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E. L. (Bert) Coo,per, the subject of this personal sketch, has just completed his fifteenth year as a salesman with the Union Lumber Company at Los Angeles, and he is still going strong. He has covered most of the Southern California territory during that time. To be exact, he joined Union's sales stafi March 13, 1924.

Bert is a native of Sprague, Wash, but he didn't tarry very long in the Northwest, as he arrived in Los Angeles with his folks in lX)Z. He received his education in the Los Angeles public schools.

His lumber career began August 11, 1916, when he u'ent to work for the San Pedro Lumber Company in their Los Angeles yarcl. He was there until 1918, and for the next three years was at their San Pedro yard, returning to the Los Angeles offrce in 1921. He remained in this position until 1924, at lwhich time he joined the sales staff of the Union Lumber Company.

He resides in North Hollywood, is married, and has a young son, l3arry, who is three and one-half years old. His main hobby is this youngster, who is the apple of his eye, but rvhen he takes time off from talking and selling Redwood, you rvill generally find him following the pursuits of a gardener at his San Fernando Valley home.

Bert is a very popular young man, and has a host of friends in the lumber fraternitv.

F. G. HANSON RETURNS FROM SIX WEEKS' TRIP THROUGH EASTERN AND SOUTHERN TERRITORY

Francis G. Hanson, owner of the West Coast Screen Company of Los Angeles, has just returned frorn a six weeks' trip through the consuming districts of the North, East, and South. He makes a very optimistic report of conditions as he found them. the screen door distributors he contacted everywhere being very optimistic about the coming spring and summer. In Texas, where there is much prosperity along building lines and where the West Coast screen cloors, the Hollywood and the Junior, are now doing a nice business, he made additional sales connections, and reports his business to be increasing very rapidly in that territory. He is planning to put an expert door man to cover that territory for his products alone, and work with his various jobbers.

The plant of the West Coast Screen Company, on Sixtythird Street in Los Angeles, is running to full capacitv' and the order file is unusually rvell filled.

REPRESENTS MEDFORD CORP. MILL

Anglo Cali{ornia Lumber Company, Los Angeles, has been a,ppointed exclusive representative for Southern California of Medford Corporation, Medford, Ore., manufacturers of Ponderosa Pine lumber.

The Medford Corporation's mill has an annual qn'pacit1, of 60.000,000 {eet.