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Foster Bros. Open /A$ain Grays Harbor Water Portland Office' Shipments Top Billion Mark
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.
Salt Lake Man Visits Sawmills
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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