The California Lumber Merchant - February 1933

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How Lumber Looks

New business booked ai the lumber mills during the wee& ended Jgnuary 2E was the largest of any wee& of the year to date; production was lower'tlhan the preceding two weeks, according to reports to the N,ational Lumbet Manufacturers Association from regiorral associations colering the operations of 7O7 Leading hadwood and softwood mills. AII mills repoited orders of 116,09!1000 f99t, Production was 87,807,00O feet.

i. 252 mills reporting to tfie Vest Coest Lumbemerrts Assoftiation for the week ended Februaty 4 operated at 21.7 pet fent of capacity, as compared to 2I.5 p", .*t of capacity for the previous week. During the weeko 164 ot these plants were reported as down and 88 operaring.

:"."l78.,Erills repoting to the Association for tfie same weel QfgC$ged a9r251294 feet, or 22.5 pet cent of their weekly ca. nuaty. Cument new business of these mills was Sgr4gt,5lg6 feet, or 2pr8 pet cent over productioti. Shipments for ihe week wete'44r780250 fect, or 9.1 per cent under production.

lili:w export buslness teceived during the week was lrllTr0(X) feet rnore, new domestic iargo ornders were 2l5r000 feet over, and nerv rail business decreased 2rr6rrOOO feet as comtrrared to the previor.rs weekts .business.

fnventories, as repo,rted by l3O mills, are 17.2 pet cent less than at tfiis time last year.

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:: - the Southern Pine Association for the wbek ended January

. L. C. HAMMOND IN EAST

Leonard C. Hammond, vice-president.and general manag,er of the Hammond L-umber Co., San Francisco, left January D on an Eastern business trip. Mr. Hammond will be gone six or seven weeks.

. BILL TWAY ON EASTERN TRIP

William Tway, credit manager of the Santa Ana Lumber Co., Santa Ana, Calif., has left on a trip to Danville, Ill. He expects to be away about three weeks.

The Los Angeles offices of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. and the McCormick Steamship Co. will be located in the W. M. Garland Building, Ninth and Spring streets, effective February 20. Their telephone number will be the same, TRinity 5241. For the past several years the McCormick offices have been in the Lane Mortgage Building. 'j

28 reported new business from 100 mills as 24r372rNO ferl,, sfripr{errb 2lr4lt,OOO pfeet, a6rd production lE,946rfiXl feet.: Orders yere 29 per cent above production and 14 per cent above shipments. Shipments were 13 per cent above produc; tion.

The Vestern Pine Association fot the weeh reported new business from 1O7 rnills as lSr3y2rOOO feet, ehipments l7r0llr0(n feet, and productiotr IOr338r(XX) feet. Orders were 78 per ccnt above production and 8 Ber cent above shipments. Shipmenu were 65 per c€nt above production.

Reports from 315 -hardwood mills for the same week gave new business as fZrZtOrOOai feet, or 30 per"cent above production, and shipments trr775r00{J feeg or 4l per cent above pto; dnction Production rlas 9r763rW f,eet.

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Unsdld stocHi bn'the public docks at San Pedro are ehowing a marked dacrease and on February 8 totated 4r6SZroU0 fcxn,, as courpated to 51416100o fet the previous weelr. Cargo ar. rivals at San Pedro for dre week ended February 4.totaled, Sr6491000 feet, which included 6 cargoec of Fir carryiag 4B77rO00 feet, and 2 catgoa of Redwood with 672rgOQ fect 46 lum,6cr ve$els were operating in the California service on Februaty 4; 6O vecsels were laid gp. The California volume of busineec remains about the same. Mill prices strengthened during the past w.ec&.

F. R. ADAMS VISITS CALIFORNIA

Frank R. Adams, of Chicago, Eastern sales manager of The Pacific Lumber Co., has left for home after a two weeks'stay in California, his annual trip to the company's home office and mill operations.

W. G. KAHMAN VISITS LOS ANGELES.

W. G. Kahman, district sales manager, Shevlin Pine Sales Co., San Francisco, has just completed a business trip to T os Angeles. With L. S. Turnbull, their Southern California and Arizona representative, they spent'a few days calling on the Southern California trade.

VISIT ARIZONA AND NE\v MEXICO

A. L. "Al" Nolan, Western sales manager of The Pacific T umber Company, and E. A. Brown, structural engineer, California Redwood,Association, San Francisco, have completed a two weeks' business trip in Arizona and New Mexico.

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V.gabond Editorials

By Jack Dionne

Longfellow wrote something once about the fellow whose voice and manner were gentle, yet who made you feel "that the velvet scabbard held a sword of steel." He must have been related to the suave banker.I heard about. A friend of rnine says he went to this banker determined to secure a loan. The banker received him with such courtesy, such tact, such diplomacy, such friendly interest that my friend was out of the bank and two blocks up the street before he realized that he HADN'T GOT THE MONEY.

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He must have possessed something of the quality that Mrs. Bess Gearhart Morrison tells about. She says they held a national hog calling contest, and a certain man was declared the national hog calling champion after many try-outs. The champion was asked to explain what it was that won hirn the championship, and he answered: "It isn't the noise I make; it's the APPEAL I put into my voice." There's a big thought there, you building salesmen.

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This actually happened in a lumber office. One of the sales force came out of the "big boss"' office, and announped to the gang that he had been "on the carpet." "We'll have to get up a pot and buy the boss a new carpet at the rate we're going in there lately," remarked someone. "Nor" said someone else; "now that we're all barefoot the carpet don't wear much." .*:t*

ttA real rnan," it has been said, "is glad to live, but not afraid to die." Our hearts sicken at the number of once happy and useful citizens who manifest by window-jumping and pistol-pulling that they derive no gladness from living, and have no fear of dying. **{r

Not knowing what I was going up against I sat down in a movie theatrc the other day to see a picture of Old Rome. Before I knew it I was watching ihe torture of little children, the bestial butchery of men and women, and other horrors too numerous to rnention. When I get to be President I'm going to keep these Hollywood fanatics from foisting such barbarisms on the world if I have to call out the militia. The next thing they'll be photographing

detail scenes from the Spanish Inquisition. It couldn't be much worse.

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Technocracy is the science of using foolish facts and figures to scare foolish people. Now the tide turns, and with the same vehemence with which Technocracy was indorsed for a few months, it is now being "disparaged and denied, belittled and belied." The anti-Technocrats are having a field day. That really isn't the right way, either. Technocracy is not something to be refuted and disproven. It should be treated-like any other mental disease. ***

Speaking of the modern inventions that have furnished employment for worlds of people, consider sinus. And halitosis hasn't done so badly. Both of them are furnishing employment and business for thousands upon thousands of people. You never heard of either of them a few years ago. This sinus business has become a better graft than chain selling. Once they discover your sinus for you, and start digging and prodding around in that deBartment, you're on the regular contribution list for life. Every time you get the slightest cold from then on, it's five dollars a treatment for you.

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"Prosperity," says a wise man, "will not be revived on Wall Street, but on Main Street." True t And the cure for the depression will not emanate in Washington-nor from the men we send there. Every man in our law-rnaking houses is doing his best, I'm sure. They mean well. But, with no intelligent mark to shoot at, they fire wildly in the air, and hope to hit something. Some of these days it will be all over; and no man will be able to say-"I had the vision." When the disease has run its coursg we will get well. But no doctor will be due the credit.

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I believe the railroads are today teeming with revolutionary ideas with regard to themselves that will in the next few years, solve their present grievious problems. There isn't a railroad executive from San Francisco to New York who hasn't definite ideas about new and interesting things that the railroads can do. The boiling down of these multitudinous opinions will result in railroad systems with everything new except the tracks. I can see it

coming. Faster, better, newer, different, and infinitely more elastic service and equipment will be the answer. Five years from now will see railroading revolutionized in every possible fashion. There will be entirely different types of cars, locomotives, and other equipment, schedules will be frequent and elastic, freight rates will be low, all Pullman cars will be air conditioned and cooled (and probably all passenger cars the same way) and there will be new and still unheard-of changes in every department. These changes will come with lightning rapidity once they get started. Automobiles have improved more in the past two years than in the previous twenty. Railroads will do the same.

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Another thing about the truck versus the railroad is that the traveling truck becomes an itinerant huckster, buying here and selling there. That is forbidden the railroadsthank God. It rnust be forbidden likewise to railroad competition. Otherwise the railroads will have to go into the mercantile business, buying here, and selling there. How would you like that, you merchants? ***

Supposing the railroad crews were to disregard the ordinary rules of safety one-tenth as many times as does the average truck driver, do you know what would happen? So many disasters would occur that there would not be enough boards and commissions on earth to conduct half the investigations. Think it over.

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Frank D. Chase, a nationally known architect of Chicago, addressed the American Wood Preserver's Association convention in Chicago the other day. In my judgment it was the strongest utterance the lumber industry has heard since last spring when Mr. f. N. Tate, of St. Paul, delivered a marvelous utterance on the subject_.,Is the lumber industry worth saving?" Every word Mr. Chase said should be treated with respect, and subjected to the closest scrutiny. For that reason we are devoting much of the space in this now slim publication to reprinting that entire address. It wil give you something to think about. *{.*

Boiled down, the gist of his opinion is that treated wood is the sole hope of the lumber industry. He says we should devote our entire attention to discovering how to treat wood against fire, rot, and termites. lfe assumes that this is entirely possible and practical. He says that when we learn to so treat wood, the whole building world will open wide for its use and application, for everything from build_ ing basements to sheeting skyscrapers.

And he expresses the entirely friendly but equally defin_

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Vagabond Editorials

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ite opinion that this is the sole and only hope of the lumber industry, and that unless we do it, "lumber will drop entirely out of the picture in the building industry." You may not entirely agree with his conclusions, but there is a world of useful advice and information in his remarks, and they deserve the close study of the entire industry.

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There is one outstanding subject of conversation today wherever retail lumberrnen gather together-cash and carry. Probably one-third of all the lumber yards in the United States are on a cash basis today. But getting right out and announcing a cash and carry system is a step farther. At a big co4vention I attended the other day I heard no other one subject in particular discussed, but cash and carry was the order of the day in practically all private conversation, over the lunch and dinner table, and in every small group. Just how to conduct and operate a cash and carry business seemed absorbingly interesting to every dealer. A great number of dealers are doing so, and a still greater number are contemplating it. The question whether or not it is an emergency proposition and will be discontinued when norrnal conditions return, was one of the big sub-topics of discussion under this heading.

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One of the keenest minded men that I know in the entire lumber industry discussed this cash and carry matter

Congratulates Jack Dionne on Vagabond Editorials

Los Angeles, Calif,, Feb. 2, 1933

Mr. Jack Dionne, Publisher, The California Lumber Merchant. 318 Central Bldg., 108 West Sixth St., Los Angeles, California.

Dear Jack:

I think your editorial in the issue of February 1st is the most interesting, instructive and cheerful piece of literature I have read for a long, long time, and I wish both to congratulate and thank you for it.

There are a number of my friends to whom I would like to send a copy, and I would appreciate it very much if you will mail me a half dozen copies of this issue together with a bill for same.

Yours very truly, CALIFORNIA PANEL & VENEER CO. Howell Baker. President.

most interestiirgly for a small group at luncheon one day. He expressed these opinions: that he thinks it is a good plan and should be permanent; that he considers it wise only where all the yards in the town go on that same basis; that people seem f,nore than willing to "pay cash and pay less"; that it is a merchandising proposition and should be accompanied always by an advertising campaign; that it should never be done piratically and at the expense of other retailers, because that would just disrupt an already unhealthy situation.

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This man showed us some of the advertising poster cards they use at their cash and carry yards. They give a per thousand and a per piece price on each item. If a customer buys a thousand or more feet, he can get the per thousand price. But they sell most of their stuff per piece, and at a much better price. For instance if their price on two by four twelves is twenty dollais a thousand, their price card reads: 2x4-12, $ZO per thousand; 24 cents per piece. See? The per piece price is at the rate of $30 per thousand, and that's the way they sell nearly all their stock. There is no deception or subterfuge. Both prices are plainly marked on their bins. But the per piece price brings a very decent profit, while the per thousand price may be a fairly close figure.

"What does 'cash' means?" is the question that generally comes up at once. Does it mean on the barrel head, or does it mean the tenth of the month? It means "on the barrel head" according to all those I have talked to. Bring in the cash, and take away the lumber.

St. Paul & Tacoma Elect Officers At Annual Meeting

Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 1.-The St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company announces the election of the following officers at the annual meeting held in Tacoma on January 28, 1933: Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Everett G. Griggs; President, Everett G. Griggs II, Vice-President and Treasurer, Corydon Wagner; Secretary, Herbert S. Griggs.

Earl M. Rogers, who for the last twelve years has served as first vice-president and general manager, has retired as the active operating head of the institution, but will continue as a member of the Board of Trustees in an advisory capacity.

National - American \(/holesalers To Hold Annual at \(/ashington

The National-American Wholesale Lumber Association will hold its Annual Convention in the Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D. C., April 26-27. This is the one time of the year when wholesalers all over the country meet to discuss their trade problems, confer with the representatives of mills whose products they distribute, ?s well as with representatives from their customers in the retail industry. In com.menting upon the program Secretary W. W. Schupner says: "There are many problems both within and without our branch of the industry, and wholesalers are looking forward to the opportunity of exchanging ideas, and planning for distribution policies in the future. The selection of Washington as a meeting place, will make it easier for many to attend the coming Convention, who were unable to travel the greater distance last year. We look for a good representation from our membership of 275;',

USES PLANE TO MAKE CONNECTION

Guy E. Smith, of Seattle, general sales- manager of the Chas. R. McCormi'ck Lumber Co., left Los Angeles by the United Air Lines 4 p.^. plane on January 28 and connected with the Cascade train leaving 16th Street Station, Oakland, at 6:51 p.m. for Seattle. Mr. Smith does a lot of flying to save time on his long trips. On this occasion he was completing a two weeks' visit to the San Francisco and Los Angeles offices of the company.

Strable F{ardwood Co. Finds Advertising Brings Good Results

Oakland, California, January 27, L933.

Mr. J. E. Martin, Managing Editor,

The California Lumber Merchant

318 Central Building

Los Angeles, California

Dear Sir:

Our advertisement appearing in your issue of January lst, 1933, featuring "Ping-pong Table Tops," brought us most satisfactory traceable returns.

Many of the numerous inquiries and orders which we received for Ping-pong Table Tops, immediately following the circulation of this particular issue of THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT, were accompanied by a statement that the advertisement mentioned above was responsible for the order or inquiry. Certain circumstances surrounding other orders and inquiries pointed directly to this particular publicity.

This experience has reneri"ed our faith in the efficacy of THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT as an advertising medium.

Cordially yours, STRABLE HARDWOOD COMPANY, BEB:PL B. E. Bryan.

Redwood Ass'n to Havc Exhibit at

Orange Show

REDWOOD LAWN CHAIR.S ARE COMFORTABLE, STRONG AND DURABLE

Indor cmfort ud beauty re erstirl to the cu@ o[ ydr otdm tiving m. Oqr Redwood chain have the follwirg utsteding merit : @mfqt, strc4thr durability ud beauty.

Redwod is naturally drrable and strmg. Its b€auty blendc hamcidsly with otdor envimmentr. With thfu rcmrkable wood we havc &signed a chair vfiich insurec ttre utnct itr cmfct, atmgth ud eryiceabillty.

The California Redwood Association will have a Redwood exhibit at the 23rd National Orange Show, San Bernardino, Calif., from February 16 to February 26, 1933. The display will include a front section of a.Redwood log cabin 14 feet long and 9 feet in height. R. R. Leishman and E. W. Hemming of Los Angeles will be in charge of the exhibit.

SECRETARIES MEET IN OAKLAND

A meeting of all the Northern members of the Western Institute of Trade Secretaries was held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, February 6.

Treated \(/ood in Building Construction

By Frank D. Chase President, Frank D. Chase, Inc., Engineers and Architects

Treated Wood, as this Association knows it, deserves a larger place in building. A start, a very good start, but only a start has been made to develop a real marldet fot treated woods in buildings.

An opportunity exists at this time, such as has never existed before, to develop the us,e of wood for buildings, an opportunity such as will never, I believe, come again.

We are at the very beginning of a new era of building design and construction which will be revolutionary.

The lumberman and wood preserver should be awake to this opportunity.

I am going to repeat this statement several times, to give it emphasis, and I shall attempt to prove, at least explain or justify my reasons, although in the limited time rvhich I have at my disposal I must of necessity draw a very sketchy picture of the situation. I shall I'eave it to your imagination as well as your technical knowledge, to fill out and complete the picture.

If wood is not used as much as it rvas formerly in building construction, there must, of course, be reasons-and ther'e are. The status of treated rvood in building construction is not only interesting but, more than that, ofl vital importance to a great industry.

The uses of untreated wood need not be mentionedwe pass that subject, but there arb definite and obvious reasons for the decreasing use of untreated wood.

This paper refers only to buildings and in general is not applicable to other structures. Until twenty years ago we used wood freely in almost all types of buildings.

I cannot remember the construction of the first "alleged" steel skyscrapers, although I do remember them when they were the leading buildings of this city. The two first, perhaps the several first, were built as you know in Chicago.

I remember very well the first concrete building of several stories in height-and the technical discussions which it started and which have never stopped.

These buildings, first developid rvithin the memory of most of us, were the forerunners of the present-day giant, multi-story structures in which rvood has been almost entirely eliminated.

The development of these multi-story commercial buildings of steel and/or concrete and the requirements of heavy construction in industrial buildings, due to heavier machinery and longer spans' are responsible for the decrease in use of wood for structural purposes' in these types of buildings, which, of course, comprise a considerable percentage of our total .building activities. This is a factor beyond the control of anyone, but the substitution of wood

did not stop with the building frame. For twenty years it has been a case against the field, and wood has never in the running.

Increasing size and height of buildings made fire resistant construction imperative and the manufacturers of everything that goes into a building, except wood, recognized the opportunity to create new products and develop old ones.

To even enumerate the products which have helped to make our modern buildings possible is superfluous. I would like, however, to mention two:

First: STEEL. We still use, largely, low strength carbon steel-Alloys have only recently come into the building field-ten or fifteen years after their value had been recognized in other industries.

The structural steel industry has been nearly as sound asleep as the lumber industry-for which I am glad, for we have progressed rapidly enough in the art of building design. Within another generation the building of today will be obsolete in both architectural and structural design.

The Greek Temple or the Gothic Church are no longer the basis for good design for utilitarian or commercial buildings, although we, even now, occasionally see one being erected, to the discredit, I think, of the architectural profession.

Alloy steel used for walls and floors, as well as for frame work, together with proper insulating materials, will entirely change our building types.

Exit carbon steel, brick and mortar and concrete-more of this later.

Second: CONCRETE. Concrete has, as we know, replaced wood for heavy construction and even for carrying light loads.

The extensive use of concrete is due to the need of a fire retarding, economical construction, and because when the need arose-there was no one to develop any other material.

Concrete is used extensively today, not because it is an ideal material, but for want of a better material and because it has been "Sold" to the engineering and architectural professions.

Prof. Swain of M. I. T. is quoted by this Association as saying as late as 1926, "that present-day knowledge of concrete is still quite m,Eagre d< i< *." I agree with this and have never accepted, without mental reservation, the theories and practices of the use of concrete in buildings.

The Grace of God, evidenced by sane and conservative minds, has provided necessary factors of safety which have made concrete construction safe in spite of itself. Cement and concrete are better products every year and we learn a little each year, I hope, about their use.

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a race of wood These two principal materials in the modern building, that time been steel and cement (or ,concrete, if you please), are still, to all intents and purposes, where they were twenty years

ago (of corr'rse I admit improvements in many respects), and still they have served the purposes of the 20th Century building.

Other materials have been developed to make new uses. There are a hundred floor coverings to take the place of wood-and studs, lath, framing, sash, trim, carpenter work, mill work, all are norv of materials which are substitutes for r,vood.

Wood always has been and ahvays lvill be a reliable material. The merchandising methods may have been wrong', and we all know about the struggles with grades, brands, etc., covering the past twenty years or more, but even well graded lumber did not find a place in the modern building structure.

Now there comes an opportunity for the use of wood which is a greater opportunity, I believe, than has existed in any past generation.

The opportunity exisls today, let me again repeat, to create a greater, wider use of wood in building structures, than has ever existed before in this country.

I refer, of course, to treated wood-briefly, wood treated to resist fungi, termites and fire.

This audience needs no enlightening on the action of these three agencies on wood, nor shall I suggest specifications for wood to meet these requirements.

Some wood preservative processes combine these three requirements in some degree. Wood must, to develop its maximum use in the modern building, and for most of the uses Iwill mention, poss€ss all three. Is there .a single treatment in use today which meets these requirements? Chemical research is still in order in the wood preserving field.

The Arts, including Architecture, are merely expressions of the thinking and living of the civilization which produces them. There are leaders, of course, who think and work in advance of the mass, who must lead the masses. The intellectual progress of the leaders, however, does not outstrip but merely goes on in advance. The world is seeing a nrew era of mental activity in every phase of human endeavor.

Architecture is no exception and, as in the other Arts, the development of our national life, on this Continent, has at last found expression in a new Architecture which reflects the life of this Nation today. We are finding ourselves in all our national thinking. This is not accepted by the many, of course, and among the many are a majority of the Architects, although one has only to read the Architectural magazines to realize that this majority is rapidly dwindling and that recognition of the new Architecture will soon be universal.

Not all of the results of Architectural endeavor are entirely pleasing. E. T. Russell of St. Louis, president of the A. I. A., refers to "Mental aberrations in the form of ultramod6rnistic buildings." There are many "brain storms" in stone today rvhich are painful. That is the price we pay for Architectural progress.

But, if the Architects themselves cannot arvake to a realization of this new era, can we expect the layman to do so? One famous art critic says, however, that there is more fine modern art in industry than anywhere else, as evidenced by motor cars, furniture, fabrics; in fact, in nearly every-

thing that is manufactured today. So there must be appreciation by the layman.

I have discussed this subject to impress upon you that the new Architecture is not a passing vogue or fancy, but a national expression of living and thinking, which is not only tremendous but permanent in its effects on us all.

This paper on the uses of treated wood is not, at least should not be, merely a listing of specification items fbr wood.

I am trying to make you realize that in this great change in Architecture there is going to be a great change in the types and styles of buildings, a change in the application and uses of materials, and in the materials themselves, and that wood, when properly treated, can be used in a thousand ways, some new and some old, if the industry realizes the situation as I have tried to describe it, realizes its opportunities and makes the most of them.

This paper is written with knowledge gained from a newspaper, of the formation of the American Forest Products Industries, Inc., for the purposes of solving the industries' problems of distribution and merchandising and to assist in financing homes. What it proposes to do in research, I do not knor'v, but the problems of treated wood still have to be solved by the wood'preservers thems'elves with the backing of the lumber industry.

I want to describe the modern building and the building of the future, as the Engin,eer and Architect are beginning to visualize it, and to outline the uses of treated wood in them. Perhaps yott 'ivill see the future of wood as I do.

In the building of the future, reductions in cost, increases in height and size and improvement in living conditions, in better light and ventilation are to be secured by nerv and improved materials of which treated wood is one. Intelligent building design will properly utilize these materials..

The first consideration in the modern building will be a reduction of the dead load or weight of the structure, due to these new methods of architectural and structural design.

The structural steel frame will be of an alloy steel which rvill have four or five or six times the strength of our present old-fashioned, out-of-date carbon steel. Estimate the production in weight of the building frame alone obtained by the use of such steel-then figure that same steel used in girders and beams throughout the floor systems, and replacing a concrete slab 6 or 8 or 10 inches thick with a sheet steel plate covered, if you please, with a treated wood floor laid on a thin layer of insulation-sound proofed by the suspended plastered ceiling beneath. Omit the 13 inches of brick, stone or terra cotta used for the walls and, between the floor beams at the walls run steel or treated wood studs, to r,vhich is fastened for a wall-an outside wall, understand, one or two layers of treated wood-insulated with treated rvood fiber-wood outside protected by durable paint or, better still, without paint, plaster inside, insulation between-total thickness three or four inches. Metal will be used if you cannot "sell" wood. I was sold thirty years ago on cypress for siding. Is it possible that a lvood cannot be treated to last indefinitely on an exterior

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MY FAVORITE STORIES

By Jach. Dionne

Age not guaranteed-Some I have told for 2O years,-Some less lmmaterial to Him

It was in a town just South of the Mason and Dixon line, where political lines were closely drawn among the members of the colored as well as the white race.

It happened that the two important darkies who headed their tespective political organizations in the town were both deacons in the same church. It was the Sunday before election day, and the Preacher made the mistake of asking Deacon Brown, head of the Darktown Republican Club, to lead the congregation in prayer. He did. And at the close of his prayer on general matters he grew specific, and ended up:

"An' Oh Lawd ! Bress de Republicans in disheah town an'see dat dey hang togethah!"

"Amen !" loud and clear and in tones of triumph came from Deacon Smith, Democratic leader.

"\Mait a minute, Lawd," continued the Republican Deacon. "Ah don' mean fo' de Republicans to hang lak Deacon Smith means. Ah means fo'dem to hang togethah in concord an'in accord."

"Any cord, Lawd-any cord, jes' so long as dey hang," cut in Deacon Smith.

Air Conditioning of Homes at \(/. R. Filer Now Affiliated With Hand Portland Wholesale Firm

A new era in home comfort for the American people is foreseen by Russell E. Backstrom, insulation engineer of the National Committee on Wood Utilization of the Department of Commerce.

Through the extraordinary accomplishment of science and industry, the day is not far off when most homes will be mechanically equipped so as to provide cool or warm air at the home owner's option, reports Backstrom, who has just returned from Cincinnati, Ohio, where he participated in the annual sessions of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers.

"Undoubtedly, the subject of air-conditioning is more and more drawing the attention of the American people, and this no doubt is due in large measure to the possibility of its wide application in practically all types of construction."

Air-conditioning already is being widely employed in all types of office buildings, and the next step will be towards applying it to the homes of the country. Not only is this new development suitable for new homes, but progress also has been made to the extent that old dwellings can be readily equipped to provide comfortable air temperatures.

Going hand-in-hand with air-conditioning is the development of house insulation materials, Backstrom points out. Insulating materials, when properly applied to the walls and roof of the dwelling, are essential factors in the success and economy of air-conditioning. The National Committee on Wood Utilization's book. "House Insulation: Its Economies and Application," points out the proper application of the various types of insulation materials now available to the home owner.

Portland, Ore., Jan. 2S.-Announiement made early this week that W. R. Fifer will become affiliated with the firm of Lewis & Dalin, Inc., well known Portland wholesale lumber concern, effective on February l.

Mr. Fifer, who for the past seven years has been associated with the Prendergast Company of Marion, Ohio, the past six of which he has been their West Coast manager, is well known in lumber circles, both in producing and consuming sections. His long and thorough experience in the me.rchandising of West Coast lumber and his practical training in all branches of the industry will be a valuable adjunct to the organization with whom he will become connected.

Lewis & Dalin, Inc., was organized in 1929 by A. G. Lewis and W. G. Dalin, the former subsequently disposing of his interests to H. C. Clair and Harry C. Clair, Jr. Officers of the company elected at the annual meeting.of the corporation are: W. G. Dalin, president; W. R. Fifer, vice president; H. C. Clair, treasurer; and Harry C. Clair, Jr., secretary. After February 1 the firm will be installed in larger quarters in the American Bank Building.

The Prendergast Company are not retiring from the handling of Pacific Coast lumber.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA VISITOR

Clyde Arnn, El Paso, Texas, sales manager of the Madera Box and Lumber Co., was a recent Los Angeles visitor where he spent several days on a combined business and pleasure trip. Mr. Arnn is a brother-in-law of Ed. Biggs, Los Angeles, sales representative of the Union I.umber Company.

Thisdealer has proYen RED SEAL OPENERS

Tbc Pltnttot. CoDp.nyr Bor 12O, lroai!. ADn.r. tos An8.lrs, c.lll.

CrntlcD?n:

Fa rlah to tstc thr.B oDpottunltt to oopltmnt you upon your acr Dctboil ot errpptn8 roll rootlnt rlth Rlit Scll Opa!!!a. slno! lta lltrolluotton, r. brra oonolstlnt1y o!1lcil tt to tb! qtt.ntloD ot our rootlDg ouat6rra anil bav. illacorcrcA lt to ba gooil arl.s f..t[r. ln ocrolr.nill.atng yo! prodocts. Ono. oo6t6.ra htvr !B!il tt. th.t arr not s.tlatlod rltb t'y othr! typr of polllg.

rrttJ tbr olil Dthoil ot Elpplnt, tle tootlag tt€cll r!! fr.Ecltly torn or iletgril rDcn I lnlta or soE othcr tool rls ulail to Bllt tb! nrpp.r. Wtth tla R.il S{1 Opcrctr tb! rol,l. my b! oprtrcil mob Dolc qulclly ud rlttrout any it8!g"r gl lnJutl.rg tbr mt.rl..l brnlrth.

t. rr.ab tou ctclt aroolea lD thlE nlr tEDrorrDctrt. Vrly truly youra, ^L!Er BROI$nS.Eftcll*.

Ve urge you to follow the plan of Alley Brothers . . demonstrate and display Red Seat Openers to every roofing customer who enters your display rq)m. You will be surprised how Red Seal Openers will bring back rep€at business-once a customer has used them!

And do not forget that Red Seal Openers are an exclu' sive idea that costs you nothing. You may rest assured when you feature this advantage' you are building busi'" ness that will remain secure from competition.

"Chuck" Alley demonstrates the old' method. of using a knile to open roll roofing, ds contrasted, uith the NEV method' ' Red. Seal Openers.

Beature Pioneer Borestr an exolusive

pioneer Forestry Blend Shingles offer I you unequalled sales advantages. They give you a new type of shingle to talk about to your customers-a shingle that is different from all the rest.

They have an immediate appeal to home owners because they are more beautiful, more easily adapted to the color scheme of his home, than any other asphalt shingle on the market today. Their

Blend Shingles-they are oduot for you!

sweeping blends of soft natural colors that drift and intermingle over the entire surface of the roof offer the distinctive appearance he wants to individualize his home-to make it more atttactive.

Tell this story to every shingle prospect in your territory. Display Forestry Blends in your show room, concentrate your selling effort onthis exclusive product...and you will build business that is exclu sively yours !

Treated Wood in Building Construction

Continued from Page 11)

wall? I believe it can be done, although I may be wrong, for all the metal house Architects and Engineers are talking about metal exterior surfaces with permanent ( ?) heat deflecting paint. These wall surfaces are to be carried on steel studs.

My old friend, John Kreer of the American Lumber and Treating Corporation, tells me that a nail will last and hold forever in Wolman Salt treated wood. It is much easier to fasten wood sheathing to wood studs than to weld steel to steel studs. Is it not possible to use treated wood for all these outside walls-and if it can be used on a cottage, why not on a skyscraper?

How would you like to see carpenters on a scafiold hailing O. G. siding to cover the exterior of a 100-story building? That sounds rather absurd at first thought, but it is not. Treated wood, which must be the salvation of the lumber industry, must qualify for just such uses.

The inside partitions add more dead weight to the building, and instead of 4 or 5 or 6 inches of heavy tile and plaster, why not have the old-fashioned wood stud, lath and plaster partitions using treated wood-bubstituting the modern treated wood wall board for plaster.

Now figure weight reductions in walls, exterior and interior partitions, floors, and then in the steel frame itself ; in the latter, all connections will be welded, not riveted. Eventually all ivets and the cost of punching and rivets will be eliminated in buildings.

The reduction of weight of the building results, of course, in a corresponding reduction in size and cost of foundations.

Treated piles will in many instances take the place of concrete piles or concrete footings. This economy is even today generally recognized and should be recognized universally as the economical method of foundation design in many situations. Engineers now working on the new Chicago Building Code have a duty in the consideration of treated wood piles.

There are many uses for treated wood in connection with this new type of building-always bearing in mind the necessity for fire resistant treatment. Please understand that I advocate, and always have advocbted, construction which is the most nearly first resistant that can be secured under any given set of conditions.

I can remember "way back when" wood was the only material used for fle615-n6q7 wood flooring is the exception rather than the rule. Treated wood will change this. I have inspected and reported on laminated wood floor failures. The wood was considered at fault.It was because it was not treated, although we did not then know all the facts. Treated laminated wood flooring used in conjunction with treated timbers may bring back what is now an obsolete construction. In fact, treated laminated flooring has a bigger field than the old untreated laminatetl flooring ever had.

Two million feet of maple wood floor tiles have been laid in the new Chicago Postoffice-but it is untreated. An untreated floor always has and always will invite trouble.

I have used steel sash of many types but I know of no sash that gives such universal satisfaction as the old-fashioned double hung wood sash. Now this sash can be made of treated wood and is proving satisfactory even in railroad roundhouses. The entire market for windows opens again for a treated wood sash.

Doors must or should in many locations be fire retardant. The failure to provide such doors of treated wood has led to the development of the metal door with metal trim. Every wood sash and door mill in the country should be turning out a treated product exclusively.

The framing for all types of buildings within the limits of capacity of commercial sizes can well be made of treated ltimber and timbers.

The development of plywood has opened new fields or markets for this product, dependent largely on its being treated. Concrete form sheathing is one example. This new type, design and construction increases very appreciably the useful floor area and decreases the space used by columns, walls, etc. The net head room or vertical clearances remain the same while the gross or over all is decreased. More savings per dollar of investment. To offset this in some instances will be ventilating ducts, which can well be built of plywood-rather a large market. Cellars were originally storage places for vegetables, later for coal and 2 fuln2ss-and have become basements. We no longer store vegetables and the furnace or boiler can be tucked away in a corner of the garage (in either a factory or cottage) with the fuel in a tank beneath the ground. The laundry can g'o into the attic. Eliminate a useless basement and its concrete walls and build to a point below frost, a treated timber bearing wall. This is another use for treated lumber with savings affected. Scaffolding used during building construction, including all concrete form lumber, should be of treated wood. This need was proven again by the I. C. C. building fire on January 6, when large damage was done to steel by the burning of the scaffolding.

Treated wood has special advantages in all places within buildings where there is excessive moisture or humidity. Paper and pulp mills, icing plants (which I mention advisedly), some chemical plants, laundries, plating rooms, etc., are some examples of an ideal condition for treated wood.

In industrial plants there are millions of feet of roof area in which untreated wood, with or without sprinkler system, has been supplanted by gypsum or tile roofing. Treated wood could have been used advantageously, as it would have been cheaper and better. fn foundries and industrial plants, moisture, condensation and resultant damage are of much more common occurrence than generally realized. This wide use of wood can be regained when properly treated wood is properly sold.

Destruction due to termite is estimated at 45 millions per year. The annual losses due to termite, fungi and similar agencies equals one-fifth of the value of the annual timber cut of the country. That wood, untreated, is now being used in dwellings, ranging from the workingman's cottage to the millionaire's palace, is an evidence of the ignorance of the Engineei and Architect and of the lack of intelligent initiative and resourcefulness on the part of the lumber industry to realize the need of educating both the professional man and layman.

I have described so briefly that I may have failed to visualize for you the trend in building design which is leading to an entirely new type of building construction.

I hope you realize, however, something of what is taking place and what it'means to the lumber industry. This is the most critical moment which the industry has ever faced, because it will either find its rightful place in a tremendously enlarged market for a new product, treated wood, or itwill drop entirely out of the picture in the building industry.

This is no exaggeration. Millions of dollars are now being spent to develop houses of all sizes, of steel, tile, composition, patented brick, concrete slabs and a score of other materials, all to replace wood. Considerable progress has been made and definitely satisfactory results are shown. Wood permits of flexibility of design because of. its workabi,lity. Steel is inflerible and lends itself to standardization, but that is one thing which is not wanted. I quote the following from the current bulletin of the Illinois Society of Architects:

"A trade research by the United States Steel Corporation for use within the Corporation on the 'IJse of Steel in Residence Construction,' dated June, 1932, studies fifty-six specific systems. It finds 'the American owner insists on individuality in arrangement and appearance.' And again: 'No proprietary system of steel panel units so far presented, either for framing or filling, contains features of outstanding merit.'

"The survey shows that the American public does not want standardized houses,. and save where employers build for their workmen, the field for these houses is restricted; that two concerns with standard designs in conventional construction and liberal financing plans, have discontinued their housing' business."

If standardized houses of steel are not wanted the

swer, I think, is to be found in individually designed treated wood buildings.

Years of research, investigation, testing and observation have well been spent by the lumber industry in the direction of a perfect treated wood. To this wise efiort there must be a culmination in putting on the market, on all markets, wholesale and retail, treated woods suitable for every possible use in a building. Old uses may be reestablished and ne.w uses will be found.

A clear and forward-looking vision of modern constructi,on must be had and with knowledge and with appreciation and sympathetic understanding of the immensity of the problem and of the immensity of the opportunity, a new era in the lumber industry can and will begin.

The industry must first sell itself on treated lumber just as it eventually sold itself on branded graded lumber. Then, when it has done that, the facts regarding the trends and opportunities of the new construction and consequent new market can be ascertained. Simultaneously, treated woods will be perfected-Methods of manufacture and of distribution will be developed. This means, of course, treatment at the mill of all kinds and sizes of lumber and. complete distribution, wholesale and retail, from mills and yards. Such mill treatment is, I know, even now in operation, as is also limited retail distribution and certainly is a vitally important first step. The successive steps will be taken, I know.

The Engineer, Architect and Contractor in the building industry are not going to concern themselves with the uses of treated woods, even though it is available in every lumber yard in this country. They have been relieved of the necessity of thinking for themselves by manufacturers in all lines of building materials, except lumber. A new product is developed, its uses determined and the manner of its use set forth so that all the Architect has to do is to make his selections from Sweet's Catalog and his samples or by personally.conducted tours of inspection, and the manufacttirer does the rest. This is the kind of competition which the lumber industry is up against.

The development of our product, treated wood, and its uses and applications and the education of the professional man-and of the layman-must go on simultaneously. This situation is a challenge to the lumber industry. It will not go unanswered.

Paper Dresented at the an- Preserveri' Association in Annual Meeting of the American Wood Chicago, January 25, 1933.

HanDwooDS * S oFTwooDS AND

AN UNUSUAL VISITOR

He dropped into my office with a grin upon his face, He talked about the weather and the college football race,

He asked about the family and he told the latest joke, But he never mentioned anyone who's suddenly gone broke.

He talked of books and pictures and the play he'd been to see,

A clever quip his boy had made he passed along to me. He praised the suit of clothes I wore, and asked me what it cost,

But never said a word about the money he had lost. He was with me twenty rninutes, chuckling gaily while he stayed,

O'er the memory of some silly little blunder he had made.

He reminded me that tulips must be planted in the fall, But calamity and tragedy he mentioned not at all.

I thought it rather curious, when he had come and gone, He must have had some tales of woe, but did not pass them on,

For nowadays it seems to me that every man I meet IIas something new in misery and moaning to repeat. And so I wrote these lines for him. who had his share of woe

But still could talk of other things, and let his troubles go;

I was happier for his visit-in a world that's sick with doubt,

.'Twas good to meet a man who wasn't spreading gloom about'

-Author unknown.

HE \vAS SOME WAITER

"f regret sir," said the pedagogic waiter; "that I cannot supply you with the desired information. I am supposed only to serve the soup, not to explain its ingredients."

"But a dead fly, man," persisted the customer; "a dead fly. How did it happen?"

"I am sorry to say, sir, that I have no idea how the poor insect met its fate. Possibly it had not taken food for a long time, and fluttering near the soup, found the aroma particularly appetizing, and eating too heartily, contracted appendicitis, or gastritis, or some similar digestive malady, which, in the absence of an opportunity for the application of X-Rays and appropriate medical and surgical treatment, caused its untimely end."

AN ALL AROUND MAN

An advertiser in, a western village paper sets out the following enticements:

"Know all men by these presents that I, Shadrack H. Arrnstrong, have gasoline for sale at 15 cents a gal. Some say it ain't good gas, but I say it is.

"I will also tie your broom corn, one-half for the other. I crush corn every Thursday.

"Turkeys picked very promptly every day in the week.

"Horseshoeing a specialty at 6 bits a round.

"Watch and pistol repairing guaranteed.

"Shoes half-soled while you wait.

"IJmbrellas fixed, and ax-handles made for 15 cents.

"Will teach southern harmony and the fiddle combine for $3 a mo.

"Pictures enlarged by a new process and my hot tamale and hair-oil recipe goes 330 days for 25 cents per head.

"A good stripper cow for sale.

"Also agent for agricultural implements and newspapers."

IMMEDIATE HELP WANTED

The little school boy was saying his prayers before going to bed, and his mother, who was listening in, heard him say aloud:

"And please, God, make Boston the capitol of Vermont."

"Why, Bobby," said the mother, "why on earth did you ask that?"

"Because," said Bobby, "f made it that way today in my examination paper, and I want it to be right."

SHE TAUGHT HIM

Christopher Morley, in his translations from the Chinese, tells this one:

The learned behaviorist

Who had lectured for twenty years

At the Imperial University

On Analytical Gynosophy

And predicated Stimulus and Response in Woman

Met a young wench at the Feast of Lanterns

Who proved him cockeyed in thirty minutes.

DELIGHTFUL

And then there was the truck driver who said that he liked his job because it enabled him to run into so rnany interesting people.

\(/est Coast Association Holds Annual at Tacoma

E. W. Demarest, Pacific National Lumber Co., Tacoma, rvas elected president of the West Coast Lumberrnen's Association, succeeding John D. Tennant, of the I-ongBell Lumber Co., at the annual meeting of the association held in Tacoma January 27.

F. R. Titcomb, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Tacoma' was elected vice-president for Washington, and George B. McLeod, Hammond Lumber Co., Portland, was elected vicepresident for Oregon. E. G. Griggs, St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co., Tacoma, rvas elected treasurer, and W. B. Greeley, Seattle, was re-elected secretary-manager.

The follorving trustees were elected: H.A. LaPlant, Lyman, Wash.; H. W. Stuchell, Everett, Wash.; E. W. Demarest, Tacoma; C. H. Kreienbaum, Shelton, Wash. ; Albert Scha{er, I\fontesano, Wash.; J. D. Tennant, Longvierv, Wash.; W. W. Clark, Linnton, Wash.; George Gerlinger, Dallas, Ore.; R. T. Moore, Bandon, Ore. Trustees at large, J. H. Bloedel, Seattle, and Chas. Snellstrom, Eugene, Ore. llonorary trustee, Ralph Burnside, Portland, Ore.

Col. Greeley reported that the West Coast organization is in a better position than it has been for the last three years, with the membership now representing 85 per cent of the production of the industry in Oregon and Washington west of the Cascade mountains. He pointed out that one of the greatest problems of the industry is the high cost of transportation of lumber from the mill to the consumer, and suggested u'ays and means of working to reduce this cost.

Col. Greeley gave figures showing that sales were 12 per cent above production in 1932, and stated his belief that lumber prices had reached the bottom' He recommended a minimum rvage for the industry and general adoption of a 30 or 36 hour week, discussed trade extension, and announced development of plans for small house construction by the association.

Resolutions of appreciation to Col. Greeley for his work in the reorganizing of the association, and to Mr. Tennant for his efforts over a period of set'en years as president rvere unanimously Passed.

Worral Wilson of Seattle, director of the United States

HILL tt IIORTON' Ittc.

Wholesalers and Jobbers

Dennison Street Wharf - Oakland' Calif. and

Northern California Ageni! for Booth'Kelly Douglar Fir Lumber

lr IOU DOX'! TNADE WITB U8

WE EOTB LOSD

Our Motto: "Promise Less-Do More" Cdl ANdovcr 1077

Chamber of Commerce, discussed the question of debased foreign currencies.

H. N. Proebstel, traffic manager of the association, made his report, which included announcement of freight rate reductions to the Southwest, which are effective April 1.

The address of Geo. W. Tiayer, senior engineer of the United States Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis., in which he reported important recent developments as a result of tests made at the laboratory in timber construction and design, proved most interesting to the large gathering. He exhibited various types of timber joints, connectors and fasteners developed in Europe which the laboratory has found have great value in timber construction. He also outlined the progress being made in research work at the laboratory.

Roy H. Sharp of Tacoma, former president of the Tacoma Lumbermen's Club, spoke on the progress made in wood promotion by the Tacoma club and the 4L.

John D. Tennant, retiring president, presided, and in his address urged that they give more attention to marketing methods and research in the future.

Ernest H. Meyer

Ernest H. Meyer, of Portland, Ore., former vice-president and treasurer, in charge of the Northwest operations of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., died February 4 following a long illness due to a stroke which he suffered in September, 1931. Funeral services were held at Portland on February 6. Mr. Meyer was born in Bay City, Mich., 52 years ago, and came to Portland in lW. He is survived bv his widow and five children.

GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE PERMITS BOOST S. F. TOTAL

The January total of San Francisco's building permits was raised to $14,557,555 by the inclusion of the permit for Golden Gate bridge steel superstructure, $10,000,000, and for cables, $1,9m,000.

INSURANCE

WITH THAT MUTUAL INTEREST

E:rpert counsel to prevent firesSpecialized policies to protect against lossSubstantial dividends to protect against cost. 'Write any of our companies.

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California Building Permits for January

*Included in l-os Angeles totals.

Yolo Causeway Job Big Factor In Un employment Ref ie]

The California Redwood industry is having an excellent opportunity to observe at close range the workings of Federal emergency relief construction through the use of their products in the widening of the Yolo Causeway, near Sacramento, on which project funds supplied by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation are being used by the California Division of Highways.

The original 'concrete and timber trestle, whi,ch is more than three miles long, was constructed in 1916 and the 22-loot roadway which had become inadequate, and therefore dangerous for present trafiic, is being widened by constructing a Redwood trestle beside the original causeway, so that the completed structure will have a clear roadway ol 42 feetlvide and a 3-foot sidewalk.

Structural gradeg of Redwood have been used for the majority of the timber bridges built by the California Division of Highways.in.the.lastfour years. An added incentive for the use of Redwood in this structure is the fact that its use insures that the greater,portion of the fundb expended w.ill go to the direct relief of Californials unemployed.

More thah 5;500;000 fe.et of 'Redwood 'tiinbers and 3500 Redwood piles are required for the trestle. The efiect of the specification of Redwood for this project was imme-

diate in the Redwood region, for the reason that speed in construction is necessary owing to the fact that emergency relief funds must be expended by the end of the present fis,cal year. As soon as specifications were published crews were put in the woods to get the lengths and quality of logs needed to produ,ce the timbers. Plans were made to increase production at the mills and to secure the piling, and hundreds of men went back to their jobs or were restored to a full time schedule.

The contract for the job was let to D. McDonald of Sacramento and N. M. Ball of Porterville late in October, 1932, 'callins for the completion in 18O days. The test piling were shipped on October 31, and practically all of the 3500 piles were delivered within two months. Lumber shipments began November 26, and more than 3,000,000 feet have left the mills since that date. Construction at this date is well ahead of schedule.

The production of piling had to be crowded into a very short period, but what was lacking in duration of employment was made up by the spread of the work. Smitt land owners were given an opportunity to furnish piling, enabling them to capitalize their own and neighboring labor, tractors, trucks and stumpage. More than 20 indi-

Red,wood, Trestle Being Constructed, lor the Vid,ening ol Yolo Causeway.

viduals with crews ranging from 6 to 50 men received contracts for this rvork. More than 100 cars of piling were shipped by rail, and several trucking contractors were kept busy for two months hauling from piling yards ofi the railroad.

The largest items in the Redwood order are 13,808 stringers, 6xl6-20 ft., using 2,2W,W f.eet; 2,417,M feet of 3x6 decking, and 866 ,caps, 12x14-24 f.t., totaling 29I,NO feet. The size of the proje,ct is indicated by the volume of minor items such as 100,000 feet for solid bridging, and a larger volume for sway braces.

In addition to the Redwood trestle the contract calls for construction of a new bascule span, the lowering of a portion of the present concrete and timber trestle, and the replacing of the decking of the existing timber trestle which will use 250,000 feet of Douglas Fir.

The contractors are employing 200 men, working in two five hour shifts, 30 hours a week.

B. W. LAKIN RETURNS FROM EASTERN TRIP

B. W. Lakin, general manager of The McCloud River Lumber Company, McCloud, Calif., was a Los Angeles visitor the first of the month while enroute to the mill following a business trip in the East. L. S. Turnbull, the company's Southern California and Arizona representative met Mr. Lakin at Tucson where they spent a few days calling on the Arizona trade. Mr. Lakin also spent a ferv days at the company's San Francisco ofifice where he conferred with W. G. Kahman, district sales manager, before returning to McCloud.

SYNTRON IIOTOBLESS ETECTRIC HADTIIERS

ttOtly the Piston moves"

% to 2-inch Drilling Capacity

Veights 1o to 2o lbs.

Priced at t1o0 and up.

Electrlc Drlllr' All Slzer

Portabtc Gr{nderr and Bcnch tl4ler

Goncrete Surtacerc

Ctrend Flerlbte thattr and Equlprncnt

Electrlc llend tawr

Sandecr . Pollcherr . Butterr

C. C. Stibich Now

With Tahoe Sugar Pine Co.

C. C. Stibich

C. C. Stibich, formerly district sales manager in San Francisco for the Pickering Lumber Co., and more recently associated with the Madera Sugar Pine Co. as Northern California sales representative, became sales manager for the pahoe Sugar Pine Co. February 1.

Mr. Stibich is one of the best known men in the selling end of the California Pine industry, and he brings to his new position a wealth of experience in the marketing ot this wood, and an enthusiasm for the business that will prove most valuable.

Operation of the new sawmill at Graniteville will begin in the early spring, and a cut of from 10,000,000 to 15,000,000 feet, mainly Sugar Pine, will be made this season.

Covering Territory as Usual

Correcting reports regarding the curtailment of their sales efiorts in California, the San Francisco office of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Co. states that their salesmen are covering the territory as usual. Their California sales representatives are: San Francisco territory, W. E. Barwick, San Francisco; Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, W. H. Morrison, and Los Angeles territory, C. H. Miller.

RECEIVE MANY CONGRATULATIONS

Mr. and Mrs. H. T. McGrath of Los Angeles are receiving congratulations from their many friends on the birth of a daughter, Elizabeth Carol McGrath, born January 29. Mr. McGrath isa sales representative for the Geo' F. Weiss Lumber Co., Inc., of Los Angeles.

Calilornia Needs Home Loan Bank American Lumber Fih: Creates

By Floyd Dernier, Lumberrnen's Service Association, Los Angeles

A California Home Loan Bank would be just the medium we need to start business moving forward and such a bank could be created and maintained at no cost to the state or its people.

The 3 per cent certificates of a State Home Loan Bank would attract all the money needed to care for our home building and refinancing requirements.

With this money made available at 7 per cent interest, returnable in small monthly payments over a term of years -thousands of progressive deserving families would build moderate price homes at once, while present owners of 'old homes would start a campaign of remodeling and modernizing. Others who have substantial equities and whose horhes are threatened with foreclosure are desperately in need of the assistance such a bank could render.

Present conditions call for unselfish legislation that will protect the American home and create -work for the unemployed.

The creating of such a bank at this time would be for the purpose of meeting present emergencies with the understanding that our lending institutions would be privileged to absorb outstanding contracts any time in the future that they were in position to do s,o.

Many plans have been advanced to meet existing conditions, however, as most of them called for large appropriations or bond issues to be taken care of in future years through increased taxation, they met with the failure they justly deserved.

A State Home Loan Bank is the only logical and practical self-liquidating plan to adopt, as every dollar loaned for building, improving and protecting purposes would be returned with interest and the difference in interest rates of 3 per cent to the investor and 7 per cent to the borrower would more than take care of all organization and maintaining expenses.

We question seriously if there is any other movement or activity that can and will create more employment for dormant labor, restore confidence by starting a buying movement and,force dollars into all lines of trade with less effort than will an active construction and improvement program.

Right now modern, sanitary homes can be constructed more reasonably than at any time during the past fifteen years. This gives additional assurance of safe protection to building and improvement loans, and as it is the homes and home owners who supply most of the funds for general improvements and state expenses, everything that California can do to safeguard and encourage home ownership should be undertaken at this time.

If you are interested in having a California Home toan Bank Act adopted, get your service club and friends to join with you in writing your representative at Sacramento. Also hand this article and the one appearing on Page 24 of the January 15th issue of this Journal to your local editor.

Sensation in Europc

If there are any architects, engineers, or builders in Europe that do not know the advantages of American construction lumber it is not the fault of the National Committee on Wood Utilization. For the past three years this committee, in co-operation with commercial attaches of the Commerce Department, has arranged for the showing of the Long-Bell film depicting the felling of the gigantic Douglas fir timbers on the Pacific Coast, their conversion into. lumber in mamrnoth sawmills, and the application of this product to a variety of industrial and construction uses.

From all parts of Europe the National Committee on Wood Utilization has received grateful testimony from lumbermen, engineers, architects, builders, edugators and industrialists stating that this film has eaabled them to visualize the problems involved toa far greater extent than they could before with their scant knowledge of American conditions.

There are hardly any virgiri forests left in Europe, according to Axel H. Oxholm, Director of the National Committee on Wood Utilization, who on a recent visit in Europe supervised the showing of the film. The audiences were thunder-struck upon seeing trees 200 feet to 300 feet high falling before the axes of what seemed in the iricture to be pygmy lumbermen. Gigantic, electrically operated machines tumbled these huge logs as if they were match sticks. They were carried on trains.to the sawmills, and without the touch of human hands were cut up into lumber and timbers.

The greatest interest undoubtedly 'u/as shown in Germany, where the film was constantly on the go for more than a year and a half. Visitors from every corner of the globe heard of this film and requested to have it shown in their native couitries. Thus the film was shown before governmental bodies, important educational institutions, and professional societies in England, Sweden, Norway, Denmark,' Switzerland, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, and other countries.

The climax was a request from Oxford University where the film was shown before the student body of that worldrenowned institution of learning.

On a visit in the Netherlands, Mr. Oxholm witnessed the installation of heavy Douglas fir timbers in dock construction. The supervising engineer, a stranger to Mr. Oxholm, stepped up and pointed to the timbers, stating, "I have just seen the film showing where this lumber grows and ho-w it was produced, and it will always remain in my memory as the most spectacular thing I ever have seen."

On an official trip to the Panama Canal Zone requested by the Governor, Mr. Oxholm demonstrated this film before Canal engineers at a special meeting called for the purpose.

The film was placed at the disposal of the National Committee on Wood Utilization by the Long-Bell Lumber Company, showing the operation of their logging camps and sawmills in Longview, Washington.

New Window Display for Lumber-Paint Dealer

Washington, Feb. 1.-A brand new Clean Up and Paint

IJp window display in ten brilliant colors of real paint is announced by the National Clean Up and Paint Up Campaign Bureau for 1933.

The new display features both interior and exterior painting, varnishing and decorating, refinishing of furniture, and repairing and modernizing of property, with a big red {'NOIV" to emphasize immediate action. Supple-

Inwood Gets Good Boost

fnwood, the well known one-coat finish for wood, linoleum or concrete, advertised recently in these columns, received special mention in Bulletin No. 13 recently issued by the trade extension department of the California Redwood Association on "Painting and Finishing California Redwood Exteriors." The item is as follows:

INWOOD-A special product, manufactured by Inwood Products Corporation, San Francisco and Oakland, California, who attribute toit unusual preservative and water-proofing qualities. Made in clear for natural finish and also any stain colored to suit requirements. Manufacturers claim this to be a one coat_finish for interior or exterior that is almost everlasting and not affected by any climatic conditions. May be applied by brush or spray in the usual manner. The clear may be colored with colors inoil or dry colors by the customer. ft comes highly recommended by many users.

menting the picturized suggestions are admonitions. to "Clean Up-Paint Up-Fix Up-Modernize-BeautifyRenovize."

The new display is approximately 32 inches high and 46 inches wide when fully extended, is die cut, and is made in two. hinged wings. The left wing emphasizes interior and furniture painting, with a painter working on a wall, a woman painting a cabinet, and a prominent display of paints and brushes. The right wing pictures the painting of the outside of the house, a carpenter sawing lu-mber for making repairs, a man repairing the roof, the featuring of garden tools, etc.

The displays will be sold on a cooperative basis, at a price intended to cover only the Bureau's own cost and handling, for $1.45 each, regardless of quantitn including an individual corrugated shipping carton for each display, carriage charges to be paid by the purchaser.

The Bureau will imprint the displays in lots of 25 or more at a small additional charge to cover the cost.

The descriptive circular showing the display in full color will be sent in response to requests by the National Clean Up and Paint Up Campaign Bureau, 2201 New York Avenue, N.\M., Washington, D. C.

WESLEY SHRIMP VISITS LOS ANGELES

Wesley Shrimp, Cresmer Manufacturing Co., Riverside, was a recent Los Angeles visitor where he spent a few days on company business.

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LUMBERAVAILABLE PRIME of LIFE and HEALTH EXPERIENCE with DIRECT CONTRACTOR and INDUSTRIAL, TRADE-IN, FARMING, CITY and OIL FIELD, COMMUNITIES. NO FACTIONAL nor MARRIAGE AFFILIATIONS. BEST ABILITY AS BRANCH YARD MANAGER. Address Box C-465 Catifornia Lumber Merchant.

EXECUTIVE-MANAGER

Lumberman open for a position with progressive lumber company where responsibility and initiative are essential. Fifteen years practical experience in the logging, manufacturing, wholesale and retail ends of the business. At present employed, and for the past ten years have been manager and in ,charge of sales of a large wholesale and retail yard in California. Will go any place and would consider position in the Orient. Central or South American countries. Address Box C-470. California Lumber Merchant.

Complete Extension Course

The final meeting of the Extension Class in "Wood and Its Properties" for lumbermen sponsored by the East Bay Hoo Hoo Club was held at the University of California, Berkeley, Thursday evening, January 19. The course began last October. Prof. Emanual Fritz, of the School of Forestry, was the instructor. Taylor L. Sublett, Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, who was chairman of the committee appointed by the East Bay Hoo Hoo Club to organize the class, has forwarded a letter to the University thanking them in behalf of the class for their cooperation in making the class possible.

ATTRACTIVE CALENDAR

The Hyde Park Lumber Co. has sent out an attractive calendar which makes a very nice decoration for the home or the office. A photograph of their yard and the calendar is mounted on a piece of plywood, 8 inches by 6 inches, that is sandblasted and beautifully stained. The Hyde Park Lumber Co. is located at 6722 Crenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles.

VISITS HOME OFFICE

Clyde W. Osborne of Portland, manager of the creosoting department of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., arrived in San Francisco February 9 to spend a few days at the comDanv's head office.

L. A. GANAHL ON WORLD TOUR

L. A. Ganahl, Santa Barbara, Calif., is making a world tour on the Dollar Liner S. S. President. A post card recently received from Japan states that he is having a wonderful trip.

WANTED

Redwood or White Pine ,connection for Ohio territory requiring full and exclusive time. Have been exclusive Cypress salesman in Ohio many years for large Cypress manufacturer. For obvious reasons would prefer change from Cypress to Redwood or White Pine. Address Box C-469, The California Lumber Mer,chant.

POSITION \,i/ANTED

As Manager, Bran.ch Manager, General Manager, or Salesman, by married man in his forties, thoroughly experienced in all branches of the lumber business. Has been general manager for years and now finds himself in the market for a position due to a consolidation. Address Box C-467, The California Lumber Merchant.

FOR SALE

Lumber Yard-$3000.00 for all stock of lumber and other building materials, truck, safe and adding machine. Rent $35 per qonth for yard. 24O lin. ft. shed and warehouse.

Write Geo. W. Jones Lumber Co., Box 445, Walnut Creek. Calif.

Appointed Yard Manager

C. F. Dill has been appointed manager of the Dill Lumber Co. yard at Redlands, Calif. I{e was formerly connected with the company's yard at Arlington. He is the son of Fred Dill, who operates several retail lumberyards in Southern California. The headquarters of the Dill Lumber Co. is at Arlington.

MAX COOK VISITING SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Max Cook, The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, is spending a few weeks in Southern California on a business trip.

CHANGE OF OFFICE

The California Redwood Association have moved their Los Angeles office to room 771, Architects Building. Their telephone number is MUtual 5771. R. R. Leishman and E. W. Hemming, Association fieldmen, make their headquarters at the Los Angeles office.

WESTERN RETAILERS' CONVENTION

The 30th Annual Convention of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association will be held at the Multnomah Hotel, Portland, February 23, 24 and 25.

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