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By Jach Dionne

Age not guaranteed-Some I have told f.or 2O years-some less

A Doubtful Boost

A very active real estate developer has been bringing homeseekers from far northern states to one of the Southwestern states, and selling them farm land with much success during the past winter. But misfortune struck him and he brought in a car load of Yankee farmers from somewhere along the Canadian border, just about the time the big freeze came, early in Januarp and when his crowd arrived in the land of sunshing they found the ground covered with snow, and there was much commotion.

The prorhoter gave them his word that is was the first time it had ever snowed there, etc., etc., never would again, but it wouldn't do. They wouldn't believe him. So he sug-

MYRON C. WOODARD IS SAN FRANCISCO VISITOR

lVlyron C. Woodard, President of the Silver Falls Timb gested that he take a committee of them out into the country, and let them discover for themselves whether or not the severe weather was unusual. So they drove out, and stopped where a rancher stood at his door, and one of the visitors accosted him.

!9mpa_ny, Silverton, Oregon, and Vice-president of thi West Coast Lumbermen's Association, wai a visitor to San Francisco during the last week of February.

"How long you been living here?"

"All my life."

"How old are you?"

"Thirty years."

"Ilave you ever seen it snow here before?"

"No sir, I never have," replied the native son, ..BIJT SEEN IT RAIN TWICE.''

MAY BE WORLD'S BIGGEST TREE

According to the State Department of Natural Resources, the giant Sequoia near Crannell, Humboldt County, is 308 feet high, 2O f.eet in diameter, and contains 361,366 board feet of merchantable timber, enough to make lumber to build 22 homes of average size.

ALBERT R. ISRAEL RESIGNS

LONGVIEW, Wn., March 6.-Albert R. Israel, who has been a member of tlre West Coast Lumber Bureau's staff since January,1927, resigned on March 1. During his connection with the Bureau, Mr. Israel wrote the booklets on West Coast Hemlock, Western red cedar and Sitka Spruce and also assisted in handling the West Coast Woods Architectural Competition. For the past five months he has been on a special assignment for the Bureau in California, making headquarters at Los Angeles.

Mr. and Mrs. Israel plan to return to their former home in Nerv Orleans, where he contemplates engaging in business.

PACIFIC COAST BUILDING.LOAN ASSOCIATION SHOIy\/ LARGE INCREASE IN ASSETS

An increase in assets of $461,693.01 since January 1, and the opening of an agency office at No. 51 Broadway-Spring Arcade is innounced by the Pacific Coast Building-Loan Association of Los Angeles.

The total assets of the Association on March l, 7928, were $3,326,461.03 as compared with $1,529,67O.29 on March I, 1927, an increase for the year of $1,796,850.74 ot 117 per cent.

The nelv agency office known as the "Arcade Agency" is in charge of F. R. Dunbar and J. W. Mulcahy, representatives of the associat'ion since it was organized.

Monolith Starts Activity In Hawaii

Active stimulation dnd extension of markets for their cement products, in keeping with a comprehensive- program of expansion, will be started in Hawaii, according-to C. A. Low, vice-president and general manager of the Monolith Portland Cement Company.

Capt. A. Bullock-Webster, special representative for the Monolith interests, left Los Angeles recently on the Lassco liner, City of Los Angeles, for Honolulu, where he will make his headquarters for several months' to direct the program of promotion and distribution of Monolith products in that territory.

Capt. Webster is well known throughout California as a golf enthusiast. He has won championship tournaments on 2 difterent occasions.

Officials directing the Monolith interests report that the plant expansion work at Monolith, California, is progressing rapidly, and the new plant of the Monolith Midwest Company, at Laramie, Wyoming, lvill be in full operation this summer, shipping cement as far east as Nebraska and covering. the intermountain territory.

Increased production is imperative, they say, to meet the steadily growing dernand for Monolith products in both domestic and foreign markets, which proved greater than the supply last year.

CONGRESS HEARS FAVORABLE TESTIMONY ON McSWEENEY FOREST RESEARCH BILL

Washington, March 3.-Public hearings .on the McSweeney Bill which will provide a comprehensive plan for forestry research were brought to a close yesterday noon be{ore the House Committe on Agriculture, with every prospect that the proposed legislation will be enacted into law at an early date. The bill was favorably received by the Committees of both Houses of Congress, after favorable testimony had been offered by a long list of witnesses representing all sections of the country, and a large diversification of interests. No opposition was in evidence. It is understood the President has expressed his readiness to give his approval at the proper time.