Vagabond Editorials

(Continued from Page 6) such experiments for the past twenty years? Believe me, this would be no passiqg, or slipping industry. Instead, the trade promotion work of the industry has frorn its incep tion been entirely surface effort, sticking to the same old channels, superficial and impractical in their direction and application. To deny it is ridiculous. When I see what this one firm has done i4 the past couple of years, and consider what the lumber industry might have done in the past decade or so-f could cry at the uselessness of the present situation, and at the supineness of the industry. Some of these days you'll know*what this is all about.

Over in Mississippi a group of lumbermen got an idea several years ago. They began grinding up and defiberizing their wood waste, bark and all, and pressing it into big boards, boards of any width, lfiickness, length, all clear, without defects. Their plan has met with wonderful success. The whole world is using their products. It is but a single demonstration of what could be done with woodwhat could have been done years and year ago with waste, and low grade materials. And it is only one of dozens of just as practical and just as successful things that could be done with wood had the brains of the industry-for it is and has always been an industry made up of intelligent and loveable men-been turned in that direction long, long ago. For Masonite has not even scratched the surface of new wood possibilities.

Such developments are coming apace in the next few

J. H. AND E. L. KURTH VrSIT LOS ANGELES

J. H. Kurth and his son, E. L. Kurth, of Lufkin, Tex., are visitors in Los Angeles. They are very famous lumber manufacturers in Texas. The elder Kurth is the president and founder of the Angelina County Lumber Company, manufacturers of Long Leaf Pine, and one of the few remaining Texas firms with long life ahead of their mill. E. L. Kurth, the son, probably possesses more varied and active lumber interests than any other man in Texas, being actively interested in half a dozen milling concerns, as well as other lumber enterprises.

years. 'Unfortunatelv modernism comes too late for worlds of lumbermen, whose lack of trees brings lack of further interest. But to the lumber industry of the future it will mean everything. We aren't always going to pay $15 freight on $5 worth of lumber, as is being done in many cases as this article is written. It never was intended. We will take that low grade lumber, and that refuse, and mix them with some brains and experience, and make things of great usefulness. The list of things that wood is going to be used for-in other forms than lumber-in the next few years, would strain the belief of the most credulousWatch and see.

Many interesting changes in the ordinary building affairs of the day are already upon us. No longer, to secure a plastered wall, do we splash loose plaster upon that wall. We simply take huge sheets of plaster, perfect in surface and much more durable and practical than mason-l,aid plaster, and nail them to the wall, quickly, easily, econornically. If we wanted a sheeted wall in the old days, we took sixinch strips of lumber and built up the wall sheeting ot these snmll units. Already the day is at hand when we take big sheets of wood and cover the wall quickly, easily, economically, and attractively. We will cover walls and other spaces with beautifully grained plywood, all ready.for quick application to the surface. Wonderful woode4 walls of the future will eclipse even the cabinet-made walls of oldtime banks, and will cost no more than ordinary walls of the past.

CHAS. GARRISON VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

Chas. Garrison, of the Two Rock Commercial Co. Two Rock, was a recent business visitor to San Francisco. While there he attended the exhibition baseball game between the Missions and the Pittsburgh Pirates, played on the afternoon of March 19.

ST. HELENA LUMBERMAN VISITS S. F. BAY DISTRICT

Andrew lVlcNair, of the McKinnon-McNair Lumber Co., St. Helena, was in San Francisco March 18 and 19 on a business trip.

Celebrates TwentyFifth Year in Business

W. L. Leishman

Celebrating his twenty.fifth year in business at the corner of Green and Vernon streets, Pasadena, Calif., W. L. Leishman, president of the Crown City Manufacturing Co., recently gave a dinner at the Hotel Huntington to a fiw oi his old friends. Participating with him on this occasion was his son, Lathrop K. Leishman, assistant manager of the company.

_ Apong th.ose present were: llenry Patten, patten & Davies Lumber Co.; E. C. Parker, Paiten & Davies Lum- ber Co.; Harry Mcleod, Hammond Lumber Co.: A. T. Todhunter, Hammond Lumber Co.; C. G. Lvnch.'L. W. Blinn_Lumber Co.; Leslie G. Lynch, L. W. Biinn 'Lumber Co.; E. A. Nicholson, Pacific Door & Sash Co.; Frank Curran, E. K. Wood Lumber Co.; Robert Raphael, Southern California Hardwood &_ Manufacturing Co.; Henry Treff, Southern California Hardwood & Manufacturing Co.i R"tpt lm_lroff, Frank Graves Sash, Door & Mill C?., urd Howard Coorpender, Frank Graves Sash, Door & Mifl Co.

After dinner reminiscences of the past-twenty-five years were related and the future uses gf. wood and wood !rod_ ucts were discussed.

Valley Lumber Co. at Fresno Has Meeting

A meeting of the employees of the Valley Lumber Company., Fresno, was held March 15 to discuss Douglas fir grading _r_u_les. A. A. Kayser, California Grade Supervisor for the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, explained the Association rule book No. 9 and interpreted the grading practice.

Wooden Derrick at Oil Exhibit

.The West Coast Lumbermen's Association had one of the outstanding exhibits at the Oil Equipment and Engineering E xposition, held in Los Angelis March 16 to 23. It was a 136-foot standard, all-wood derrick, with Samson posts, walking beams and other structural timbers, built according to the plan of the lo-foot model devised and designed by engineers of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association as a result of trade extension research.

Redwood Forest atLand Show

The California Land Show held in Los Angeles from \!1rch 8 to 23, demonstrated something truly unique and different in the way of decorations; the entire floor-was an exact replica of a Redwood forest.

The bark for the artificial trees was supplied by The Paqifi.6 -T,umber Company, and came from-timber-especially felled in Humbolt County to supply the exhibit.