From the Fi Ten les of Th Years Ago Today e California Lumb er Merchant, March 15,1925

One of the largest crowds on record was present at the land, paid their Los Angeles offi,ce a short visit the early Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo concatenation and |inx on the eve- part of the month. ning o{ February 27. Sixteen kittens .ivere initiated. An entertainment follor,ved the initiation.

Eighty-two members of tl-re Northeastern Lumberrnen,s Association on tour of the Pacific Coast, following a visit to the Union Lumber Company mill at Fort Bragg, were tendered a luncheon at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, on March 4, by the California Redwood and pine Associations. J. M. Hotchkiss, president of the Redrvood Association, presided at the tur.n.or. * * *

The Northeastern Lumbermen's Association party spent March 6 at Los Angeles where they were entertainecl by the firm of E. J. Stanton & Son. Follorving an inspe,ction of the company's plant they were taken on a sight-seeing trip through Hollywood where they visited the Warner Bros. moving picture studio. Luncheon was served at the Flintridge Country Club, A. B. McAlpine of E. J. Stanton & Son presiding at the luncheon. A{ter luncheon the party rvas taken for a tour through Pasadena.

Builcling permits auri,r] i.oluu.r, t925, in San Francisco tcrtaled $3,871,487.00 which lvas an increase ol g462,864.00 over the preceding month of January.

The Grenfell Lumber -., *nl.n operates a yarcl at Colusa, has openecl a new yard at Butte City-.

Duncan Matheson of t;. l",J oro',.,sco potice Departnlent was the speaker at the Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9 meeting held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, on Februar_v 26. R. F. Hammatt was chairman of the dav. ***'

Fred S. Palmer of San Francisco, rvell known California Pine distributor, is in the E,ast and plans to attend the meeting of the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association at Atlantic Citv on March 18-19. ***

The Coast Counties Hoo-Hoo .ivill hold a dinner and concatenation at San Jose on the evening of March 28. Following the dinner and concatenation, there will be dancing until midnight. A large delegation df Hoo-Hoo members from San Francisco and the East Bay District will attencl the meeting.

L. J. Wooclson of ,"" ir"i.,lo is on a business trip in the Northwest where he will visit Portland, Seattle and Tacoma. He expects to spend a fetv days at the WheelerOsgood plant at Tacoma.

E. E. Johnson of the C. D. Johnson Lumber Co., port-

Homer Derr of the J. M. Derr Lumber Co., Elk Grove, has returned from a trip to Oroville where he visited the mills in that clistrict

The report on visitors to the national forests of California, released by the San Fran,cis,co headquarters of the U. S. Forest Service, showed that 4,154,761 people traveled into or through these great summer playgrounds during 1924.

"Clean Competition is the Life of Business" is the leading editorial by Jack Dionne.

Two hundrecl of;ficers of the California District, U. S. Forest Service, completed a ten days' conference at Fort Miley, San Francisco, on February 27. The greater part of the conference meetings were given over to the consideration of the findings and recommendations of the Forest Servic€ Board of Fire Review, based on experien,ces of the 1924 fire season. All phases of forest protection and fire suppressior-r work rvere discussed by the foresters. ***

"The Cash Discount Problem" is discussed in this issue by Roy A. Dailey of Seattle,Il.n

A. J. Barker, Acrne Lumber & Shingle Co., Chicago, spent several clays in San Francisco where he was making a survey of lumber market conditions in California. His trip to the West Coast also included visits to Portland and Seattle where he visited some of the Northwest mills.

C. H. McDonalcl, S""ttL .rlnJ".","r, spent several days in Los Angeles and San Francisco looking over lumber conditions in the California market. **t<

Arthur Tlvohy, Los Angeles wholesaler, is at his ran,ch in the San Joaquin Valley where he will spend about three rveeks, retuning to Los Angeles about April 1.

Western States Lead in Housing

Six Western states lead the nation in housing activity according to a statement by Alfred B. Swinnerton, regional director of the Federal Housing Administration, in San Francisco, March 2.

The states are California, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona. In spite of the fact that these states contain only seven per cent of the nation's population, they have accounted for one-fifth of all loans granted, and 18 per cent of the money involved, Mr. Srvinnerton said.

Chief Forester to Address Lumber Gathering at New Orleans

Washington, Mar'ch 6.-F. A. Silcox, chief forester of the United States, will address the National Control Committee of the Lumber Code Authority and the annual meetings of the Southern Pine Association and the Hardwood Manufacturers Institute at New Orleans on March 13. It is expe,cted that Mr. Silcox will discuss the broad subject of forest conservation, dealing especially with the programs of public and of industry action recommended by the conference of public and industry representatives in 1933 and in 1934, held in accordance with the provisions of Article 10 of the Lumber Code.

The National Control Committee will be in session in New Orleans from March 12 to 15, and will then adjourn to meet in Washington on Mar,ch 18.

President Signs San Diego Fair Bill

On March 7 President Roosevelt signed the bill appropriating $350,0m for the construction of a building and maintenance of a Federal exhibit at the California-Pa'cific International Exposition at San Diego. Several members of the California congressional delegation were present' The President informed the group that he hopes to visit the exposition.

The two pens used in signing the measure were presented to Representative George Burnham of California who will send them to the exposition management' The exposition which opens on May 29 will run for ten weeks.

Galen H. Pierce

Galen H. Pierce, secretary of Hogan Lumber Company, Oakland, was instantly killed on March 2 when the car in whi,ch he was riding crashed into a stalled truck on the Dumbarton Bridge highway near Newark.

Glenn Pier,ce, his twin brother, who was driving the car, was severely injured.

Mr. Pierce was born in Wisconsin 41 years ago. He had been associated. with the Hogan Lumber Company for about four years, and at one time was with E. K. Wood T umber Company.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ethel M. Pierce, a daughter, Miss Gayle Pierce, his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Pierce; a sister, \{rs. Effie Krampeter, and a brother, Glenn V. Pierce.

\(/ork on Exposition Buildings Being Rushed

Construction work on the exhibit buildings at the California-Pacific International Exposition at San Diego which opens on May 29 is rapidly going forward' Work has already commenced on the California State Building, Palace of Education, Women's Palace, Ford Building, Standard Oil Building and Villages of all Nations.