"Woody" Says Build Now

The Woodhead.,L,umber,Q.omnany, 1 os Angeles, are great advertisers. They believe in keeping their name before the building public, and wh-en th{, have " ""p""i"i ;.;;;;i" ;;;;il th"t "r" li"r'* rir." the splendid advertisement reproduced below.

This ad appeared in a Los Angeles nelyspaper recently, in the real estate section.

Read it carefully.- Here are some mighty important and true facts that you could tell /our pros- pects in your community.

..- --T..hi" lind of- Pgblicitv is. good, it helps the lumber industry, and puts dollars in the cofiers of the "Building Material Merchant." -

THINKING OF BUILDING? Get These Facts! Do You Know

-never since the war has there been a more favorable time to build than RIGHT NOW?

_NEARLY ALL BUILDING MATERIALS COST LESS THAN ANY TIME SINCE 1913.

-labor is cheaper and more efficient.

-concrete and cement are cheaper.

-[a1dyy6ed is cheaper.

-plastering is much cheaper.

-slsshiq wiring and fixtures are cheaper.

-plumbing and heating are much cheaper.

-brick is about the same as before.

The azterage total cost of erecting a lumber-built home today is thirty-five per cent less than in 1920. Use lumber! 914 So. Main St.

_sash and doors

-s1ill y761[ and much cheaper. finish are much are very interior cheaper.

-AND LUMBER HAS GONE DOWN IN PRICE PROBABLY MORE THAN ANY OTHER BUILDING COMMODITY.

(The mills are positively losing money at present prices.)

The wiie man who can finance hie building economically wiII build now and wt-l_:ild .q1rjgL_Jv---pr"rent pricer ."rrrJt continue ".- lo* ar thcy are now. BUILD NOW AND SAVE REAL MONEY.

VAndike 243r (Ask for Mr. Chace)

SHT LUMBER tr

DOWNTOWN STORE: VAndike 2431

Total Lumber Shipments Into San Francisco for January Shows

Decrease Over December Shipments

Total lumber shipments into San Francisco for the month of January show a decrease of 13,182,000 bd. ft. as compar-ed with the shipments during the month of December.

Shipments from Washington and Oregon for January compired with the preceding month showed a decrease of 16,363,000 bd. ft.; January stripments from California Coast Ports showed a decrease of 1.841,000 bd. ft. over December, while shipments from the Interior Points showed an increase of 1,340,000 bd. ft. over December.

Total January shipments compared with December shipments are as follows t

Seattle Lumbermen's Club Elects Officers

At a recent meeting the following officers were elected by the Seattle Lumbeimen's Club lor 1925: President, Lee ;. Gaynor, Nettleton Lumber Company; Vice-President, W. A. Rankin, Port Blakely Mill Company; Secretary- Mtll Treasurer, Sherman L. Johnson, Washington Cedar & Fir Treasurer, Johnson, Products Company. The trustees for 1925 are the three officers and the following: C. C. Maryott, Elliot Bay Lumber Company; H. M. Hallenbeck, Puget Mill Company; Max Wvman. Foster-W Lumber Company; and Ivlax Wyman, -troster-wyman LumDer LomPany; anu W. C. McMaster of the John McMaster Shingle Company.

T. Y. S. BALLENTYNE VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

T. Y. S. Ballentyne, Portland, Oregon, prominent Northwest lumberman and General Manager of the Dollar-Portland Lumber Co. and Dollar Lumber Co., Dollarton, British Columbia, was a recent visitor at the San Francisco offices of the Robert Dollar Company. While in San Francisco, Mr. Ballentyne conferred with R. Stanley Dollar, President of the Dollar-Portland Lumber Co. and rvho has just returned from a tour around the world on the Dollar Steamship Line, regarding repairs and improvements that are to be installed at the Dollar-Portland Lumber Co. plant.

PETER B. KYNE ARRIVES IN CALIFORNIA FROM WORLD'S TRIP

Peter B. Kyne, America's popular author, has arri"'ecl in Los Angeles from New York, after completing his to';rr around the world on the Dollar Steamship Line. After attending to some business matters in the southern metropolis, he r',' r:a c lof : r-" -r .). He was accompanied on his rvorld tour by Mrs. Kyne and private secretary.