in scared, lazy, idle directions. The country is being throttled by money-paralysis and credit-scarcity. On every hand men are liquidating business loans and investments and running for cover. Dollars are being taken from places where they HIRE PEOPLE and put where they HIRE NOBODY. ***
So THIS is my "silly symphony." Let's lighten the burdens on ACTIVE money that is employing men and helping everybody, and put the thumb-screws on all safe, dead, idle investments. Let JOBS be the measuring stick. Let's penalize the money-owner who keeps his cash in close captivity, and furnish direct and pointed relief to helpful investors. Put LIGHT taxes on active riloD€/r and HEAVY taxes on idle money. Fix it so that idle money will be glad to go to work-in self defense. Every dollar taken from a bank and invested in a new building mortgage, puts men to work.
Ifnconstitutional? Well, what isn't? We've trampled on most other preconceived notions of personal rights and liberties. Why not make the money-hoarder carry his share of the burden of recovery? Our entire hope of salvation lies in getting scared and idle money back into circulation where it wiU put people to work. Every time a
dollar is taken from business and invested in government securities, or stuck away in a bank or in a lock-box-this depression is prolonged. All right, then let's gnake 'em work or pay. Maybe this doesnlt sound logical. But what does?
Money invested in government securities is NOT going to put our millions back to work. It furnishes.the sinews of war for the temporary and artificial help the government is rendering, 'tis true, and vital is that work, I'll admit. But sometime, somehorv, we're going to have to take the permanent route and find those people genuine jobs. And, if we could do sornething to make the dead money of the country get out and go to work in active business-jobs would take care of themselves. ***
Perhaps this can't be done. But we're engaged in doing so many things today that in prospect seemed impossible, that I'm not so sure. It may be as impractical as the guy who wanted to legislate to compel people with bow-leis to marry people with knock-knees-so as to get things straightened out in this country; or the fellow who wanted the United States to trade the Philippines for Ireland-so we could raise our o*" "lnr; *
"Codes," said Justin McAghon, testifying before the National Recovery Administration the other day, "should be made for MEN, not for PRODUCTS." And THAT, rny friends, is by far the best thing that has been said on that subject since NRA was born. It ought to be the text of every code discussion.
George A. Pope was recently elected president of Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company, San Francisco. The other officers are C. E. Helms, first vice-president; Charles L. Wheeler, vice-president, and Jas. S. Brown, secretary and treasurer.
H. B. Wiscomb, of Los Angeles, Southern California representative of Harbor Plywood Co., Hoquiam, \Mash., was transferred January 1 to the Chicago office of the company, where he will be in charge of Eastern sales.
C. W. Buckner of San Francisco, Northern California representative, is making frequent trips to Los Angeles to look after business in the southern part of the state.
On New Year's Day the Pioneer (according to the paper), let out one loud and rousing cheer and started cutting capers. "Our age," they said, "is forty-five; for near two generations, we've kept the roofing game alive, and pulled a few sensations. 'We've run our plant in rain or shine, in dark or stormy weather, and builded up as fine a gang as ever got together. We built a plant long years ago, far better then than most, for asphalt is our specialty and asphalt is our boast." And, still, they say, the wonder grew that such a thing could be, for even when that plant was new, it was too small you see. And so they built it bigger still and gave it wide renown, for its ability to fill all orders from the town. Then spread its fame both far and wide, and wonder to behold, their business grew on every side, as asphalt turned to gold. So year by year grew Pioneer, in size and likewise station, and as it grew they added to their great organization. New products likewise came along, to be improved-perfected; they fitted in just like a song, and never were rejected. The same old gang, the same old bunch, was ever at the wheel; the same old vigor, vim and punch, the same old honest deal. And now to mutliply their power and magnify their fame, believing this a vital hour they straightway change their name. No friends, they don't drop "Pioneer," they keep it right in front, this name that always brought good ,cheer and bore the battle's brunt. They just add on another, a name of fame and note, the name of their big brother, you've heard the name-"Flintkote." Yes, Flintkote's name is known abroad, in every town and state, for "Flintkote" on your asphalt is like "Sterling" on y'our plate. No ,change is made in personnel; the same old gang remains, to push these products hard as-well, you know that gang has brains. And what a job they're going to do in all the years to come, promoting all their products new; and how they'll beat the drum ! One needs no gift of second sight to know this aggregation, of Pioneer and Flintkote is a winning combination. Their lumber friends who, through the years, have always patronized them, have now with blessings and with cheers, and with good-will-baptized them.
San Joaquin Lumbermen's Club met at the California Hotel, Fresno, on Saturday, January 27.
Officers of the club are Ge'orge Burnett, Burnett Lumber Co., Tulare, president; S. P. Ross, Central Lumber Co., Hanford, vice-president, and H. J. Ford, F-resno, secretary.
Jack Cooper, who formerly was in both the retail and sawmill ends of the lumber business with the Eatonville Lumber Co., Eatonville, Wash., has been appointed manager of the Crockett Lumber Co., Crockett.
O Recent developments in the decoration of Celotex by means of grooving and beveling, have provided new treatments of Celotex surfaces and joints. As fnterior Finish, Celotex is an attractive and inexpensive wall and ceiling covering which combines decoration with insulation and structural strength. The average carpenter is able to apply Celotex as Interior Finish.
o The upper walls and ceiling of the office of the P. L. Frank Lumber Company, Kent, Ohio, are shown here. This job developed new business fo,r t{ris dealerTwelve jobs were sold from it and many definite prepects were obtained. Other Celotex dealers are making money by selling Celotex as fnterior Finish.
O Ask your Celotex Representative about this new market.
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Andrew B. Hammond, lumber industry leader, and one of the last of the great business pioneers of the West, died at his home in San Francisco, January 15, at the age of 85, after a varied and colorful career filled with successful accomplishment in the fields of lumber, banking, railroad building and steamship operation.
Mr. Hammond, until he became ill a short time ago, was intensely active in the management of the Hammond Lumber Company properties, in which he has been aided by his son; Leonard C. Hammond, vice president and general manager of the company.
At his bedside when he passed away were his son, Leonard, and two daughters, Mrs. Frank B. King and Mrs. W. S. Burnett, of San Fran'cisco. He is survived by two other daughters, Miss Daisy E. Hammond of Beverly Hills and Mrs. Florence Whiteside of Santa Barbara. and a sister, Mrs. George W. Fenwick of San Francisco.
The funeral services, held at the family residence January 17, were private.
Mr. Hammond was born in St. Leonards, N. B., Canada, on July 22, 1848, the son of Andrew B. and Glorianna Harding (Coombes) Hammond. He came west to Missoula, in 'Western Montana, in 1867 at the age of 19. Here he organized the Missoula Mercantile Company, the First National Bank and the Bla,ckfoot Mill Company, and was active for many years in the up-building and expansion of these important enterprises.
As a further outlet for his activities he built the Bitter Root Valley and Philipburg Railroads, rvhich afterwards became a part of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
In 1895 he went to Oregon, where he became the associate of Collis P. Huntington, the railroad builder, the Mark Hopkins Estate and John Claflin of New York, in the construction, ownership and management of the Astoria and Columbia Railroad, which connected Astoria with Portland, and in the acquisition and reconstru,ction of the railroad from Yaquina Bay through Corvallis and Albany to Mill City, Oregon, where one of the Fir mills of the Hammond Lumber Company is located.
These gentlemen also became identified with the Hammond Lumber Company, which acquired timberlands in Oregon, began the manufacture of lumber in that State and also entered the Redwdod lumber business in California. This step was brought about by the formation of the Vance Lumber Company, which took over the manufacturing plant at Samoa, Humboldt Bay, and timberlands of
Edgar H. Vance and his brother, whose father, John Vance, had carried on there one of the earliest Redwood operations in California. This company was later succeeded by the Hammond Lumber Company, and in February 1931 a merger of the Redwood interests of the Hammond Lumber Company and of the Little River Redwood Company was consummated, the new company being called the Hammond & Little River Redwood Companv, Ltd.
Credit for the modernization of the Redwood industry is given to Mr. Hammond, and he was regarded as the dean of the industry. It was he who introduced large steel steamers to replace the small wooden lumber carriers. Of more importance, however, in the up-building of the State of California was his development of the practi,ce of manufacturing at the mill highly-finished Redwood products such as sash, doors, etc., which had formerly been made in the locality of the ,consumption of such products outside California.
The Hammond Lumber Company properties include the Redwood mills already mentioned, which have a daily capacity of 600,000 feet, two large Fir mills in Oregon, vast timberlands in California and Oregon, with their railway systems and logging equipment, a huge wholesale yard at Terminal Island, Calif., distributing and millwork plants in Los Angeles, and numerous retail yards throughout California.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 9-A meeting of the Lumber Code Authority has been called for January 29 at the Wardman Hotel in this city. The full program for the session has not yet been prepared, but C. Arthur Bruce, executive officer of the Code, says that matters to be considered will include proposed changes in established minimum prices, and the establishment of additional minimum prices, the code ,of forestry practice aimed at forest perpetuation, reconsideration of amendments to the rules of fair trade practice, permanent formulas for allotments of production quotas, amendments to the charter and by-laws of the Authority, code fees, and appeals from decisions of the board of complaints and appeals. The Control Committee will meet January 27 at the Lumber Code offices 1337 Connecticut Ave.
The Pacific Division of the National Wooden Box Association met at the Hotel St. Francis, San Francisco, Cal., on Thursday and Friday, January 4 and 5, 1934. Officers elected by the board of directors were: W. G. Hyman, Pacific Box Corp. Ltd., San Francisco, president; J. W. Rodgers, Lassen Lumber & Box Co., San Francisco, vicepresident; and W. C. Strong, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Klamath Falls, Ore., chairman of the grading rules and specifications comnrittee.
Control of production, various methods of figuring footages, cost protection, minimum wag'es, retail rate matters, charges for special operations, and rules of fair trade practices were among the subjects discussed at the meeting.
The Bohnhofi Lumber Co. Inc. of Los Angeles has moved to their new location at South Alameda and Fifteenth Streets, tos Angeles, the site formerly occupied by C. W. Bohnhoff. The office and warehouse has been brightened up with d new coat of black paint and bright yellow signs. The company has recently purchased another new truck. The officials of the company are C. W. Bohnhoff, president; Clarence C. Bohnhofi, vi'ce-president; and Sidney N. Simmons, secretary-treasurer. Their yard was formerly located at 143O South Alameda Street.
Do you know the McCormick sdesman? You should know him as well as all your other employees. He wants to wod< with you. Ffis yeara of lumber experience equip him with the firct hand knowledge of your busine that can help you<very day.
We really want you to know us betteewe want to know yotr bettet+o ledc get ac' quainted.
As in the past' we will in 1934 give you that prompg speedy service for which we are famous. Yes, sir, with a smile.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 12.-An open price agreement whereby each retail lumber dealer will file his individual schedule of prices and terms of sale was established by an amendment to the Retail Lumber, Lumber Products, Building Materials and Building Specialties Industry Code, approved today by National Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson.
As approved October 3rd last by President Roosevelt, the code provides that "All prices, terms and conditions of sale as developed under the uniform cost aciounting system or established by appropriate rule or regulation within any trade area shall be published by each dealer within each trade area and shall be filed with the Code Authority."
Today's modification provides that on 1O days' notice from the Code Authority each dealer shall file with the Code Authority "his prices individually prepared by him" with the stipulation these prices must be sufficient to cover cost.
General Johnson's order came after a public hearing on the modification, which had been approved by the Retail Lumber Code Authority.
This action follows an administrative order dated January 5, in which General Johnsorr approved, for a 90-d*y test period, the method by which "actual overhead" will be determined for inclusion in the retail selling prices of lumber, lumber products, building materials and building specialties.
The retail lumber code provides that no one shall sell below cost, and the order of January 5 declares that the cost figure used "shall in no case be less than the effective minimum delivered price established by the Code Authority of the Code of Fair Competition for the Lumber and Timber Products Industry. Actual overhead is to "include disbursed expense involved in selling and delivering merchandise as determined by accounting methods approved by the Code Authority and the Administrator . . . and shall be computed by the statistical mode methods."
Under the statistical mode methods approved today the "actual overhead" in the retail lumber business will include two general items-"handling and delivery expenses" and "overhead for selling and administration." In the case of lumber sold by the 1000-board feet, handling and delivery expense, fixed at approximately 17.77 per cent of the actual cost of the merchandise, will be approximately as follows:
45c and 50c Wage Area .. ....$6.00 per 1,000 feet
40c Wage Area . . 5.@ Per 1,000 feet
35c Wage Area . 5.n per 1,000 feet
25c and 30c Wage Area . 4.8O per 1,00O feet
The Los Angeles office of the Findlay Millar Timber Co. announces their removal to new offices in the Board of Trade Bldg., 111 West Seventh Street. Their telephone number remains the same-TUcker 9126.
The faculty of the colored college in the South extended an invitation to a famous college professor and educator from one of the big colleges for whites, and there was much jubilation when the white teacher accepted.
When he arrived at the colored school for the occasion he was showered with the grateful attention, of the colored faculty, who allowed him no opportunity to misunderstand how highly he stood in their estimation, and how fattered they were by his presence.
He was introduced to the overflowing school auditorium by the large, pompous, and be-spectacled Professor who headed the institution, and who fairly outdid himself in his oration of presentation of the white man. ,He used
all the laudatory adjectives in his power to pronounce in telling his great crowd of listeners how high the white professor ranked arnong the educators of the entire land, his name, his fame, and his high citizenship. And he ended by saying:
"An' Ah also wants you to know, Mah good friends, dat Professuh Greely is now an'has allus been a devoted friend of de cullud race. Yassuh, friends, Professuh Greely he sho' une'stan's niggahs an' treats 'em right. An' Ah am proud to say ob dis good white friend whut is about to address us dis day, dat while his skin may be white, his heart is jus'as black as yourn or mine."
Approval of Palco Bark to be used for insulation purposes in ,commercial refrigerators was announced in a bulletin issued by the Frigidaire Sales Coporation October 25,1933.
The bulletin stated that the Sales Engineering Division of the Frigidaire Sales Corporation, Dayton, Ohio, had sanctioned the use of Palco Bark for insulation purposes, thus putting this material in a favorable position with cork board, mineral wool, etc.
The bulletin points out that the cost of Palco Bark is only about one-fourth of the ,cost of ,cork board, and suggests that the saving in ,cost made possible by the use of this material will be a large fa'ctor in making sales.
Edric F. Brown, manager bark products division, The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, states that his company is naturally gratified that this internationally known manufacturer of refrigerators has placed their Palco Bark on an equality with other well-knorvn insulators.
P. T. Burns, who formerly managed the Kern County Lumber Company's yard at Bakersfield until it was closed out, and recently was secretary-manager of the San Fernando Lumbermen's Club, has been appointed manager of the \rallejo Lumber Company, Vallejo.
East Bay lumbermen listened with pleasure and profit to a talk by Gerald P. Martin, District Counsel of the Ifome Owners Loan Corporation, at their regular monthly dinner meeting held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Monday evening, January 15.
Mr. Martin's subject was "The Purposes and Procedure of the Home Owners Loan Corporation." He explained in detail the condition under which loans can be made, and the various kinds of loans, and answered a great many questlons.
Professor Emanuel Fritz talked on "Fungi and Action."
President chairman of the entertainment ,committee, conducted an roll ,call in the course of which he assessed a old fashioned few fines.
George Troth, a former secretary of the club, was a guest.
Russell Hawkins, of the Home Loan Bank Board, died in his hotel in Washington as a result of a heart attack, January 16.
Mr. Hawkins was formerly president of the Whitney Lumber Co., Garibaldi, Ore. Ife was appointed to the Home Loan Bank Board in June, 1933, for a four-year term. He was born in Philadelphia, and was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco, has been appointed by Kesterson Lumber Corporation, of Klamath Falls, Ore., exclusive distributor of its No. 2 and. better Common and No. 2 Shop and better grades of California Ponderosa Pine.
As is well known, Kesterson Lumber Corporation's sawmill, built in 1931, with a ,capacity of 90,000,000 feet annually, is one of the best in the country. The planing mill is modern in every respe,ct, the dry kiln capacity is sufficient to take ,care of the entire cut, and the operation possesses every facility for turning out a first class produ,ct.
They are now working in a fine stand of Klamath Basin California Ponderosa Pine.
Frederic S. Palmer is manager of the Pine department of Santa Fe Lumber Co.
Spencer E. Slade, pioneer lumberman, died at his home., in Palo Alto, of a heart attack, lanuary 26.
Mr. Slade was a native of New York state where he was born 77 years ago. In 1878, he went to Stanton, Mich., where he was employed by the late Mr. E. K. Wood in his drug store, later becoming a partner in the business. In 1883, the store was destroyed by fire, and they came to the Pacific Coast where they became business associates in several timber and lumber companies at Aberdeen, Wash. In 1885, they formed the S. E. Slade Lumber Co., at San Francisco which sold lumber for several Aberdeen mills. Tn 1892, he sold out his interests to Mr. Wood who later founded the E. K. Wood Lumber Co. ,and Mr. Slade continued to operate the S. E. Slade Lumber Co. until his retirement a few years ago.
I{e was one of the founders of the Menlo Country Club, a member of the Bohemian Club and a thirty-second degree Mason.
Mr. Slade is survived by his wife, and three sons, Russell C. Slade of Palo Alto, manager of the S. E. Slade Lumber Co., San Francisco; Franklin M. Slade of Los Angeles, who formerly was.associated with his father in the lumber business, and Spencer E. Slade Jr. of Palo Alto.
Members of the Retail Lumber and Building Material Code Authority Inc., attended a meeting held at the Palace Hotel, San Fran,cisco, January 23.
Chairman Ralph Duncan presided, and gave a report on the National Code Authority meeting which he had recently attended at Washington.
Members present were Ira E. Brink, the Diamond Match Co., Chico; Warren Tillson, Modesto Lumber Co., Modesto; Mead Clark, Mead Clark Lumber Co., Santa Rosa; C. T. Lund, Iless Lumber Co., San Raphael; F. McNulty, McNulty Lumber Co., San Bruno; Lester Elliott, Flliott Lumber Co., Lodi; C. G. Bird, Stockton Lumber Co., Stockton; F. Dean Prescott, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno; Elmore King, King Lumber Co., Bakersfield; C. I. Speer, Zenith Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland; J. H. Kirk, S. P. Milling Co., San Luis Obispo; John Tyson, Sunset Lumber Co., Oakland; J. H. Shepard, Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento; H. F. Vincent, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Oakland; E. T. Robie, Auburn Lumber Co., Auburn; Tom Hubbard, Hubbard & Carmi'chael Bros., San Jose; F. L. Dettmann, Allen & Dettmann Lumber Co., San Francisco; D. C. Essley, secretary.
Also present were the following: Sterling Truitt, P. C. Coal Co., San Luis Obispo; W. K. Kendrick, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno; C. S. Tripler, secretary, Central Valley Lumbermen's Club; C. D. LeMaster, secretary, Northern Counties Lumbermen's Club; C. R. Buchanan, secretary, East Bay Lumbermen's Institute, Oakland; S. J. Hauge, Redwood Empire Lumbermen's Club, Santa Rosa; Harold Ford, San Joaquin Lumbermen's Club, Fresno; Merle D. Bishop, secretary, Coast Counties Lumbermen's Club, Watsonville; Ed Larson, San Jose Lumbermen's Club, San Jose; Elmer Ellis, Peninsula Lumbermen's Club. Palo Alto.
Chas. L. Wheeler, vice-president, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., and of the McCormick Steamship Co., San Francisco, and Fred Fenwick, The Chas. Nelson Co., San Francisco, attended the hearing of the Lumber Code Authority at Washington, which began January 9, as representatives of the Pacific Coastwise Lumber Conference.
C. H. Griffen, Jr., general manager of the California Redwood Association, resigned effective January 15 after two years' service in this position. Ife announ,ces that he will be associated with the Monterey Bay Redwood Co., of Santa Cruz., Calif. Mr. Griffen has been prominently identified with the lumber business in California sin'ce 1915, and before joining the Redwood Association he was superintendent of the Homer T. Hayward Lumber Co., chain of retail yards.
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Washington, D. C., Jan. 1S.-Generalities characterized the testimony of those appearing during the first day of the hearing on the lumber ,code ,convened January 9, in the auditorium of the Department of Commerce, to such an extent that Deputy Administrator E. A. Selfridge, who presided, found it necessary on one occasion to state that "what we are after is facts." The hearing had been called by the Administration to determine if the code was operating in a way to effectuate the policies of the National Recovery Act and to the benefit of the industry and the public at large.
Practically every phase of the Code came in for mention by the witnesses who desired to be heard. Some argued for a decrease in minimum wage scales, some for an increase; some complained of the effects of cost-protection prices, and some objected to production control.
The first on the list of witnesses was Justin McAghon, President of the Cabinet, Mill and Architectural Woodwork Institute, which he stated represented a membership of 166 firms employing 12,000 people. His chief complaint was that these woodworking plants, situated mainly in large centers of population, were compelled to pay high wages because of agreements with labor unions. These firms, he stated, were in direct competition with woodworking firms operating under the Lumber Code situated in other parts of the country and paying, he declared much lower wag'es. Under questioning by Alvin Brown, Assistant Administrator of the N.R.A., McAghon admitted that the form of competition against which he complained had been partially corrected by the Lumber Code.
His idea of further improvement was to strip the Lumber Code of jurisdiction over everything but sawmills and other primary operations. He recommended that all woodworking plants, presumably including those which were part of sawmill operations, be included under a new code, separate and distinct from the Lumber Code,with a wage rate of 75 cents for skilled labor and 5O cents for common labor in the Northern zone; 67% cents and 45 cents per hour in the central zone and 6O cents and 40 cents per hour in the Southern zone.
H. P. Fullmer, member of Congress from South Carolina, who voiced a plea for the relief of small mill operators in his state, declaring it was impossible for mills in his section to operate under code wages.
Congressman M. C. Tarber, of Georgia, followed with a plea in behalf of small mill operators in his district, alleging that they are forced to shut down because of inability to pay code wages. He declared that these operators received only $10 to $11 per thousand feet for their lumber and stated that appeals to the administrative agency in his district had been in vain.
Geo. H. Lakey, representing the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, declared in effect that one result of the Lumber Code was that it reduced the wages of skilled mechanics, who in many cases had been laid ofi "on Friday night and rehired on Monday under the Lumber Code." He also alleged that lumber prices had been increased to a point which discouraged building. In response to a question by Deputy Administrator Selfridge, Mr. Lakey stated that the brotherhood was composed of 164O local unions, and that about two-thirds of the membership were now out of work.
John P. Davis, who represented the "Joint Committee on National Recovery," a group of. 21 national organizations, vigorously protested any downward revision of wages in the Southern Pine Division.
R. W. Alt, who described himself as "the first worker to take the stand today," said he represented 1,000 members of three Sawmill and Timber Workers Unions in West Virginia. Mr. Alt declared that present curtailed production had so decreased the total earnings of the sawmill workers in his section that a condition had been brought about which can be remedied only by establishment of a uniform work week of 3O hours with a minimum wage of 5O cents per hour.
H. Morton Jones of the Buffalo Lumber Exchange appealed for strict enforcement of the code's cost piotection prices, charging that there were repeated violations on the part of manufacturers and wholesalers, who endeavored to break down the code minimum price schedule through such devices as shipping more lumber than had been invoiced and substituting better grades.
Deputy Selfridge then introduced William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, who began his remarks by stating that the Lumber Code was "one of the most complex codes in operation" covering.a total of 3O00O known plapts.
Mr. Green insisted that there must be no reduction in rvage scales and pointed out that although the average hourly rate in the industry of. 33.7 cents in July had been increased to 42.8 cents in November, the reduction in hours worked each week brought about an actual reduction in weekly wages from $14.59 in July to $14.37 in November.
He alleged that the A. F. of L. had "voluminous evidence" that "drastic reductions" had taken place in. wages and that the minimum wage was tending to become the actual maximum. He suggested that provision be made for three non-voting representatives of the N.R.A. on the Code Authority, one of whom should be empowered to speak for labor.
Mr. Green then urged the granting of a separate code for the woodworking division and voiced his opposition to any proposal for the inclusion of cooperage under the Lumber Code.
Burt L. Knowles appeared for the Association of General Contractors of America. He objected to the Code on the ground that prices established under its provision had raised the malket to a level r,r'here building was being discouraged, substitutes for lumber encouraged and the development of monopolies fostered. He further charged that retailers were "in collusion" to compel contractors to pur'chase lumber from them at retail prices and that these prices had been increased from 30 per cent to 100 per cent. Deputy Selfridge questioned the witness in an endeavor to bring out facts to support the contention advanced, but Mr. Knowles merely repeated his general and srveeping assertions. The Administrator informed the witness that "what we are after is facts."
I. L. Halsted of the Charles A. Briggs Lumber and Manufacturing Company, appeared to protest against allocation of production.
Frederick Brenckman, representing National Grange and American Farm Bureau, complained about the advance in prices of containers for shipping farm products, alleging that this advance was predicated upon the increased price of lumber.
L. M. Rhodes of the Florida State Marketing Bureau also alleged that the Code had unreasonably increased prices on fruit and vegetable containers. In response to questions by Mr. Selfridge the witness expressed the belief that shippers would have considered an increase of not more than 30 per cent perfectly "fair,"
-The hearing was recessed until 10 o'clock A.M., January 10.
A statement by the Consumers Advisory Board of the NRA to the effect that they approved of minimum costprotection prices in principle, though objecting to some of the prices now in efiect, together with a statement by C. Arthur Bruce, executive officer of the Lumber Code Authority, that the Authority "has welcomed this oppor- tunity to study these effects in practical operation," *ere the features of the se,cond day's hearing on the Lumber Code before the NRA here.
W. E. Shoults, Consumers' Adviser, appeared for the Board and presented evidence of lumber price increases under the Code, in some cases as high as 100 and 150 per cent. He suggested that a representative of the Consumers Advisory Board and one from the Labor Advisory Board be named by the Administrator for the governing body of each Divisional and Subdivisional ageniy of the Lumber Code Authority.
Mr. Shoults recommended: (1) Control of Production provisos be revised so that due allowance shall be made for efficiency of operation in determining the basis of allotments, so as not artificially to destroy natural advantages of a producer. (2) That Cost Protection articles be revised so that minimum prices will be regulated by individual colts of production rather than weighted average costs. (3) That interpretations and promulgations of rules regarding cost protection by the Code Authority be subject to approval by the Administrator and may be initiated by him.
The protest of the Consumers Board included a statement that the Lumber Code Authority has placed an unjust item of cost on users of lumber by the system of lumber basing points used in determining delivered and F.O.B. mill prices.
In connection with cost-production prices considerable time was devoted to statements concerning Bulletin No. 32, relating to_sale of lumber produced in the West Coast Log- ging and Lumber Division. This rule provides that salis in the California market shall, if made on a delivered basis. be made at prices not less than cost-protection prices plus actual cost of water transportation. Frank OTonnoi of the California Wholesale Lumber Association, contended that this method benefits a few large concerns owning or leasing ships and owning lumber mills in Washington-and Oregon, whose "actual cost of water transportation" is below that of conference rates. Fred N. Fenwick, representing_the_Pacific.Lumber Conference, took the same position.
W. B. Greeley, Secretary-Manager of the Weit Coast Lumbermen's Association, upheld the contentions of these witnesses and insisted upon the restoration of "competitive opportunity" in the California lumber trade by the iescinding of order No. 32.
Vi{or T,arsen, representing the Willamette Valley Lumber Manufacturers Association of Oregon, asked thit water and rail rates be equalized to some extent. Paul Scharrenberg of San Francisco, representing the International Seamen's lJnion, said he would favoi higher water rates if they meant higher wages. Charles L. McCormick, of San Francisco, joined the protest against order No. 32.
G. A. Van Ness of Chicago protested the terms and discounts to wholesalers for hardwoods as entirely inadequate.
A,group-of Pacific Northwest manufacturers of Douglas fir doors for export protested that high material priies, caused bythe Code's.operation, prevent them from mieting Iorelgn prlce competltlon.
The Curry Veneer Mill, of Indianapolis, Indiana, expressed the opposition of some 20 or 25 face veneer pro{gce1s to quota allotments of materials affecting that Subdivision of the industry.
V. H. 'Walker, of McMinnville, Tennessee, President of the Central Tennessee Sawmill Association, a group of 500 small mills between Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Chattanooga, Tennessee, appeared to protest the application of the code wage scale.
The hearing then returned to consideration of the claim by the Cabinet, Mill, and Architectural Woodwork Institute, that woodworking plants should be taken from the jurisdiction of the Lumber Code. Justin McAghon, President of the Institute, who spoke at length on this subject during the first day's hearing, appeared again and was followed by George Leonard, Chairman of the Institute's executive committee.
Deputy Administrator E. A. Selfridge, who presided throughout, adjourned the hearing until 9:30 in the morning of Friday, Jantary 12.
"This is a bold social and industrial experiment, almost without parallel, and I point out to you the fact that these minimum wages, higher than any previous average in good times or bad, were the deliberate act of the Administration. It is primarily the Administration's responsibility, not the industry's, to sustain the minimum wages in the Lumber Code. They are admittedly oppressive to the industry. But this industry is not to be expected to oppose, and it will not oppose the Administration if it wishes to continue no further its cooperation with this bold adventure of a great industry to lift itself for once and for all from the mire of sweat-shop wage and price competition."
In this manner Wilson Compton, Counsellor of the Lumber Code Authority, speaking yesterday at the N.R.A. Lumber Code hearing, placed"the respon'sibility for maintenance of the present wage scales in the lumber industry squarely upon the National Recovery Administration.
C. Arthur Bruce, Executive Officer of the Lumber Code Authority, testified that it was a reasonable presumption that after five months of operation there would be iause of complaint against such a Code as the Lumber Code, but that.such__presumption had not been verified during this hearing. He called attention to the vagueness of complaints and lack of factual evidence, and described the testimonv of most witnesses as being general and non-specific in chaiacter, unsupported by eviden,ce.
"It would be unfortunate," Mr. Bruce explained, if he was "construed to mean the Authoritv does not admit fallibility and that there may be just complaint. There is probably such subject matter within this hearing. The Authority stands willing and anxious to absolve the just complaint, by amendment of the Code if this is required or by change of procedure or administration if this is indicated."
_ With respect to the recommendation by Wm. Green, President of the American Federation of Labor. Mr. Bruce made the following statement:
"As Exe'cutive Officer of the Authoritv I shall recommend to that body at its next meeting on the Dth of. January that Mr. Green's recommendation for a place in an advisory way for a representative of labor and i representative of the ,consumers from appointments made by the respective Boards of the National Recovery Administration be approved."
"The suggestion, however, made both by representatives of the Cabinet, Mill and Architectural Woodwork Institute and by Mr. Green that woodwork be removed from the T, umber Code impresses the Authority as entirely impracti'cal, and would subje,ct the Lumber Code and its administration to problems that ivould be in'capable of solution."
Mr. Bruce was followed by Col. Charles Green of Laurel, Mississippi, spokesman for the Southern Pine Association, who discussed the problems of that administrative body and told in some detail of the efforts made to care for the interests of both large and small mills in the Association'$ territory.
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With the leafy branches of the forest trees
I lift my arms to pray;
With the babbling brooks and singing birds
I raise my voice in praise:
I thank Thee for the out-of-doors;
I thank Thee for the solitude of wild places, the strength of the hills and the calmness of quiet streams;
I thank Thee for old clothes, rough work, and the right to let my beard grow;
I thank Thee for the curling smoke of a campfire in the early morning;
I thank Thee for steaming coffee, sizzling bacon, and an out-door appetite;
I thank Thee for the swish of my paddle, and the joy of watching fleecy clouds roll by;
I thank Thee for the call of a whip-poor-will at dusk, across a silent lake;
I thank Thee for silvery moonbeams on rippling water;
I thank Thee for the singing of my reel and the bending of my rod as a big one strikes;
I thank Thee for the contentment that comes from the patter of rain on my tent at night;
I thank Thee for wild blackberries along an old stump fence;
I thank Thee for my dogs, my gun, and the faming colors of the. autumn woods;
I thank Thee for wild ducks flying south against a dull grey sky;
I thank Thee for the glory and rnajesty of the stars;
I thank Thee for strong winds pulling at my hair roots and the spray from the lake on my cheeks;
I thank Thee for old trails, old rocks, raging rapids and for a glimpse of deer drinking in a secluded pool;
I thank Thee for the drum of the partridge, for squirrels, trailing arbutus, the aroma of pine needles, sunshine through the leaves, and all the other eternal miracles of the out-of-doors.
She was an actorine, and she talked Bostonian, and she was traveling with a road show, and staying at the small town hotel. It was the last night of April, and she asked the girl at the telephone desk to call her at 6 a.m.
t'Going to catch a train?" asked the telephone girl, pleasantly.
"For what other reason would one leave an early call?" asked the actress, haughtily.
"Oh," replied the telephone girl, still pleasantly, "one might be going to be Queen of the May."
The sun is just rising in the morning of another day, the first day of a new year. What can I wish that this day' this year, may bring to me? Nothing that shall make the world or others poorer, nothing at the exPense of other men; but just those few things which in their coming do not stop with me, but touch me rather as they pass and gather strength.
A few friends who understand me, and yet remain my friends.
A work to do which has real value without which the world would feel the poorer. A return for such work small enough not to tax unduly anyone who pays.
A mind unafraid to travel, even though the trail be not blazed. An understanding heart. A sight of the eternal hills and unresting sea, and of something beautiful the hand of man has made. A sense of humor and the power to laugh.
A little leisure with nothing to do.
A few moments of quiet, silent meditation. The sensc of the presence of God. And the patience to wait for the coming of these things, with the wisdom to know them when they come.-W. R. Hunt.
A filling station operator on the outskirts of Eustis, Florida, has rendered to the county assessor a personalproperty return which wins the praise of local editors as a masterpiece of detail and descriptive comment. The St. Cloud Tribune quotes it thus:
"Household and kitchen effects-one pine table, homemade; one one-man bedstead, two by four sides with lath nailed across, rough lumber; one wood-burning heater' made out of grease drum (she's a good one); one threeburner oil stove when I get one new burner; pretty good ice-box; two fairly good chairs after I nailed 'em up; one alarm clock, still ticking; put up at auction the whole push wouldn't cost much. Darned if I know how to estimate the value.
The sample was a sardine can soldered to an iron rod, with a tag describing the device as a skillet.
Brevities.
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The Port Orford Cedar Log and Lumber Association was organized at a meeting held at Marshfield, Ore., on January 5. George Ulett of Coquille rvas elected president. Other officers elected were: A. E. Bradford, Bradford Timber Co., Coquille, vice-president; J. R. Thompson, J. R. Thompson Logging Co., Marshfield, secretary, and Ernest Harrington, Port Orford Cedar Products Co., Marshfield, treasurer.
The directors are M. D. Tucker, George Ulett, J. R. Thompson, Ralph Moore, A. E. Bradford, Ernest Harrington and Roy Wernich.
Norman Vincent has left The Chas. Nelson Co., San Fran'cisco, to become associated with J. H. Baxter & Co., San Francisco, effective February 1.
Northern California retail lumbermen who recently visited San Francisco included Carl Hagge, Superior Lumber & Fuel Co., Sacramento; George Good, Good Lumber Co., Pacific Grove; J. O. Handley and M. J. Murphy, Murphy Building Materials Co., Carmel; Chas. Garrison, Two Rock Commercial Co., Two Rock, and Isador Cheim Union Lumber Co., Marysville.
The Supreme Court of the United States in a decision rendered on January 8 sustained the ruling of the Federal Trade Commission in the so-called "White Pine cases."
In a statement issued after the decision was made. the Commission sa1's:
"The question in this group of cases was whether it is fair and lawful to sell lumber cut from the pine variety known as pinus ponderosa, not belonging to the group of pines widely knorvn as 'white pines' and not having the durability and other qualities of true white pine lumber, under terms which include the words 'white pine.' The commission, after an extensive investigation and trial, found that the public are deceived by the use of terms which include the words 'white pine' and particularly the term 'California white pine' into buying ponderosa lumber rvhen they desire true white pine and order 'white pine.' Accordingly, the commission issued a series of orders requiring that the respondents in these cases cease and desist from using the word 'white' in connection with the word 'pine' for their ponderosa lumber. The circuit court of appeals for the ninth ,circuit annulled the orders, but the supreme court, after hearing the case on writ of certiorari reversed the circuit court of appeal and affirmed the commission's order without modifi,cation by a unanimous opinion written by Mr. Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo."
In the decision the ,court declared: "The respondents who hold out are not relieved by innocence of motive from a duty to conform. Competition may be unfair within the meaning of this statute and within the scope of the discretionary powers conferred on the Commission, though the practice condemned does not amount to fraud as understood in .courts of law. Indeed there is a kind of fraud, as courts of equity have long perceived, in clinging to a benefit which is the product of misrepresentation, however innocently made."
C. R. Johnson, president, IJnion Lumber Co., and representative of the Redwood Division on the Lumber Code Authority, and H. W. Cole, president, California Redwood Association, and executive officer of the Redwood Division of the Lumber Code Authority, left San Francisco January 20 to attend the meeting of the Lumber Code Authority in Washington.
Mr. Johnson and Mr. Cole will also attend the session of the Lumber Code Authority called for consideration of Article X of the Code. on the subiect of conservation.
Ralph R. Duncan, Mer.ced Lumber Co., Merced, chairman of the Retail Lumber and Building Material Code Authority (Northern Division), returned January 17 f.rom Washington, where he attended a meeting of the National Code Authority as substitute for Elmore King, King Lumber Co., Bakersfield National Code Authority member.
Mr. Duncan made the trip both ways by air.
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H. Dixon Smith of Columbus, Georgia, des,cribed himself as one who was at first an objector to the Code, but who was now highly in favor thereof.
W. R. Melton, Secretary of the Georgia Roofers Club, Columbus, Georgia, said that the Club included 55 planing mill units for the produ,ction of 55 million feet per month, purchasing lumber from 400 mills employing 8,000 men. Although at first opposed, most of these members are nou, highly in favor of the Code. He characterized the attitude of the Southern Pine Association as fair and impartial.
Lee G. Bender. Wicks. Arkansas. described himself as a small mill operator who went to New Orleans "with a chip on my shoulder" but who got rid of it after several days of conference. He described the Southern Pine Association as very fair in its administration of the Code and said he thought the small mill men would work out their salvation under the Code.
Others testifying on January 12, were: W. F. Edens of Edensburgh, Texas;J. R. Oden, Oden-Elliott Lumber Company, Birmingham, Ala.; Phil R. Roper, Roper Lumber Company, Petersburg, Va.; Middleton L. 'Wooten, Columbus, Miss.; W. H. Fields, Pineapple, Ala.; A. G. T. Moore, Southern Pine Association, New Orleans, La.; J. H. Townshend, Hardwood Manufacturers Institute, Memphis, Tenn. Stark Insists Woodworking Industries
Must Rernain Under Lumber Code
M. W. Stark, Executive Officer of the National Woodwork Association, divisional administrative agency of the Lumber Code, categorically denied today statements by the Cabinet. Mill and Architectural Woodwork Institute before Deputy Administrator E. A. Selfridge, presiding at the hearing on the Lumber Code. In citing reasons why the present structure of the Code should be maintained, Mr. Stark advanced the following: "The inseparable relationship between the sawmills and the woodworking plants operated in conjunction therewith; second, the inseparability of an economic proposition of woodwork produced at the sawmills and that produced by stock woodwork manufacturers; third, the fact that the larger part of the production of special woodwork is inseparable from that made by stock producers because the products are identical or similar and in competition with each other."
In summarizing his statement Mr. Stark said that woodwork is an inseparable part of the lumber industry; the complex problem of conservation cannot be effectively solved with a divided industry; minimum wage rates must be kept from being impracticable, discriminating and unfair, and that a disturbance of present conditions would increase the cost of the products, reduce demand and reduce home building.
Following the statement of M. W. Stark, executive officer of the Woodwork Division, which featured the morning session of the last day of the hearing of the Lumber Code before Deputy Administrator E. A. Selfridge, Ralph E. Hill made a statement on behalf of the Oak Flooring Division in reply to an allegation that production allotment in that Division was discriminatory.
H. C. Fowler of Macon, Ga., hardwood sawmill operator, speaking for large and small mills of that Division, expressed satisfaction with the Code.
Justin McAghon, President of the Cabinet, Mill & Architectural Woodwork Institute, and George J. Leonard, Chairman of the Institute's Executive Committee. made another plea for a separate code for the woodworking industry. They were aided by H. W. Rlumenberg; represent-
ing the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. Questioning of these witnesses by Deputy Selt ridge and by Asst. Administrator Alvin Brown, however, developed the fact that metropolitan woodworking plants were.better off under the Lumber Code than they had been prior to its adoption
Price Bulletins No. 14 and No. 32
The afternoon session was taken up entirely with discussion of Bulletins Nos. 14 and 32, concerning the costproduction price situation on the Pacific Coast. William Denman, representing the Coos Bay Lumber Company, attacked Bulletin No. 14 in an effort to have Bulletin No. 32 retained in effect. He de,clared that a return to the provisions of Bulletin No. 14 would deny his company a market it had enjoyed lor 25 years. Other witnesses interested in the Pacific Coast situation who had testified earlier in the hearings appeared again to protest against Bulletin No. 32 and were questioned by Asst. Administrator Alvin Brown and Deputy Selfridge, who read from a list of queries furnished by Mr. Denman.
Answers developed contradictory opinion. Col. Greeley, recalled to answer questions, defended the integrity of the governing body in the West Coast Logging and Lumber Division and expressed the belief that cost-protection prices should be based on average marketing cost. The hearing concluded with Col. Greelev's testimony.
Asserting that a resumption of building is essential to business recovery, Floyd Dernier, Lumbermen's Service Association of Los Angeles, has written Mr. Louis Howe, Secretary to President Roosevelt, at Washington, D. C., urging that the Federal Home Loan Banks start functioning.
In his letter to Mr. Howe, he says in part: "I have visited every town in California and the same condition prevails everyrvhere. Home building is at a standstill through lack of financial assistance. Yet, we need homes, thousands of them, and it is the only National commodity for which there is not a surplus.
"It is this class of construction that gives employment to men in every district, town, city and state in the Union and with 70 per cent of the investment going to laborers, who immediately put it back into circulation, makes the financing of such projects represent the surest, quickest and most practical way for our government to create work and start business moving forward."
The Betts-Sine Lumber Co. took over the J. K. Sine Lumber Co., at Culver City, Calif., on January 24. W. F. Betts, one of the owners and formerly manager of the Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., at Culver City, will manage the yard.
Howard E. Jenkins, manager of the Jones Lumber Co., Portland, recently visited San Francisco and Los Angeles on a yacation tqfpn,.ggcompanied by his.wife. ia.,
R. S. (Bob) Osgood of Los Angeles, sales manager for Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Inc., has left on an extended business trip calling on the lumber trade in the Southern States and along the Atlantic seaboard states going as far north as New York City and Boston. On his return trip, he will visit the trade in the North Central and Middle Western states. He will return to Los Angeles in about three months.
B. W. Lakin, general manager of the McCloud River Lumber Co., M,cCloud, Calif., is in Washington where he is attending a meeting of the Lumber Code Authority. I{e expects to be in the East two or three weeks.
Henry S. Patten, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles, chairman of the Southern California Lumber Code Administrative Autholity, has returned from Washington where he attended a meeting of the Lumber Code Authority.
The Leigh-Dawson Lumber Co. has opened a mill at Portland, Ore., where they will manufacture Pacific Coast hardwoods and furniture supply stock. The mill is conveniently located for both rail and water shipments.
The first shipment of Philippine mahogany from the Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Inc. new saw mill at Butauanan in the Philippine Islands will arrive at Los Angeles harbor early in February. The new mill has a capacity of one and one half million feet per month but on short notice can be increased to three times this capacity. The Pacific Coast headquarters of the company are at 3628 Mines Ave., Los Angeles, Calif.
Frank J. O'Conn,or, president and general manager of the California Wholesale Lumber Association,'San Francisco, and Louis C. Stewart, vice-president of Sudden & Christenson, San Francisco, arrived in San Francisco January 29 from Washington, where they attended a meeting of the Lumber Code Authority, as representatives of the California Wholesale Lumber Association.
Guy E. Smith, general manager, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, and C. P. Henry, Phoenix, Arizona representative, were recent visitors at the company's Los Angeles ofifr,ce.
Doing his bit to help the unemployment situation, H. H. Barg, Barg Lumber Co., San Francisco, recently completed building a retaining wall and an addition to his home in Sausalito.
W. A. Noack, of the California Cabinet Shop, Culver City, was a recent visitor to the San Francisco Bay district.
The Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Skinner Bldg., Seattle, Wash., has just issued two new booklets, "For Damage-proof Construction" and "For Smooth, Finless Concrete" which will be sent to architects, engineers and builders upon request. The books carry many photographs as well as construction details and other data.
W. J. Hobson, New Zealand representative of the Redwood Export Co., San Francisco, sailed for l-ris home in Wellington, N.2., January t7, on the S.S. Manganui, after spending a month in the United States.
Mr. Hobson spent most of his time in California, visiting the Redwood mills and conferring with the heads of the member mills of the Export Company. He also made a trip up the coast as {ar as Vancouver, B. C.
A. Bill, H. R. 6,{60, to amend the Home Owners' Act of 1933 authorizing loans in ,cash for the construction of homes, repairs, modernization or alterations of homes was introduced in the House of Representatives at Washington by Congressman W. J. Duffey of Ohio on January 5,1934, The Bill follows:
To amend the Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933 by adding after se,ction 4 thereof a new section; and to authorize home-mortgage loans, and to appropriate the sum of $500,000,000 therefor, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and lfouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933 be, and it is hereby amended by adding after section 4 thereof a new section, as follows:
"Sec. 4-A (1) The Corporation is further authorized, for a period of three years from June 13, 1933, to make loans in cash for the construction of homes. but no su'ch loan shall exceed 75 per centum of the value of the structure and the land, or the sum of $20,000. Each such loan shall be a first lien on the property 'covered thereby, and shall be secured by a duly re,corded mortgage bearing interest at the rate of 5 per centum per annum and shall be amortized by means of monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, or annual payments sufficient to retire the interest and principal within a period not to exceed eighteen years.
" (2) The Corporation is further authorized for a period of three years from June 13, 1933, to make loans in cash for repairs, modernizations, or alterations of homes, but no such loan shall exceed 60 per centum of the value of the structure and the land before the improvement is made, or the sum of $3,500. Each such loan shall be a first lien on the property covered thereby, and shall be secured by a duly recorded mortgage bearing interest at the rate of 5 per centum per annum and shall be amortized by means of monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, or annual payments sufficient to retire the interest and principal within a period not to exceed ten years. No su'ch loan shall be made for the purpose of ,changing a home into any other type of structufe.
"(3) The Corporation is further authorized to purchase or agree to purchase from any building and loan association, savings and loan association, cooperative bank, homestead association, insurance company, savings bank, or mortgage loan 'company any mortgage which the Corporation might have obtained under the provisions of paragraph I or 2 of this section. Su'ch mortgage shall have been executed after June 13, 1933, and the purchase thereof or the agreement to purchase it shall be made under such rulings and regulations as the Board may pres,cribe, and all such purchases shall be ,consummated within four years from June 13, 1933.
" (4) The amount of the loans which the Corporation may make under paragraphs 1 and 2 of this section and the amount which it may use to make purchases under paragraph 3 of this section, shall not exceed, in the aggregate, $500,000,000, and the Secretary of the Treasury on behalf of the United States shall pay to the Corporation such
sums of money from time to time as the Corporation may request for such purposes. In order to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to make such payments when 'called, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is authorized and directed to allocate and make available to the Secretary of the Treasury the sum of $500,000,000 or so much thereof as may.be necessary and for such purpose the amount of the notes, bonds, debentures, or other such obligations which the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is authorized and empowered under section 9 of the Re'constru,ction Finance Corporation Act, as amended, to have outstanding at any one time, is hereby increased by such amounts as may be necessary.
"(5) The provisions of subsection (i) of section 4 of this Act shall not apply to indebtedness to the Corporation created under the provisions of subsections 1, 2 or 3 hereof.
" (6) As used in this section the term 'home' means a dwelling for not more than two families."
Another Bill, H.R.6564, is also before Congress in Washington. This Bill was introduced by Congressman Ellenbogen on January 8, 1934. Congressman Ellenbogen's bill is also an amendment to the Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933 to revive the construction industry by financing the construction of new homes rvith bonds of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, to guarantee the principal of and to give cir,culation privilege to the bonds of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, amend the laws relating to national banking associations and to Federal Reserve Banks, and for other purposes.
The Bill authorizes the Corporation to issue bonds in an aggregate amount not to exceed $5,000,000,000 which rnay be sold by the corporation to obtain funds for carrying out the purposes of the Bill. Su,ch bonds shall be issued in su'ch denominations as the Board shall prescribe, and shall mature within a period of not more than eighteen years and shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed 3% pelcent per annum. Until June 13, 1936, in cases where an owner of a vacant lot of land erects a home, the Corporation shall accept from the home owners a bond and home mortgage in exchange for bonds issued by the corporation, the face value of such bonds exchanged plus accrued interest thereon and the,cash so advanced shall not exceed in any case $14,000, or 75 per cent of the value of the home and lot. "llome" as defined in the Bill means a dwelling for not more than four families, on real estate in fee simple or on a leasehold for not less than ninety-nine years, used by the owner as a home or held by him as a homestead, and having value not exceeding $20,000.
Copies of both Bills, H.R. 646O and H.R. 6564, have been mailed to the Association Directors and Secretaries of the various lumber groups in the state for distribution to the lumber dealers in their district by President Harry A. Lake of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association. Stanley D. Baldwin, president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers' Association, advises President Lake that both these bills are good, and, undoubtedly will be con-
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Present knowledge of redwood forestry indicates that the required fundamental woods practices involve the leaving of a reasonable number of unmerchantable trees on cutover lands and such improvement in slash disposal as will provide for their protection.
Being in hearty accord with any practical methods of woods practice designed to improve the ,condition of cutover lands and to assure future supplies of Redwood timber, the California Redwood Association proposes to adopt the following practices for the conservation and sustained production of forest resources within the territory under the jurisdiction of the Association:
l. All cutover lands after slash disposal will be protected from fire on a scale sufficiently intensive to hold average acreage burned to one per cent or less per year, provided exemption from such protection will be granted to lands set aside for the primary production of forage for livestock or other bona fide uses aside from timber production. Each person operating under this Code will furnish the California Redwood Association with a written description of those portions of his lands rvhich are to be set aside for uses other than timber production.
2. Logging slash on all cutover lands may be burned within one year after log removal in areas of not over forty
acres provided suitable means are exercised to confine fire to such areas. Except for first year slashing fires, advance authorization from the State Division of Forestry will be required before burning slashings.
3. Slash fires may be set only after soaking fall rains, or under advance permit from the California State Division of Forestry.
4. Suitable effort will be made in the control of logging operations and through the training of woods personnel to preserve for seed trees and future growth not less than an averag'e of four trees per acres determined by forty acre tracts.
5. The Association will retain counsel of a te,chnical forester to:
(a) Advise it in all of its forest ,conservation measures.
(b) Investigate the feasibility of sustained yield forest management.
(c) Investigate possibilities of selective or partial cutting as a practical method of increasing forest conservation.
(d) Investigate possibilities of modifying current logging methods to make possible preservation of unmer'chantable trees.
(e) Investigate slash burning practices for the purposes of possible modification to increase forest ,conservation.
6. As rapidly as practi,cal methods of increasing forest productivity are devel,oped under the investigations set forth above, they will be incorporated for adoption as supplements to this Code of Forest Practi.ce. The above Redwood Forest Practice Code was unanirnously approved by all persons present at the meeting in San Francisco on November 17,1933 as providing a satisfactory code for the Redwood district under the terms of Article X of the Lumber Code. The following were present when the Forest Practice Code as jointly drafted, was given final approval:
H. W. Cole, President, California Redwood Association; Newton Drury, Save-the-Redwoods League; L. C. Hammond, Hammond & Little River Redwood Co., In,c.; M. B. Pratt, California State Forester; T. D. Woodbury, United States Forest Service; H. L. Person, California Federal Forest Experiment Station; Prof. Emanuel Fritz, University of California, Division of Forestry; Prof. Myron Kreuger, University of California, Division of Forestry;
C. R. Johnson, IJnion Lumber Company; E. I. Kotok, California Federal Experiment Station; S. B. Show, Regional Forester, United States Forest Service; F. V. Holmes, Holmes-Eureka Lumber Company; S. Rexford Black, Secretary, California Forest Protective Association.
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solidated into one Bill. President Baldwin has asked that all lumber dealers and everybody connected with the building industry get behind these Home Loan Bills and to write or wire their Congressmen and Senators urging their approval.
Los Angeles and Southern California lumber yards for sale. Address Box C-480. Care California Lumber Merchant.
A position by young man of good habits, experienced in yard and office work both retail and wholesale lumber business. Can run bookkeeping and billing machine, also has bank experience. Will go anywhere. References given. Address C-500, The California Lumber Merchant.
\Marehouse equipped complete for handling of lumber and lumber products. 80x135 feet, double frontage, on Santa Fe Siding. Desks, safe and office space included. Apply Roy E. Harrington, care California Moulding Co., 1306 West 58th Street, Los Angeles.
Retail Lumberman seeks connection as manager or assistant, expert accountant, years of experience in all branches of retail lumber and building materials. FIave managed one-man yards, also larger lst class plants with planing mill and sash and door department. Open for any position to start. Address Box C-501 California Lumber Merchant.
lvants position as yard manager or in charge of office. Has been connected with the lumber business in Southern California for a long period. Will go any place. Address C. R. Short, 119 North 5th Street, Alhambra, Calif. Telephone Alhambra 528M.
3-TON REO with overload springs, 1S-foot combination three-roller body. Carries 4,000 feet Common Lumber. Truck practically new. Real bargain. Phone THornwall 5905. Mail address 838 West 104th Place, Los Angeles. G. W. Maddox.
Available lumber storage facilities under cover, yard and office space. Excellent location, Alameda and | 5th Streets, in center of [.os Angeles lumber district. Spur tracks on property. Above property can be rented or leased at very reasonable rates. Sprinklered buildings also available on premises for wood-working manufacturing or kindred lines. For information address-
ROBERT H. RAPHAEL, Jr.8 | I Commercial Exchange Blds., Los Angeles, Calif. TRinity 2001
San Francisco Office: 26O California St.
F. J. O'Connor, Prcr. and Gen. Mgr. - Phonc GArfield 5Ol5 Lor Angeles Office: Petroleum Securitier Bldg.
Clint Laughlin, Dictrict Manager - Phone PRorpect 2703
MEMBERS
W. R. Chuberlin & Co. .San Francicco and Los .Angelcr
Donovan Lumber Co. ,..,......San Francirco and Los Angcler
Eastern & \ryestern Lumber Co....., ....Portland and San Francieso
Janes L. Hall ..,,........San Francisco
J. C. Hmilton ...,.,San Franciso
Hammond Lumber Co. ......,.San Fnncisco and Le Angelcr
J. R. Hanify Co. ..San Francisco and Los Angclee
Hart-Wod Lumber Co. .....,...San Francicco
A. B. Johnson Lumber Co. .....San Frucixo
C. D. Johnson Lumber Co. ....San Francisco and Los Angeles
Alvin N. Lofgren ,,.......,..San Francisco
MacDonald & Harrington .....San Fnncisco and Los Angelea
A. F. Mahony Lumber Co. .San Francicco
Chas. R. McComick Lumber Co. ...............San Francisco and Los Angclcr
McComick Supply Co. .San Fnncisco and Los Angeles
W. J. Mulligan & Co. ...........................San Fnnicsco and Los Angeles
Charles Nelon Co. SanFranci*oandLosAngcler
Paramino Lumber Co.
Santa Fe Lumber Co.
Booth-Kelly Douglas Fir, the Association grade and trade mark certify to your customers the quality of the stock you handle. Builders quit guessing about what they're buying, ard buy where they know what they're getting.
Franciso
Francisco and Los Angeles
Sudden & Christenson .,......San Francisco and Lc Anlcles
Trower Lumber Co. ......,.San Franciro
Wendling-Nathan Co. San Francisco and Los Angcler
R. O. Wilson & Sm .,.... . .. San Frucieco
Wilson Brc. & Co. ..........San Francisco and Lc Angeles
E. K. Wad Lumber Co, .....San Francirco and Lo Angclcr Hill & Morton. Inc.
Pyramid Lumber Sales Co.
Blcdel-Donovan Lumber Mills
Bdokstaver-Buns Lumber Co.
Brmkr Lmbcr Co.
9rippcr,& HagliDd
Kerckhofr-Cuaer Lumber Co.
Angcler
Angeles
Angeles
Lawcnce-Philipr Lumbcr Co, ....Lo Anlctcr
Patten-Blinn Lumber Co. .........Los Anleler
!,. L, lcltz Company .............Los Anlclcr
San Pedre Lumber Co. ................Lc Anteles
Schafer Brc. Lumber & Shingle Co. ......San Frmcisco and Lc Anleha
Taeo-ma_Lumber Sales Agency .......,Tacoma and Loa Angelcr
!w$f -Lgqbcr Co. ....,........ ...LorAnlctu
SUGENE.ORE:
General Salee Office: Eugene, Ore.
Mills: Wendling, Ore., Springfield, Ore.
CALIFORNIA REPRESENTATIVES
Northcrn Crlifornie
Hill & Morton, Inc.
Dcnniron St, Whrrf
Southcrn Celifornit
E. J. Stanton & Son
E. U. lVhalck .....................r; fit;i;;
SL Paul & Trcma Lumber Co. .......,Tamr
7th Floor, Alaska-Commercial Bldg.
310 Sansome Street San Francisco
AGENTS
American Mill Co.
Hoquiam Lumber & Shingle Co.
Hulbert Mill Co. - -
Willapa F:Iarbor Lumber Mills
Edna Sanitam
Trinidad
Barbara Cates
Dorothy Cahill
Edna Christenson
STEAMERS
Aberdeen, Vash. Hoquiam, Wash. Aberdeen, Wash. Raymond, Wash.
Jane Christ€nson
Annie Christenson
Edwin Christenson
Catherine G. Sudden
Eleanor Christenson
Charles Christenson
Branch Ollices
LOS ANGELES
3Ol Petroleum Securities Bldg.
Oelclend ANdover 1077
Zl50 E. 3Eth St., Lor Angclce AXridge 92ll
