William Russell Pickering

William Russell Pickering, 77, Foander and Chairman of the Board of the Pickering Lumber Company, Kansas City, Missouri, died at his home, 59th Street and State Line, at four o'clock Friday morning, April 1. While he had been in poor health for the past two years. his illness did not become critical until three rveeks ago, when a fatal complication affecfing the heart and kidneys developed.

He is survived by Mr. and Mrs. William A. Pickering and three grandchildren, Russell Cravens, Zoe Louise and Cynthia Ann Pickering, all of 20 Janssen Place. Funeral services lvere held at the home at two o'clock Monday afternoon, April 4, Rev. J. W. Rushton, of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints, officiating. The pallbearers, all officers and employees of the Pickering Lumber Company, were T. M. Barham, Walter Robison, J. W. Deal, P. H. Neyhart, W. R. McKee, William Hussey, W. Q. Church and-H. J. Ebert. Burial was in the Picliering Memorial Room in the Pantheon at Forest Hill Cemetery.

In the passing of W. R. Pickering, the lumber industry loses one of its pioneers. For a half century a prominent figure in the ploduction and distribution of Southern Yellow Pine, his company ihterests in more recent years expanded their 6perations to include the manufacture of Southern Hardwood and California White and Sugar Pine. Thus the comparatively modest enterprise which h1 founded in southern Missouri in 1880, attained a growth extending half way across the continent within the span of his active business life.

Mr. Pickering was born in St. Louis County, Missouri, September 31, 1849, the son of English parents. In 1870 he married Jane Coggburn of Cole County, Missouri, and two years later moved to Joplin, engaging in the mining and smelting business. Being thus close to the northern border of the South's vast Yellow Pine timber stands. he was not long in foreseeing the possibilities of the lumber business. In 1880, Mr. Pickering began a mercantile business which soon extended its activities to the handling of posts,

A. H. POWERS VISITS CALIFORNIA

A. H. "Al" Powers of the Coos Bay Lumber Co., Marshfield Oregon, the champion golf player of the Coos Bay region, stopped off for a couple of days in San Francisco, after a pleasure trip to Los Angeles and other points of California. Al states he believes he will confine his playing to the golf course at Coos Bay rather than Coffroth's course at "Tijuana." Al u'as accompanied on his trip by Mr. Russell Dement a rancher and timber orvner of Coos Bay.

timber and railroad material. Moving to Springfield, Mo., in 1887, he and his son, William A. Pickering, organized the W. R. Pickering Lumber Company seven years later, establishing the first sawmill at Pickering, Louisiana. Other mills were added later. both in Louisiana and east Texas, so that by the time the Yellow Pine industry reached its zenith thi Pickering operations were .tnottg the largest factors. In the distributing field the company was and still is equally active, operating an extensive line of yards jn Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.

In 1898 headquarters were moved to Kansas City, where they have since been maintained and where they are now housed in a magnificent new office building, built, owned, and occupied exclusively by the company. Not only is this structure thoroughly utilitarian, but, too, it is a fitting memorial and permanent monument to the character, acumen and energies of the founder.

Beginning in 1919 with the acquisition of over one billion feet of Pine timber in Northern California, the Pickering interests in turn acquired two large sawmill operations at Standard and Tuolumne, California, as well as a large millwork factory at Sonora. The capacity of these plants, together with that of a new sawmill to be built this year, is backed by a timber supply sufficient to maintain the operations forfifty years-factors which rank the Pickering Western operations among the most important on the Coast.

So it is that before he ceased personal activities in his company, following the death of his wife in August, 1924, William Russell Pickering lived to see the fruits of his toils create and provide the essentials of a successful enterprise which, from first to last, will have endured for a full century. \n 1926 all of the separate interests comprising the various company operations were acquired and consolidated in one concern-the Pickering Lumber Company of Kansas City, Missouri, of which William Alfred Pickering is President and active head.

Sunkist Lumber Plant Enlarged

In order to meet the demands of development, The Sunkist Lumber Co., Monrovia, has taken a long term lease upon a tract l5O feet on the Southern Pacific right-of-way and Ivy Avenue. The Sunkist Lumber Co., was started in March, 1923 and has enjoyed a rapid growth, this present enlargement being the second they have made in their four years of business in the Monrovia district. They enjoy a widespread business, extending from Altadena to Fontana.

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