The California Lumber Merchant - April 1933

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WHOLESATE LUDTBER Specializing in

Douglas Fir, Spruce, Hemlock, Port Orford Cedar Creosoted Lumber and Piling Lath and Shingles

LAWRENCE.PHILIPS LUMBER CO. 7T4 WEST TENTH ST., LOS ANGELES Phone PRospect O22O Agents for

Dant & Russell, Inc.

Port Orford Cedar Products Co. Lawrence-Philips Steamship Co.

Dervoted to the wetlare of all branchcc o[ the

Lumber Industrlr.Mill, Yard and Indlvidual.

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APRIL I, 1933

Wc also lrtrlrlish at IIottstott, ll'crilrs,'l'lrt,(irrlf ('oast Lunrlrt,rnrarr,.\rrrt.rit':r's f()r'clnost rctail lurrrbcr journal, slticlt corers tltc crrtire Southivcst and ]rliddlcrvcst likc the sunshinc covcrs Calilortria.

PnuL BUNvAN's GnAtN STRAIcHTENER DIAGONAL GRAIN

STRAIGHT GRAIN

Makes straight grain aetreer for nofl . twisting plywood OOK HERE, Paul Bunyanr" said the Red

"Diag<.rnal gtainrt' the Red River boss explained, "sometimes sets up stresses that cause plywood and veneered doors to twist out of a true flat plane. We want Red River veneered products to be as near

River managementr "How can we do away with

diagonal grain in California Pine veneers?"

The old inventor of lumbering stalled for time.

He had found it easy to start the Mississippi River' dig the Great Lakes and plant the pine trees on the Sierras, but this question had him guessing. trVhat's wrong with a little diagonal grain now and then?tt he asked. "There has always been some, occasionally, in all plywood. Ve dontt get much of it and Itve never heard any kicks.t'

perfect as we can make them. Cantt you make

diagonal grain run straight?tt

Paul lighted his pipe, which holds three gunny-

sacks of tobacco. He scratched his head and sunk into deep thought. After a long time he came up

with the answer. ttSurertt he said, ttl can do it.tt

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tratrd lnith photogntphs ol l\ul

Ilunyun's Crui.n Strai.gh.tcncr

The superior quality of Red River "PauI Bunyants" California Pine Plywood and veneered doors brings extra profits to builders. manufacturers and dealers

In Loc Angeles-Factory and Truck Service

The RED RIVER LIIMBER CO. MILL, FACTORIES and SALES, WESTWOOD' CALIFORNIA MINNEAPOLIS E07 Hennepin Ave.

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LOS ANGELES

CHICAGO

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

April l, 1933

WHEN YOU SELL SIRUCTUNAL

Wholesale Lumba Asgociation

Booth-Kelly Douglac Fir, the AsEociation grade and trade marls certify to your cuatomers tihe quality of thc stock you handle. Buildere quit guesing about what thcy'rc buying, and buy whcrc they know what they're getting.

Gencral Saler Office: Eugene, Ore. Mitlr: Wendling, Ore., Springfield, Ore. CALIFORNTA REPRESENTATIVES Southcrn Cdiforoie E. J. Stanton & Son 205tt E. 3Eth st., Lor Angclcr Odrlrad

Northcra Californir Hill & Morton, lnc.

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W. R. Chanbcrlil & Co .....'..................Sln Frudrco rnd Lor Aqrlcl .......,Su Fnncbco ud Ld Aqdol Coc Bay Lunber Cq ..........!lu FrucLco ud Ia An1tlol Dmovu Lumbcr Co. ud ltm FrencLco Eactem & Wertem Lumbcr Co... ....'..'......'...Pctlrad ........!hr Frends.Dd Ir Anldc Hamod Lunbcr Co. ..Su Fnndo ud fa Anrda J. R. Hanlfy Co. ............. .........Su Ft !d.@ Hart-Wod Lmber Co. .'..SuFianclsoudlaAapla C. D. Johngo Lmber Co. .....'.'S$ Fnncfuco Alvin.N. Lofren ..,..... .....San Fnaclrco ald Lo. Ardc.

MacDonald & Hanington ...'..S.! Fruc&co A. F. Meholy Lumbcr Co. Chu. R. Mc€mick Lumbcr Co ........,...-..S.tr Frucfp lld t-c ADtd.. .lhn Frudrcc TY. J. MuUigu & Co ..........

3u Fmclro aDd Lo. ADrdC Charlcr Nclm Co. .......,..... ..........3u Frucfrco Paramino Lmbcr Cc ,:................ ..,....,:lrtr Fmcirc ud l.or An3clar Santa Fe Lumber Co. ...,..,,S.r Frurirco eld Lc A4rtoo Sudden & Chrirtenron Wadling-Nathan Co. .. . . , . . .. thn Frucirco rud Lor Antdc R. O. Wilm & Sm .......... ,. Su Frudroo .....SuFrucbcoand|.cA4dol E. K. Wed Lunbcr Co. .......OaHrad Hill & Mortm, lnc. .,.......... ...1n Aqdc Bladel-Donovan Lmber Milb Broo&r Lubcr Co. .......,.... ..fa ArrcLr ....Lc Aqolol Lame-Philipr Lmber Cc ......,.'....L6 fnllaol E. L Rcllz Company ..,.....Tacona ud Lc An3clcl Tacma Lmbcr Sder Agency ...LaArs.L. Twohy Lmbcr Cc ,.,..,.......

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Pacific Lumber Co., The ----------------------.---- ' Patten-Blinn Lumber Co. ------------------------------19

Asociated Lumber Mutuatr

Pioneer Paper Compeny ----------------------l,t-14.15

Boobtrvet-Burnr Lunber Co. ----------------------21 Red River Lunbcr Co. ------------------------------I.F.C.

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Erown Co., Geo. C.

Santa Fe Lumber Co. ---.--------------------------O.B.C

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Long-Be[ Lumber Saler Corporation.-------I.B.C. Union Lunber Co' ------------------------..---1/ Lumbermen'r Service Arcociation

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

J. E. MARTTN Menaglng Edltor

M. ADAMS Clmletiu Memgcr

April I, 1933

THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT JackDionne,prblkhu Incorporated under the lawc of California

A. C. MERRYMAN Adrcrti:ing Managcr

J. C, Dionne, Prer. and Treas.; J. E. Martin, Vice-Pres.; A. C. Merryman, Jr., Secy.

Published the lst and lsth of each month at

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LOS ANGELES, CA., APRIL I, 1933

W. T. BLACK !{0 Stockton St. San Fnnckco SUtter 22tl

Southcrn Officc Znd Natlond Bank Bldg.

Houaton, Tens

Advcrtiring Rater

on rdpplication

How Lumber Looks Douglas Fir-A total of 252 down and operating mills which reportcd to the Vest Coast Lumberments Association for the week ended March 18, 1933, produced 59,959,964 board feet of lumber. This was an increase of. 2rg56rlt7 f.eet, or 5.2/s above their cut in the preceding week. The average weekts production of this group of sawmills in 1933 has been 54r737r666 f.eet; during the same period of t932, their weekly

^verage

was 64,959,334.

The new business reported for the week ended March 18 by t78 mills was 801000,451 board feet against a production of, 52r9OOrO33 feet and shipments of 5816941691 f.et. Their shipments were over their production by 10.9 per cent and their current sales were over production by 51.2 per cent. The orders booked last week by this group of idetrtical mills exceeded their orders of the preceding week by 13,778,087 boatd feet, or 2O.SVo. The increase iri orders fuon 661222,,000 feet the previous week as reported by these 17E mills, to E0,0000000, is attributable to more buying in the rail trade and in the Atlantic Coast market.

California did not increase in bufng, export decreased two million feet from the previous week and local buying remained about the same. The buying done refects low retail stocks, a somewhat better feeling over the country and a betterment during the fall and winter in the matket position of the West Coast lumber industry. Vhether the market will gain in strength or even hold gains made cannot be told at this time.

The volume is still low for the period of the year.

***** New business booked at the lumber mills during the week ended March 18, 1933, was 31 per cent above the previous highest week of 1933, ,8 per cent above that received during the preceding week and 14 per cent above the comesponding week of 1932, accotding to reports to the National Lumber Ma,nufacturers Association from regional associations covering the operations of 695 leading hardwood and softwood mills.

This new business amounted to 15613701000 feet. Production totalled 87r57l,OOO feet which was slightly higher than the previous week and 22 per cent below the corresponding week of 1932. Softwood production was 20 per cent below that of last year; hardwood, 45 per cent below.

Most of the gain in orders was in the softwood regions, Southern pine, Vest Coast and Vestern pine showing the heaviest orde$ of the yee\ as well as Northern hardwoods.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended March 18 reported new business for 108 mills as 32136O10OO f.et; shipments, 2018931000 feet; production, 191436,000 feet. Or. ders were 66 per cent above production and 55 per cent above shipments. Shipments were 7 per cent above production.

The Vestern Pine Association for the week rqrofted new business for 115 mills as 27,E6E.OOO feet; shipments, 19,614,.

000 feet; pro'duction, 7r7l3rOOO f.eet. Orders werc 261 pet cent above production and 42 per cent above shipments. Shipments were 154 per cent above production.

287 hardwood mills for the same week reported new busi. ness as 14r108r0OO feet, or 98 pet cent above production, and shipments 1016541000 feet, or 50 per cent above production.

Production was 711151000 feet. *rF**:t

The California Redwood Association reports for the month

of February, lgtt, orders received f.ot 12 mills as l0,656rq)0

feetl orders on hand, 7612891000 feet; shipments, loBlgrfi)0 feet; production, 121997,000 feet.

Details of orders and shipments follow: Orders-Northern Californiar trgTSrOO0 feet; Southern California, 2rO92r@O fet; Western, 74.OOO feet; Eastem, 3r285r0C{J feet; Foreign, lr227r-

000 feet. Shipments-Northern Califomia, 5,67OrOOO f,eet; Southern California, lr733rW0 feet ; Vesternl 63100O feet,; Eastern, 2r928rOOO feet; Foreign, 525rQ@ f.eet. rF**,f>F

The California market shows improvement. Retail stocks are low and buying seerns to be general throughout the state. The market is very firm. There has been a big demand for Commons in the earthquake atea- for repairs and emetgency user; however, as yet practically no lumber has been bought fo,r replacement purlxlses. Cotrshuction of 111 temporary school

houses was started on March 28 in Long Beach, a bid of fl150r677.20 being accepted by the school board there; the schools will be ready for occupancy on April 10.

Unsold lumber stocks on the public docks at San Pedro totaled 3r299rOO feet on March 25 as compared to 7g23rOOO Lea the previous week; Cargo arrivals at San Pedro for the week ended March 25 totaled 8,841,000 feet which included 9 cargoes of Fir carrying 816211000 feet and I cargo of Redwood with 22OrO0O f.eet. Cargo arivals at this port for t{re previous week totaled 115021000 feet. 46 lumber vessels were operating in the coastwise trade on March 25; 59 vessels were laid up.

April l, 1933

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

R. F. C. Appoints Quake Aid

S. M. Hauptman Heads

Fund Committee

Lumbcr Bureau

A group of eight Southern California citizens were appointed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in Washington, D. C., on Mar.ch 28 to administer the $5,000,000 California earthquake relief fund. The committee, which will serve without compensation includes the following: Henry S. MacKay, Jr., Los Angeles, chairman ; Zack J. Farmer, Los Angele.; J. F. Burke, Santa Ana; George H. Coffin, Hollywood; George M. Spicer, Long Beach; Arthur S. Bent, Los Angeles; H. T. Cory, Los Angeles, and A. L. Leroy, mariager of the Los Angeles branch of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

Shortly after receiving notice of his appointment, Mr. MacKay issued the following statement: "The members of the committee have only today received notice of their appointment and have not, as yet, had an opportunity to organize and formulate plans but will do so

Sidney M. Hauptman, who recently resigned as president of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, has been appoinied manager of the lumber bureau of the United States Intercoastal Conference.

The appointment was announced from New York by Chairman Thackara of the conference, March 24. The headquarters of the lumber bureau will be temporarily at 256 Mission Street. San Francisco.

immediately "In the meantime, it is requested that the public authorities, chambers of commerce and local rehabilitation committees of each ,community of the affected areas make detailed and complete surveys of the extent and character of the damage in their respective localities, so that the committee can promptly and equitably allocate and administer the funds. Red tape will be reduced to the minimum in order that rehabilitation can commence at the earliest pos-

sible date, and so that the most urgent needs can be promptly met."

Herman J. Muller Herman J. Muller, pioneer lumberman and business man of San Gabriel, Calif., died at San Gabriel on Sunday evening, March 26. He was president of the San Gabriel Valley Lumber Co. which he established at San Gabriel in 1883. He survived by only a few weeks his wife, Mrs. Minnie L. Muller, who died on March 4. Mr. Muller was taken sick a few days after the burial of his wife. He was 79 yearc of age.

He is survived by two sons, Leland Muller of the San Gabriel Valley Lumber Co., San Gabriel, and Allen E. Muller of the San Gabriel Valley Lumber Co. at Arcadia; a daughter, Marie J. Muller of San Gabriel, and two grandsons, Jerry and Bailey Muller of San Gabriel' Funeral services were conducted at Alhambra on Wednesday afternoon, March 29. Interment was in the San Gabriel cemetery.

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April l, 19&l

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

V.gabond Editorials Bv Jack Dionne What a potent thing is CHARM ! This man Franklin Roosevelt has it to an amazing degree. It is the lubricant that is easing the progress of this remarkable man into the hearts of the American public. His looks, his voice, his smile, his frank and pleasing manner of address recommends everything he says to his hearers. Things that would go unnoticed from an unattractive man are spotlighted by the character of his presentation. Charm is what does it-the most delightful phase of this thing we call "personality." Roosevelt thrills you with his possession of it, just as Hoover suffered for the lack of it. *,f+ I would like to suggest to this splendid new President and helmsman of ours on€ fundamental thought. If he wants to help business and send it sailing upward, just let him announce that Government is going to immediately get out and stay out of all private business. That's the most potent possible remedy for starting business going.

Every suggestion he makes for getting Government OUT of business, will have an immediate favorable reaction; and every suggestion for putting or keeping Government IN private business, will inflict visible wounds. The simple announcement the other day that the Government was going to continue in the agricultural business broke the commodity markets, and. sent farm stuff tumbling downward. +:f+

I'm watching the papers every day hoping to see him suggest to Congress and to the nation at large, modification of the anti-trust laws along intelligent lines, in keeping with the times we are living in. The anti-trust laws of our nation and of most of our states are no more fit to be applied to business today than the old Mosaic laws are to our present civilization. No longer do we smear our big toes, thumbs, and ears with the blood of a bullock in order to approach the temple of God, as Moses bade his priests. But such barbaric rites are as applicable to our present mode of thinking as our age-old anti-trust laws are to our present business conditions.

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Mr. Roosevelt ! Oh, Mr. Roosevelt !

If you want to

see things pick up quickly, business improve, and men go

back to work, ask Congress to rebuild our anti-trust laws in keeping with the times; and go upon the air and suggest to Mr. John Citizen this nation over that our state governments should do likewise. The Mosaic laws were probably admirably fitted to the needs of the savage tribes to whom they were given, and our anti-trust laws may have been applicable and useful to the times during which they were

created. But those days are gone. The world has changed.

Business has changed. The conditions that surround business have entirely changed. We need business laws intelli-

gently tailored to fit the business of TODAY-not of a generation gone.

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If you want to discover how far tire best thought of this nation has changed in regard to business and its privileges and rights today from our concepts in the trust-busting days of a generation gone, read the words of Chief Justice Hughes of the United States Supreme Court in the alreadyfamous Appalachian Coals Case. You will quickly discover that sanity has come to the aid of business through the medium of our highest tribunal. Listen, to these words of Judge Hughes: "The interests of producers and consumers are interlinked; when industry is greviously hurt, when'producing concerns fail, when unemployment mounts and communities are prostrated, the wells of comrnerce go dry." THAT'S what wise business men have been trying to tell the world for the past decade; that BUSINESS must prosper in order that LABOR may enjoy the blessings of life; and that the CONSUMER may have a fair deal. Read more of Judge Hughes' words elsewhere in this issue. *'t*

The "noble experiment" of prohibition seems close to the discard. I wonder if the newer "noble experiment" of Government financing from the top to save faltering busiqess isn't likewise close to a finish? For more than a year we pumped countless quantities of cash into the veins of industry FROIU THE TOP. We were trying to keep a big, angry-looking boil from coming to a head. We failed.

It came to a head a few weeks ago, when the banks all closed. That boil just wouldn't agree to being aborted.

+++ What we have really discovered is that the law of gravity does NOT apply to money. We thought that if we took billions of dollars in cash and poured them into this nation FROM THE TOP that cash would run downward and permeate all stratas of society. How wrongly we guessed is history today. Seldom did the tons of money we loaned touch more than one or two hands. Then it froze. It never reached the average business man, or his employees.

Yet everyone knows that until we reach THEM we have accomplished nothing. The normal channels of business that starved for financial help, never got it.

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April 1, 1933

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

East B.y Hoo Hoo Club

Lumbermen's Post Holds Party

The March meeting of Hoo Hoo Club No. 39 was one

of the best meetings ever held by the club, and if the standard'is maintained that has been the rule for the last several years the attendance committee will have a pleasant job. The meeting was held as usual at the Athens Athletic

Club, Oakland, Monday evening, Mar'ch 13.

President Earle E,. Johnson, of Livermore, presided, and introduced the speaker of the evening, F. W. Hart, professor of education at the University of California.

Professor Hart spoke on the subject of "The Price of Civic Complacency", and took for his example the present conditions of Chicago. The speaker was a member of an advisory committee ,called in last year by the Chicago Board of Education, and he kept his audience keenly interested in his discussion of obsolete taxation systems, rackets, gebellions of taxpayers, etc.

The musical entertainment was supplied by Mrs. Frances Brunk, of Berkeley, who sang and gave several recitations.

Some time was devoted to discussions of plans for the big "Reveille" to be held in the Hotel Leamington, April 21. General Chairman Clem Fraser, H. S. Morton, chairman of the program committee, and Clyde Speer, chairman of the golf committee reported progress, and asked for the cooperation of every member of the club.

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Lumbermen's Post, No. 403, of the American Legion;

staged a dinner and entertainment for lumbermen and their

friends at the Jonathan Club, Los Angeles, on Tuesday evening, Mar'ch 14.

Following the dinner, Russell Gheen, C. D. Johnson Lumber Co., Commander of Lumbermen's Post, called the meeting to order and presented T. B. Lawrence, LawrencePhilips Lumber Co., as master of ceremonies. Perry Whiting, Whiting-Mead Company, gave ,a short talk, and A. \M. "Al" Hart entertained the gathering with some impersonations. Earl Ermerins, American Legion Commander of the 17th District which includes all of the Los Angeles territory, was a guest of the Lumbermen's Post and gave an interesting talk on the activities being carried on by the American Legion. Mr. Ermerins, who spent considerable time in the earthquake zone, stated that from his observations wood structures withstood the shake very well.

The party was well attended and all reported an enjoyable evening. The Arrangements Committee included T. B. Lawrence; Herman Rosenberg, Hipolito Company; and

W. B. McCullough, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co.

A. W. HART VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

c. H. GRTFFEN, JR., BACK FROM L. A. C. H. Griffen, Jr., general manager of the California

Angeles, was a re'cent San Francisco visitor where he spent a few days on business.

Redwood Association, returned to San Francisco March 28 from Southern California, where he has been directing some work for the Association in the earthquake zone.

A. W. "Al" Hart, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los

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With its wealth of real negro humorn goes on and on

. . . The orders still come in . . . Every new book owner remembers some one else who loves a good darkey story-and so the story rpreads someone h"ppy with

acoPy...Ithelps drive away the blues.

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April l, 1933

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

Vagabond Editorials (Continued from Page 6)

Money does NOT filter downward. There are too many hands to grab and stop it. The only manner id which money can be ma<ie to saturate through the various stratas of society IS FROM THE BOTTOM. If you want to distribute a billion dollars so that everybody gets a share, find a way to scatter it among the farmers and workers of the nation. Every dime then goes into circulation. Every dollar goes to work turning over and over, creating business, creating markets, creating jobs, creating tonnage, creating all the elements of prosperity. Everybody gets a crack at it. It increases earning power, buying power, employing power. It never freezes when it starts that way. And it leaves credit behind it. Every man who owned and spent it is worth that much more. *,f,N

Half the money the R.F.C. has poured into the veins of business FROM THE TOP (where it froze and stayed), would, had it been distributed FROM THE BOTTOM, have started us on the road back to prosperity. Unemployment would have been hugely reduced; industry and commerce would have taken life; the paralysis of fear would long since have disappeared. We never should have loaned a dollar that would not directly PUT MEN TO WORK. Instead of which, while we were engaged in dumping all this money, unemployment steadily increased, business was forced to curtail and retrench continually for want of proper finances for doing business, and we slid backward until the debacle of the banking situation a month ago, where our new President proved the hero of the hour.

*'|* Wisdom has been sadly lacking. We had been given to understand that the old time laws of economics had broken down under the strain and cornplexity of our modern business; whereas the exact opposite is true. Those laws of economics are inexorable, and it is becaues they are working RUTHLESSLY-punistring us for our flagrant violations of their rules-that we find ourselves where we are today. I was greatly impressed the other day when a thinking man said to r.re: "Truly this MUST be the greatest nation in the world, else had our follies long since destroyed us."

President Roosevelt's ;"; :""" since he took office shows that he understands the situation. He proceeded with lightningJike rapidity to take Governmental steps to put money into circulation at once that will reach ordinary

business, and that will put men to work. Tons of new currency was printed. It is being distributed through the Federal Reserve System. It is to be exchanged with the banks FOR GOOD ASSETS. The banks can properly finance business men, and exchange their security assets with Uncle Sam for new currency. Mr. Roosevelt may have to go farther, and with the same determination and assurance with which he warned this nation that hoarding would be a very unpopular pastime, warn the banks of this nation that their job is to get this new cash into circulation through loans to worthy people and honorable and useful business. The banks have gotten so out of the business of loaning money for business purposes that they may have to have a lesson. But if all that new .noney is to get back into the channels that need it so badly, it must be through a loosening of credit and loa4 rules.

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The minute the average business man can secure the financial help he needs, he will go back to normal practice of his business, buying, selling, hiring, paying, shipping, etc. Then men, will go to work, and freight will move, and cornmerce will swing back into the channels that have been frozen over for the past two years. i.r**

We're all playing this man Roosevelt to win. The nation has rallied back of him in a fashion never before seen, delighted with his charm of manner, his courage, his energy, his vision of our needs, and his grasp of our situation, and it looks more and more every day as though we were on our way out of the depths. Truly it seems that Providence has sent us a man in our hour of greatest distress who measures up to the situation.

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A strong, fearless, free-thinking man adds to the sum of human knowledge, extends the horizon of thought, releases souls from the BaStile of fear, crosses unknown and mysterious seas, gives new islands and new continents to the domain of thought, and new constellations to the firmament of mind.

Like a Letter From Home Here's two bucks for the good old Lumber Merchant which to me. and to most of the retail dealers I know, is always like a letter from home.

Max Cook, The Pacific Lumber Company.

THE CALIFORNTA LUMBER MERCHANT

April I, l93il

Ships Big Order of Clear Fir to Argentine W. J. Mulligan & Co., well known San Francisco lumber exporting firm, have just completed a shipment of 800'000 feet of clear Douglas frr lumber for one of the major railroads in the Argentine. This order represents a continuation of a constant flow of Douglas fir clear lumber to this railroad over a number of years, the initial order consisting of a full cargo of three and a half million feet.

W. J. Mulligan & Co., through their agents in the Argentine, Messrs. Leng, Roberts & Co., have carried on for the past seven or eight years extensive exploration work with the principal British railroads in the Argentine in the interest of Douglas fir, and as the years have passed, although the progress has been slow, Douglas fir has now been adopted by practically every major railroad in the Argentine.

This entire order was executed by the Bissell Lumber Co. of Seattle and it required two trainloads of fifteen cars each to transport the lumber from the Bissell mill to ship's side at Seattle Harbor.

J. D. LOWE LEAVES FOR AUSTRALTA Jewell D. Lowe sailed from San Francisco on March 1 for Melbourne, Australia, where he will be associated with the Commercial Boxes, Pty., Ltd., in their plywood department. Mr. Lowe has been connected with the plywood department of The Red River Lumber Co. at Westwood, Calif., for the past several years.

!THOLESALE LUMBER-!f^qP

lY. R. CHAMBERLIN & C(}.

Calilornia Salec Agantr for

Deliance Lumber Company Tacoma, Verh.

Polron Lumber & Shingle Co. Hoquiem, Varh.

Andenon a Middlaon Lumber Co. Aberdcen' !!|sh.

Prouty Lumber & Bor Company Verrenton, Orcgon

Operating Steamcn .

Stenwood '

W. R. Ctamberlin, Jr. LOS ANGELES

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Opportunity That those who are able to sense the turn of the tide will found the American fortunes of the next generation is as sure as anything can be in an uncertain world. Some day soon ihis country will wake up, rub its eyes, and discover that it is climbing steadily. It wil also discover that foresighted individuals have already captured good seats on the band wagon and profiting thereby, the while the more timid have been waiting for "something to tuin up."

It has always been so in every depression. Those who say "this one is different" have failed to discover any convincing evidence of it. They have gained a more than ordinary sized audience for their preachings of defeat and despair, but their case rests assertion merely. *on

With few exceptions, every past depression has resulted from an overexpansion of industry beyond current demand, which in turn led to forebodings that no profitable employment could be found for capital at any predictable time in the future. That is precisely the condition we have in the United States today, coupled with the same predictions.

Yet every recovery has brought demands for increasing amounts of new capital, for increased production of many old and many new kinds of goods has offered opportunities which have been translated into enormous suc.cesses.

The more the depression which began in l9D is examined, the more it is found to resemble that produced by the typical business cycle. What the downswing of this cycle has done to many individuals is fresh in memory. What the upswing of other cycles has done for many individuals is equally interesting and just now more important.

Some people seem to think the pendulum will swing far to the left and stop. As a matter of fact, the best available indications are that the swing to the right has already

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The bottom of a deflation period is a time of opportunity.

Once again the old rule will be proved that what goes down mustcome up, as recent years have proved that what goes up-toq f21-rnu5f come down. Real estate prices are at their lowest point for years and all experience goes to show that on their return they will rise to higher peaks than any they have yet seen. Building costs have already started up, but are still so low as in themselves to constitute a promising investment*field.

Opportunity comes to those who seek it; the bold rather than the timid meet it oftener. It is found in many guises and disguises; at times it resembles its ugly cousin, Disaster, and it requires a keen mind to distinguish between them. Opportunity is here.

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April l, 1933

Supreme Court Upholds Right of Producers to Join.

Hands in Efforts to StabiLze Market A decision of momentous import to industry in general, and to the lumber industry in particular, was handed down by the United States Supreme Court last week, in the now famous case of Appalachian Coals, Inc. 'Appalachian Coals, fnc., was formed as a central marketing or selling agen'cy for 137 producers of bituminous coal operating in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. Its purpose and its plan of operating was openly announced at the time it was organized, as follows: It would have exclusive sales of the product of the 137 companies. It would fix the selling pri,ce and guarantee accounts. It would handle the entire merchandising, as a part of which it would maintain its own research department to develop and improve the product and increase its use. Compensation would be a ten per cent commission on all sales.

There was no thought of controlling the market price for the entire industry or of limiting production. At the time the sales agency was formed and for many years previously. the bituminous coal industry was in a chaotic condition, suffering from over expansion, from the loss of its markets thr,ough the inroads of substitutes, and from the loss of profits through unfair and destructive competition.

These 'conditions are so closely identical with the situation prevailing over a long period in the lumber field, that the coal operators plan became a matter of immediate interest to the leaders in the lumber industry. Later, when the coal case went to.court, the National Lumber Manufacturers Association had their own observer at the trial, in the person of its secretary-manager, Dr. Wilson Compton.

Before actually engaging in business, the entire proposition of the selling agency was placed in litigation in a friendly suit filed by the government last August, in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia. There an injunction was issued against the selling agen,cy, charging it with being a monopoly in restraint of trade and in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law.

Now 'comes the United States Supreme Court, whose word is final, and with almost unanimous mind,-only one judge dissenting-reverses the lower court, gives its sanction to the coal selling agen,cy and its purposes, and, in effect, upholds the right of produ,cers to combine to prevent overproduction and to maintain a fair level between cost and selling price.

The opinion was written by Chief Justice Hughes. Probably never before has the Supreme Court of the United States spoken in more liberal tones in acting upon a matter of great public interest; nor has a keener appreciation of the unfortunate'condition of industry than in the court's application of the rule of reason in its interpretation of the anti-trust laws in this case.

Appalachian Coals, says the court, is engdged in a fair and open endeavor to aid the coal industry in a measurable

recovery from its plight. It is not a selling agen,cy designed to act as a combination in restraint of trade. "Reasonable measures to protect commerce from injurious and destructive practices and to promote competition upon a sound basis", are purposes not in conflict with the Sherman antitrust law.

"The existing situation prompted defendants to make, and the statute did not preclude them from making an honest effort to remove abuses to make competition fairer and thus to promote the essential interests of commerce . . .

"A 'cooperative enterprise, otherwise free from objection, whi.ch carries with it no monopolistic menace, is not to be condemned as an undue restraint merely because it may effect a 'change in market conditions, where the change would be in mitigation of recognized evils and would not impair, but rather foster, fair competitive opportunities . . .

"The fact that the correction of abuses may tend to stabilize a business, or to produce fairer pri.ce levels, does not mean that the abuses should go uncorrected or that cooperative endeavor to,correct them necessarily constitutes an unreasonable restraint of trade . . .

"The intelligent conduct of commerce through the acqui-

sition of full information of all relevant facts may properly be sought by the co-operation of those engaged in trade, although stabilization of trade and more reasonable prices

may be the result."

That its decision is not to be taken as an invitation to commit such acts, in the,course of business, as would definitely point to a purposeful restraint of trade in violation of the law, is also made plain by the court. The law is still operative, it notes, in cases that come within its provisions.

State Forcstry Appropriations California ranks only sixth in the total amount of money

appropriated in 1932 for forestry purposes by 46 states and

Hawaii and Puerto Rico, according to a report received from the U. S. Forest Service at Washington, D. C. In order of amount of appropriations, the leading states are: New York, $2,014,458; Pennsylvania, $1,174,080; Wisconsin, $708,638 ; Michigan, $529,248; Massachusetts, $427,358; and California, $338,835. California spbnt 9281,267 for fire protection and the balance for administration, purchase of lands, maintenan.ce, research and extension. Four states,

Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York, spent more than California for fire prevention, and the first three spent the most on forestry education. New York expehded $615,530 on reforestation, followed by Hawaii with $123,189 and W-isconsin, $76,910. New York also led by a large

margin in expenditure for the eradication of tree diseases, $75,000 and the control of forest insect pests, $121,000.

April 1, 1933

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Western Pine Association Meets in Portland R. R. Macartney, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Klamath Falls, Ore., was elected president of the Western Pine Association at the se'cond annual meeting of this organization held at the Portland Hotel, Portland, Ore., Mar'ch 16 and 17.

J. P. McGoldrick, McGoldrick Lumber Co., Spokane, was elected first vice president; George W. York, George E. Breese Lumber Co., Alfuquerque, N. M., was elected second vice president; C. L. Isted, Shevlin-Hixon Co., Bend, Ore., was re-elected treasurer; S. V. Fullaway, Jr., Portland, was re-elected se'cretary, and David T. Mason, Portland, Ore., was re-elected manager.

Directors were elected as follows: Northern California, D. S. Painter, Fruit Growers Supply Co., Susanville and B. W. Lakin, McCloud River Lumber Co., McCloud; Central California, Swift Berry, Michigan-California Lumber Co., Camino, and J. H. Hemphill, Madera Sugar Pine Co., Madera; Montana, E. H. Polleys, Polleys Lumber Co., Missoula, and Walter Neils, J. Neils Lumber Co., Libby; Idaho and Washington, C. L. Billings, Potla,ch Forests, Inc., Lewiston, and J. P. McGoldrick, McGoldrick Lumber Co., Spokane; Eastern Oregon, Ralph Hines, Edward Hines Western Pine Co., Burns, and C. I. Isted, Shevlin-Hixon Co., Bend; Klamath Falls, C. H. Daggett, Ewauna Box Co., Klamath Falls, and R. R. Macartney, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Klamath Falls; Arizona-New Mexico, Geo. W. York, Geo. E. Breece Lumber Co., Albuquerque, and James H. McNary, Cady Lumber Corporation, McNary.

Directors at Large: Walter N. 'Leuthold, Deer Park Lumber Co., Deer Park, Wash; J. D. Tennant, Long-Bell Lumber Sales Corporation, Longview, Wash., and J. P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr., Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Ta4oma, Wash.

B. W, Lakin, president, presided over the various sessions of the two-day meeting.

David T. Mason, manager, in his annual report discussed the statistical position of the industry, bringing out the interesting comparison that the present price index of Ponderosa pine is 73, and of Idaho white pine 75 per cent of the five year averag'e, compared with the index of 37 for copper, 44 lor wheat, 42 f.or cotton, 84 for iron and steel and 65 for all other commodities. Mr. Mason also'reported on the progress being made in timber control.

C. L. Isted, Shevlin Hixon Co., Bend, reported on the

work of the trade promotion committee, and made his treasurer's report.

J. P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr., presented the report of the economics committee.

White pine blister rust was discussed by Major Evan Kelley, regional forester, Missoula, Mont., and T. S. Woodbury, assistant regional forrester, San Francisco.

W. C. Reugnitz, president of the 4L organization made a plea for a shorter week and a minimum wage in the lumber industry.

J. D. Tennant, Long-Bell Lumber Sales Corporation, urged the consideration of a shorter day.

Huntington Taylor, Crater Lake Lumber Co., Sprague River, Ore., made the report of the research committee, and Walter Leuthold, Deer Park Lumber Co., Deer Park, Wash., presented the report of the traffic committee.

A meeting of the sales managers of the member mills of the Association was held following the clqse of the general sessions.

Announces Changes In Personnel At the annual meeting of the J. A. Fay & Egan Company,

of Cincinnati, Ohio, held recently, a number of changes, rvere made in the personnel of the Company.

S. M. Blackburn, for many years engaged in the manufacture of 'machine tools, and formerly Vice-President and General Manager of the John B. Morris Foundry Company, and Vice President of the Morris Machine Tool Company, becomes the new President and General Manager.

Clifford P. Egan, with thirty-four years experience in

the woodworking machinery industry becomes Vice-President, and Mr. Espy Bailey, formerly Treasurer and Auditor of the Company, was elected Secretary and Treasurer.

R. W. Egan and F. T. Egan, formerly President and Vice President respectively, retire from office, and as Directors of the Company.

Forrest T. Crane was reappointed as General Sales Manager, and Paul M. Mahler continues as Foreign Sales Manager.

The Company is planning to redesign and improve its line and may be looked to for some radical improvements in the scope of woodworking machinery in the near future.

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Making lt Unanimous A native was driving a visitor across one of the beautiful valleys of California, pointing out the sights of interest, while the tourist wondered at the beauties that he saw as they drove past glorious ranches and orchards.

"What wonderful grapeftuit !" he exclaimed, as he looked at a tree, the limbs of which sagged with the golden fruit of unusual size.

"Those LEMONS are a little under size," remarked the native, casually.

Hammond Steamer Carries Redwood to Stockton The Hammond Lumber Company's coastwise steamer, Brunswick, arrived at Stockton March 18 with a cargo of 200,000 feet of Redwood and Fir from Eureka. The lumber rvas moved by truck to yards in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys.

Capt. J. G. Ahlin of the Brunswick expressed himself as being highly pleased with Stockton's port terminal facilities, and pronounced the deep water channel erltirely adequate for commerce. The trip was made from the bay in 8 hours and 43 minutes.

A front page article in the Stockton Record tells the story of the ship's arrival, and a picture shows the ship alongside the dock, with Capt. Ahlin in the foreground greeting W. T. Wallace, salesman for the Hammond Lumber Company in that territory.

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rvleeung At the annual meeting of stockholders of the Douglas Fir Exploitation & Export Association held at Seattle, Washington, on February 23, the following were elected to serve as directors: Puget Sound district: Maj. E. G. Griggs, Tacoma; J. H. Bloedel, Seattle; W. B. Nettleton, Seattle; Clyde Walton, Everett; Wilford Bordeaux, Bordeaux ; L. L. Dowd, Tacoma; Roy J. Sharp, Tacoma; E. W. Demafest, Tacoma; and Charles E. lfelms, San Francisco.

Grays Harbor and Willapa Harbor district-William Donovan, Aberdeen.

Columbia and Willamette rivers district-M. C. Woodard, Westport, Ore.; C. H. 'Watzek, Wauna, Ore.; E. D. Kingsley, Linnton, Ore.; George T. Gerlinger, Dallas, Ore.; and Theo. Dichter, Astoria, Ore.

"\ll/hat gorgeous blossoms !" exclaimed the tourist, as they passed a field where fowers of enormous proportions were profusely growing.

"Just a patch of small dandelions," said the native, without emotion.

Then the visitor began to catch on. They drove along the banks of the San Joaquin River.

"Someone's radiator must be leaking," remarked the visitor, who had become casual himself.

N. J. Redmond Low Grors Winner An enthusiastic group of lumbermen enjoyed a perfect day of golf with the Orange County lumbermen at their monthly golf tournament held at the Hacienda Country Club, near Whittier, Calif., on Wednesday afternoon, March 22. N. J. Redmond of the Blue Diamond Corp., Los Angeles, was the low gross winner with a score of 78.

Art Kelly, Brown-Dauser Lumber Co., Fullerton, with a net s,core of 66 was th'e low net winner gaining possession of the beautiful Schumacher cup. Ross Hostetler of the Costa Mesa Lumber Co., Costa Mesa, was the winner of the bogy prize.

These monthly tournaments are becoming extremely popular with the lumbermen. The next tournament will be held at the Santa Ana Country club on Wednesday afternoon, April 19, and all lumbermen are invited to attend.

P. L. l. B. Elect Officers H. J. Mackin, sales manager of the Canadian Western Lumber Co., Fraser Mills, B. C., was elected president of the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau at the annual meeting of the Bureau held on February 23. W. H. Peabody, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Everett, 'Wash., was elected first vice-president.

The following were elected vice-presidents: William Donovan, Donovan Lumber Co., Aberdeen, Wash.; F. H. Ransom, Eastern & Western Lumber Co., Portland, Ore.; W. H. Turner, Willapa Harbor Lumber Mills, Raymond, Wash.; C. B. Mcl-eod, Hammond Lumber Co., Portland, Ore., and Frost Snyder, Clear Fir Lumber Co., Tacoma, Wash. Chas. E. Hill, Tacoma, Wash., was elected treasurer. F. W. Alexander, Seattle, Wash., was elected secretary-manager, and T. H. Wilkinson, Vancouver, B. C., was elected secretary of the British Columbia division.

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The $5,000,000 California earthquake relief authorization for immediate loans for repairing and reconstructing damaged buildings in the earthquake area was signed by President Roosevelt on March 23. The measure was sponsored

by Senator McAdoo and authorizes the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to lend up to $5,000,000 to municipalities and other political subdivisions and owners for rehabilitation of property.

Collateral will be required for loans, which would be

Washington, March 24.-The U, S. Timber Conservation Board has recently released for publication reports of five of its Advisory Committees relating to the three primary objectives of the investigations of the Board, namely, (1) Timber Conservation, (2) Stabilization of Industry, and (3) Security of Employment.

The last of the reports to be made public was released March 3. This is the report of the Committee appointed to investigate the "possible scope, method and form of continuing public and private cooperation for timber conservation, stabilization of industry and security of employment", of which Dr. Wilson Compton, President of American Forest Products Industries, Inc., is chairman, and on which are included eminent-conservationists, public officials and spokesmen for forest industry.

This report declares that the national forest resources are ample, with sound forest management, to provide the nation's needs for forest products indefinitely so far as these needs can now be foreseen. "The public primary problem, therefore, is one not of national supply of forest products, but of desirable regional distribution of timber supplies and timber production, of establishing permanent forest industry and of maintaining continued opportunities for the profitable productive use of forest lands."

Other 'conclusions of the Committee are summarized as follows: Values of standing timber have been stagnant during most of the past decade and have substantially declined during the last five years. Private enterprise is carrying an excessive burden of forest land and timber ownership, more than 40 years supply at the present average rate of cutting, most of it subject to annual taxation as general pr,operty. Great financial pressure for timber liquidation has resulted and producing capacities in the primary forest products industries are excessive. Operating efficiency is high, utilization is incomplete and unsatisfactory. Oppottunities for economy, stabilization of industry and employment, and diversification of products need further intensive study. Larger average timber ownerships will increase the economic possibilities .of sustained yield forest' management and further advance of planned control of forest industry operations will promote the needed closer adjustment of current production to current consumption.

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For-loans covering private property, owners will have to agree to a paramount lien, excepting taxes and special assessments, which would retain their preferred status as claims against property.

Securities for loans to municipalities or other political subdivisions can be secured by obligations of such agencies, provided none of them were to mature in more than ten years.

The Reconstruction corporation will regulate the making of loans, while borrowers will be in charge of spending the money they had borrowed, but will be limited to expending it for repairing or reconstructing damaged buildings.

No methods of setting up. non-profit corporations which will apply for loans is provided for, Congress assuming the reconstruction corporation could determine this factor in passing on applications for loans.

Bans Airplanes From Pdmitive

Areas Airplanes are too modern for Primitive Areas in the national forests says Uncle Sam. Primitive Areas are sanctuaries dedicated to preserve natural conditions on the rougher and more inaccessible parts of the national forests.

No.permanent structures are allowed and no roads are built into them. They are nature in the rough, beloved by the few who still possess the old-time pioneering spirit and are willing to forgo the speed and comforts of modern civilization when on their vacation. But absence of roads is no bar to the aviator and the trouble started when airplanes began to invade the wilderness of the high country. The pioneers contended that no place would be primitive if airplanes took to dropping in and parking all over the mountain meadows and any other available spots. They would disturb the wild life and give air travelers an undue advantage in hunting and fishing.

As a result, the Forest Service classes the airplane with the automobile as a distributor of nature's wilderness and has forbidden their use wherever autos are excluded. On National forest recreation areas where the car is. welcomed by roads and highways, the airplane is admitted and landing fields may be constructed.

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D. T. Sudden Donald T. Sudden, San Francisco lumberman, died suddenly at the Mills Memorial Hospital, San Mateo, February 28, after a two-days' illness from pneumonia. He was 38 years of age, and the son of the late Richard C. Sudden.

His home was at Burlingame, Calif.

Until two months ago, he was president of the West Coast Lumber Co. of San Francisco. He was prominent in Masonic circles and a veteran of the World War. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Edna Reed Sudden, and three daughters, Catherine, Edna and Donna Sudden.

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Chicago, Ill., March n, 1933-An important court decision, methods being used to conserve mortgaged.assets and an accounting of expenditures, are three of the widely varied topics covered in a detailed report made public today by the Pickering Lumber Company Bondholders' Commit-

lMake it Good-Build with Wood" is the slogan suggested by the East Bay Lumbermen's Institute in a letter mailed by their advertising committee March I to all

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The report states that this is a very important decision and that the action of the Committee in supporting the exceptions to the master's report contributed largely to the favorable outcome of the suit. The Pickering Lumber Sales Company was formed, it is pointed out, in an attempt to segregate the bulk of the Company's current assets for the purpose of better securing the bank creditors. If the decision is appealed, the Committee stated it will use its best efforts to have the decision of Judge Reeves affirmed.

Through a special arrangement, the report states, the Bondholders' Committee came to the assistance of the Company in December, 1932, arranging for the payment of taxes maturing at that time on mortgaged property. It also assisted in financing the cost of preserving and maintaining the mortgaged timber.

mentioned in the letter is in three colors and shows a picture of an attractive wood home. The letter follows: 1924 Broadway, Oakland, California, March 1, 1933.

"The future of the lumber business depends on YOU and the COLLECTIVE effort of those engaged in it.

"The per capita consumption of lumber decreased in the United States trom 46 feet in 1899 to 115 feet in 1932-a decline of 4O5 per cent. "'What can the lumber industry do to recover its market and stimulate business?

"The Citrus Fruit Growers paid $10,000 for their slogan 'sunkist'. It has been worth millions to them. By its intelligent use, their yearly sales-have increased ftom ?.6,6t8 carloads to 79,066 carloads in seven years, showing the result of pushing a slogan.

"Our Institute has adopted a slogan: "Make it GoodBuild with Wood." We think it is an appropriate slogan for the lumber industry and we want your assistance in making it NATIONAL in scope.

"Ifelp people to become 'lumber conscious' by adopting this motto. Have it painted on your trucks. Use it in your advertising, on your statements, invoice sales tags, letterheads and envelopes. before "The least expensive way to get this MOTTO 'We can furnthe public is by use of 'sticker advertising'. ish these stickers (sample attached) for 60c per thousand, our actual cost. Mail your check promptly for the amount to cover your requirements and help spread this propaganda to stimulate lumber sales."

Yours for increasing business, East Bay Lumbermen's Institute,

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Departing from usual custom, the Committee gives an interim report on expenses to date, rather than waiting until its work is fully completed. In this manner, holders

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At the time of its formation this Committee adopted the policy of ,complete frankness with all bondholders. The Committee, of which C. T. MacNeille, Vice-President of Ilalsey, Stuart & Co., is Chairman, represents over 96 per cent of the $7,167,500 First Mortgage Bonds outstanding.

The support of such a large percentage of the bondholders, the report points out, has contributed in a great measure to the effectiveness of the Committee's efforts.

As the result of a decipion made by Judge Albert L. Reeves of the United States District Court, bondholders are advised that exceptions have been sustained to the report of the special master, and the Court has determined that the Pickering Lumber Sales Company is a mere agency of the Pickering Lumber Company, and as a consequence, the Receiver of Pickering Lumber Company should disregard the corporate form of the Sales Company and take into his possession all of its assets which includes a substantial cash '

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THE DUSTY ROAD Dunno a heap about the what and why; Can't say f ever knowed; Heaven to me's a fair stretch o' skyEarth's jest a dusty road.

Dunno the names o' things, nor what they are, Can't say's I ever will.

Dunno 'bout God-He's jest the noddin' star Above the windy hill.

Dunno 'bout life-it's jest a tramp alone, Frorn wakin' time to doze.

Dunno 'bout death-it's jest a quiet stone All over grey wi'moss.

An' why I live and why the old world spins, Are things f never knowed.

My mark's the gypsy fires, the lonely inns, An' jest the dusty road.

-John

Masefield.

THE OTHER CHEEK Connor's "Man From Glengarry" tells the story of the

April l, 1933

THE BATTLE OF LIFE The ambition to achiev+physical courage; the soul to dare-moral courage; and the hand -to execute-mental courage; are the necessary qualifications for the man who hopes to reap the rich rewards of victorious achievement in the battle of life. Physical courage will enable him to overcorne the physical obstacles that he may meet. Moral courage will enable him to do right at all times, to resist temptation, and to apply the golden rule to his business transactions. Mental courage will enable him to overcome objections and to vanquish the imps of timidity, the most insidious, vicious, and devastating horde of enemies that trail the footsteps of any salesman.

FIRM NAMES "Stickem, Good & Proper."

"Takem, Shakem and Scram."

TIME

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough.-Franklin.

great Canadian woodsman who was deeply religious, a great student of the Bible, and a true and umble follower of that Carpenter he so much revered and tried to follow.

DOES IT PAY? IIe was patient, kind, slow to anger, although possessed The careful driver approached the railroad track with of the brute strength and fighting ability of half a dozen caution. He stopped, looked, and listened. And all he ordinary men. heard was the crash of the car behind him, smashing his The whiskey-inflamed French lumberjack, famous for gasoline tank.his rough-and-tumble fighting ability, and able to kill a , man with the force of his kick, took his kindliness and TOO BAD patience for cowardice one day, and struck the great "Few men escape baldness."

Scotchman upon the cheek, after vainly daring him to Hair today, and gene tomorrow."

"True. fight. Whereat the great man turned the other cheek and courteously inyited the Frenchman to strike him there likewise. The Frenchman gladly accommodated him.

Whereat the eyes of the big man flashed fire, and declaring that he complied with the directions of his Mdster, had turned the other cheek, and was therefore free to follow his own volition, and proceeded to whip the fighting Frenchman within an inch of his life.

WHAT, NO MORE? "She blushed like a school girl-used to blush."

A GREATER GOD "What would the old sun-worshipers have said if they had been told, as we are told by astronomers, that in the Hercules, which is barely visible to us with the naked eyc as a single star, there are 35,fi)0 stars, all of them at least as bright as our sun and three one hundred times brighter?

As our universe grows greater it becomes necessary for us

to dream for it a greater God than the one that satisficd the intellect in the days of our youth."-Thos. Dreier.

April 1, 1933

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Earthquake Demonstrates That Wood Buildings Are Safest, Says A. C. Horner "As in all other California earthquakes, good materials of all kinds, plus proper design and good workmanship, proved equal to the occasion and came through with little damage", said A. C. Horner, of San Francisco, construction engineer, in charge of the Western office of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, in summing up his remarks on the mannef in which wood and other materials fared in the recent earthquake in Southern California.

Mr. Ilorner arrived in the earthquake zone on Sunday, March 12, and, spent five days there, during part of which time he assisted the building inspection department of the city of Long Beach in the inspection of damaged buildings.

In all he covered 22O miles by automobile within the damaged area and made detailed inspection of more than 80

buildings.

"All types of construction were damaged, but I found little new to be learned about the behavior of the different building materials", Mr. Horner said. "As a building inspector I visited Santa Barbara after the earthquake in 1925, and as an engineer representing the Portland Cement Association made an investigation following the earthquake in Calexic'o in 1927. In both of these places and in the recent Southern California disturbance I was impressed with the small amount of damage to wood construction

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BUILDING MATERIAIS

lvhether in one story dwellings, four or five story brick buildings, in roofs, oil derricks or bridges.

"The one apparent weakness in wood construction when subjected to earthquakes, in my experien,ce, is in the practice of placing wood frame buildings on 2x4 underpinning, and not providing any diagonal bracing in connection with the underpinning.

"In practically no case were any of the dwellings in the earthquake area bolted to the foundation. This also undoubtedly contributed to some extent to the damage done to this type of building.

"Reinforced concrete also gave a very good account of itself, as did some buildings constructed of brick or other clay products. The outstanding amount of damage done to brick buildings was apparently due to the kind of mortar used and to the design of the buildings rather than to the quality of the brick.

"All sorts of legislation has been proposed to prevent a recurrence of the 119 deaths and the many injuries resulting from the recent earthquake but most proposals are directed at new buildings or at the repair of the buildings that were damaged. As a matter of fact damage in a future earthquake will almost certainly come from buildings now in existence and not from buildings hereafter erected. It is true that a few restri,ctions should be placed on building materials that are to go into new buildings, but the matter that should give us the most concern is what to do with existing buildings. In the past this question has usually brought forth much talk but little action.

"Lumber's greatest opportunity in the near future seems to me to lie along the line of developing a one-story wood frame building for school houses and other public assemblage places. In this development two important points to be kept in mind are the exterior beauty of the buildings, and the provision of plenty of exits. The present antipathy to wood buildings is due to the possibility of fire. This can be overcome by providing exits adequate in number and properly placed so that any possible fire could not endanger the occupants. The low cost and the flexibility possible in their arrangement should be strong factors in favor of such buildings.

"This earthquake has demonstrated that wood buildings are by far the safest from the standpoint of earthquake

hazard." Mr. Horner concluded.

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California Building Permits For 1932 City Los Angeles . ...

San Francisco ..

Long Beach ....

Year

Year

of.1932

of 1931

t7,506506

4l,zlo,w _21,372,550

Sacramento

16,427,965 2,716,760 2,388,773 2,375,254

San Diego

2,137,Orl

5,259,224 4,381,041

Stockton

r,7L7,549 1,394,141

Oakland

*Hollywood *San Pedro

13ffi,628

Glendale Pasadena

1,247,595 1,219,653 1,135,669

4,590,795 7,415,159

3,ffiz,072

1,295,4t6 900,851 2,gLO,545 4,053,185

Year

City South Pasadena Banning Albany

of 1932

Year of 1931

125,D4 I14,656

272,6D

113,493

584,t57

l2l,2I4 l@,525

356,388 334,013

Hayward ......

105,383

t6r,079

Compton Petaluma

92,3r3

379,248 75,530

Coronado

85,270 84,@3

Piedmont San Gabriel ... .

Eureka

89,12r

39,975

22I,371 211,303 129,716

1,033,910

r,723,250

Fullerton Pacific Grove Ventura

Berkeley Torrance Fresno Alameda tVan Nuys

939,9D

1,589,416

Corona

70,6n

138,573

rcz,6m

Whittier

1,028,881 674,547 533,417

Lynwood

69,595 68,825

|D,350

El Segundo

67,298

68,9@

92,512

Vernon Palo Alto Santa Monica .. .

San Marino

691,656 545,285

64,913 59,2W

418,519

58,7ffi

214,562

55,803

129,369 278,150

51,544

r48,7g

50,105

26,930

Beverly Hills .

San Jose

Pomona

Santa Barbara ..

Alhambra

799,895 786,912 780,600 695,722

541,167

522,602 469,553 4{8,197 375,475

San Mateo

352,658

Santa Ana Santa Cruz Bakersfield

3D,257

Salinas

43,011

322,453

289,29r

Riverside

253,576

Newport Beach

247,690

Claremont Inglewood

San Bernardino .

Huntington Park .

Santa Rosa Burbank Manhattan Beach Laguna Beach San Fernando ...

South Gate .

Burlingame Monterey Monrovia Redwood City .

El Centro Redondo Beach Oroville Upland Arcadia Anaheim Watsonville

233,279

220,405 199,449 195,345 188,748 186,008 183,151 174,825

r72,028 169,960 164,146 162,785 156,613 154,165

r45,793

142,6N 138,594 137,475

128,520

n6,n7 r25,295

3,275,8W

Porterville ffi,283 Ontario 1,135,085 Santa Paula 2,M,944 Sierra Madre 1,o25,159 Emeryville 1,169,644 Maywood 2,176,85 Azusa 1,171,450 Monterey Park .

1,225,059 Orange 9to,582 Brawley 264,956 Tulare 685,944 Montebello 703,984 Hawthorne Tulare 612,719 505.344 Visalia 325,817 Palos Verdes Estates . .. .

913,44t Colton 6435O2 Oxnard 553,730 Hemet 453,415 El Monte 421,638 Elsinore 253,6ffi Brea 316,743 73,987

84,5N 76,810

239,OrS

76,742

29L,Or4

' 55,870

48,840 47,323 43,430 33,478 32,434

414,751

96,390

233,3U 232,952 103,517

r25,595

32,1O3

93,850

29,982

1L8,122

27,W

23,m

370,356 203,380 64,200

17,gll

111,955

26,995

17,350

27,023

16,n5

105,355 23,885

14,735

I,On

Z,q 6E677 +Included in Los Angeles Totals.

4,850

t3s/561575

476,620 584,170 608,821 119,068

PENINSULA LUMBERMAN VISITS OLD HOME IN IRELAND 764,934 Jim Wisnom of the Wisnom Lumber Company, San 476,635 Mateo, writing from London, Eng., under date of March 79,7q 7 to Jimmy Atkinson, district sales manager of the Chas.

58,374 R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, said that he 122,543 intended to visit his former home in Ireland about the mid171.855 dle of the month. Mr. Wisnom, who is on a round-the301,850 world tour accompanied by his cousin, Jack Wisnorr, €X' D1,365 pects to be back in California by May 1.

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April l, 1933

Red River Installs

Diagonal Clipper at

\(/estwood Plant Clipper in Normal Position.

A small and infrequent imperfection in a product will sometimes have an important effect upon its use by the consunier. The manufacturer who maintains high standards of quality must anticipate demand in improving his prod-

uct and develop nerv methods of production. Existing equipment must be replaced, even in times when ordinary expenditures are curtailed.

For instance, diagonal grain in the veneer sheets of plywood and veneered doors has not been ,considered a defect but it has been found that veneered doors and plywood panels that develop a twist, or corkscrew warp, generally have one or more veneer sheets with grain that runs on a bias. Evidently the internal stresses that run in the direLtion of the grain have exerted a diagonal pull. : ! To overcome this The Red River Lumber Company has installed a diagonal clipper, locally known as "Paul Bunyan's Grain Straightener," in their plywood factory at

Westwood, California. This unique machine was invented

by Red River engineers and built in the Red River shops.

A standard 120-inch Coe Clipper was built into a revolving ,carriage, operated by hydraulic cylinders. The operator can rotate the clipper keeping the line of cut parallel with the grain. This eliminates the diagonal grain. There were several problems to be solved in adapting the mechanism and controls of the clipper to the rotating movement and the feed of the veneer sheet from the conveyor table.

It was also necessary to lengthen the clipper to take a sheet 120 inches wide on a diagonal cut. The clipping operation is controlled in the normal way with an additional lever for the rotating movement.

The "Grain Straightener" has been turning out California Pine veneers for nearlv a year without loss of time for repairs.

Showing Clipper Sutung to Opposite Extreme ol the Arc-Arrows Indicate the Degree of Suins.

SPEND HONEYMOON IN SAN FRANCISCO Albert Coats and his bride left San Francisco for their home in Tillamook, Ore., March 24. They had been spending their honeymoon in San Francisco. Mr. Coats is man. ager of the retail lumber and building material department of the A. F. Coats Lumber Co., Tillamook, Ore.

MAKES SECOND TRIP TO STOCKTON The steamer Daisy Gray of the Freeman Steamship Co., San Francisco, arrived in Stockton, March 24, with her second ,cargo of lumber for Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francis,co. This lumber firm announces that the Daisy Gray will make a third trip with a load of lumber for them early in April.

INJURED IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT J. H. Kirk, manager of the Southern Pacific Milling Cornpany's yard at San Luis Obispo, Calif., was injured in an automobile accident the earty part of March. He was driving.from Guadalupe to San Luis Obispo at night when his niachine collided with a truck carrying steel girders. Mr. Kirk'suffered slight cuts and bruises and a severe shock.

His car was eompletely demolished.

EDRIC BROWN VISITS SOUTHLAND Edric F. Brown, The Pacific Lumber Company, San Fran,cisco, in charge of their Palco Redwood Bark Fibre department spent several days in the Los Angeles territory the latter part of March.

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April l, 1933

Manufacturers and Retailers

Big Crowd Expected

Meet at Monterey

at First Annual

tail Lumbermen's Association and of the Redwood Rela-

Reveille to be

Held at Oakland H. Sewall Morton

April 21

Chairman ol Entertainment.

Committee

The First Annual Reveille of Central and Northern California lumbermen, sponsored by East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39, will be held in the ballroom of the Hotel Leamington, Oakland, Friday, April 21. Dinner will be served promptly at 6:30 p.m., and will be followed by high class entertainment by professional talent. Tickets are $1.50 each.

Clem Fraser, Loop Lumber & Mill Co., is general chairman of arrangements. H. Sewall Morton, Hill & Morton, Inc., is chairman of the entertainment committee, Clyde I. Speer, Zenith Mill & Lumber Co., is chairman of the

golf committee, and C. I. Gilbert, Eureka Mill & Lumber Co., is chairman of the finance committee.

The entertainment will be supplied by the wholesalers, and Chairman Morton promises that everybody will have a real live time and meet a real live ,crowd. The entertainment will include a skit put on by a cast of wholesalers in which they will endeavor to show the retailer how to sell his lumber without chiseling.

The California Lumbermen's Council will hold its meeting at noon, April 21, at Hotel Leamington, and the members will stay over for the Reveille. President Harry Lake, of the State Association and President Geo. N. Ley of the California Lumbermen's Coun.cil will be in attendance, and indications are that the total attendance will be around 300. Chas. G. Bird of Stockton, president of Hoo Hoo Club No. 62 will attend, and hopes to bring a full delegation of members.

All district secretaries have tickets for sale, and the following committee members are assisting in the publicity work and distribution of posters and tickets; G. J. "Jerry" Bonnington, Wendling-Nathan Co.; Lloyd Harris, Holmes Eureka Lumber Co.; C. H. Terrell, Hill & Morton, Inc.; "Doc" Snead, Wendling-Nathan Co., and Miland Grant, Western Door & Sash Co. Golf Tournament An lS-hole golf tournament will be held on Saturday morning, April 22, at the Oak Knoll Country Club. Valuable prizes will be given, and luncheon at the Club House will follow the game. The poster advertising the Reveille and golf tournament says "Scotchmen Kindly Note: Green Fees, Including Lunch $1.50 each, Prizes Free."

Reservations for the golf tournament should be made as soon as possible with C. I. Speer, Zenith Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland,,chairman of the golf committee.

Members of the Lumber Committee of the California Re-

tionship Committee of the Redwood mills held a joint meeting at the Monterey Peninsula Country Club, Monterey, on Saturday, March 25.

Local retail lumber dealers welcomed the visitors and participated in the proceedings.

Ralph Duncan, general manager of the Merced Lumber Company, Mer'ced, chairman of the retailers' committee, and Fred Holmes, Holmes Eureka Lumber Company, San Francis.co, chairman of the manufacturers' committee, presided.

The majority of those attending the meeting arrived at the club on Friday evening and stayed overnight. The meeting started immediately after breakfast which was served at 8 a.m. Problems common to both retailers and manufacturers were dis,cussed, and the consensus was that the meeting was one of the most constructive that has been held by the retailers and manufacturers up to date.

In the golf tournament in the afternoon the J. H. Holmes

cup was won by Homer T. Hayward, well known retail lumberman. The previous holder of the cup was E. E. Yoder, resident manag'er, The Pacific Lumber Company, Scotia.

John Olgon Resigns John Olson, manag'er of the Los Angeles office of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., has resigned effective April 1. Mr. Olson has been in charge of the company's

Southern California operations for the past twenty-two years. Before announ,cing his plans for the future, he will take an extended vacation visiting San Francisco, the Northwest and other points. Mrs. Olson and their young daughter will ac,company him on the trip.

Lester Elliott Buyr Yard

L. H. Elliott, well known lumberman, who has been assistant manager of the Valley Lumber Company of Lodi for the past 12 years, has purchased the Builders Supply & Lumber Co. of Lodi. He has severed his connections with the Valley Lumber Company and has taken over the management of his newly purchased yard.

Geo. L. Meissner, who founded the Valley Lumber Company twenty-three years ago, will continue as president

and manager of the company, and his assistant will be Robert S. Fuller, Jr., son of the late Robert S. Fuller, who was for many years a well known lumberman of Lodi.

BACK FROM OREGON TRIP George Grant, sales manager of the Coos Bay Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned March 27 f.rom a visit to the company's sawmill at Marshfield, Ore. Prior to this trip he spent several days looking over the damage in the earthquake zone in Southern California.

April I, 1933

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"Blu" Book" Credit Analysis

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Opposes Repeal of Contractors

for February

aw

Chicago, March 16.-Business troubles reported to the Lumbermen's Blue Book, Inc., during the month of February are as follows: t932 1933 21 Bankruptcies 22 Bankruptcies 20 Receiverships 20 Receiverships Extensions Requested 3 Extensions Requested 2 Composition SettleI Composition Settlement ments 6 Creditors Committees Appointed 7 Creditors Committees Appointed 2 Assignments 4 Assignments The decrease in inquiries for special credit reports noted in January has continued during February.

The volume of claims placed for collection this month is smaller than for the same month last year, though the average amount is about the same. Collections are harder than they were a year ago.

Sacramento, March 29.-Declaring that the recent earthquake disaster in Southern California "clearly demonstrates

the need of strict regulation of contractors," Ralph Homann, Los Angeles, president of the California State Builders Exchange, today issued a strong appeal for defeat of impending legislation to abolish the state contractors' registration bureau.

Mr. Homann also pointed out that the illegal substitution of materials of a cheaper, inferior quality than those called for in plans for public and private construction "was responsible for considerable damage."

"In order that the building public may receive adequate protection of life and property," Mr. Homann said, "it is imperative that strict supervision and regulation of contractors be maintained by the state.

"The fact that many buildings collapsed during the earthquake, due to inferior workmanship and illegal substitution of cheaper and inferior materials, clearly demonstrates this need.

"It is, indeed, significant that a majority of the s,chools

Back in Lumber Business

and other buildings which collapsed during the quake were

A. F. Stangor is back in the retail lumber business again having pur'chased the Clearwater Lumber Co. at Clearwater, Calif. Mr. Stangor formerly owned this yard but sold out his interests several months ago. He will operate the yard as the Stangor Lumber Co.

the 1929 legislature, while other similar buildings erected since withstood the strain of the quake.

STNTRON I|OTORLESS ETEGTRIC

HAIIIIERS

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Weightc 10 to 20 lbs.

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"Consequently, the California State Builders Exchange is unalterably opposed to any movement which will break down the present state system of regulation of contractors, which has resulted in untold benefit to the public and the building industry."

He said, "Repeal of the contractors law would also be ,false economy, inasmuch as its operation is financed by fees paid by contractors."

C. H. Weber C. H. Weber, for many years connected with the lumber business in Michigan and Wisconsin, recently died at I-ong Beach, Calif. He was 81 years of age. He is survived by three sons, L. H. Weber, Brooks-Scanlon Lumber

Co., Bend, Ore.; W. H. Weber, Berkeley, Calif., logging superintendent of the Pickering Lumber Co. at Standard, Calif., and A. J. Weber of Modesto, Calif.

New Yards

The Humphrey-Farrar Lumber Co. has opened a retail yard at Berkeley, Calif. Sam Humphrey and W. D. Farrar, the owners, have been connected with the lumber and building material business in the East Bay District for a long period; Mr. Farrar was formerly with the Tilden Lumber Co., and Mr. Humphrey with the Lay-Rite Floor Co.

Kame & Noble have started a new lumber vard in Visalia.

Roy Brown, recently associated with Dolan Building Materials Co., Sacramento, has opened a lumber yard south of Sacramento on Stockton Boulevard.

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WANTED Redwood or White Pine connection for Ohio terri tory requiring full and exclusive time. Have been exclusive Cypress salesman in Ohio many years for large Cypress manufacturer. For obvious reasons would prefer change from Cypress to Redwood or White Pine. Address Box C-469. The California Lumber Merchant.

LUMBER YARD FOR FARM Wanted to trade for Lumber Yard in thriving California town, WELL IMPROVED CLEAR NORTH DAKOTA FARM. SIX HUNDRED ACRES. Address Box C-474, California Lumber Merchant.

YOUNG LUMBERMAN WANTS CONNE1CTION 9 years' experience in the mill-wholesale and retail trade. Thorough knowledge of cost accounting and sales promotion. Knowledge of the German and French language. Some capital available for secure investment. A-1 referen,ces. Desirous of position with reliable concern. Address Box C-472. care California Lumber Merchant.

WANTS POSITION WITH LINE YARD CONCER,I{ Lumberman for the past several years manager of large retail yard in California would like to make connection with line yard concern. Fifteen years' experience in the logging, mill, wholesale and retail ends of the business.

Can assume responsibility and has initiative to produce results. Address Box C-473. The California Lumber Merchant.

BACK FROM EAST Leonard C. Hammond, vice-president and general manager of the Hammond Lumber Co.. San Francisco, returned March 24 from an eight weeks' business trip to Eastern cities.

RETURNS FROM NORTHWEST C. E. Helms, vice-president of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., has returned to San Francisco from a tour of the company's Northern operations.

VALLEY LUMBERMAN VISITS SAN FRANCISCO W. O. Mashek, manager of United Lumber Yards, Inc., Modesto, was a recent business visitor to San Francisco.

This company operates eight yards in the San Joaquin

VISITS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Chas. R. McCormick, Chas. R. McCormick Supply Co.,

San Francisco, spent several days in Los Angeles during the middle of March on business

E. D. BALDWIN RESIGNS E. D. Baldwin has resigned as manager of the Spanish Peak Lumber Co. at Quincy, Calif. Mr. Baldwin was connected with the company for the last sixteen years, and for the past twelve years was manager.

FRED HOLMES VISITS LOS ANGELES Fred Holmes, Holmes-Eureka Lumber Co., San- Francisco, was a recent visitor at the company's Los Angeles office.

Valley.

MAKES QUrCK TRrP TO OREGON H. Sewall Morton, of Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland, returned March 23 f.rom a five-day automobile trip to Eugene, Ore., where he conferred with the Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. GUY SMITH VISITS LOS ANGELES Guy E. Sruith, San Francisco, general sales manager of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.. was a recent visitor at the company's Los Angeles office.

A. M. SCHWARZ VISITS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA A. M. Schwarz, Schwarz Lumber Co., Miami, Ariz., has been sojourning in Southern California and calling on the Los Angeles lumber trade.

BUILDS NEW SHED Among recent improvements made by Lafayette Lumber Co., Lafayette, is the construction of a new shed.

FRANK CURRAN VISITS S. F. Frank Curran, manag'er, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was a recent visitor to San Francisco.

MANY MINING PATENT .A,PPLICATIONS APPROVED Seventy per cent of all applications for patent on mining claims within the national forests of the California Region have been favorably reported on by the U. S. Forest Service, according to a report from the office of the Chief Forester, Washington, D. C. Of the 3O per cent reported adversely, 92 per cent were cancelled by the Department of the fnterior, after hearings held by the General Land Office.

A total of 5gS individual or groups of mining claims have been examined and reported on in the national forests of California, which include unperfected claims contested because of fraud and claims for which patent application had been made.

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LONC-BELL LUMBER SALES CORPORATION KANSAS CITY, MO. of2x4 blocks ehow thelock jointfeature of ENTERLOCK LUMBER. Joista, eills, ctude and plates go together with this patented ioint. a wedge.shaped dovetail-a modern adaptation of the historic monise and tenon construction. After placing the two partE in position, a tap or two of a hamner makec a snug, smooth, pet fectly fitted joint. With a minimum of nailing great strength and perma-

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SA]ITT FE LUMBEB Cl|. lncorporated Feb. 14, 1908

A. J. ttGustt Russellts Outfit Exclurive Rcprcrentativer in Northern California for

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