State Association Directors Meet at San Francisco

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tZ New Members.

Directors of the Northern District of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association held a joint breakfast meetine with the Northern District secretaries at 8:30 a. m. in thi Palace Hotel, San Francisco, Friday, March 7.

President Harry A. Lake presided, and in the course of his remarks said ihe membership of the association is now 414, of which 225 are new members, elected in the last 14 months.

The following new members who have ?Pplied lof- "{- mission to the association were elected: Garrett Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland; Boorman Lumber Co', Oakland; Hill Lumber & Hardware 'Co., Berkeley; Independent Mill & Lumber Co., Berkeley; Larsen Bros., San Leandro; California Mill & Lumber Co., Alameda; Mill Valley Lumber Co. Inc., Mill Valley; Griswold Lumber Co', Chico; Home Buiders Co., Gridley; Newcastlq Lumber Co., Newcastle; Hazelton Lumber Co., Orland, and Union Lumber Co., Marysville.

F. Dean Prescott, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno' g'ave an interesting report on the cement situation in the Northern District, and Mr. Lake reported on the roofing and cement situations in the Southern District'

C. H. Griffin, Jr., Homer T. Hayward Lumber Co., Santa Cruz, gave a brief report on a joint meeting of the_association's lumber committee of which he is a member, and representatives of the manufa'iturers of Redwood, held recently at Santa Cruz, for the purpose of discussing their common problems and promoting better relations between the retailers and the Redwood manufacturers.

Northern District secretaries representing almost every

R. C. IONES ON CENTRAL AMERICAN TRIP

Ri"hard- C. Ton"t of the Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., district were present at the joint meeting, an-d-also held a separate meeting at 10:30 a. m., which. was followed by a luncheon meetin--g at which they were joined by a number of out of town tJt"il.tt' C. D' LeMaster, secretary of the Northern Counties Lumbermen's Club, presided.

San Francisco, sailed on March 7 on the S'S. Suriname, from San Francisco for a tour of Central America.

Mr. Jones, who was accompanied by Mrs. Jones, will be gone about 60 days, and will visit the Canal Zone; San Jose; errrin.to, Nicaragua; Guatemalai La IJnion, Salvador, and other points. He has his golf clubs along, and carries letters of introduction to some gentlemen in each place of call who will be able to give him a good game.

Directors present were: I{. A. Lake, Garden Grove; A' L. Hubbard.^Hubbard & Carmichael Bros., San Jose; A' S' M. Pearce. E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Oakland; M' A' Harris, Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San, Francisco; C. H. Griffen, Jr., Homer T. Hayward Lumber Co., Fresno; Elmer Ellis, Palo Alto Lumber Co., Palo Alto.

Also prisent were Dee C. Essley, manager' Calfornia Retail iumbermen's Association; Paul Overend, California Retail Lumbermen's Association, San Francisio; Paul M. P. Merner, Merner Lumber Co., Palo Alto; Z. T. Ttrorning, Gray-Ttrorning Lumber Co., Redwood City i I:*.F' Hiyward, Pacific Mfg. Co., Santa Cla-r-a; Ira E. Brink, The Diimond-Match Co., Chico; T. A. Work, Jr., The Work Lumber Co., Monterey, and W. T. Black, The California Lumber Merchant, San Francisco.

District secretaries who attended were: M. D. Bishop, Coast Counties' Lumbermen's Association, Watsonville; T. L. Gardner. Central California Lumbermen's Club, Stockton; Hal Baldwin, Fresno Lumber Club; Robqt Cameron, Marin County Lumbermen's Association; C' D' Le Master, Sacramento; n. p. Davison, Salinas; A. Stoodley, Santa Cruz Lumbermen's Association; S.J' -Y"1S9, Sicramento Lumbermen's Credit Association; E. H' Galpin, Peninsula Lumbermen's Club, Palo Alto; ' Fred A' fohit-.t, Monterey Lumbermen's Club, and J. B. McKeon. Oakland.

ERIC BARHAM VISITS SATI T'NET'ICISCO

Eric Barham, general representative of The Little River Redwood Co. in ihe West Indies, Central and South America. arrived in San Francisco on the Panama Pacific liner Viiginia February 28, for a short visit to the company's home office.

Mr. Barham has just completed a twelve months' trip, in the course of which he called on the various ofifr'ces and agents of the company in the principal cities of the territories named.