E HAVE supplemented our activities in the production and manufacture of Philippine hardwoods with complete and well assorted stocks of domestic hardwood panels and our large plantat Los Angeles has been rearranged with the best thought in view for the production of domestic panels.
With this source of supply of domestic panels available, the problem of delayed shipments from distant points is eliminated. IDTe are securing our veneers from the best mills of the country, hardwood cores will come from the Philippine Islands andthe lJnited States, and only the best glues obtainable will be used. !7ith our planr equipped with machinery of the very latest designs, we are in a position to manufacture panels of thevery finest quality.
We will feature particularly 'S(/alnut Panels, which can be supplied in the various designs specifred, on short notice.
And we will continue to furnish everything in Philippine Hardwoods as heretofore, whether your fequirements call for Rough Lumber, Panels, Doors or Interior Trim. Our Philippine Hardwood trees are cut from ouf own timber concessions, sawn in our ownmills, handled onour own docks, and manufactured into the finishedproducts at our Los Angeles plant.
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Dowlar Fir Cargo. Many of the mills in the Northwert ;;ttfr down o*i-ns to weather conditionr. 'The curtail' nent of lunber production lince tte fue! of Febrrrary ir re' ;tt;J t" b" ablut 4O per cent. Tlre lo-g cur'tailment for ih" fir"t hdf of Februarv is estimated to be 75 Per centlogr are extremely lcarce. Many of -tbe lpsgqs camps wtll i"iU" able to ""1*" operationl before March 1 owing -to th;;;t* and it is generally drdentood that aome mills may have to clore due to a log shortag-e-.
ihe mills report conciderable special i.qo,ty. Comrnonr have advan""d $t.OO. Clears are etill etrong and lo-me iteme are difficult to get. The mille report that the Middle Wect businers is good. It ic hard to get protection on !pe' cialr dtre to curtailment.
The California market showed conriderable improvement during the rnonth of Januaryr -lnd has continued rtrong "it""Ihu fir* of February. Unrold stockr at San Pedro con' iit; l; be reduced--ot F"b"oary 13 it war reported that these stockr totaled 1o,728 M feet.
The Douslas fir raii market ir very strong and further advancec are looked for. --D;"st"" fir cargo arivals at San Pedro for the month of f""-*d i"taled Oi,SgC M feet. Redwood shipments at thir port for January amounted to 4r7-62-M feet. - Slir.gleu are -reported to be a little rtfongen The lath
market rhowr no change. +a
Redwood. The volume t&E of ralea ir holding uP well and
A. J. "Gus" Russell, head of the Santa Fe Lumber Co', San Francisco is on a ten-day business trip to the Northwest, and expects to be back in San Francisco, February 18.
While in Portland he will confer with the Central Coal & Coke Co., manufacturers of 4C lumber products, for which the Santa Fe Lumber Co. are exclusive rail representatives in California and Arizona'
Tommy Tomlinson of the San Francisco office of MacDonald & Harrington recently spent a few days in Los Angeles.
E. A. Howard, San Francisco Hardwood lumberman was a recent Los Angeles visitor.
January war the bert month in two years with rnort of the -iUi. -St""f" io to-" "i"o .t ratisfactory, br$ gencrdlv soeakins mill rtocke are badly broken' There ir conuder"[f" .ti"it-.ii;" tU. industry, and a numbet of rnillr are U"i"s "h"t down for an indefini!9 p€ni94' --EiUf""r.l, mitu and Sugar Pine. The marhet ir atrong n "rf?ii"i. Thd;" gi"a volume of business and the ;;A;"ii;;-rg2g looks veiv good. Stockr at the millr ere badly broken.at&*'*
Detailed eoftwood and hardwood statietics for tte Grat nr" -*""f.i * tgZg b*.a on lhe reporting mills.of -the iecional arsociations, according to the- report-oftlre Natio-nal Lumber Manufacturers Association of rebruary " are a! followr:
We* Coast Lumbermen'r A$ociation' Produ*ron' i!.!1 fgf M feet; Shipments, 695,000 M feet; Orderr, 818'735 M feet.
Californb White & SWar Pine Asso-ciation' Production' zzlggd ii-f."i; Sh'p-.ttit,113,423 M feet; Orders' 113'38O M feet.
Califomia Redwood Association' Production, -3-21094 M fJillptt"it"'-32,586 M feet; Ordera, fAt!!Z-
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The latest lumber thing of importance, coming over the famous old "I understand" route, is an impending merger in the Redwood industry. In California where the affected mills and timber is located, there are only rumors. But in the South and East the declaration is being openly made of late that a great merger, including a large majority of Redwood production, is a certainty. In Saq Francisco they only admit that there are merger negotiations going on' but the opinion is expressed by prorninent Redwood people who do not care to be quoted, that there is an excellent prospect of somethin* O"l"t*Uole along this line.
Speaking of Redwood, the report is current in San Francisco that there is a strong probability of Redwood flitches going to still other sawmills on the Coast of the Gulf of Mexico, besides the several in Mississippi and Louisiana that are now engaged in such cutting. For several years there has been much talk of some of the cutting-out Pine mills of the Gulf Coast continuing their operations by importing and sawing Fir flitches. This has not worked out, the chief obstacle being the low price of Fir on the market that will not allow so much handling and hauling. But Redwood brings nearly twice as much as Fir, mill average' and allows much more cost latitude, and all the Redwood in existence is close to the Pacific waters.
The center of gravity of hardwood production in the United States has been steadily but surely creepin,g Southward and Westward. At a national meeting of hardwood manufacturers at New Orleans the other day, the announcement was made that the center of gravity of hardwood production today is the state of Louisiana. There is hardwood production all over Louisiana, and immediately on the west the state of Texas is surging forward every year with increased hardwood output, until that combined territory is THE big hardwood producing part of the country. Every year the Pine production in that territory drops, and hardwood production increases. And this being newer territoryfor hardwood cutting, production will hold up much longer than in the older hardwood sections, where the mills are dropping off in clusters, due to exhausted timber supply. Hardwood authorities report that 41 mills, cutting 355 million feet annually, will cut out this year; 48 mills cutting 378 million annually will cut out next year; ivhile 52 mills cutting 333 million ahnually will cut out the following year. That's going "o**.;
An article in a recent number of "Nation's Business{ dwelt on the continually improving selling and merchandising efforts of these,lines of business that"are making out-
standing successes in the present era, giving particular attention:as they naturally would-to automobile marketirg. "Automobiles are now displayed in ornate showrooms where they can be compared like bonnets," is one of the statements about auto merchandising, and the question is asked in the heading, "Has YOUR business sex appeal?" "Is YOUR business keeping up with this constantly improving art of selling?" is the gist of the article. Speaking for the lumber industry, what would YOU say about it?
Woman spends most of the family income, according to the best and most reliable of authorities on the subject. It has been figured by a recent intelligent survey that women buy 81 per cent of the groceries, 78 per cent of the drugs, 82 per cent of the department store stocks, 80 per cent of the electrical apparatus, 80 per cent of the jewelry, 98 per cent of the silks, 75 per cent of the MEN'S SOCKS' 63 per cent of the men's neckwear, 49 per cent of the hardware, 67 per cent of the leather goods, and 78 per cent of the pianos. She likewise buys a huge per cent of the homes that are sold-figures not*,given.*
A distinguished scientist recently remarked: "The South has one great raw material that she isjust beginning to appreciate." "What's that?" was the query. "Sunshine," replied the scientist. .Proving that he is philosopher as well as scientist. For Sunshine, properly exploited and appreciated, is a wonderful crop. California has been explointing it successfully foryears. So has Florida. But the rest of the South has just begun to market it. Sunshine means more than winter comfort and sport. It means twelve months of industrial activity, with no shut-in seasons when the sound of industry is stilled. It means twelve months of building activity, as well as twelve months of golf.
Why did Hoover go tovisit South America as soon as he was elected President? Political reasons? They were secondary. He went down there because we, who have twenty times as much to sell them as they have to sell us, are still BUYING a lot more from South America than we are SELLING down there. Hoover isn't a politician. He's a highly trained business man' Duriog the first half of 1928 the United States sold to Argentina, Brazil, Columbia, Chile, Venezuela, Peruand Ecuador, just $199'000'000 worth of our goods. THEY sold US during that same period $291,000,000 worth of goods. Which simply means that our selling has been neglected down there, and Mr' Hoover went down as our business ambassador. Even
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DouGr-As rrn: Manufactured by Hammond mills in the select timber stands of Oregon, supplemented by the output of Vest Coast mills whose manufacturing standards are in keeping with Hammond requirements, provide a continual supply of this lumber to maintain the quota of stocks at our distributing yards.
REDwooD: A modern sawmill plant at 3F*, c"lif., provides a direct supply of Redwood, manufactured under expert supervision. Redwood, through its adaptability for nearly every form of construction and supplemented by an extensive advertising campaign, is becoming more and more favored by the building trades throughout California.
ryg H"mmond's overseas a6liations provide a direct source of supply of imported hardwoods. Over 50 varieties of imported and domestic woods are carried in stock. Over 1,000,000 feet of practically every known variety of hardwood always on hand, from Sugar and Vhite Pine to the hiShest priced mahogeny rnd walnut.
Tbcsc manufaclaring facililit's, sourccs of sufply and at.ailfile stocks, lorn a defnite seruice to tbe retoil hntbcr clcaler.
Lumber may be rightfully expected to play a rcal p^rt in the construction activities of. 1929. Upon the retail lumber dealer depends the degree to which lumber is utilized in thefuture building progress of his respective community.
Better construction isfast becoming a reality. Architect, contractor, builder and owner are today cognizant of the final economy in quality materials. They are demanding in the case of lumber, grades that are well manufactured, well dried and furnished as to specification. And again ontheretail lumber dealer rests the responsibility of maintaining lumber srocks that will contribute to the full needs of better consrrucrion.
Vhen you buy from Flammonds, you have made the first step towards quality in lumber, for quality goes hand-in-hand with Hammond products. And there is 60 million feet of lumber, in all grades and sizes always in stock ar Hammond distributing yards. That surely means quality and service
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money we balance the books down there within his first term of office.
You CAN create r,rrnu"lo*r*r, with advertising. Wise and courageous men are proving it every day. It's only the reactionary and the laggard who says it can't be done. I know a big Southern manufacturer of hardwoods. The promotion manager decided that the trade needed a new special grade he had in mind. So he began advertising "fifty per cent clear Gum." Put considerable money and effort into the campaign. At the end of nine months they had never got a single "bite" on their campaign. The president of the firm came to the trade promotion manager and protested. But he kept on. In the second year came a wave of demand for this new item. Today, three years later, they cannot supply their uniform demand for this item. They have to go out and buy plenty of it to supply their trade. And their competitors had to begin making it. Advertising created that business 100 per cent.
Speaking of advertisi"r:;r"."re things popping in national advertising (not lumber) that are attracting national attention. The big one is the campaign of cigarettes versus sweets that is being waged so merrily at many thousands per page in the big national consutner magazines. The fellows who "reach for a cigarette instead of a sweet"
have roused the candy manufacturers to fight for existence. It will be worth seeing.
The other day I talked to the President of the American Bakers' Association. I asked him what bread proposes to do, with everyore attacking it in this day of reducing and dieting, and with the old staff of life blue penciled from every menu. I wondered if bread is going to publicly defend itself. He said it was-alittle later. They have some things to iron out first, but they are working on them, and they hope to give the public the bread's side of the diet argument in big type some of these days, and not remain forever the football of the diet faddists. THAT will be interesting to watch, too, and a large part of the sporting American public will be
the old staff of life.
This bread president said that there are three negative enemies attacking bread. They are Food Hobbiests, Food Fakirs and the Reducing Complex. But these are not the big enemies of bread, he said. The three big enemies of the Staff of Life are positive ones, namely: First, people do so much less work than they used to that they don't use the stout and wholesome food they used to; there is a much greater variety of food offered these days than a Beneration ago t'nat bread has great comp€tition; and last, people have more money to buy food with and don't have to stick to the cheap and wholesome bread like they used to do' There's food for thought there, don't you think?
Foster Brothers, Inc., San Francisco, announce the openirrg of a Northrvest oflice at 1222 Yeon Building, Portland, attcl the addition of a cargo department to their business.
The Portland office, u'hich rvas opened February 1, will hanclle only the bttsiness of the compan;r', and will be in charge of C. H. Fisher, l'ho has been connected rvith the Iurnber business in the North'lvest for many years, and enjoys a large acqnaintauce an-long the sawmill owners, havitrg been iormeity associated rvith the Carlisle Lumber Co. of Onalaska, Wash., and Dant & Russell, Portland.
Paul S. Foster and W. A. S. Foster recently returned from a trip to the Northrvest, where they called on their sales conn-ections ancl macle ali arrangements for opening the Portland office.
Foster Brothers, Inc., rvill continue to handle the stock of the Westrvood Lumber Co., Wheeler, Ore., in conjunction rvith the stock of otl.rer mills which they represent in this territory.
Grays Harbor rvater shipments of lumber topped the billion foot mark in l92B lor the fifth consecutive year, with a total of 1,200,000,000 feet. This isa decrease of about 200,000,000 feet from the 1927 total of 1,418,196,000 feet, the all-time record for the Port.
California rvas again the best customer, rviththe East Coast second, Japan third and Australia fottrth.
NI. S. Webb, salesman for Morrison-Merrill Co., Salt I-ake City, wholesale building material firm, coverilg Wyomlng' Idaio and Nevada territory, was a recent visitor to California. While here he spent some timevisiting plants manufacturing various kinds of building materials arottnd the San Franiisco Bay District, and made side trips to the Pacific Lumber Company's plant at Scotia, and the McCloud River Lumber Company's plant at McCloud.
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L. E. Kunkler, Owner atrd General Manager of the Pacific National Lumber Company, Los Angeles, states that his firm has just taken over the complete lumber yard of the Brown and Derry Lumber Companylvhich adjoins the Pacific National yard, at 2059 East 51st Street, thereby tripling the amount of space.at that location.
The merger includes the Sugar and White Pine accounts, all Softwoods and Panels, which will be handled in conjunction with the general Hardrvood business, in operation since the first of last year.
By Cartwright, formerly of E. J. Stanton & Son; P..H. 'Winsor, formerly of Brown and Derry Lumber Company; and W. R. Jones, formerly of the Hammond Lumber Company, who are all well known lumbermen in the Los Angeles territory, are connected lvith the sales department of the Pacific National Lumber Company and rvill represent the firmin this district.
Mr. Kunkler states that with their orvn trucks and equipment the Company is able to give the kind of service which is essential this day and time.
R. V. Baker, Secretary of the Lumbermen's club of/
The San Francisco Industries Club Hoo Hoo No. 9 u'ill hold their next meeting at 6:30 P.M. on the evening of February 28, at the Elks Club, San Francisco. Paul Foster, Foster Bros. Inc., will be in charge of the meeting. A fine program has been arranged for, rvhich rvill also include an excellent entertainment, and a large gathering of the Bay District lumbermen are expected to attend.
The San Francisco Club, under the leadership of President Fred Roth, is a very active otganization and are holding some very intereSting and rvell attended meetings. Ttie Club meets once a morlth and all lumbermen, especially lumbermen visiting in the Bay District, are invited to attend these meetings.
Arizona, announces thatthe 12th Annual Convention of J Andrerv McNair of the McKinnon-McNair Lumber that organization rvill be helcl at Douglas, Arizona, ou7 Company, St. Ilelena, Cal., has recently been re-elected Mav 17.18 and 19. - President of the Chamber of Commerce of that city.
We haoe taften ooer the entbe plant ol the Broun 6 Derrg Lumber Co. and arc noa handling a high gade of White and Sugar Pine and aII Soltuoods and Panels in coniunction uith our genercI hardutood business.
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Assuring fellow lumbermen that the mills in which he is interested will co-operate fullyin the program about to be launched, President E. L. Carpenter of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, has addressed a letter to trade extension subscribers and members of affiliated regional associations urging them to immediately prepare their mills for marking and distributing American standard lumber in accordance with the national trade-mark campaign. Mr. Carpenter, incidentally, calls attention to the advantages that can naturally lte expected by those who place before the public their share of this advertised, recognized and guaranteed product.
Following the instructions of the directors of the National Association and of the Trade Extension Committee. Mr. Carpenter points out, the advertising of the financial guarantee that stands behind luml>er bearing regional grade-marks and carrying the "National Tree" trade-mark is to begin in early issues of popular national magazines. This advertising, he says, is designecl to create a preference for su,ch lumber, but, he makes clear, a sufficient quantity of such lumber must be made available to meet the demand that will thus be created.
President Carpenter's letter reads :
"January 25,1929.
"To National Lumber Trade Extension Subscrilters, and Members of Afifrliated Regional Associations.
"Fellow Lumbermen:
"We are on the threshold of a great opportunity for the lumber industry.
"The Directors and the Trade Extension Committee have instructed the Manager of the National Lum,ber Manufacturers Association to proceed immediately to advertise the 'National Tree' trade-mark and the regional trade-grade marks as visualized guarantees in the buying of lumber.
"The first preparatory step in this advertising rvill appear within a month in national publications with a circulation of 6.0@.000.
trade and grade-marked lumber is abundantly available and to urge buyers to call for it, insist upon it, and expect it.
"The effect of this advertising rvill be practically to notify the American people that in buying lumber they-may depend upon the 'National Tree'-symbol of dependable quality, uniform manufacture and integrity of ltandard grading.
"It is unnecessary for me to remind men of imagination of what it means to have the lumber-buying wofld convinced that to get good material it is enough- to buy their product-the lumber with the 'National Tree' symbol on it.
"To my mind, a convincing advertising campaign of this sort, supported by our performance as manufacturers, in accordance with the advertising means a great increase in our share of the general market for building and industrial materials, better prices-quality prices-and a tighter grip on the markets and uses for our products.
"It would be absurd, even stupid, for us to order and pay for costly and impressive advertising of regionally gradCmarked or trade-marked lumber, guaranteed by a National trade-mark, and not provide the lumber marked as we advertise it. \,A,re should not delay in providing the goods we offer.
"I urge you to equip your mills to mark your standard lumber, and to inform your trade that you will supply it with marked lumber conforming to the specifications iecommended by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association and featured in national advertising. Full information rvill be put in your hands by the Association. During the next ferv weeks you will be given the opportunity to secure license to use the 'National Tree' mark, advertiling 'American Standard Lumber from America's Best Millsl "Of course, the mills in which I am interested will do what I am asking you to do.
., N AT I o NA','' uvfil JiiKil"#'iTUR ERS A SS o C IATION, "(Signed) E. L. CARPENTER, "President." W.
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Harry A. Lake, Garden Grove LumberCo., Garden Grove, president of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, was the principal speaker at the regular monthly meeting of the Central California Lumbermen's Club held at Wilson's Cafe, Stockton, February 9, 1929.
Mr. Lake told what cooperation has done for other industries, stressed the necessity for modern merchandising
Considerable discussion developed on the matter of the proposed joint meeting of the three Valley Clubs at Stockton, and it was the feeling of the rneeting that the meeting should be open to all retail lumbermen, and that an invitation should be extendecl to the lumbermen of the Peninsula and Coast Counties.
Other speakers were John H. Yancy, Yancy Lumber Co', Newman, who was unanimously elected a member of the club;R. F. Wells, West Turlock Lumber Co., Turlock; Maurice Casey, Redrvood Manufacturers Co., Pittsburgh;
O. V. Wilson, Central Lumber Co., Stockton, and C. D. LeMaster, Sacramento.
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methods in the retail lumber business, and made a powerful plea for larger membership in the State Association.
"Changes are taking place so rapidly in the methods of doing business in these modern days that the man who doesn't belong to his trade association is likely to get left behind," said the speaker. "And merely belonging is not enough. He should attend the conventions to hear speakers on the various problems, and take advantage of every possible means to keep himself up to date."
Mr. Lake told how the State association is encouraging the formation of local associations, and how the local groups are cooperating with the State association. In asking for support he said that no member of the board of directors receives any salary or expense money. All give their services for the good of the association. He reported that this meeting 'rvas the 35th he had attended in aborrt six weeks.
W. H. Falconbury, Jan Joaquin Lumber Co., Stockton, said that in his opinion the assistance given bv the State association to help the local organizations get together has been very valuable.
E. T. Robie, vice-president of the State Association reported on the activiiies of the various committees of the association.
Chas. G. Bird, Stockton Lumber Co., Supreme Custocatian suggested a joint concatenation to be held by the Stockton, Sacramento and Mount Whitney jurisdictions at the Old Kentucky House, at the Calaveras Cement Company's plant on March 23, immediately follor,ving the l\{illwork Institute convention and the joint meeting of lumhermen at Stockton, March 22 and 23. The meeting went on record as favoring this.
L.H. Elliott, Valley Lumber Co., Lodi, president of the club, presided.
The following were present:
E' T' Robie' Auburn Lumber co' "' ''''"'Auburn
O. H. Fisher, Fisher Bros. Lumber & Mill Co. ......'..Stockton
C. B. Clawson, The Diamond Match Co. .'.Stockton
J. G. Sasselli, The Diamond Match Co' '.. 'Stockton
J. W. Ford, United Lumber Yards, Inc. ..Modesto
W. O. Mashek, United Lumber Yards, Inc. .....Modesto
W. H. Besecker, The Diamond Match Co. Oakdale
L. E,. Fuller. Home Lumber Co. ..'..-Manteca
R. P, Fuller. Home Lunrber Co. ... ......Manteca
B. R. Du Vall, Ripon Lumber Co. .. . ' .....Ripon
Chas. P. Christensen, Linden Lunrber Co. '..'.Linden
E. W. Doe. Stockton Lumber Co. ....'.Stockton
S. H. Rother,mel, Central Lumber Co. ..Stockton
W, M. Casey, RedwoodManufacturers Co. .......Pittsburg
Geo. L. Meissner, Valley Lumber Co. . ...'..'Lodi
W. E. Bruce, Star Lumber Co. . Stocktorr
D. N. Blair, Ruse-Blair Lumber Co. ....Stockton
A. R. Martin, Hale & Symons .......Sonora
R. F. Wells, West Turlock Lumber Co. ... .Turlock
P.E. Overend, California Retail Lumbermen's Assn. ..San Francisco
R. L. Ustick, Stanislaus Lumber Co. ... ..Modesto
C. H. Terrell, Hill& Morton, Inc. ....Oakland
O. V. Wilson, Central Lumber Co. .....Stockton
J. F. Johnson, The Modesto Lumber Co. ... ......Modesto
R. B. Gartin. Salida Lumber Co. ... .Salida
Chas. T. Gartin, United Lumtier Yards, Inc. ...Ripon
W. T. Wallace, Hammond Lumber Co. .......Stockton
D. H. Schroebel, San Joaquin Lumber Co, ... .....Stocktorr
Chas. C. Buckley, Port ofStockton .....Stockton
A. A. Hauerbach ...Stockton
Edw. D. Wegand ....Stockton
Geo. C. Ground, Ground Lumber Co. ... ...Stockton
Geo. W. Robinson, Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. Stockton
James R. Neylan, Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. .........San Francisco
J. U. Gartin, Stanislaus Lumber Co. ... ...Modesto
Al Nolan, The Pacific Lumber Co. .......San Francisco
Roy E. Bennett, Cash Lumber Co. . .Tracy
Herb. M. Schaur, Tracy Lumber Co. ...Tracy
Willis Merwin, Newman Lumber Co. ... ..Newuran
G. W, Merwin, Newman Lumber Co. .Newmatr
J. H. Yancy, The Yancy Lumber Co. ..Newman
W. H. Falconbury, San Joaquin Lumber Co. ... .Stockton
C. D. LeMaster .......Sacramento
H. A. Lake, Garden Grove Lumber Co. Garden Grove
L. H. Elliott, Valley Lumber Cq. ... .........Lodi
C. G. Bird. Stockton Lumber Co. ........ ....Stockton
W. T. Black, The California Lumber Merchant San Francisco
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By Jack Dionne
The other day I was reading the thoughts of various present day successful business men, and the words quoted above just jumped right up out of the page and slapped me in the eye.
I think it's perfectly sound business wisdom and advice. Yet, if we follow it, this great big lumber business of ours would be automatically depopulated.
Goldsmith's "Deserted Village" would be a metropolis teeming withlife and energy as compared with what the lumber industry would be if we took Mr. Mayo literally'
Because this huge industry we are in, catering to the building industry of the United States, which spends five billion dollars a year, hasn't such a department, and isn't showing any disposition to create one.
This is the only great industry in existence that has any use for such a department, that hasn't one, and there is probably no other great industry in which the nded is so manifest. If ever on the face of this great and glittering globe there was an industry crying to the high heaven5 for research and engineering assistance and education, it's the lumber industry.
The auto industry, the cement industry, the steel industry, the new radio industry, the electrical industry, the tobacco industry, numerous of the food raising and food making industries, and innumerable others that might be listed, know that the very foundations of their business is research an-d engineering, finding new ways' new ideas, new developrirents in making their product more scientific'and intelligent in its application to public needs and cravings.
Behind the scenes in all the great industries that are making history by their progtessiveness and continual development and improvement, are the corps of scientific men who are digging, delving, investigating, experimenting, searching for IDEAS that will make their industry more useful'
And this good old rut-ridden, moss-covered, hide-bound, lumber industry, shackled by chains of her own forging to antediluvian days and prehistoric methods, weeps copious tears of self pity, and raising her shackled and manacled hands to high heaven, prays for Providential interference to save hir.
Save her from who? Why, frqm herself, of course' She never had any other enemy.
Does this industry NEED such a department? DOES SHE? Listen! She doesn't need it any more than a man lost in the Sahara Desert-his skin cracked and his tongue black and swollen-needs a drink. Not a bit worse ! And very little less !
I'm going totell you a story, you lumber readers' It's a true story. And it's a perfect illustration. I got it direct by word of mouth from the man to whom it happened' I'm
not going to give his location or the association connected with the incident, although it wouldn't be a bad idea to do that. Some of these days someone ought to get up in this lumber industry of ours, face the situation fairly, and ask the question,:
wHY DON',T WE QUrr CHASING SHADOWS AND BEGIN DOING SOMETHING IN THIS LUMBER INDUSTRY?
This man who told me this incident, recently built a fine home. He is one of the big lumber manufacturers of the country. He is almost rabid in his boosting for his own product. The architect who drew his plans was instructed to use wood wherever possible. When the specifications came in he found metal specified for one considerable use in the construction, This rnan has manufactured a wood product for that particular use for a generation'
Naturally he jumped the architect, and wanted to know why. The architect told him the metal for this purpose would, give much better service, and stated his objections 'to the wood for this item. My friend fired a hurried inquiry to the big manufacturing association he belonged to, and asked if the architect's statement in this respect was cor' rect. They were slow in replying. So he hollered for a quick anpwer, and got it. THEY SAID THEY DIDN'T KNOW. So he let the architect put in the metal, in place of the commodity he himself has made and sold for years'
Fersonally, I don't believe there was a word of fact in the architect's claim.. But, like the lumber association he called on for help, I don't KNOW either.
BUT THERE IS ONE THING THAT I AM SURE AND CERTAIN OF, AND THAT IS THAT SOME. ONE OUGHT TO KNOW.
I think that every big manufacturers' association should have its own research and engineering department. That and their grading rules department would be their two fundamentals.
And I thinkthat the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association should have a centralized one to handle such problems and furnish such information to the entire lumber industry.
The industry is spending plenty of money to get that sort of service. If you were to turn those funds that'this industry is spending for association work over to General Motors for instance, it's a thousand to one bet that they would stop every wheel of activity until a research and engineering department had given them something to work on; something definite to shoot at; some specific thing to accomplish; some fundamental program to follow'
The lumber industry goes at it like the greenhorn who
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fine and intelligent consideration that every other order gets. above as its slogan. that same number And for Many of the oldest lumber bnyof years this organing firms in California have €rtrusted us with their business on ization has been continually engaged in doing its very best to live up to its
The Santa Fe Lumber Co. has for many years been using the
slogan.
Ours is not and will never be a
year after year. They l.ttqw that they $rin receive the best service the market will afford,
open orders for huge volume business. No order comes to our We would like to number you books that is not given the same among our satisfied customers.
Nearly 200 designers, builders and operators of leading sawmills of the Pacific Coast met recently in Longview, Wash., for the. first sarvmill conference ever to be held in this section of the United States. Improved lumber manufacture was the purpose and general theme of the meeting, delegates to which represented millstotalling a lumber output of sixty million feet daily. The convention city, in which are the largest lumber manufacturing plants in the world, those of the Long-Bell Lumber Company, and in which other great plants are now being built by the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, is located just fifty miles from the spot where the first sawmill in the Northwest was built in 1828.
The delegates adopted a resolution urging schools of forestry to include in their curriculum, courses in engineering
that have a bearing on the lumber industry, so that these schools might send out men with technical training in sawmill machinery and operation.
At the closing session a permanent organization rvas effected and the following officers elected: President, A. M. Hagen, Bridal Veil, Oregon; Vice-President, Ernest Dolge, Tacoma, Washington, and W. G. Collins, Fort Bragg, California; Secretary-Treasurer, George F. Cornwall, Portland, Oregon. Regional directors are: For Washington, E. W. Stuchell of Everett; {or Oregon, E. E. Martin of Eugene; for ldaho, J. F. Main of Bonner; for British Columbia, E. W. Haskell of New Westminster; for Arizona, I. B. Koch of Flagstaff; for New Mexico, George E. Breece of Alamogordo; for Colorado, lohn Zalaha of McFee; for South Dakota, C. J. Warren of Rapid City.
(Continued from Page 14) essayed to run a plow on a farm, and just plowed helter- We are all pretty much like my lumber friend who used skelter in every direction, his idea being that it all had to metal in his own home to replace a product he had manube plowed anyway' -. factured for a generation. We don't KNOW.
Men, let's quit kidding ourselves and one another, and face the facts. This industry isn't keeping up with the march we are foundering and hoping' And there is neither of progress. we are following the same old ruts-and the intelligence or courage in either' only difference between a rut and a grave, is the depth. (Note: The other day one of the big men of the industry lVe have improved some, of course, but most of the im- said to me: "Are you losing your fire? You never give us provement is individual. We aren't facing our problems- Hell any more, and f miss your shafts, and know that the we're simply dodging them. others do." So this is just the first of a series of plain talks
We are without a collective aim, a collective program, an to the lumber industry. As Sam Jones used to say: "ff intelligent and practical plan-based on, definite research you'll just hold while I skin, the price of hides will sure go and investigation-to improve our situation. down.")
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Monolith enjoys a wide use for waterProof concrete and plaster work. It has successfully proved every claim made for its superior qualities, on many types of concrete construcdon,andundera[[kinds of weather conditions.
In handling Monolith Portland rVaterproof, dealers are assured of a product of proven rePutation, and one thatis favorably known not onlyto the building trades but the general public as well.
Formerly President of the Montgomery & Mullin Lumber Co.
('Ihe writer thanks his old friends, Mr. Robert Cuzner and Mr. Charles Lynch, for their assistance in refreshing his memory.)
When I first came to Los Angeles, 45 years ago, there were eight lumber companies locatecl here. First came the J. M. Griffith Company, located on Alameda street, just north of the present Kerckhoff yard. This yard was one of the tlvo original yards established here during the 60's, Mr. Griffith previously having operated a stage line from Wilmington. They also operated branch yards at different towns in rvhat is norv Orange county. The business was under the direct management of Mr. J. M. Griffitl-r, assisted at different times by his five sons, only two of whom, I believe, Fred and Bob, are now living. Mr. Nichols of the Credit l\l[en's Association r,vas booli-keeper at that time. Mr. Griffith u'as something of a marionette, but was a business man of great integrity and was highly regarded by the lumber: dealers. He conducted the business until his death about 25 years ago, and as his sons did not seem to care to continue it, it was liquidated, the yards in Orange county being taken over by the Bowers interests.
Next came the Kerckhoff-Cuzner Company, rvhich moved to their present location in 1879 and have operated continuously at this present location ever since, establishing a record as the only yard operating on their original location at the present time. The business was in charge of Mr. James Cuzner and Mr. W. G. Kerckhoff, Mr. Robert Cuzner being located at the Pomona yard. This company also operated a number of branch yards in the San Gabriel valley.
Mr. Kerckhoff afterrvard retirecl to take uo hvdro-electric development and Mr. Cuzner also retired incl- became the "grand old man" of the California Club, and Mr. Robert Cuzner took active management which he has retained to this date, assisted by younger members of the two families.
A short distance south on Alameda street the Reard,:n Company of Flagstaff, Arizona, operated a small yard, in an endeavor to find an outlet for their common lumber. This venture. however, did not pan out well and r,vas discontinued after about a year's operation.
Next came the old W. H. Perry Company yard, the other of the two original yards, located on Commercial street near Alameda, Mr. Perry having graduated from operating a carpenter and coffin shop in the early 60's and branched out into the lumber business.
Mr.W.H. Perry and Mr. Stephen Mott were identified with the business which was under the active management of Mr. W. A. Morgan, a very competent and aggressive young Englishman and they were active factors in the business for a good many years until the death of Mr. Morgan about twenty years ago, when the business was liquidated, there being no young blood in the family to continue it. This company also operated a number of branch yards rn what is now San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
The C. Ganahl Company was located on First street, corner of Alameda. I rvill leave the hi5tory of their gperations
for the moment and pass on to the Davies Henderson Lumber Co., located on First street, nearly across from the Ganahl yard. This yard was starte(l a6out the year 1885 by Mr. Davies. a capitalist from Topeka, Kansas, and uncle to Ed. and Will Davies, afterr,vards prominent in lumber circles. Associated with him r,vere C. F. Smurr of Cass & Smurr, and Mr. Henderson, and Mr. l\{arshall, who afterwards established the California Hardrvare Co, This company did a large and successful business for about ten years, being finally taken over by the L" W. Blinn Company.
Next came the yard located in an orange grove on Fifth and San Pedro, operating under the ambitious titleof Los Angeles Storage, Commission and Lumber Company, under the management of Mr. I{orace Hiller. This yard had been started under the joint olvnership of the Griffith-KerckhoffPerry interests to offset the competition of the Flagstaff yard and was supposed to handle only second grade material. They also dealt in lime and cement, rvhich rvas stored in the old Santa Monica railroad depot building on the premises, and at the time of my arrival Mr. L. E. Behymer, future impressario, was salesman in the lvarehouse, loading and.unloading barrels of lime and cement.
The business was afterwards acquired by Thos. Vigus, Sid Hiller and Captain Skinner, operated under the name of the L. A. Lumber Company. They ir-r turn sold to the South Western I-umber Co., rvhich rvas os'ned by the Perry-Nelson interests, with L. W. Blinn as manager. He was succeeded by Mr. W. T. Wheatley and the operation was continued until about the year 1910, when the South Western Lumber Co. was combined with the Nofziger Lumber Co., who operated a yard on the corner of Eighth and Main, nnder the name of the Consolidated Lumbei Co. This was the inception of tl,e Consolidated Lumber Co., r,vho have been a large factor in both wholesale and retail operations since that date. The South Western yard r,.'as disposed of to the Montgomery & Mullin I.umber Co. abr,ut 191O, who operated it until about 1918, rvhen it rvas sold to the Patten & Davies Lumber Co., .who still occupy a pcrrtion of the yard at the present time.
The writer worked as a day laborer for a short time in 1885 in this yard and therefore had the novel experierrce of 25 years later acquiring ownership of the business in u'hich he had worked in a menial capacity.
Located way out in the suburbs on San Pedro street near Seventh, rvas the T. Walsh Company with Mr. Gillas A. Clark as manager and Charlie Humphreys as book-keeper. They afterward acquired the yard and operated it during the boom days under the name of Clark & Humphreys. Nlr. Clark, a fiery young Irishman, was a very aggressive individual and the cause of much grief to ihe--other lumber
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Ioselh W. Tard.y
President Joseph W. Tardy of the Phoenix, Arizona, Hoo Hoo Club, has appointed the following committees !o. supervise the Club-ictivities during the coming-ye!: t-Noryinatinrr. H H. Shouo. N. H. Huev and T. R. Halstead; petvlse Llub actlvrtles comlng-ye!::-r\urr-rinating, H. Shoup, N. Huey and J. R._H.alstead; Advisorv- A. A Haves. S. C. MacFarland. P. A' Robertson; Advisory, A. A. Hayes, S. C. MacFarland, Program, John A.- Johnson, Charles Henry, -C. P. Po^ol; Mrs-ic. E. V. o'Malllv. T. I. Halloran. Walter Lev: Traffic, Mus-ic, E. V. O'Malley, J. J. Halloran, Ley; N- C. Pierce- D. E. Eubank. H. B. Finnell: Research, N. C. Pierce, E. , H. Finnell;
James Maris, J. A. Johnson, Charles Shoup; Association Contact, L. lvt. Hamman, E. L. O'Malley, R. V. Baker; Entertainment, A. S. Reed, William Donaldson, G. E. Engstrom; Attendance, King C. Light, Ray Pearson, J. C: Dolan; Arbitration, M. H. McCalla, R. V. Baker, Samuel Shrigley; Public Affiairs, H. B. Howell, W.A. Earnshaw, John F. O'Malley. R. V. Baker, Secretary of the Club, announced that the Club will be known in the future as "The GoldSpot Hoo Hoo Club," because Phoenix is located in a section that has been described as the "Gold Spot of America."
Arrangements for a concatenation to be held at the Old Kentucky House, in Calaveras County, on March 23, are being made by the'Stockton Hoo Hoo.
The concatenation will be held in conjunction with the joint meeting of the Northern California Lumbermen's Clubs and the Tri-annual meeting of the Millwork Institute of California who meet at Stockton on March 22 and 23.
W. T. WALLACE NOW
W. T. Wallace, formerly with the Albion Lumber Co., is now traveling the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley territory for the Hammond Lumber Co.
The Tom A. McCann Hoo Hoo Club, McCloud, California, at a recent meeting elected President-elect Herbert Ifoover for honorary membershio in the Club. Tasker L. Oddie, Senator from Nevada, *'"t also elected on honorary member. D. M. Swobe and Harry L. Engelbright were delegated to inform the new members.
The building of a fountain for the display of native fish and road improvements were among the subjects discussed at the meeting. President C. B. Daveney presided.
Seven kittens were initiated into Hoo Hoo at Yuma, Arizona, ofl Saturday, January 26. Delegations from Los Angeles, San Diego and Phoenix attended.
The concatenation was held in the afternoon at the Yuma Country Club. W. S. Corvling, Vicegerent Snark of the San Diego District, lead the team in the ritual work. He was assisted b1'the following: Senior Hoo Hoo, D. F. Park; Junior Hoo IIoo, Jessie Bacon ; Bojum, Ralph W. Smith; Scrivenoter, Arthur G. Pratt; Jabberwork, John F. Lupton; Custocatian, R. A. Piersall; Arcanoper, If . A. Work; Gurdon, E. A. Goodrich. Dinner was served at the Club'House in the evening.
L.H. DeMund, Vicegerent Snark of the Yuma District, arranged for the concatenation.
A concatenation will be staged by Hoo ltroo on Saturday, February 23. tens will be initiated into the Order.
the Phoenix, Arizona, A large class of kit-
A meeting of the Hoo Hoo Club was held at the Westwardho Hotelon Tuesday evening, January 15. Every member of theClub was present. Arrangements were made to assist the retailers and the box manufacturers in their activities for a lower freight rate on native Arizona pine from the Northern Arizona mills into Phoenix.
J. E. "Eddie" Peggs, W. R. Chamberlin & Co., San Francisco, returned February 8 from a ten-day business trip to the Northwest, during which he visited the firm's Portland office for several days, and also made a side trip to Grays Harbor.
Eddie admits that he was glad to'get back to Sunny California, as the weather in the Northwest was very cold' He says the curtailment due to the snow and cold weather is considerable, and there is a great scarcity of logs.
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dealers. For some reason the business languished a1{ w,as liauidated. Charles Humphreys took a posi-tton.wlth tne Ganahl Lumber Co., which he still retains, I belleve' anc ir-i"a."a a pioneer in the lumber business here' with a ;;;a of coritinuous service of nearly 5o years'Mr' Clark became associated with Ex-Mayor Bryson-' operatlng YTder the name of Clark & Bryson, but I believe lost hls ;;";t in mining ventures attd spent hislast days in a clerkship in the court hottse.
I will now revert back to the Ganahl Lumber Company' *ht;;-;;pioy I entered in the spring of 1885 as bookk".o", and afierward as manager of thJmain yard until the fall of 1888. Mr. C' Ganahl had recently pu-rchased tne "lia ft"* |ohn Bryson, ex-Mayor, and orvner of the Bryson 'g"iia^i*,',i'ho had'est"bti.h.d-it about 1883' The business ;;l;'?'h;t*" ;l Mr. Schallert, who was a cousin to Mr' G;hl ."J'*tl. had just arrived from St' Louis and purchased an interest. Mr. Schallert was the father of Edwin i"ft"ii.ttlrtt.atrical critic on the "Times", andhis wijlow is .tiiffi"i"s in Los Angeles. The only-one of the Ganahl ;;;.';l-lh'"i ii-. in th-e business was Mr' Ed' Ganahl' who was yard salesman. His brother Joe was stillin St' Louis ;J ilt. tt"ri-tt"tft.rs, Connie and Jean, 6eing respectively a baby in arms and a vouth of ten'
After Mr. Schallert's death about 1895, Mr'' Christian Carr"t t took over the business, which has continued with th"-;;;; .wnership but in difierent locations to'the present time.
Ouite a nrrmber of men prominent in lumber circles have gri-tluated from the Ganahl business'
Mv successor as book-keeper was Frank E' Walsh' the i";;;";;" ;"n, and -y successor's manager was Mr' Driscoll, a very active man who afterlvards became manager oI itt"'1. W. Btinn l-umber Co. and died many years ago' Mr. Bostler, rvho afterwards estab-llshed the California g"*'C"-;...eaea Mr. Driscoll, and Mr' Chas' Lynch also started his lumber career with them'
The boom days of 1886-87 were halcvon. days in the lu.mber, business. Customers would throng the ofhce begglng ;;;1" take their order,.often without bothering about.an estimate, and you would not agree to make "prompt dell\'ery if it breaks our back."
There were very few grades, com-mon and clearin Redwood. and common and\o' 1 and No' 2 flooring in Pine' the latter being all 1x6.
I think iutty 50 per cent of the st^ock carried was Red*;o;;;hi. b.i'ng in universal use for finish, no Oregon Pine b.i[ used at ihat time either for finish or ceiling' - -li"i"iL price for all sizes of dimension was $25 per M in 1884 and advanced to $32'50 in 1887' ^"Dr;i& Ae period covering- my service with the Ganahl ronrr"r-co. they established branches on washington and G;;;d avenue, also in East Los Angeles' A yard was est"bltrh;J uy ti-t. wiii;;;; Lumbei Co' of Portland' ore;;;; North Alameda street, where Mr' Chas' Wier first ftarted in the lumber business as manag€r' -
C. E. de Camp also established a yard in East Los An*.G, east of the Ganahl yard, about this time' ""d;';i;;, d."'.tt af that time 'ivere very jealous of ,r"* ttJoa, and placed every obstacle in its path' '--enottr.t'
by Shafier,-f{ia" & Day' real ariri" t"""'on San Pedro near First, which only operated a-ie* *o"ths and was induced to retire' -th"; endeth the first chapter of my recollections of pioneer lumber daYs.
Starting their advertising campaign with a full page in an Oakland daily paper .uify-in Janua-ry, the East Bay- Home Modernizing Bureau goi i*"i"aiate results in the- form. o{ an inquirv the first da-y-which led to a $12'000 modernizing i.t,'"l.iiafi l;1. E: Neighbor, managing director of the bureau. " Si"titti.. furnished by bureaus that have been functioni"J fot-.o-e time in ot-her cities, indicate that the average ioB handled amounts to about $2000' '";{;;;;;;;tt"* ln.t in Topeka, Kansas, it cost the bureau ."j;$200o to develop $100,in0 in business for its members' ;il;.;;;;k ;";;.;t.'d itt. ""to. of the. propertv represented ;;;hiiOdm,;;e i; ili";;;;;ri', *iit'i'i nve rveeks arter ttr" Ur'i*"u began to function, $55,000^*otth of business was developed ata cost oi-t"tt'tiran $1000' Numerous other ;;;;i* "i the value of these bureaus are available' and it "..-J ."tttin that itte-gttt Bay Bureau will soon be able to claim a similar record' ""R;t B. Co*, gerreoirn"tttg-tt of-the Built-in-Fixture Co'' n.*6r.r i, .i,iir-"tt of tn"-bo"td of-governors of the bu;il-;;; iu-tr.to.tt on the board include B' E' Brvan' Strable Hardwood tL., O"ftf""d;-A:.M' S' Pearce' E' K' Wood Lumber Co.,-Cjidt"d, and Clyde I' Speer' Zenith Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland'
Responding to the call for up-to-the-minute merchandisid;5th;.,-r-rt1 -Pl;.ifl " I-umber companv' San Francisco' announce ir, .n "ttiJ.ti-"t-iofatt in {our iolors' that-they ;;;';;;et to .upptvlo retail lumber dealers Redwood lJrns' il;;;b"*.., ^Poi.h and Window Box-es' and Greenhouse i,i"i.-""a Plant Boxes, all packed in .fibre board cartons' one complete turn ot to*, kntck down- in a carton' with full i;t;;l[;. -"r,d ttt" necessary nails for assembly' "'T;-;;;pl"i. itt. il"i "itpt" brackets of Clear Redwood' *t i.tt wiil accommodate "ith"t size. \f indol Box' are i;;;i;i;Ji" ihe knock dolvn at a. nominal cost' r'vith necessary nails fo, "r."-ityl and Redwood- Plant Stakes' made ;?' i.;6;;:a- R;a;.;;,' a'e'sea smoothlv, one end Pginied' and suitable to, "rry"fruoi iequiring staking' such as dahlias' are also furnished.*Th;iI;; and Flower Boxes, neatly-designed for decoratirr-e'fr.nG-"t n"*.it, ars buiit of Clear lleart Redrvood' iS"qioi" Sempervirettt;, ittt of sapwood' and will ot1!l1st X*lilta *rii. t.t. than stone or concrete' The simplicity ;filttil ;ili h;;.nize with anv-. stvle of architecture' These are made ttt'-ttti." ti""t' \ryittdo* Boxes are also made in three sizes. ---A r"rrrpl" Box or Urn will be mailed to any dealet,.9t "?-- plication'to The Pacific Lumber Companv' JII Lalltornra 5i.; s;;;^ Fi"r,-"ir-.o-, t;iif - R;qttst should specif v whether fl;;;;, window, gieenhouse flai or plant box is wanted'
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Any lumberman can vrite a sermon on this text. We believe thatgiving the Building Public the right material for his intended purpose is the acme of service to every branch of the lumber trade as vell as to the public.
The right material means Redvood for exteriors from foundation line to ridge pole, for interiors, for farm use generally, and for many industrial lines.
It will probably interest the average lumber merchant to know just where the dollars go that the average man and woman in this country spend every day.
The United States government made an investigation to find out, and the results are very interesting, indeed. The Distribution Census did the trick. They selected eleven cities in eleven different districts of the country. and their survey experts gathered the facts.
The whole thing was done by the Bureau of the Census under the auspices of the United States Chamber of Commerce, and a recent issue of "The Nation's Business" gives all the facts, after the figures collected had been completely assembled, analyzed. and recorded.
They went to work to discover r,r'hat the average $1,000 spent in the average city is exchanged for. And the figures given are the proportion that each item of expense grabbed out of the thousand.
Here are the conclusions:
The biggest finger in the pie is that of the food department. Out of every $1,000 spent, as shown in this survey, $275.42 went for eatables. Of this total, the grocer got $115, the restaurant $63, the retail meat man $40, fruits and vegetables got $8.56, dairy products got $16.80, the confectioner got $15.34, and the baker got $15.14.
Stores other than department stores came next on the list, grabbing $148.68 out of the average thousand. And the items were as follows: Men's clothing, $36.10; women's clothing, (this may be a surprise, being less than the previous item), $34.09; boots and shoes, $2I.67; drygoods and notions, $21.26; variety stores, $13.48; custom tailors, $9.96;
President Harry A. Lake of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association was the principal speaker at a joint meeting of the San Jose and Peninsula lumbermen and the Peninsula Hoo Hoo Club held at the Hotel Sainte Claire, San Jose, February B.
J. C. Ellis, Menlo Park, president of the Peninsula Hoo Hoo Club, presided at the meeting, which was held follorving dinner at 6:3O p.m.
R. F. Hammatt, secretary-manager of the California Redwood Association, returned to San Francisco, February 11, from a ten-day trip on association business.
millinery, $5.24; furs and fur clothing, $5.11;hats and caps, $r.77.
Then came the department stores, rvhich corral just $145.94 out of each average thousand spent.
Next comes the automotive industrv, which takes frour each thousand the public spends, a total of $117.06, divide<l as follows: Automobile agents, $69.92; gas and oil, $32.51; accessories, $14.63.
Please note that we spend nearly as much for auto accessories as we do for our bread and cake, etc., even thouglt we have to each of us eat several times daily.
Now here are some items that will interest the lumberman. Out of the average thousand come the follorving items:
Building rnaterials, $34.05.
Furniture and furnishings, $48.61.
Electric appliances, $8.99.
Plumbing and heating supplies, $7.95.
Paint and varnish, $4.O9.
Drug store, $36.m.
Hardware store, $19.36.
Cigar store, $11.88.
Stationer, $8.99.
Jeweler, $13.46.
Ice, coal and wood, $22.22.
There is plenty of food for thought, comparing a lot of these items. And there is still more food for thought in looking at these items from a merchandising viewpoint. This probably is the first time that such figures as these were ever secured, compiled and distributed.Now that rve know how much money we get, and horv much each of the others get, maybe there is something we can do about it.
H. R. Cozier, formerly of Arcadia, has been appointed manag'er of the Hull Bros. yard at Reseda. Carl Cooper will continue to have charge of the office.
Louis E. Sigur, assistant advertising manager of the Southern Pine Association, died suddenly at his home in New Orleans on January 31. He had been associated with the Southern Pine Association since Februarv 1919.
The Westwood Lumber Co., Wheeler, Ore., has resumed operation on a one-shift basis after being idle for several months.
No man is so poor or so busy that he can't b e k i n d and thoughtful to those with whom he comes in contact.
Harry A. Lake, President of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, and Walter Spicer, Director, visited lumbermen in the San Bernardino District on February 5. They also attended the meeting of the Pomona Valley Lumbermen's Club on the evening of February 5, when Mr. Lake talked on the activities of the Associati,on. Bob Witter presided at the meeting.
lj,4. C._ Bowers, Anaheim; Kenneth Smith, Secretary of the Lumber Dealers' Association of Los Angeles ,i, A. Nelson,-Portland, Oregon, manager of the de"partment of gadg! for the West Coast Lumbirmen,s Assoiiation; and Pr_e:idqn1 Harry A. T-ake, were speakers of the evening. 147 Iumbermen attended the meeting.
Mrs. J.E. Fraser
,n", ,n. Western Lumber Co. and the Superior Lumber Co., both of Sacramento, are new Association members. rf,l.*rf*
On Monday February 4, President Harry A. Lake and C. W. Pinkerton attended a meeting of about twenty Pasadena lumbermen. On January 21, they met with the Alhambra lumbermen.
At the meeting of the Northern San Diego County Lumbermen's Club on Monday, January 24, President Harry A. Lake and Walter Spicer, Director, were f;uests of the Club and addressed the meeting. President H. G. Larrick presided at the meeting.
At a lumbermen's meeting held at Glendale on January
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Trurcon l.A and 2-A ilctrl LtttFDsDocleuy r€commended for ono-slde plst€rlha on tn- terlors: €&slly b€ut or cut to lom; s&vo llms md m&terlsl. Tru$on Dhnond Lrthts Extrem€ly rldd; osslly bont, cut or fomed to mftt sDeclnc roquhemcDts.
Trutoon (3/8,, tnd 3/4..) Hy-Rtb ilrt l Lrthr (3/8")-tEmlts wldo 8prctng of 8tudg and aL€s chunols &nd wlrlna. AdsDtebl€ to Btucco Md plalter sork on celltnSs, Etr<htoway Irartltlon worh. (3,/4")-more thsn i metrl lath: ls s concrete €nlorceDent lor doors, rmls, tanks, €tc, Ef€cts largo s&vlng ln mat€rlal ud !&bor.
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Mrs. J. E. Fraser, Secretary of the Association, was a qu9.s-t and one of the speakers at the annual banquet of the California Fieldmen's Conference of the Northwestern Mu- tual Fir€ As-sociation and Northrvest Casualty Co. held at theHotel Whitcomb, San Francisco, on thi evenine of February 1. Mrs. Fraser spoke on Association work-and the affiliation of the two orglnizations.
The Santa Monica Lumbermen,s Clubmet at Santa Monica on January 28. A. J. Stoner, Vice president of the Association, presided at the meeting. president Harry A. Lake and tr. Steffenson, Secretary of tte Orange Colnty Lumbermen's Club, addressed thl meeting.
.President l{ltt_y.4 Lake and A. C. Bo*.rs were g.uests of the Imperial Valley_ Lumbermen's Club at their mieting at El Centro on Saturday, January 26.
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flarry A. Graham, H. A. Graham Lumber Co., Long Bdach, won the low gross prize at the Southern California Ltimbermen's Golf Tournament on Friday afternoon, Februbry 8, when he went round the sporty course of the Fox Hills Country Club with a gross score of. 75- Harry was suie shooting-he went out in 37 and came in with 38. He rvas awarded the Frank Curran Trophy.
Emil F. Swanson was the winner of the low net score and was awarded the Roy Stanton Trophy.
The winners of the Flight Events were as follows: First Flight, first prize, golf pants, Roy Stanton; second prize, golf sox, "Pick" Maule; Second Flight, first prize, sweate{, A. Ingvoldstad; second prize, sweater, Newman Bellis; Third Flight; first prize, golf club, Percy Dixon, second prize, golf cap, George Nicholson; Fourth Flight, first prize, golf sox, Johnny Truyens; second prize, golf sox, Ed. Martin.
78 golfers took part in the tournament.
At 6:3O P. M. dinner \t'as served in the Club House with about eighty lurirbermen present. Following the dinner, Cliff Laughlin acted as master of ceremonies. Roy Stanton, chairman of the prize committee, awarded the prizes to the winners.
Among those who took part in the tournament were: WP. Johnson, Ed. Culnan, John Olson, W. B. Wickersham' M. R. Gill, E. G. Betts Dick Loveday, Cliff Bergstrom, Harvey Bowles, L. A. Beckstrom, D. I\'IcCallum, Don Philips, Clint Laughlin, Glenn Fogelman, Bill Morrison, Russell 'Gheen, A. W. Koehl, Harry Vincent, Warren Wood, Art Penberthy, Paul Masters, T. B. Lawrence, E. RMaule, H. P. Dixon, C. F. Reeder, A' W. Donovan, Earl Johnson, J. L. Truyens, H. W. Swafford, E.M. Taenzer, Frank Kashier, G. W. MacCausland, C' C. Bohnhoff, Walter Riley, A. Ingvoldstad, Geo. Nicholson, "Pick" Maule,
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A most ambitious program was outlined for the year I9D at the California Fieldmen's Conference of the Northwestern Mutual Fire Association and the Northwest Casualty Co., held at the Hotel Whitcomb, San Francisco, January 31 and February 1.
oftice, presided, and he was follon'ed by T. C. Howay of the Northwest Casualty Co.
"Automobile lJnderwriting" was discussed by S. D. Peterson, superintendent of the Northwest Casualty Co.
A. Y. Baker, assistant to the president, was chairman of the Friday morning session, which was opened by a talk on "Appraisals and Depreciation" by W. C. Webb, vicepresident of the General Appraisal Co., San Francisco.
Fred R. Boynton, claims attorney, talked on "Automobile Claim Adjustments,"
W. F. Snyder, manager of the San Francisco office, presided at the Thursday morning session.
Ed. Rainey, private secretary to Mayor Rolph of San Francisco, welcomed the delegates in the unavoidable absence of the mayor, the response being made by F. J. Martin, Seattle, president of the Northwestern Mutual Fire Association.
J. H. Edwards, vice-president and treasurer of the association, presented the financial statement as of December 3L,1928.
J. J. Beall, assistant secretary, spoke on the subject of "Our Eastern Affiliations."
President F. J. Martin was the next speaker, taking as his subject, "Growth ofOur Organization in 1928."
Coleman Cox was the first speaker at the afternoon session, at which A. C. Baker, manager of the Los Angeles
Michael Orban, pioneer Southern California lumberman arrd:philanthropist, recently died at his home in Whittier. At one time, he was the owner of the Whittier Lumber Co, Mr. Orban was a brother of the late Peter Orban, who operated the Orban Lumber Co. at Fasadena, and an uncle oi Paul Orban, who now runs the Pasadena yard. He was also a father-in-law of George Melville, who is associated with A. L. Hoover.
A large number of lumbermen attended the funeral services which were held at Whittier.
A. Y. Baker closed the morning session with a "Prospective Progress in California in I9D."
The Friday afternoon session was devoted to a
talk on special and a general hazard group meeting.
The banouet was held in the Rool The banquet Roof Garden of the hotel at 7 p.m. This was a very enjoyable afrair, there being an attendance of 7Q including the wives of some of the officers and fieldmen of the association, and a few guests.
Joe Mayers of the San Francisco office acted as toastmaster.
President F. J. Martin in closing a brief and witty speech made a few serious remarks in which he referred to the val' ue of men getting together and becoming better acquainted' He also advised his hearers to cultivate a sense of humor, telling them that a salesman who takes himself too seriously is not likely to be taken seriously by aryone else.-_ -
Mrs. J. E. Fraser, secretary of the California Retail Lumberments Association, assured the gathering that her association will co-operate to the fullest extent with the Northwestern Mutual Fire Association.
Other speakers were J' H. Edwards, treasurer; A, C. Baker, manager of the Los Angeles office; Anderson Sorenson, Fresno, and W. F. SnYder.
Mrs. F. j. Martin received a lot of apqlause for the recitation of a ciever poem describing her trip south from Seattle in a blinding snowstorm.
Mrs. W. F. Snyder was also warmly applauded for her rendering of Kipling's "If'"
A seri-es of s6ngJ rendered byMr. I\{ills completed the entertainment Program.
A. B. Hammond, president of the Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco, is now in Los Angeles, looking over the company's proPerties.
Earl E. Bowe, manager of the Los Angeles office of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association was a recent visitor in San Francisco, where he spent a few days conferring with officials of the Western Division office'
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Walter J. Best, Gene DeArmond, M. B. Jordan, C. A. Suiter, W. R. Vanderwood, Homer Ward, Alton Clark, Stuart C. Smith, E. P. Smith, Chas. Jayred, Norman Bellis, A. C. Merryman, H. A. Graham, Ed. Seward, C. E. Muller, Fred Yost, Frank Burnaby, Gus Hoover, W. G. Hamilton, Geo. Stewart, Emil Srvanson, Bob Osgood, John }ferring, T. B. Hatton, Fred Golding, Ed. Houghton, Roy Meyers, Howard Shippe, Ifenry Pries, Ed. Reitz, H. A. Gieb, E. L. Thomas, W. G. Newmyer, V. Leonard, Percy Youst. "Cap"Harris, Geo. Lockwood, Roy Stanton, Paul Hill and Ed. Martin.
The tournament was sponsored by the Los Angeles Hoo Hoo Club. The committee in charge of the tournament included: Max Landram, chairman; Handicaps and Starting, W. R. Vanderwood; Prizes, Roy Stanton; Publicity, Ed. Martin; Secretary-Treasurer, Mel Coe.
A well known preacher volunteered to preach a Sunday morning sermon to the inmates of a big insane asylum in his neighborhood. His offer was accepted, and he talked on the Scripture to several hundred unfortunate inmates.
One of the listeners showed unusual interest throughout the discourse. His eyes were fixed on the speaker at all times, his attention was vividly expressed, and his interest was too keen to be misunderstood. The speaker noticed him particularly throughout the discourse, and he noted also that just at the close of the sernon this, man turned to the asylum superintendent who stood near him and
Cargo shipments of lumber from Portland during 1928 totaled 715,882,000 feet, an increase of. 144,250,561 feet over the l9?.7 total, and said to be the largest amount of lumber ever shipped by water from this port in any year of the port's history.
talked to him earnestly for a moment, evidently on the subject at hand.
When he had opportunity the preacher asked the superintendent what the man had said. "I am naturally greatly interested in discovering the reaction of these unfortunate people to my talk on the Scripture, and that man very evidently said something to you about it. I would very much like to knpw what he said."
"He said," declared the superintendent, reluctantly, " 'This is a Hell of a world; I'm locked up and that guy is running loose."'
JOEJoe Steel, representative of the Moore Dry Kiln Co., North Portland, Ore., was a recent visitor to California, making a survey of prospective dry kiln business in the San Francisco Bay District and Northern California. While in the Bay District he conferred with the company's California representative, I{. D. Parsell.
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'lVhen FIRE begins to fiddle and the fames begin 1s flangs-what then? However careful you may be, you cannot make your plant absolutely immune to fire. You can prevent three outoffour fires by the elimination of fire causes, but the time may come when FIRE will slip in and tune up his fiddle.
Believin-g in prevention first, we cooperate with policyholders to ,eliminate fire risks a_nd prevent loss. But if FIRE dops break throughand takes his toll, our resources and reputation guarantee fair adjustments and prompt payment of losses.Our poli_ cies are designed-by,lumbermen to give the hrghest degree of protection possible to the Iumber rndustrv.
Asft any of our companies about lhe protection provided uniler our policies and our fire prevention serr_ ice, and the saving in insurance cost effecteil by our dividends.
Above is shorvn a new and elaborate Clean Up and Paint Up Window Display, made by the silk screen process in eleven colors of .brilliant oil paint, Lor l9D'
The display, which was designed by C' E' Millard, one of America's foremost poster artists, shows painters at work, both outside and inside the house, and on an -automobiie. A carpenter is shown atwork on the roof, and gardening is suggested by the young woman with a trowel' ihe lett"ering -s"uggests - painting, repairing, remodeling, planting, and beautification. '
Tn. Ei.pfay, which is approximately 54 in. wide and 351
M. J. ("Ben") Byrnes, sales malag-er of Foster Bros', lnct San'Francisco,'feturned recently {rom-a trip.to Portland, where he conferred with C. H. Fisher, who is in charge of the firm's office in that city.
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H;;t Kirchman, Kirchman Hardwood Co', .San Francisco, was a fecent Los Angeles vi-sitor where he spent a i;;1"tt attending to compiny business affairs and calling on his hardrvood friends. i
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Y A train offorty cars loaded with Douglas Fir plywood pulled out of the Northern Pacific Ylrds at Auburn (Wqsh.) on Saturday, February second. The train was headed by the new super Mallet Type Locomqtive No. 4013 used exclusively on the Northern- Pacific's mountain divislon.
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Th-e entire shipment of 4O cars of Douglas Fir plywood Pgqgl: was consigned to the R. C. Clark Veneer Company of Chicago, one of the leading Plywood Distributors o? the country.
Approximately two million square feet of plywood panels were necess-ary to complete the shipment, the largest single sh,iprnent of Douglas Fir Plywood ever sent fro-m the Facific Northwest.
. The plywood in this record breaking shipment will find its .way 1nt9 -pany_ different articles. -In industrial plants and in Building Operations there are countless uies in which Douglas .Fir Plywood is practically indispensable. 4 few of the principal uses are: Auto.Floor Boaids, Auto Trunkq, Book Cases, Boxes, Breakfast Nooks, Built-in Features, Cabinets of all kinds, Card Tables, Cupboards, Draw-
.Ih. State Highway_ Department are constructing a bridge across Indian Creek, Plumas County, which will have two ll4foot timber trusses and the -approaches a cord of trusses made up of timbers 6 inches by i6 feet, the longest m-ember which will be 58 feet in iength. The blidge^y_il,l-be constructed of redwood and will require about 200,000 board feet.
er Bottoms and Sides, Door Panels, lfardwood Panel Cores, Ice Cream Cabinets, Ironing Boards, Magazine Racks, Ma-nual Training Uses, Mirrol Backs, Novelty Furniture, Office Furniture, Office Partitions, Packing eases, Show Cases, Stgrs, SJore Fixtures, Table Tops, Toy Fuiniture, Trunks, Wall Insulation, Wall Paneling, Wali Sheathing. The smooth and efficient handling of this huge order biy the Douglas Fir Plywood Mills of the Pacific N-orthwest is one of the outstanding features of this shipment of Plywood.
Handled by a number of the Douglas Fir Plywood mills in their regular run of business, these forty carJof Plywood were out on schedule time. The fact that this huge order of two million square feet of Douglas Fir Plywood was produced and furnished without any delays is a testimonial to the ability and capacity of the Douglai Fir Plywood Industry of the Pacific Northwest.
The R. C. Clark Veneer Company are in a position to fill any -conceivable order for Douglas Fir Plyirood, their usually-large stocks being greatly increased by this mammoth shipment.
rhe Evans Ar," Y3**? H"$:'y, Inc., Marshfield, Oregon, is making extensive lmprovements in their battery separator plant and is installing seven new Moore Veneer kilns. They are enlarging their-factory space and will double their capacity after present impiovements are completed.
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Doctor Brown sent a bill for ten dollars to the terrible tempered Mr. Bangs. The bill lssd-"Jq services, $10."
Bangs in a fury rushed to the doctor's office and shouted, "You're a robber. Think of it. Five doll.ars a visit. ft isn't worth it."
Doc Brown re-wrote the bill and sent it this way: Togetting out of bed at two A.M.; answering phone; disturbing wife; dressing; going to garage; cranking tin Lizziei two-mile drive in cold; saving baby's life; return to garage; waking wife; undressing; getting back into bed-$10.00.
The next day Bangs paid the ten dollars with humble apologies.
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"It's the bumps you get and the jolts you get' And the shobks'that your courage stands, The hours of sorrow and vain regret, The prizes that escape your hands' That test your mettle and prove your worth; It isn't the blqws you deal, But the blows you talie on this good old earth That shows if your stuff is real."
"The old-fashioned girl sure knew how to get a dinner."
"So does the modern girl; but she uses a different method."
Able administrators, skilled workers, professional and moral leaders, cannot be made by birthormoney. They cannot be selected by divine right or through bureaucracy' Nor can their ranks be filled froma limited class. Our leadership can be found and it will be sympathetic to our ideals if we maintain the decency and dignity of family life; if we maintain for every individual an equality of opportunity to attain that position in the community to which his character and his ability entitle him; if we maintain free and universal. education. Then our supply of leadership will stream forward on its own impulse.-Herbert }loover'
Aunt Lucy was the new cook. The first day she was in the house the brother of the mistress of the house dropped in for a few minutes' visit between trains, and the short meeting betweetl brother and sister was very affectionate' When he left the lady said to Aunt Lucy:
"You can't guess who that was."
"No'm," said Aunt Lucy, "lessen hit was yo' pastor"'
A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, the hero-the wise, the good or the great man-very often lies hid and concealed i4 a plebeian, which a proPer education might have disinterred and brought to light.
Mother's in the kitchen
Washing out the jugs, Sister's in the pantry
Bottling up the suds; Father's in the cellar
Mixing up the hops; Johnny's on the front stePs, Watching for the coPs.
The Boss: "Johnnie, I like thrifty boys, and I hope that you save half what You earn?"
Office Boy: '1I can't do that. I don't get that much'"
Washington, Jan. 31.-In two radio addresses to be delivered over nationwide broadcasting hook-ups, Dr. Julius Klein, Director of the Bureau of Foreign ind Dorirestic Commerce of the U. S. Department of C-ommerce, and an internationally recognized authority on commercial economics, will place before the public- some of the wastes in wood utilization that indirectly or directly account for the economic difficulties hindering re-planting and re-growing of our forests on a wider scale by those rihose main inter-est in forest products is naturally of a commercial character. These talks will be delivered ai 7:45 p. M. Eastern Standard Time, Febr-uary 2 and February 9, respectively, over 29 stations located in various sectioni of the countrv.
. Cellized, Inc., C. .Arthur Bruce, president, has joined those participating in financial support of the National Lumber Manufacturing Association -'.lrade Extension Cam- p.aign, -Cellized, Inc., a company controlling a process for chemically_ treated wood flooiings, is compoied of th. T.rrnessee Oak Flooring Company, Long-Bell Lumber Compgny, 9. I.._ Bruce Co., Arkansas Oaf Flooring Company, Nashville Hardwood^Flooring Company and The nrlattiy Lumber Company. Of these membir firms the Long-Befl r,umber Company and the Bradley Lumber Compan"y are already subscribers. This acquisiiion to Trade Extension meals th1.t_four$ew companieS-E. L. Bruce Co., Tennessee. Oak Floor{rS- C_o., Nishville Hardwood Flooring Co., and Arkansas Oak Flooring Co.-have been added io thi Trade Extension column.
_ After undergoing annual_repairs the milt of the Goodyear Redwood Lumber Co. at Elk,-Mendocino County, will ;ta;i up February 15.. Arrangements are now being made to enter the coastwise trade again at an early date."
The company's San Francisco office is at ffi2 Matson Building, and is in charge of Norman T. Schmalholz. Tele_ phone numlter is Davenport 0890.
. Call J._ Hanson has been appointed representative for the Sun Lumber Co. in the Sinta Monica District. Mr. Hanson is well known to the lumbermen of Southern Cali- fornia and tvas formerly manag'er of the Santa Monica branch of the Patten & Davies Lumber Co. lle was con_ nected with the Patten & Davies Lumber Co. for fifteen years.
The Sun Lumber Co. of Beverly Hills, under the man_ agement of Frank Burnaby, also operate yards at Ventura and Oxnard.
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(From a lecture on "Inspiration" by the late Robert G. Ingersoll)
"Once in my life I heard Horace Greeley deliver a lecture. I think the title was, "Across The Continent". At last he reached the mammoth trees of California, and I thought, "flere is an opportunity for the old. man to indulge his fanpy. Ilere are trees that have outlived a thousand human governmentsi There are limbs above his head, older than the pyramids. While man was emerging from barbarism to something like civilization, these trees were growiirg. Older than history, every one appeared to be a memory' a witness, a prophecy. The same wind that filled the sails of the Argonauts, has swayed these trees". But these trees said nothing of the kind toMr. Greeley. Upon these subjects not a word was told by him' He remarked: 'One of these trees, sawed into inch boards, would make more.than three hundred thousan:d feet of lumber'."
The Alley Bros. Lumber Co., who recently sold their yards at Beil and Van Nuys, will continue to operate their vard at North Hollywood. Through an error in the last issue, it stated that ihey had also sold their yard at North Hollvwood.
Col. William H. Sullivan, vice-president and general manager of the Great Southern Lumber Company, 13ogalusa, La., cliecl suddenly follor'ving a heart-attack, Saitrrday, January 26, at his 'home in that city. He rvas one of tn. pto-i"ent lumbermen of the country,- active notonlyin'lumber afiairs but in ,many other industrial ventures as well as in civic matters.
Col. Sullivan was 64 years old, a native of Canada, he came to the United States when a young man and became associated with the Goodyear interests' working in Pennsylvania, Florida and finally in Louisiana' As the representitive of " gto,tp of Eastern capitalists, he built the first mill at Bogalusa some 22 Years ago.
In connition rvith the milling plant which has developed into one of the largest in the country, he laid plans for the establishment of i lumber community, which has grown to a city of 18,000 population. Not on-ly did he develop 1 big lumber cutting-enterprise, but undertook the work of ref"orestation, and ivas one of the pioneers irr this field'
Last vear. in association with the Finkbine-Guild interests, he'launched the plan for bringing California Redwood logs to Louisiana for manufacturing and-the first op-eration in"this field was started last month. His wife, who was Miss Ella Rose Salmen, preceded him in death last December. Two children survive.
Speculation as to the policy of the pioneer paper Com_ pany- of Los Angeles fofiowing announcement of'G ;;ra_ nership arrangem_ent rvith thi Flintkote group of ;;;_ panies and the Shell Oil Company, has bien iet at rest by an official announcement isiued by the pioneer com_ pany.
There will be no change in personnel, according to the a,nnouncement, and the same policies that have furthered llg^nrogress of the -organizaiion since its inception in 1888 will continue in forie.
Willis G. Hunt, qre91de1t; H. M. Eichelberger, secre- tary-treasurer, and J. H. Plunkett, general manager, will continue to. guide the destinies of the newly stren"gthened concern, withMr. Plunkett in executiv" cliurge of"opera_ tions and sales organization, it was declared ln the tom_ munication issued by the company. . Several new products will be marketed as a result of the increased.plant_facilities and new sources of raw material, it rvas said. These will include a new copper-clad shingle a-nd-a tapered butt shingle, thelatter o?'which gives- a shadow line and texture to roofs long clesired in "compo_ sition roofing by builders.
Because of the far-reaching resources and added laborajgry _an{ research fl!.ilities acquired through its partner- ship deal with the Flintkote ind Shell c"ompanies, the Pioneer organization now stands out as orr" of the lare_ est and best eq.uipped roofing manufacturing organizatiois rvest of the Mississippi.
With the ambitious prog.ram of expansion and increased production now well on its rvay fonvircl. the companv bids fair to surpass its -record. of the year just past, which was the most successful and profitible iince' the company;s founding, officials said.
Fred A. Hart, 61,_pioneer lumberman of the northwest, died at his home in Portland, January 25, a f.ew hours aftei suffering a stroke of apoplexy.
He was born at Woodstock, Ill., and came rvest in 1g90 rvhen he joined the office force of the Wilson Brothers _Lyq!.1-9o., at Aberdeen, Wn. In 1904 he organized rvith W. H. Wood the Hart-Wood Lumber Co., wliich operates a mill at Raymond, 'Wn., and a fleet of seven stiamers plying betrveen Oregon, Washington, British Columbia ancl Califgrnia ports, engaged principally in the lumber trade. At the time of his death, Mr. Hari was manager of the Portland office of the company.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Clara Hart: a soll. William, and two daughters, Phyllis ancl Ina Clare.
A. B. Grlt*rchcr
Hwerd M. Gutm
& GUNTON Wholerderr
112 Market St" - San Francisco
Tclcphonc Sutter ?{199
Dougler Fir - Sprucc - Rcdwood
Rcdwood aad Ccdar Shinglcr
Fir Piling - C€dar poru
Split Rcdwood productr
Agcnt!: A. F. Cote Lunbar Co Tlllanoo}, On3m
In"Robbins" Flooring you are assured of the very finejt that has ever been, or ever will be produced. O u_r geographical lo"ation, the modern machinery in our mill, and the type of men who make' our flooring, all go to make this state- menlpo:rilJu. "Robbins" Maple and Birch Flooring is the best.
Southcra Califorair
C. J. LAUGHUN
535-0 Pctrolcunr Sccuriticr Bldr. Lor Angclcr
WErtrnorc 9g5S
Northcrn Crlifornir:
GEORGE C. CORNTTIUS
Mcrchentr E:che-a3o Bld3o
Srn Freacirco
Manufacturerc of Douglas Fir and Port Orford Cedar
.Sarrmills, Marshfield, Oregon
Distributing Plant - Bay Point
Annual Production
200,0fi),00o Feet
GENERAL SALES OFFICE
BayPoint, Cal.
San Francisco Sales Oftce
905 Balfour BIdg.
Loe Angelee Ofrce, #"ft:'."BTj:
During the rvar, rvhen it r,vas difficult to obtain steel castings- fr.om the East, the company with which I am con_ nected built its own electric furnices from specifi"ution, furnished by the Vonbaur Company. In this iy; ;h;A: rect arc with a non-conducting heaith is used; *e employ three-phalg al ternating current-three carbons .r, t. ri' J ti'. furnace. The larger. (3-ton) furnace is provideJ-;i;i; ;r;: mauc regutatron ot the arc; the smaller (Ifu_ton) furnace. is hand regulated.
which we must consider to insure good castings. They are -the carbon, the manganese and ihe silicon. -Srfof,"i ""J ph-osphorous-the two most undesirable
;;; affected by refining and need not be considered, .. tnly "r" taken care of automatically, as mentioned before, Since the oxygen is introduced as rust or scale of the scrap iron used, and later as bre, the silicon
-
Th: electric process ofiers several distinct advantages:_ It is flexible and is very weil suited for the manufactirre of castings. The temperature can be controlled within close lrmrts. 'I'he deoxidation and reduction can be as thorough as desired and phosphorus and sulphur can be eliminat-ed
ganese.upox being oxidized become manganese silicate and enter the slag. The carbon is oxidizecl tJ carbon monoxide and esca.pes as .a -gas. The deoxidizing process does not nave to be carrred to such a final degree in the acid type furnace. The iron oxide is lowered to i'point *n.r. ;l--JJt. practical conditions. The deoxidizing agents used are man- g'an€se in the form of ferro mangane-se isilico" i" trt" roi* of ferro silicon; and carbon titaiium, which i, ; p;;p*;; compound. By using the latter instead of pure "lu-irro* we find the physical properties greatly improved_t";;il; strength as well as elongation and reduitiori in area.
The silicon should bi- added first, well before iap, and the manganese later. , Silicon is not only a dec,xidizer'bui it is efficient as a degasifier.
As refractory materials we now use vitrified briik (for_ merly used silica brick) for the roof and the siae waii;-uil;;" the slag line. Below the slag line we use silica brick and silica sand sintered by the electric arc. We nna th;i ih; p.urchase of the best r-efractory materials is the .fr."p..t in the) end.
We pay the utmost attention to the raw material which rve _purchase and we_-only use scrap of a predet;r;i;;J analy,sis. Rust is eliminated, rvheie .*."r.i,,r., itrr.rgf, tumbling.
as completely as necessary. In the acid process the phos_ phorus is controlled by purchasing. scrap oi f.""*" ifr"._ phorus content while deoiidation iridures desulphurizri"": Electrically- produced steel has great density^ and ."" -ir. made free from blow holes, from slag and iro"t .oiUeJ S.asgs; it .is strong, jgugn and ductile]To produce ,i.f."l steel castings, th-e nickel alloy is added direc'tly to the bath betore it is transferred into the ladle.
Due to the {ow cost of the electric current on the pacific Coast, the cost for small furnaces,is very lorv i"d";;.- ii-i;; holever, necessary_ that the man in chaige have a thorough Knotvledge ot the electric furnace method. In order to pr-o_ duce good sound steel it is a-bsolutely necessary that the metal does not contain-impurities, o*ide, or gases.
For the production of caitings the electric p-ro..r, offers great- advantages because a hi[h temperature is easily ob_ tainable and this rvill reduce the ..i"p to., ."."""i.."a with.other systems and the furnace -uy ir. ,ir"d fo. tir-.-prl- duction of both iron and steel castings. A trot m;i"i'i; ;i; necessary.to run thin sections rvhen outlines must be sharp. ly maintained.
rn the acid proceslif#'f.::".:iil onry three elements.
*See "The Manufacture of Electric Steel,'by Frank T. Sisco.
When we first started,td p,roduce axleiousings for our six-rvheel trucks, several diificulties wer. en.orintered; I will mention them for the benefit of others rrt o -"y *i.h to_produce complicated castings.
11. th9 first samples which -were made like those shown rn .trg. l. rve found sh-rinking cracks in the corners at a, b and at c. These cracks developed because of the gr""i", mass of metal at these points, *hich adversely affectEd uni_ formcooling. To ovCrcome these the next step was to leave off the corners apd add extra metal to the ;;r".6 ;; shorvn F fig. 2, which rvere afterwards turned off. lo stitt more effectively eliminate cracks, metal chills (a) *.ie Ja_ ed, as shown, but at the present time metal chilli have been eliminated, and instead- a softer core is ur.a, -ti.fr-1, obtained by the employment of a softir binder for the sand. r. ne snrlnklng cracks at c were more difficult to overcome and we had to eliminate the circumferenlial rbr ""a-""ii longitudinal ribs, as shown at e. The .-itt ,i"g (;i b.'il-g attached to the ribs,.instead of to the outer ho-usi"'g, ;;;: not influence the shrinkage of the housing and therEiore a sound casting is produced free from cruJks. fhe iing i, necessary.to support the end of the chrome nickel sieel tube whrch supports the wheel bearings.
,tn l!.r. 5.aslinSs.we use about .3 to:31 of carbon, l/o ot nrckel is added to the bath. As soon as these castings are poured they are withdrarvn from the mold (the.""r"L;"t
(Continued on page 49.)
This close-up of a distinctive banking room fixture in the quarters of the canadian Bank of commerce, san Francisco, california, "-ph"ri"", the superb beauty and charm of fine woodwork' Done in the Gothic style, of Black Walnut throughout, its skillfullli matched panels,,exguisite mullion treatment and carved cornice and perfect execution of each detail, leave nothing to be desired. Fixture contract and installation complete by Pacific Manufacturing company, Santa Clara; Lewis P. Hobart, San Francisco, Architect'
Recently Adopted bythe WEST COAST LUMBERMEN'S ASSOCIATION
The Howard Manufacturing Company, formerly located at Seattl-e, Washington. .is m"oving io ih.i, ".*'pf""l "i Kent.. Washington. tllis.o-p"iy is a pioneer' in the manufacture of household wooden ware, having n."" .rI tablished for trventy.-four years and now .arrL. al ifr. l"rg est manufacturer of this special line west of the Missi!_ sippi River- This plant spicializes in the manufacture of wash boards, ironing boards, and other household articles emptoytng. sttka Spfuce.
The new plant ,it Kent will be modern in every detail 1'd t.h... compa-ny is installing a Moore Reve,rsible Internal -ran krtn ot the Cross Circulation type for drying their factory lumber. This will be a sinft'e track kitn"of the charge.type equipped with alt the latEst automatic devices Ior m-arntatnlng proper drying conditions within the kiln. lhe.loads. are piled with the boa,rds being stacked edge to edge, eliminating vertical flues.
_ A._E. Edgecomb, Philadelphia, presiclent of the Insular I- umber Co., was a Los Angeles visitor around the first of the month where he spent i few days. He confer.rea w;ttr officials of the Western Hardwood iumber Co., who reDre_ sent the Insular Lumber Co. in the Southern Califoinl territory. Mr. Edgecomb was accompaniea ny n. J. O"r: :al, 5a1 Francrsco, head the lurnber department for the Robert Dollar Co.
The above illustration shorvs a special interior cloor *'ith insert sandb.lasted panels, specialll, designed ancl manufac_ tured by thiTgg. Lumbcr Company 6f Washingtnn. ot therr plant in Oakland. The u.ood used is Dorrgla-s Fir.
The Insular Lumber Co. are extensive operators in the lhilippine Islands, u'ith mill operations situated at Fabrica, Island of Negros Occidental.
J. A. PROUTY rN LOS ANGELES
J. A. Prouty of the prouty Lumber Company at Astoria. ()regon. has been spending'the past ..u.rit- #".t.i;'i;. .;\ngeles.
7th Floor, Alaska-Commercial BIdg.
3lO Sancome St. San Francirco
Abcrden l.ggbc-r & "t"fnotdlt^oerdeen. wash.
Amcrim _Mlll_ Co., Aberileen, ffastr. ---- " -"*
F."llXf "r"ri%1"'.ifl .ilff 'b,!:''Hoquiam,wasb
Raymond Lumbcr Co., Riymond, Wash. ff",itlr?ii."*,T#H.;.$:xith B-Jii, was u
kwtr _Mills & Tlmbcr Co-'South Bend, Wash.
J.A.l*wic Shtn3lc Co., SoutU Send:-iva"t"
Edna
Carmcl
Raymond
Santiam
Grayc Harlrcr
Edna Chrlctenson
610 Arctie-Club Bldg. 509 Edwerdr & Witdey Bldg. Sarttlc Lor Angclcr
STEAMERS
Janc Chrlstcnson
Annlc Chricteneo
Edwin Chrlgtencon
Cathcrbc G. Sudder
Elcanor Cbrlstensoo
Charlir Cbrittcnh
tOl Portcr Bldg. Portland
.,\n example of a rrrites nray lte founcl \\'hittier, Calif. Mr.
honre Drotectecl frorrr tlan"rage lly terin thai o{ C. \\'- Pinkerton's l-rome ir.r Pinkerton is Secretary' arrcl N[anager
u,itl-r a hot br[sh coat of ccial-tar creosote. A sinlilar method ,uu. "-ployed in erecting the piers anrl pier-foundations' All loose rvoocl u'as r..itot..i from the ground inside and outside the foundation. Numerous air vents in the iotltldaii"tt ..oLf. provi<le circulation and llrevent dead air' tincler the front entrance hall cross air ventilation is afforded.
0f the whittier l-umlter company and Nell known to the trade on the West Coast.
lVt-,"r, he clecidecl to ltuilcl hirnself a llew home last year, \1r. Pinkertor.r incluclecl in the hottse lllan features $'hich u'oulcl prevent tertnite inf estation' The accon-rpanying fh.togt';phs shorv clearly horv tlrjs lvas accomplishecl' The cost was so negligible that I\Ir' Pinkerton has not considered it as an added cost'
The llome is a tr'vo-story rvood-fratlrecl l;uilcling' Roofing anrl siding are rvood
A deeli concrete foundation rvas rnade' Bets'een the f.runaati6n ancl the rvood sill a strip of galvanized iron rvas r"ii ..ttpf"tely around the house' The strip.lapped. over lr-l" ir.la'" .uuil of the foundation for trvo inches and rvas ;;;i(l;.;;l at a forty-five clegree angle' The sill rvas treated
I?eor f orclt' slrcwing air '"'ent. Crcosoted sills and m'etal shields '*rrt uti'd orr, concrete foundatiott' of steps'
Luraber Mill Work
Sarh & Doore
Naile
Roofing Cement
Plaeter
Wall Board
Everything in thc Building Line
Crtrncr of fou,datio, structurc shozving crca, grouud,. Cresotcd. silr.r and nctol shields arc u.sed.hcrc. ,,\'ott largc"ofening;,, ,o,iiir-" f oundotion tvull whiclr clirninatcs deoti air --rrrn... '
This part of the f'u'clation ofte' is neglectecl i, this resl)ect in many homes.
. Py9" the rear por-ch s'as insulated lry the use of metal shields, creosoted sills arr<l air r.ents.
Shrubbery arouncl tl.re home rvas carefully placed ap_ Proximately tu'. feet from the four.rclati.n rvali. (]rouncl rear the-rvall is.kept clear of growth. This afforrls acreclrrate light ancl thus dryness close to the rvall.
In the "Terrnite l)an.rage pre'enti.n" bookret. Published
is one of the many advantages of mechanical lumberpiling. Fligher piles dry quickcr and better than the low piles stacked by hand.
Other advantages of using the
(Pat'd. U. S. and Caada) arc prevention of damage to lumber in piling and unpil- ing; reduced labor cost; increased yard capacity; shortened haul; reduced upkeep of alleys; saving in pile bases and roof boards, etc.
Modernize your yard. rnyesttgate- mechmical piling. Jend lor lwticulus_
MUrry J ac0 Ds l, o.
Distributors
528 Firat Ave. So, - Seattla Portlud Su Frud*o
Lc Angcler New Orleus
Manufactured by Johnrm Mf3. Co. Seattle, Wa3h.
by the National Lurnber N[a'ufacturers Association, it states "Timber or llmlter. can be fully protected if it is properly in_sulated frortr the earth by rock, concrete, or brick fotrnclations made rvith standard grud.. of mortor-, ar-rd if n.retal shielrls are put on to shut 6ff p".r"g. tulles. Timber ca' be 'sed e'en for founclations, if .oul_iu, .."i,_ sote is forced into the rvoocl.,'
"If
1'ou are livingin a region rvhere termites are foun<l and yorlr house is ltuilt in ggch a way that termites can get i', then they very likely rvill. It r,von,t clo to use untreated u'oocl in basements, or {or the founclations of buildings, be_ canse these are the places rvhere termite clamage iJ rnost lrkely to start."
A.ny office of the National Lrrrrber Manufacturers Asso_ ciatio' *'i11 send a copy of the Termite l)amage preventio' bo.oklet on request to iny one interestecl. ThJ booklet con_ tains valuable information on'termites, hor,v to *rake builcl- ings termite--proof, and .lvhat to clo if you ha'e a strtrcture n'hich is infestecl rvith termites.
, NEW HEIR ARRIVES IN
i ,/ A daughter. Geuer-ieve Ann, arrived at the home of Nlr. Qf an<l Xf rs. Kenneth Shipp of Oaklancl, on Thursclay, l-ebruary 7. Mr. Shipp is manager of the California lluilclers' Suppl-v Co. of Oakland, rvhich is a <livision of the pacific Door & Sash Co. of Los Angeles.
X'[rs. Shil>p is the daughter of E,. A. Nicholsor.r of Los Angeles, general managef of the pacific Door & Sash Co. "Tat" Nicholson, director of publicitv for the company, is a brother of N{rs. Shipp ancl he l.ras been very busy during the_ past rveek announcing to his many lumbermen friends in Los Angeles that l-re his become an tu.rcle.
Any old band aaw vion't do-that ie, if you want to hold production and keep down your operating cortr.
To rccure amooth, fart cutting try SIMONDS NARROW BANDS. They are wear.reeirting rteel, made jurt for SIMONDS-Ihe bladee that give bettcr rcrvice.
You'll bc pleaeed when you ree a Simonds operate.
"The Saw Mekcrr"
Another important addition to Los Angeles' T""oJ3:l-il: ing industr;es'has just been made by the- completlon ot tnelr ;;-; $ipOO,ooo i..toty in the Ceniral.ManufacturingJisir;.t,ly the Truscon Steel Companv o.f Young:l?yi'.O"lf?
Occupying a tract of approximately ten acres at )4du East Slalsoi Avenue, the p-lant is one of the most pretenti""t ""a modern on the Pacific Coast' Yt' J'^ E' Heber' ."ftt ft"t been in charge of the company's Los Angeles otfi." to, the past twe'nty-one- yeari, has been made vice pr.ria"r,tin &arge of the enlaiged local organization' ' The plans of the company and work on the new factorY have
beencarried on so auietly that comParativelv' few of our Southern California citizens, business and professional men are vet alvare of the existence of this great addition to Los Angeles industry which ilready is a big factor in the progress of the entire rvest coast.
While several morc additions to the Present olant are to lle
the most important of the rnanufacturins departments are no* co*pleted and on. production' gJtween 150 and 200 people already are steadtly employeq' u"i ttt" annual p"y toil on the preient-schedule of producli."
"*..t'. 6f " quarter ofa million dollars' Ample acrease has been acquired to make whatever additions to ;;;;?;.i;tg ""a rJarehousing facilities that future busi;;;;;; .h. P'acific Coast mav iequire' It is estimated that .riitti"'"-p"tiJ of just a few yeais the Los Angeles plant will represent an tnvestment- of tu'o million dollars' all
fit'a.t.ed by the parent companv at Youngstown.
Production of the plant at this tin-re is confined to a complete line of rnetal lath and metal lath products' cons:sting of Diamond, Double-Mesh Herringbone' and ''A" Metai I-ath; Self-Furring Lath; Truscon Hy-Rib Metal I.ath ; Truscon Expancled Corner Beads; Truscon Rib St."i'C"t""r Beadsl Truscon Square Channels; Truscon Lt*"tit.; Truscon Strip-ite; steel windows; casement t-ash;;;i;i"rcing bats; und b"t joists' Additional products
ART PENBERTHY BACK FROM NORTHWEST
A;i P;"b;tihy, Los Angeles representative for the Defr;; L"*U"t Co*paty, recently returned from a ten-day Irip t" the company's mill at Tacoma, Washington'
P. C. McNEVINVISITS LOS ANGELES
P. C. ;'i"t";- M.Nevin, General Sales Manager of .the p".in. l"*ber Company, has returned to San Francisco rfi., ,p.ttaing a *..k itt Los Angeles; Mrs' McNevin accompanied him on the triP'
will be added to the present schedule of operations.as ra.pidlv as possible, untilwithin a reasonably' short tlme .thc tocal plant will be producing. practically the complet"- 'l:t: of Truscon Permanent Building Products on a.large scate' --sufdcient warehouse facilitieJ have been provided t9 get. mit carrving large stocks of those products, fabrlcated at V;;;;;i;;i, ."hlch will not be add-ed to the local producti"" r?ft.Jtt". Large stocks of these commodities already ;; ;; ltttta, no*Juer' so that even- nowthe complete i*r.on line is available to the ""ttfii:ti$fu of the ir,r-
around one million dollars a Year
materials alone. "';F;;;;;t
portance of this inrlustrialunit to Los Angeles and vicinitY can be better apPreciated when it is realized that the company buys all Possible raw materlal lronl which Truscon Products are fabricated from local manufac' facturers.This item now amounts to aPproximately t h..r.e e quarters of a mlllloll dollars a vear, making a total disbursement locallY ot for pay roll and ra'r.v
to building the local factorv, about 85 p9I c-elt oi it. reventle of oui local office went east," said Mr' H.;;; *h"., it t.tniewed recently' "Now the conditions are reversed ancl we are buying ali our rarv material localll" ;.;;;L"lttt"ittittg out o*i payrolls;-and we are collectins.-banLing and"putting back into local circulation all ;;;;'J;;ii"a rioln the"production of our Los Angeles i;;;&. ..-i" "aa;tion, we are manufacturing^ a-ll prgducts for otir San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, ()akland' -Sacr.L."1.,-S"tt Lake City and El Pero branches, as well as itr"r" i"'"t1ter cities t.t'd to*tt. in Texas, Idaho, Utah and Wu"*ite. A11 the revenue derived from this qroduction i; i;;-;;t"ing back to Los Angeles to help p"v Lo.{ locallv ;;;"J rarv-materials and go into local pay roll'" ''ift. L"t Angeles factory of the Truscon Steel Complny is inla.t an oulstanding example of rnodern industrial effrciencv and progress, "tti tlt" --"tt"gt-"ttt extends a cordial i""iiatio" io rEsidents of the Southland to visit and inspect their plant and facilities at any time'
IACK REA VISITS BAY CITY -Southern
RAY COX VISITS LOS ANGELES
W. R. short busiFrancisco.
Rav B. Co*, ui""-president and general manager of the g"i#r"-i.i*tui. Co', Berkeley, retulned Febr-uary 11 from il;;-;;;i;.,-*rt"t.'he spent-a few days at the company's plant in-the Southern CitY.
(Continued from Page 43) removed).then_permitted to co_ol slowly. Afterwards they are annealed, the tem-perature being slowly raised (in foui hours) !o 162f oF. and they are kepf at this t.-p.."iore lo, two and one-half hours; then they are slowly cboled. The
The charge for the furnace is made up approximately of 7O/o of purchased scrap of known analysis, ctnsisting of punchings, plate, butt ends, I beams, or solid tire rims. The balance is the returns in the form of rejections, heads, gates and sculls or spills. About l0O pounds of metal from the previous heat is left in the furnace and the new charge put into it. This forms a solid gummy mass and gives im_ mediate electric contact and a ho1 "..-lit eliminate? the use of a starter such as coke. Some care is exercised i; ih; charging to elimiriate the necessity "i -""n p"[irrg-a"*" as the melt progresses.
, The.preliminary melting is done on high tap. To melt dorvn the charge usually takes about one hour. A sample rs taken and a color test is run to determine the preliminirv carbon content. The reading of a fracture in highty ;;fi;;a steel is rather uncertain andi small laboratory, "eqriipped to test the carbon by the color method, is recomme"aea.
tensile strength of the metal is approximately 120,000 pounds per square inch.
To produce these axle castings requires careful attention throughout th.e process. It neiessitates special cor.e mix_ tures, sand mixtures and careful rvorkrnanship in the pre_ parin-g of the mold. Th_e specifications for these castings call for metals of the follou,ing limit :-
Since low carbon steels are used as a base, the melt will. usually run lorv in carbon and-this, in one of iis many forms, is added. The immersion of the graphit. "tecttofes iuiii usually accomplish the desired result. Cast iron and pie ir91 may also be added if desired. Should the test .fr.-l I frigher carbon content than specified, a high gr.a", .i"o", hard hemitite, lorv phosphoruJ iron ore is a?det to brine ii down. The ore is added i' small q'antities until the desirecl specification is reachecl. The bafh is then. brought.to the pouring temperature and tests made of the metil and the slag to ascertain whether a thorough deoxidation has bcen accomplished. This can be asceriiinecl from the siag_a light green c-olor of the fracture showing complete d,.:,,iida- tion. As a further precaution we add io the'ladle a snrall amount-of_pure aluminum. The entire heat is tapped into a. large ladle, the slag carefully skimmed off and a protec_ tive covering of clean silica sand put on. The metal is then transferred to pouring ladles of about 100 pounds capacity. To obtain satisfactory results the material used, as men_ tioned before, must be very carefully selected. Limestone and fluorspar_are ahval's. on hand to dissolve slag when necessary, if alloys are to be addecl, afterwards addirig silica sand to bring the slag to its normal consistencv.
^ Ward Montgomery, Secretary of the Hollyrvood Lumber Co., was recently operated on forappendiiitis. It is re_ ported that he is making good recovery.
Rate: $2.s0 per cotumn inch - fne FellOW WhO WantS to Be
GOOD OPPORTUNITY HERE FOR SALE-FULLY EQUIPPED BOX FACTORY loCArer; IN THE cENfER oF THE FRUIT sECTiof op cALIFoRNIA. ADDRESS Box c-242, cARE OF CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT'
WHOLESALE OR RETAIL SALESMAN WAN'TS POSITION
Experienced lumberman r'vants connection with 'ivhole'r"t" 6t retail lumber company as salesman' Have thorouth tno*ledge of lumber blsiness from manufacturing ;;A .;i;. .r,J,-h"'oittg been connected rvith some of large *iii op.."tions in tffe Northwest' Familiar rvith trade ."qitiiJ-""it or Soutttern California trade' Can furnish excellent references. Box C-245 California Lumber Merch-
ant,
Retail salesman and successful branch yard rnanager rvants a position rvith progressive Atizona lumber company. Has had broad experie-nce. and is a- real producer' b."i.r salary and percentige basis. Excellent references' Age 35 and in perfict health. Address Box C-239 California Lumber Merchant.
FOR SALE:
9 ft. band sawmill with necessary equipment cutting Douglas fir and some spruce, located on Oregon Loast and Souihern Pacific Railroad. Company owns and ope-rates t*o-.i""*"t.. Timber supply insuies very long life' A 1-5 interest ora 51 per cent interest, or entire com-pany ."" U" ".q"ired. Chailes S. Elms. Timber Lands and Lumfr"i, f tOS i{obart Building, San Francisco, Calif'
Harry Hanson
Harry V. Hanson, president of the. Los Angeleg Hoo..t{go cl;;';'"';;;;;h;d the next meeting of the club will be ;;iJ'";--it'-09 P. M.;Thursdav, Februarv 28' at the Com*.r.i"i Cf ufr. Arrangements'are under rvay for ,"1 i"t:1; esting program an.d a large. attendance ls expecreo' r\rr lumbermen, especrally viiiting lumbermen who are in Southern California, are urged to atteno'
TO REPRESENT CADWALLA'DER-GIBSON CO'
M;tk- W. Lillard and A' D' Squires' formerly general r"o.ii"i""aent of the American Manufaclqr'i"g ^Company' ;J;;;-i;;"aii"s the territorv outside of Los Angeles in S;;;ir;;" C;lifofriia, and all of Ati'ottt for Cadwalladerd#;;^'a;t;"y. Thev are working this in connection
':Nlidt"i" doors, hardw-oods and veneers' The nt* i. known as Mark W' Lillard' Inc'
JACK rHoMAs A\ID lgtilr3f"DRAM
Jack Thomas and Max Landram, Coos.Bay Lumber Co'' Lds Ang"t"s, lvere recent Bay District visitors where they ;p*;;i;; days at the company's San Francisco office'
The Legislative Committees of the California Retail Lo-U"t-&'s Association and the Los Angeles tlilding ffn"i"ii"f Dealers'Association met at the Jonathan Club on Saturday, February 9. C. W. Pinkerton, chairman ot-the .or"-iti." on legiilation for the California Retail Lumber;;;;; Associati6n, states that Assembly Bills 785 to 79I inclusive have been approved by the Milhvork Institute of C;iii;;"]u, Building Miterial Dealers' Credit Association of ios Anseles and t-he California Retail Lumbermen's Asso.i"U"".'ih... Amendments to the Lien Law rvhile not in n".t i"t- were introduced before the State I-egislature on the last day of the first session and were given the above numbers.
The Southern District of the California Retail Lumber-."t Association rvill meet at the Alexandria Hotel, Los .A."g"t.", on April 6. The meeting- will include an afterno& and "rr".tittg session. Complete announcements of the meeting tvill be made later.
.,/ fne Cantillon-Johnson Lumber Company is the name of the new yard Lt OZOS Cedros St., Vanftyt; Mr'.Johnrott *". foimerly manager of the Hull Bros' Supply Co' vard at Reseda "ttd Mt. eantillon a sash and door salesman ior the same firm'
The Western Sash & Door Company, 1601 East 25th St., Los Angeles, have refinished the-.front of their yard *iih .tu..o ?nd have built a new addition rvhich doubles the size of their plant. A new and modern office has been built in the added building.
(The Clearing House)
This Column of "Wants" and '3Doll't Wants" is for:
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Long-Bell Frames are made of soft textured, old growth yellow Douglas Fir, with heartwood predominating, providing a sturdy, durable frame. The machioework is unexcelled. The precision of the workmanship as. sures faster and more ac. curate assembly on the job, aith tight fining joints. Long.Bell
Framespledge maximsm constrsction aalse,
Sturdy, well.built doors, made throughout of California Tf'hite Pine such are the Long.Bell doors which find favor with builders not only because of their construction, but, too, because of their ease of fittiog and hanging, the f,ne surface which takes all finishes perfectly, and many other practical a dva n t a g e s.
I seauty, -mlnimlq of-labor inf laying durability are three importint qualifcations of Long-Bell trade'marked oak fooring. Andi because of these qualities , eronoiltl The first-time user is almosi invarrbly a tepeat-customer. for exD'erience Droves its economv and sadi6ctiLn- T)ealprc are f,ndino Tnno-Ra
Beauty, -mi-niqrq of labor irr/luying and durabil
iably for .explrience p-r-oves i1s 9c-on9my and satis-factibn. Dealers are finding Long-Bell trade-rnarked flooring one of thelnost ste;dily prodtable items in stock.
LUMBERMEN SINCE 18?5
Douglar Fir Lumber, Timben. Door and Window Fnmer, Trimpak; Westem Hemlock Lumber; Wectern Red Cedar Sidinr and Shinelec: South. ctn Pioc Lumber andTimben: Southern Hard. wood Lumber ,eod Timbcrr; Oak Floring, *QE|-f.i4d OaL Floorinc Stiipe. *CELLize-d OaL Floor Planhc, *CELLizef -Oak FIoor Blocks; Celifomia White pine Lumber. Sash and Dmrr, Box Shoola; Creoroted South. em Pine Lumber, Timbcr, Portr. polec. Tiec, Guard.Reil poitr, piling.-
Because Weaver-Henry Shingles go on right over the old wood shingles; because they are made in a variety oI shapes and patternsl because there is a Iull range of beautilul non-fading colors; because they are low in first cost and lower in linal cost; be' ."n." they are made ol the toughest' time resisting materials that can be had. . many oI the'WeaverHenry dealers Iind a constant source oI income ' ' ' prolit . in actively "going after" rerooling business'
