J. P. Hemphill Succeeds Elmer H. Cox With Sugar Pine Lumber Company

It is announced by The Sugar Pine Lumber Company, of Fresno, that Elmer H. Cox has resigned the position of ,Vice President and General Manager of that concern, and that Mr. J. P. Hemphill, who has been Assistant to Mr. Cox in that office, has been elected Vice President and General Manager to succeed him. Mr. Hemphill has been identified with the E. H. Cox lumber interests and activities since 1910. He was formerly general manager of the Madera Sugar Pine Company, and thoroughly acquainted with all the activities of the new Sugar Pine Lumber Company.

Twohy Lumber Company Establishes Department of "Twohy Redwood"

. A. E. Tuohs

The Twohy Lumber Company, lvell known rvholesalers in Los Angeles for the past ten years, have inaugurated a new idea in the handling of redrvood products in the Southern California territory:

Mr. Arthur E. Twohy, the head of this live organization, believing earnestly in his theory that the customers in most cases buy their materials from the individual salesman or agent, rather than from a particular source, has recently made arrangements with several of the manufacturers of redrt'oods, whereby his company will sell stock from their mills, handling it on a commission basis, and handling the entire transaction through his orvn company.'

Mr. Twohy states that he feels that he rvill be able to better serve his many good customers in the south, offer them a more complete line, and inasmuch as the grades and lists of t.hese stocks are so uniform, he will make his sales appeal rnore frorn a standpoint of personal service in the transaction, and a reliability and responsibility proven by his companys record in California.

The Twohy Lumber Company lvas formed in Los Angeles, by Arthur E. Twohy in 1914. Prior to that time Mr. Trvohy for nine years he had been connected with the Pacific Lumber Company, for five years at the Scotia plant, and for four years in Los Angeles as assistant sales mahager in Southern California.

This company also has. the exclusive agency in Southern California for the J. M. Huddart Lumber Company, of San Francisco, They ship a large quantity of fir into the Califrlrnia, all cargo. This company operates the Steamers '.fahoe and the Hoquiam.

Announcement is made at Fresno that Mr. Cox cohtinues as President of the Minarets & Western Railway, the logging line that serves the Fresno mill, and also that there is no change whatever in the Madera Sugar Pine Company, at Madera, which Mr. Cox continues to serve as Vice Presideht and General Manager.

It is likewise announced that there will be no change in the sales departments of the two mills at Fresno and Madera. Mr. D. C. Birch sells the Shop and Better lumber for both mills, and I\{r. W. F. Baird the lesser grades.

Lumber Manufacturers Urged to Make Census Return Promptly

Washington, Feb. zF-W. M. Steuart, Director of the Bureau of .Census, Department of Commerce, has reminded the National Lumber Manufacturers Association that up to January 31 only 35 per cent of the manufacturers required to make returns for the census of. 1923, had been heard from. A second reminder is nolv being sent out by the Bureau to all who so far failed to make their returns. The Bureau is organized to .compile and announce the totals for lumber within a few days after the receipt of the last report. It is. therefore, up to the lumber manufacturers to obtain early authentic figures on the 1923 output. The National Lumber Manufaclurers Association is therefore urging all lumber producers to comply at once with the Census Bureau's rbqrrest.

ConsultingCommittee to Meet

There will be a'meeting of, the Consulting Comrnittee on Lumber Standards at the Congress Hotel, Chicago, on March 20-21, beginning at 10:00 a. m.

At this meeting an endeavor rvill be made to formulate such recommendations on the following subjects as may be considered practicable of ratification this spring:

(a) Basic Grades for Yard Lumber.

(b) Basic Grades for Structural Timbers.

(c) Odd and Short Length Lumber.

(d) Bundling.

(.) Definitions of Defects ancl Plemishes.

(f) Grade Marking.

(g) Standard Form of Specification for Softwood Lumber Grading Rules.

(h) Rough Dry Yard Lumber Sizes.

(i) Basic Factorylumber Grading Rules.

(j) Mouldings.

(k) Simplification of workings (i. e. Flooring).

(1) Tally Cards.

(*) Shipping Weights for Lumber.

(n) Inspection Service.

(c) Shipping Instructions.

(p) Lumber Definitions and Abbreviations.

(q) Nomenclature of Commercial Species.

(t) Shingles.