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From the Lumber Merchant, March 1 5, 1928

Lumbermen of the Pacific Northwest have been congratulated by Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, and W. M. Jardine, Secretary of Agriculture, on obtaining the services of Col. W. B. Greeley, Chief Forester of the United States, as secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association.

A series of photographs show the San Diego Hoo-Hoo members doing reforestation work on the watershed at Lake Morena, the San Diego municipal water system. About fifty partictipated in this work on Sunday, September 12, and over 1,000 Coulter pine seedlings were planted.

Eugene K. Sturgis, Oakland City Commissioner, was the speaker at the East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club meeting on February 24. President Clem Fraser presided at the meeting.

The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Wilson Lumber Company, La Jolla, was held on February 14 in the company's offices. Officers ele,cted for the year were: R. E. Davis, president; Ivan Rice, vice-president; Karl Kenyon, treasurer; William S. W. Low, secretary; C. R. Wilson, general manager and director; and MacArthur Gorton and H. E. Rhoads. directors.

Albert R. Israel, who has been a member of the West Coast Lumber Bureau's staff since January, 1927, resigned on March 1. For the past five months he has been on a special assignment for the Bureau in California. He will return to his former home in New Orleans where he will €ngage in business.

Extension of markets for their cement products will be started in Hawaii, according to officials of the Monolith Portland Cement Co. Capt. A. Bullock-Webster, special representative for the company, will spend several months directing the program of promotion and distribution of Monolith products in that territory, making his headquarters in Honolulu.

The Barr Lumber Company of Santa Ana celebrated its 50th anniversary in business on Tuesday evening, March 6, with a golden jubilee dinner at the Santa Ana Inn. The Barr Lumber Company, formerly the Griffith Lumber Co., was opened on March 6, 1878, under the management of A. C. Bowers. O. H. Barr purchased the Griffith Lumber Co. in 1921, and March 6 marked fifty years in business. A. C. Bowers, who managed the Griffith Lumber Co. yard for 43 consecutive years, was the guest of honor.

Hayward Lumber & Investment Co., Los Angeles, has completed plans for a new office building at its yard in Fallbrook. Oran Marshall is manager of the yard.

Ben Oslind, Oregon lumberman, made the inaugural flight over the Pickwick Stage System airplane route between Los Angeles and Seattle on March 2. A photograph shows Ben at Clover Field iust before the take-off.

Frank C. Kendall, manager of the retail department, Potlatch Lumber Company, Spokane, was elected president of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association at the 25th annual convention held in Salt Lake City on February 23, 24 and, 25. He succeeded Robert M. Graham of Great Falls. Mont.

Cobbs & Mitchell Co. has installed burner at its Valsetz, Ore., plant.

"About 50 per cent of the lO20 lumber yards in California are located in Southern California," says Assistant Manager E. E. Bowe, of the Western Division Office of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, in a recent report on retail yards. Most of the lumber sold in Southern California is received by boat at Los Angeles Harbor, in which city are about 10 per ,cent of the retailers of the state. Two-thirds of the state's lumber consumption is in Southern California, next important regions being San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley. Within a trucking radius of seventy miles of Los Angeles there are two and a half million persons, or one-third of the estimated population of the three Pacific Coast states. Mr. Bowe states.

Max Amelang, formerly of Miami, Ariz,, purchased W. R. Letton Lumber Co. vard at Montrose.

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This issue carries an article, "Overlooking Opportunities for Making Money in Plywood," by Chas. W. Buckner.

Jack Thomas, chairman of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Golf Committee, appointed the following to act on the 1928 Golf Committee: A. L. (Gus) Hoover, Paul Hill, Roy Stanton. Ed Betts and A. L. Sailor.

The Peninsula Hoo-Hoo Club held its regular monthly meeting at the Gumwood Inn, Palo Alto, Monday evening, February 27. Professor E. C. Franklin of Stanford lJniversity addressed the meeting.

The Los Angeles Building Material Exhibit had its opening on February 23. Included in the displays were: The Red River Lumber Company; Cadwallader-Gibson Co.; Hammond Lumber Company; California Redwood Association; E.J.Stanton & Son; C.W.Bohnhoff; W. E. Cooper Lumber Co.; Western Hardwood Lumber Company; American Hardwood Co. ; and the California Panel & Veneer Co.