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Decker Returns From Middle West

Mark Decker, California White and Sugar Pine inspector with headquarters in San Francisco, has returned to San Francisco after a temporary detail in the Middle West on association work.

New Retail Lumber Yard At Dinuba

W. Hardwick has opened d new yard at Dinuba, Tulare County, where he will carry on a general retail lumber business. Mr. Hardwick was formerlv in the retail lumber business in fowa, where he was inferested in several lumber yards.

/r"oo*o"o & HARRINGTON OPEN PINE DEPARTMENT

Announcement has'been made by McDonald & Harrington, who carry on a general wholesale lumber business in San Francisco, that they have now opened a new department which will dea,l entirelv with California White and Sugar Pine. This new deparlm-ent will be undei the cranagement of Henry O. Geary. Mr. Geary spent several years with the McCloud Lumber Co., large manufacturers of pine, and has a large acquaintanceship among the lumbermen of California. Mr. Geary took up his new duties on February 1 and reports that his new department is making rapid progress.

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W. B. DEAN BECOMES EXECUTIVE HEAD OFI DIAMOND MATCH IN CALIFORNIA

W. B. Dean, of Chico, has stepped up again, this time to the highest ex'ecutive capacity within the gift of the great concern he serves, The Diamond Match C,o,mpany.

Mr. W. A. Fairburn, President of all the Diamond interest, is a visitor in Ca.lifornia. and has been looking over the vast properties in this state. H,e announces that Mr. Dean is now executive head of all Diamond Match Company ipterests in California, including mills, timber, lands, retail yards, finances, etc. Mr. Fairburn also ann,ounces that improvements and extensions are to be m.ade to their big Sterling City operation; and that more timber will be added to their already great holdings.

Gritzmacher And Matheny Form Partnership

A. B. Gritzmacher. formerlv o'f Gritzmacher and l,ohnson, and Edward Matheny have formed a partnership and are conducting.a general wholesale lumber business at 172 Market Street, San Francisco. Mr. Johnson retired from the firm of Gritzmacher to look after his other interests. Mr. Matheny, the new member of the concern, was formerly in the wholesale lumber business for himself with offices at San Ffancisco. The new firm of Gritzmacher and Matheny are the California agents for the Til,lamook Lum'ber Co. and the A. F. Coates Lu,mber Co., both of ' Tillamook, C)regon.

1923 Should Break Building Records

The January first issue of The California Lu'm,ber Merchant expressed the opinion that 7923 wou,ld be a greater building year than 1922.

Figuies furnished by The American Contractor, of Chicago, leading authority on building statistics, show that January started in to fu'lfill that prophecy. The cities of the United States reported for January building records surpassing January, 1972, by exactly 45 per cent.

Again Los Angeles was the third city in the land in building, being led only 'by New York and Chicago.

Hamm Visits Los Angeles

W. H. Hamm of San Francisco, in charge of the Box Shook Department of McDonald and Harrington, has returned to San Francisco after spending several days on business in Los Angeles and other Southern Ca'lifornia points. Whi'le in the south, he looked over the new mill and box factory of the Los Angeles Lumber Products Co., now under construction at San Pedro.

MRS. EGGELSTON RECOVERS FROM ATTACK OF INFLUENZA

Mrs. Jessie Eggelston, Secretary of the California Retail Lumbermen's A,ss,ociation has returned to' her office after being confined to her home for several days with influenza. She is now 'much improved and in a few days states that she will be back to normalcy.

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