Convention "Bumped" Thin Shingles

By Jack

, If there was any. doubt in the minds of thin shingles as to how they stand in the Middle West and SouthweJt with the retail lumber dealers, those doubts should have been thoroughly and utterly removed in Tanuary. when thev discussed shingles at the annuar convintion oi ttt. Soutli- western Lumbermen's Association at Oklahoma Citv. They were all "agin' 'em" and were frank to say .;. N;i a word was spoken in their behalf.

. And there were quite.a number of good shingle manu- facturers in the hall to hear the remarks that raiere made, and they came away more convinced than ever before thai the.thin shingle as a roof covering is doomed, and frankly said so.

The California Lumber Merchant desires to call the direct and specific attention of the shingle men to the fact that in the past 18 months wooden shingles have staged the best "come back" of their long historyl In our opinTon the. standing of Red Cedar ShinglEs with ihe building trade and the lumber trade of the nation is better than it his ever been, and this is due to just one thing and that thine un_ questionably and undoubtedly is sim]plv the rapidl? ln_ creased use of better shingles. That's- tlre whole^ stoiy in a nutshell, and the man who doubts it doesn't ..know- his groceries," in the language of the street.

The lumber dealers are universally discovering that when they correctly and honestly and intelligently jemonstrate to the prospective user the comparatiie iOSf u"a it. co.mparative VALUE of these thin shingles as compared with and contrasted with better shineles] nine out of t.r, customers -will buy the better roof every time. And be_ cause hundreds upon hundreds of dealeis are doing this,

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Dionne and.thousands upon thousands of buyers are, as a result, getting much better wooden shingle ioofs than they were getting a couple of years ago, the public opinion of wooden roofs. has been constantly improving.

And write it down in your note book and burn it into the front of your consciousness that every time a better shingle roof is sold in a town, public opinion of wooden roofs has been raised in that town, and [he welfare of the Red Cedar Shingle industry has been enhanced NATIONALLY.

The chances are that the membership of every other progressive retail lumber association in the country feels about the thin shingle proposition just as the members of the Southwestern expressed themselves as feeling.

The sale of thin shingles for side walls may be all right, but_as long as they are made and sold and kept in stock-by d.eale_rs. they will be sold for roofing, the heat of competi- tion b-eing to blame for that fact generally, and the shihgle manufacturer who announces to the trade that no lon{er will he manufacture the thin shingle is giving his industry a boost for the better, and the more that takes that actioil the merrier.

The California Lumber Merchant has been telling the trade the truth about thin shingles in its special editorials on the subject, and is proud of it. It believes in wooden shingles, has worked hard for wooden shingles, and believes conscientiously that the one great thing that the wooden shingle industry needs is to entirely quit making a shingle thinner than five to two.

And if that be treason, we have been treasonable these manv vears.

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There's the story in prim' er language. No more needless duplicati eight standardized roofings that meet exactly every requrrement.

Mr. Hoover has been preaching elimination of waste. 'Weaver did it. It means more money for you.

Californians at Western Retail Annual

The follorving Californians .ivere registered at the Annual meeting of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association, Seattle, last month: rvv. S. Wells, Upson Company, San Francisco.

B. J. Williams, Paraffine Companies, San Francisco.

E. L. Holland, Paraffine ComDanies. San Francisco.

J- M. I iving'stone, Paraffine Cornpanies, San Francisco.

P. NI. Nosbryhm, Rio Linda.

Unloads Record Cargo

The Steamer "Coos Bay" or.vned by the Coos Bay Lumber Company, and recently put into service from -I\{arshfield to Southern California, made a record at San Pedro when she arrived at that port on the 21st of February carrying .2,87.2,Ufi feet. This is said to be the largesi carg_o ^of lumber ever to have arrived at this port.

While making records, she also establisheh a mark to shoot at, in unloading this tremendous amount of stock in the short time of tt'enty-eight hours.

Exeter Lumber Company Sold

C. L. Burnett, operating the C. L. Burnett Lumber Company, at Exeter, and Mr. O. W. Carr, a banker of the same city, have purchased the yard and stock of the Exeter Lumber Company, operated for years by Mr. C. Kimball Crane.

The_ yard_will be consolidated with the original plant owned by Mr. Burnett, and the institution wilf be knorvn as the Burnett-Carr Lumber Company.

Mr. Crane will retire from the lumber business, devoting his entire time to the various ranch properties that he owns in the valley.

There is one other yard at Exeter, the W. R. Spaulding Lumber Company.

New Mill

Cottage Grove, Ore.-A sat'mill with a 100,000 capacity and a railway_to the timber five miles west of the city wiil be constructed during the coming year by J. H. Chambers, rvho has added 56,00d,000 feet of'glv;inment timber to his former ho.ldings of 100,000,@0 feet arljoining. The gov- ernment timber must be cut rvithin ten years.

Chases Gloom

"Enclosed find our check for $2.00 covering another trvelve months insurance against "Old Man'Gloom." Sonoma Valley Lumber Co.

Political Freedom

A nation still, the rulers and the ruled. Some sense of drrty. something of a faith, Some reverence for the laws ourselves have made. Some patient force to change them tvhen rve will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd

Portland, Feb. 18.-At a special acljourned meeting of trustees of the West Coast Lumbermen's Associi.tion "held here today, E. D. Kingsley, president of the West Oregon l- umbe-r -Company, Linnton, Oregon, was elected prEsi- dent of the Association for L925. -

Mr. Kingsley has been a lumber manufacturer for nearly a. quarter. of a century in this district, and was formerly vi.ce preside_nt _gf the- association. It'is a high personil tribute to, Mr. Kingsley..that his election to thJprisidency should take place a1 a -time when he was not on the boarcl ot trustees.

The other officers for 1925 are as follows: C. D. Johnson, vice president; James H. Prentice, Bellinghamj Wash., vi_ce president; J. E. Manley, Tacoma, treasurer, and R. B. Allen, secretary-manager.

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