THE NEW Pioneer-Flintkote Thikbut Shinqle offers gneater profit possibilities than any roofing material in a decade. This new shingle has double layers of asphalt and mineral sur{acing on the exposed butts where wear is greatest. It has added beauty, brighter colors and deeper shadow lines. It is sold in atfractive packages shown above. The Thikbut is the greatest advance in shingle making in years, and is a premium shingle at a low price. Those dealers who are pushing it now are makinq easy sales. There is no other shingle as smart, as beautiful, as durable at anywhere near its cost. Don't miss this chance to give your customers extra value and make extra profits for yourself.
Kenneth J. Shipp ' A. D. Williamron
Harry G. Conro, sales manager for Campbell-Moore Lumber Co., Portland, Ore., recently spent ten days calling on the trade in Northern California with the firm's representative, Jas. E. "Jimmy" Atkinson.
R. O. Wilson Lumber Co., wholesale lumber dealers, 525 Underwood Building, San Francisco, recently issued a card containing a telephone directory of the San Francisco and East Bay lumber business, which they are distributing without charge to those who want them.
Sam T. Hayward, Los Angeles, executive vice-president of the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co., Los Angeles, and Mrs. Hayward, have returned from a month's trip to Honolulu.
Earl R. Davis, formerly with the East Bay Lumbermen's Institute, is now associated with Eureka Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland.
Philippine Mahogany Philippine Hardwood
Los Angeles, Calif.
F. G. Hanson, West Coast Screen Co., Los Angeles, has returned from a five weeks' business trip to the Southwest and Middle West States. IIe went as far east as Detroit, and was accompanied on the trip by Mrs. llanson.
Homer Maris, Maris Plywood Co., San Francisco, says that business in the first quarter of 1936 was better than the same period of 1935.
H. H. Spaulding, Hemet retailer, has bought the Chas. E. Chambers Lumber Co. yard at San Jacinto, and is building a new office building and remodeling the sheds. He will operate the yard under the name of the San Jacinto Lumber Co.
J. J. Re., Los Angeles wholesaler, has moved his oftice from room 801 to roorr' 726, Petrolum Securities Bldg. His telephone number is PRospect 2383.
Hammond & Little River Redwood Co.----------r9
Hill & Morton, fnc. ----------------------------------------19
Bookstaver-Burne Lumber Co. ------------------------19
Brookmire, fnc. --------*--
Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. -------------------------------19
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Cadwallader-Gibson Co. fnc. ------------------------ 3
California Builderc Supply Co. -------------------- 3
California Panel & Veneer Co. ---------------------- 9
California Redwood Association --------------,----- 7
Celotex Company, The Chamberlin & Co., V. R.,---------- ---,---,-----------19
Crocs€tt Vestern Company
Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co. ---,-----------------19
Elliott Bay Salec Co. --------------19
Ewauna Box Company
Findlay Millar Timber Co. --------,------------,------ 19
Forsyth Hardwood Co. ---- ----------------------,O.F.C.
Gorman, George W.
Flogan Lumber Co. - -- - ------------------------19
Holmes Eurela Lumber Co. --------------------------19
Hotel Leamington ------------------------------------------rO
Ffoover, A. L. ------------ ---------------2O
Johnson Lumber Corporation, C. D. ------------lf
Koehl & Son, fnc., Jno. V. -------------------*----19
Kuhl Lumber Co., Carl H. ------- ----- ------------17
Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co. ------- ,------------- 19
Lumbermen's Credit Association ------------ ----, *
MacDonald & Harrington, Ltd. --------------15 Moore Mill & Lumber Co. ------.-----------------------19
National Oak Flooring Association
Oregon-Vashington Plywood Co. ---------------, 19
Pacific Lumber Co., The ---O.B.C.
Patten-Blinn Lumber Co. --------------------------,----,19
Perfection Oak Flooring Co. -----------------------19
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J. C. Dioruc, Prce. and Trear.i J. E. Mrrti!, Vlcc-Pree.; IIL A&nr, Scortary Publbhcd tha lrt ud lsth ol .trh roth at 3l&rt-, Ccntnl Bulldin3, lOt W"tt Sbrth Strc! Is Anfcb+ Cd.' Tclcfhooc VArdka a5t5 Entcrcd u Smnd-clar uttr Scptmber A, piZ. at trh. Pct Offlca at Lor An3cler, Cr||fonh, ua&r Act o[ Manch t' r87t.
Subrcriptioa Pricc, f2.lXl pcr Ycar Singlc Copicr, 25 ccrtr crch.
Building activity throughout the Pacific Coart states con. tinued toihor trimendoui improvement during t{re mont'h of March as comparod with the preceding month and the cotresponding month Last ya4 accotding to the \ffectern Monthly Building Sun'ey ptepared by H. R. Baker, coastwire investment banking fum.
The report coverlng 86 citier in this area ohows total buitding permits of ftgr85lrST5 in March, t9r6, compared with t10'. iglroTt in March, 1935, ot a gain of,73.o7 per cent. The improvement was like$'ise reflected in the numbe$ of peroolte isoued, which totaled 1.or722 last motrth against 71767 in the conespon&ng mo'ntft last yean
The 25 leading Pacific Coast cities in volume of pennits reported a total of 1153O2J89, compared with $11'494954 in February end fE,975922 in March, 1915. The gain above the previous month was 32.3 per cent and above the corresponding month of last yeat 7O.48 per cent.
Loc Angeles continued in front rank among all Western cities in building activity in March with a total of $4'661771; Seatde was second with $11434,O45; Sacramento third with t1'0Elr381; Sart Francisco fourth with $886'570; and Salinas fifth vith $746rE12. Fotlowing in order wete Oakland, Long Beach, San Diego, and Boise.
The following cities reported increases in March over bot{r February, 1936, and March, 1935; Los Angeles, Seaale, Sacramento, Salinas, Oakland, Bcrise, Bevedy Hills' Salt Lake City' Berkeley, Pasadena, Inglewood, San Marino, Reno, Vancouver, Vash., Yakima, Phoenix and SpoLane.
fnc'reases in March over March, 1935, but not February,1916, were reported by Long Beach, Portland, Glendale, Vancotrver, B. C., and Bakersfield.
Pressure Treated tor Permaneflce
Rot, Decay and Termite najl""rr;rr"?.t.r"ngs Structural Life and ruMBER POLES . PILING
lmerican Lumber & Treating Go.
General Ofices: 37 Wert Van Buren St, Chicago, Ill. West Coaet Plants: Vauna, Oregon Vilmington, Celif. Veat Coart Saler Oftcer:
San Diego reportd a gain in March over February but not March, 1935.
California building permits for March, 1936, appar elsewhere in this issue' ,r :r )r
A totd of 20O down and operating mills in Vashington and Oregon which reported to the Vest Coast Lumberments Asrociation for the week ended April 4 produced 105r791r66E feet of lumben The industry produced 63.6 pet cent of its average weekly cut during 1926-1929.
The new business taken for the week by tfiese mills was 1151 t9r,772 f.@t. Shipmento were 108,90),836 f.eet. The unfilled order file at th6e mills stood at 48615291380 feet.
The Association reports t{re market situation remains practi""lly unchanged when compared with the previous week. FigureE on production, orders and shipmen* for the week ended April 4 show no movement reflecting a market trend.
The western pi* a".o"i"; ; the week ended Aprit 41 116 mills reporting, gave otdens as 561014'000 feet; shipments 5611101000 feet; and production 47r7E2r000 feet. Orders were 17.2 pec cent above productiono and .1 lrer cent below shipments. Shipments werc t7A per cent above production. Ordets on hand at the end of the week were 230r74OrO0O 6eet. **>1.
The California Redwood Association for t{re week ended March 28 reported production of t3 mills as 9,3711000 feet; shipments 919481000 feet; and new business 8'589'000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week were 47r472rA0O feet. **
The lumber demand is good in Californiao retailets reporting a satisfactory volume of business. Mill prices in Fir and Redwood are firm. Pine prices are steady, and the demand for No. 2 Commons and C. Selects continues good. Redwood shingle manufacturers report an improved demand for their produc't.
The increased lumber handling chatges at the twelve terminals in the Los Angeles-Lo,trg Beach hatbor area have not yet gone into effect.
Forrvard Bros. Lumber Co., of Manton, will open a retail lumber yard at Monroe and Crittenden Streets, Red Bluff.
The yard of Geo. Jones Lumber Co., Walnut Creek, has been sold to C. R. Roberts & Son, of Oakland. Antone Smirnoff will manage the yard.
WESTWOOD, CAL., April 15, 1936. Paul Bunyan, the inventor of logging and noted forest engineer, has announced the development of a new machine that may revolutionize the lumber industry by eliminating all grades except clears.
The device is described as a "knot puller" bqt as yet no details of its construction and operation have been made public. Mr. Bunyan stated that the knot puller is to be applied to growing trees in connection with his new fertilizer which will permit cutting a new crop of pine from the same land every day.
The famous inventor. whose achievements have long been celebrated among lumbermen and other liars, admitted that certain mechanical features of the knot puller have yet to be perfected and in the mean time The Red River Lumber 'Company will continue to market shop grades and commons in California Soft Ponderosa and Sugar Pines.
A board, and a nail, and a can of paint, Make many a place look new-that ain't.
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And a building guy with a smiling face, Can sell the man that owns the nlace.
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Go hit 'em hard, you'll never rue it, For spring's the ideal time to do it. ***
I heard a speaker the other day (and he was talking on subjects far removed from building materials) remark, as a side-line, that he had just traveled across the United States by motor, and the most definite impression his trip had left with him was how badly this country needs paint salesmen. *+*
That remark clicked with me. Wherever I go I get that same impression of unsightliness, and loss, and waste, because of lack of paint. If only the people who actually and sadly NEED paint bought and used it, every paint maker would start running 24 hour shifts. And if, on top of that, the people who should be using paint for adornment and beautification alone, got into the market, there wouldn't be paint enough on earth to supply them.
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There is only one state in the union that is even half decently painted, and that is California. There is a far smaller percentage of unpainted and unsightly buildings in California than in other territories; but even in California there is a gold mine awaiting the alert paint people. The possibilities in all other territories baffle description. ***
I have declared in these columns a thousand times that
the retail lumber dealer is the most natural, the most practical, the ideal paint merchant. The local paint store in town plays a waiting game. It has the stocks, the color schemes, the suggestions, and the ability to advise and assist when the prospect co,mes in. But his business is NOT going out into the highways and the by-ways and offering his stuff for sale. The lumber dealer's IS.
The successful lumber dealer in every territory is the man who takes his business to his prospects. The farm with the unpainted buildings or the buildings where the paint is a thing almost forgotten; the buildings that manifestly need repairs and renovations; the places where the casual eye tells you that "a board, a nail, and a can of paint" are sorely needed-those are the natural prospects of the live lumber dealer and building merchant. A strong offensive-with him as with Napoleon-is the finest way to win a battle.
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Figures, I am glad to report, show that paint sales are on the increase. The latest I saw for January of this year, when paint sales were l5.9Vo above those of January of last year; the payrolls in the paint factories were 15.6/6 over last year. Health, it seems, is returning to the paint industry. But if it ever finds some way to tap the almost bottomless reservoir of genuine paint NEEDS-look out !
Spring, let me remind you lumber folks, as I have been reminding you recurrently at this season since most of us can remember-is the ideal time for selling buildings, and building things, and building improvements and beautifications. Just as certainly as it is that "in the spring the young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love," so it is like-
wise true that in the spring the fancy of the young and old alike automatically turn to thoughts of building, and fixing up. Most marriages take place in spring, so most homes should be planned at that time.
In spring the birds O"UU ,*r, nests-or rebuild those of last year. Humans do likewise. The house, the yard, the garden, the poultry yard, the sheds, the barns, everything that has to do with man and his possessions are looked over with a naturally critical eye in the spring. And almost everything the normal human does and plans as he goes around his home place in the spring can be interpreted into thoughts of building things. Every improvement and beautification that comes to his or her mind calls for boards and nails and paint. It is a natural, normal urge that is as old as mankind. It's the time to sell building materials.
But in every city, and town, and hamlet, and farm, and countryside, the amount of business done is going to depend very largely upon the effort of the sales people. The urge, the ambition, the spring fever that comes upon humans at this time of the year, soon passes unless it is put into early execution. Such plans are soon forgotten. "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions." The good intention to build, and improve, and fix up soon withers on the stem unless something is done about it. And the something that
should be done about it is for every lumber merchant to offer every prospect in his territory some spring building help and service.
To translate your *".lrrir" lrr.o .r" language of the things these passive prospects are thinking about-that is the problem. When the minds of the building material folks meet this problem squarely-things will sure pick up.
The lumber business ," *"r* tlU" *orraurful one of these days, and I'll tell you exactly when: When the industry as a whole starts reaching with its products and services a reasonable number of those people who SHOULD, COULD, and W'OULD buy if they were properly approached. That could be THIS year.
The Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers' Impbrt Assn. reports that imports of Philippine 1\Iahogany and Philippine hardwoods into the United States, consigned to all ports, for the month of March, 1936, amounted to 3,2@,W board feet, 5/o of which were logs. Total imports for the first three months of the year are 8,282,0ffi board feet,7/o of which were logs. Imports for the first three months last year amounted to 6,840,000 board feet, which shows an increase thus far this year of 1,368,000 board feet, or 2l/o.
The FHA circular letter of Fcbrua ry 24, explaining thc ncw plan under which the RFC Mo*gage Company will purchase Title ll insured mortgages on new construdion, was such good news that we rep;inted it and sent a copy lo every retail lumb er dealer in Calilornia.
This ncw plan is expeded to make many millions ol dollars available f or residential building, and retail lumbcr dcalcrs should quickly recognaze the opportunity crcated by the new arrangcment,
To guide the execution of the biggest Celotex advertising progr am in many years, The Celotex Corporation, largest manufacturer of building insulation and sound control materials, has appointed LeRoy Staunton, nationally-known advertising and merchandising man, as advertising manager,
Mr. Staunton, who was formerly menchandise advertising manager of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company and advertising manager LeRoy Staunton of the Kolster Corporation, is particularly interested in the coordination of Celotex advertising with the needs of lumber merchants.
"The traditional Celotex merchandising policy-that our job is not finished until our products have been sold by our dealers to the ultimate consumer-exactly fits mv convictions," he de,clares.
"The effectiveness of national advertising depends upon the results it brings to dealers. This year's Celotex program should give every lumber merchant plenty to be enthusiastic about. For example, one of our major goals is to make Celotex Lath and Sheathing the prime profit items that they were for dealers during home building's hey.day.,'
Mr. Staunton believes that the practical experiences of dealers and suggestions from them are of prime importance in the development of national advertising, literature and direct mail.
He cites as an example an idea picked up from an Oskaloosa, fa., hardware dealer which resulted in the development of a graphic demonstration of the advantages of kitchen modernizing. In this demonstration, a home economist first baked an apple pie in an ac,ceptably good kitchen. It took her 72 steps and 30 minutes. Then she baked another pie in a modern electric kitchen, which took 10 steps and 10 minutes. The difference, Mr. Staunton points out, dramatizes the advantages of modernization far better than the most eloquent sales talk about kitchen improvements.
R. W. Hrorton, general sales manager, \M. M. Ritter Lumber Company, manufacturers of hardwood and white pine lumber, Columbus, Ohio, recently called on the hardwoo<I yards in Los Angeles and San Francis,co. This was Mr. Fforton's first visit to the Pacific Coast. ITe was accompanied by his wife.
I wish I might compose the stuff Our politicians write, I'd start a speech at early dawn And have it done by night; I'd pad the lines with jokes and quips And innuendoes too, That speech would fairlv scintillate When I had rushed it through.
Of course I'd choose terse, compact wordsOne syllable, no more, In telling how the fathers docked At Plymouth's rubbled door; And then with flail like, jointed rvords I'd lash my thoughts along, Till from great heights of eloquence They burst and awed the throng.
I'd make my speech quite flexible To suit each time and place Of party pomp and circumstance With equal power and grace. One might declaim it at the fair Among bright throngs at play, Or mid the cacophonous blasts Of Independence Day.
This speech would be the only one That folk wquld need to hear, Or think about and analyze Through all the ,campaign year; And now, considering this fact, My ego grows apace; I swear, this speech of mine would be A boon to all the race !
A. Merriam Conner.F. Dean Prescott, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno, and a member of the executive ,committee of the National Retail Lumber Dealers' Association, will be one of the speakers at the annual convention of The Lumbermen's Asso'ciation of Texas at Waco on April 14-16. His subject is, "The National Retail Lumber Dealers' Asso'ciation-Its Value to Dealers." Following the convention, he will leave for Chicago to attend the annual meeting of the directors of the National Retail Lumber Dealers' Association on April 2122.
C. C. Stibich, sales manager, Tahoe Sugar Pine Co., San Francisco, returned March 24 from an eight weeks' business trip to the East which included the Atlantic seaboard states. He found business goocl and the majority of those he called on optimistic about business possitrilities for the rest of the year.
T. V. Larsen, Forcia & Larsen, Noti, Ore., has been etrected president of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association by the board of trustees. He succeeds Walter B. Nettleton of the Nettelton Lumber Co., Seattle.
Mr. Larsen has been connected with the lumber industry in the Northwest since 1900. With G. E. Forcia, in 1908, he organized the Star Lumber Co. at LaCenter, Wash., which in 1922 moved to Noti, Ore. He has served as a trustee of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association for several years, and for the past two years has served as president of the Willamette Valley Lumbermen's Association at Eugene, Ore.
H. Sewall Morton, Hill & Morton, fn,c., was host at a farewell dinner party to C. L Gilbert, Eureka Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland, who sailed from San Fran,cisco, April 7, for a voyage of several weeks on a United Fruit Company boat to Panama Canal and Central American points.
The party rvas held at the .dthens Athletic Club, Oakland, April 3, and those present were, C. I. Gilbert, Bert Bryan, Earle Johnson, Clem Fraser, Miland Grant, C. C. Sherwood and H. Sewall Morton.
Leonard C. Hammond, president, Hammond Lumber Company, San Francisco, left Aipril 9 for a visit to the ,company's Eastern offices and sales 'connections.
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Outside and fnside Flooring, Stepping and Finish, Drawers, Closet Lining, Lawn Furniture, Green Houses, Sash, Screens, Sleeping Potch Fittings, Sills and Joists, Laundry Tubs, Trays and Floors and Venetian Blinds.
Port Orford Cedar Common Building Lumber-l",2" 6a Timbers-costing only about 2O/o more than Douglas Fir -defies time.
Smith Wood-Products, Inc.
Largeet Producers Band Sawn Port Orford Cedar
Mfgrs. of Douglac Fir
OREGON
President Roosevelt signed the bill on April 4 extending until April I, 1937, Title I of the National Housing Act authorizing loans for repairs and modernization of homes.
Government authority to insure modernization loans expired April 1, but the bill ,extending the insuran,ce is retroactive. Loans advan.ced between the expiration date of the old law and the President's signature of the new bill may be insured.
The new measure changes former requirements as to who may receive modernization loans, stipulating that only owners of property or persons holding leases extending six months after the maturity of their loans are eligible.
The amount of insuran'ce for institutions making the loans is cut from 20 per cent of the total advances to 1O per cent. The NHA's l'iability on such insurance was redu,ced from 2ffi million dollars to 100 miilion dollars.
A provision in the new law also prohibits insurance of Ioans for movable household equipment.
Financing of small homes is no longer permitted under Title I, however, the NHA has released regulations and standards, so that new ,construction ,costing $2,000 and less on unimproved pr,operty can be handled under Title II.
A. J. Koll, president of A. J. Koll Planing Mill, Ltd., Los Angeles, will return on April 22 af.ter a three months' trip in the Orient where he visited China, Japan, and the Philippine fslands.
Our well assorted stocke, our well knonm deder policy and our central location guar. antee the kind of SERVICE you demand.
Fot remodeling and modernizing they arercal economy.
Carl Bahr, assistant secretary of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, and secretary and treasurer of the Lumber Code Authority at Washington, D. C. during the time the Code was in existence, has been asked by the directors of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco, to head the activities of the Association.
He is expected to assume his new duties shortly after May 1, or as soon as he can be relieved by the NLMA, and
The wholesalers will again furnish the entertainment for the fourth annual Reveille of Central and Northern California lumbermen to be held in the grand ballroom of Hotel Leamington, Oakland, Friday, April24, at 6.30 p.m.
Edwin fmhaus, tenor, and Fred Klein, baritone, nationally known radio stars, are guest artists, and Earle Johnson, chairman of the entertainment committee, promises an excellent entertainment program.
Ti'ckets for the dinner and entertainment are $2.00 each.
Reservations for the lS-hole golf tournament to be held at Oak Knoll Country Club on Saturday morning, April 25, should be made as soon as possible with the golf committee .chairman, Art Williamson, California Builders Supply Co., Oakland, telephone ANdover 1188.
Golf tournament tickets are $1.75, including green fees, a free ball and luncheon in the club house following the game.
General chairman Miland R. Grant exDects the attendance to set a new record.
Carl Bahr
will be elected president of the Association when he comes to the Pacific Coast-
Mr. Bahr came to the National. Lumber Manufacturers Association in 1927 from the Foreign Division of the United States Tariff Commission. From t927 to 1933 his title was "economist," working mostly on such matters as statistics, economic studies, legislative matters and tariffs. He was also at that time a vice president of the Ameri,can Forest Products Industries and a director of the Timber Engineering Company, both of whi'ch are subsidiaries of the NLMA. He was made secretary and treasurer of the Lumber Code Authority in 1933, and stayed in that position until the Code was ended, when he returned to the NLMA as assistant secretarv.
'Oatland, Calif.
The smart place to entertain your friends . . . Terrace dining room and cocktail lounge . Private rooms for luncheon and dinnet parties.
Mgr.J. E. "Eddie" Peggs has resigned his position as sales manager for W. R. Chamberlin & Co., San Francisco, to go into business for himself. He is exclusive Northern California representative for Anderson & Middleton Lumber Co., Aberdeen, Wash., well known for many years in the California lumber trade. This firm owns and operates two boats, the Claremont and Quinault.
He will also do a wholesale business with mills on the Columbia River and Coos Bay, and for this business will make use of the W. R. Chamberlin & Co. boats. Barbara C and Stanwood.
Mr. Peggs has been with W. R. Chamberlin & Co. since 1919. He has a large circle of friends in the manufacturing, wholesale and retail branches of the industry who will wish him well in his new venture.
He has opened an office at 908 Fife Building, 1 Drumm Street, San Francisco.
The Southern California representative of Anderson & Middleton Lumber Co. is D. H. Doud, 631 Petroleum Securities Building, Los Angeles.
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W}IITB PINB, SUGAR PINE, REDWOOD, ORECION PINE, PLYWOOD PANELS, SHINGLES, LATH, ETC.
"Not the cheapest---Just thc bcst"
The two good looking lumbermen in this picture are Al Nolan (left), Western sales manager of The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, and Francis Pool, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Phoenix, sales representatives in Arizona for The Pacific Lumber Co. Al was returning from a recent business trip to the inter-mountain States and stopped over for several days in Phoenix to confer with Mr. Pool. The picture was snapped by Max E. Cook, agricultural engineer for The Pacific Lumber Co., who was on his way to Northern Arizona and New Mexico.
Clint Laughlin of Los Angeles, manager of the Southern California Wholesale Lumber Association, addressed the Compton retail lumber dealers at their meeting held at Compton on Tuesday evening, /rprilT.
PORTLAND, OREGON
Mills-Toledo, Oregon. Capacity 47 M p* hour, largect in Oregon, of combined kiln-dried and green lumber. Ovet 50 yearst supply virgin timber.
Catgo and Rail Shipments-V'eekly sailings to California ports-Packaged lumber, stowed even lengths and widths
-Shipments made as promised.
t Wt ot"sale traile solicited,-Le, \ ( ur haue your inquiries. t
lmmediate teletype service between branch offices, head ofrce and mills available at all times pertaining to cus. tomerst orders and shipments.
Walter H. Rose of Orlandq Florida, president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, was the principal speaker at a banquet given in his honor by the Los Angeles Realty Board at the Hotel Roosevelt, Hollywood, on Monday evening, March 23. Herbert U. Nelson of Chi. cago, secretary of the national organization and Mrs. Rose, who acco,mpanied her husband, were also honored. The national officers were enroute to Seattle, 'Wash., to attend the Regional Convention of Realtors on April 3-4. Mr. Rose said:
"With an actual shortage of homes and rents definitely on the uptrend, we can expect to see shortly one of the greatest building periods that this country has ever seen," he said. "While the number of living units built in 1935 was 70,000 more than in 1934, there is still a great shortage.
"Two out of every three ,cities report an actual shortage of single family dwellings. City after city reports a vacancy of less than 2 per cent ,in hotrses. Our existing supply of single family dwellings is only sufficient to meet the demands of our present families and family incomes.
"Families in the United States are increasing at a rate of 360,00O annually. It is estimated that we must build better than 475,000 new units annually to meet the natural demand. New constru'ction for 1936 will exceed that of 1935 by a large percentage. It will not, however, reach what is commonly called boom proportions until the latter part of 1937, in my opinion."
The new salesman for the cream separator company had studied high-powered salesmanship, and was trying his ability and sales cleverness on a farm prospect. They sat on the farmer's porch, and the farmer's wife sat near-by, darning socks. "Don't mind Maw, she's deef," the farmer told him.
So the salesman began doing his stuff, talking about everything except cream separators, trying to win the farmer's good will by his knopyledge /of farm things. He talked of cows, horses, poultry,itc., establishing himself as an expert. The farmer gave him close attention. In the
Announcement is made by the J. R. Hanify Co., San Francis,co, that they are getting ready to operate their Redwood mill, the Elk River Mill & Lumber Co., at Falk, Humboldt County, and hope to start operation May 1.
They are proceeding with the reconditioning of the wharf at Bucksport, the railroad, mill, log dump, pile bottoms and everything necessary to the operation. They are going to have complete tractor logging, and already have 10,000,000 feet of logs down. The capacity of the mill is 50,000 feet a day.
The milt is under the management of Winfield Wrigley, general manager and secretary-treasurer of the Elk River Mill & Lumber Co.
Walter C. Ball is sales manager, with headquarters at 24 California Street. San Francisco.
C. B. McElroy, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., San Francisco, recently returned from a business trip to Southern California.
midst of the salesman's speech the farmer's wife leaned.over to her husband, and asked:
"What does that young man want?"
The farmer shouted to her: "Wants to sell me something."
"What is it?" she wanted to know.
"I don't know yetr" the farmer told her. "He's just layin' his bait."
After that the young man quit wasting their time and got to talking about cre:un separators.
One of the most encouraging indications of the future outlook for the flooring and lumber industry is the news that E. L. Bruce Co. is rebuilding its flooring plant at Cairo, Ill., which was destroyed by fire in 1934.
According to E. L. Bruce, Jr., vice president of E. L. Bruce Co., this mill will have an annual capacity of around 12,000,000 sq. ft., bringing the total capacity of al,l Bruce plants up to 120,000,000 sq. ft. This plant is being built to take care of the increasing demand for hardwood flooring, and to serve the trade formerly handled from this location.
Modern new electrical machinery will be installed in the mills, and employment will be given to over 100 men. Operations will be in charge of Brooks Ferrell, who was manager of the former Bruce plant at Cairo.
With the completion of the new Cairo plant, E. L. Bruce Co. will have nine mills in operation, others being located at Memphis, Little Rock, Nashville, Reed City, Mich., Toronto, Canada, Oak Grove, La., and Bruce and Laurel, Miss.
The annual meeting of the Western Pine Association was held at Portland, Ore., on February 26 and 27. The fol' lowing officers were re-elected: J. F. Coleman, Kinzua Pine Mills Co., Kinzua, Ore., president; J. P. McGoldri'ck, McGoldrick Lumber Oo., Spokane, Wash., first vice-president; J. P. McNary, Southwest Lumber Mills, Inc., McNary, Ariz., second vice-president; C, L. Isted, The Shevlin' Hixon Comphny, Bend, Ore., treasurer. S. V. Fullaway was elected se'cretary-manager.
The resignation of Major David T. Mason, Association manager, was accepted by the directors. Mr' Mason was retained by the Association as consulting forest economist and he will retain his membership on the various'committees in which he has been representing the Association. Mr. Mason will return to his former work as ,consulting forest engineer.
An increase of dues amounting to three cents per thousand was voted by the directors following the recommen'daation of the members attending the meeting for trade promotion and research work. The new dues became effec' tive Mar,ch 1.
President Coleman; secretary-manager S. V. Fullaway; Major David T. Mason; W. E. Lamb, Lamb Lumber Co., Modoc Point, Ore.; Albert Hermann, Association research engineer; Dr. E. E. Hubert, Association research technologist; and C. L. Isted, chairman of the trade promotion committee, addressed the meeting.
Departmental reports were made by the following: Grading, Vern Johnson; Statistical, L. C. Jewett; Traffic, H. A. Gillis; Research, Dr. E. E. Hubert; Lumber Seasoning and Research, Albert Hermann; Trade Promotion, N. L. Cary; Lumber Specifications on Federal Projects, L. M. Erickson; Forest Conservation, Clyde Martin.
The annual meeting of the Arizona Retail Lumber & Building Supply Association will be held in Tu,cson, May 8-9. The annual ele'ction of officers will be held and a fine business program is being arranged. Secretary Chris Totten states that this is going to be one of the best conventions ever held, and they are making every effort possible to get lN/o attendance.
Larson Ladder Company has enjoyed a remarkable increase in the volume of business in the first quarter of 1936 as compared with last year.
"This is partly due to the increased facilities afiorded by our fine new plant at 3rd and Los Angeles streets, Los Angeles," Geo. J. Larson, president of the company, said recently to a r'epresentative of this paper.
"This prominent location and the general improvement in ,conditions have combined to give us a fine start for this year, and we are very optimistic about the future."
Larson Ladder Company matrufactures ladders of all kinds, ironing boards and ironing tables, and lawn furniture. The company has another plantr at San Jose, Calif.
C. J. "Chuck" Jones has joined the sales force of MacDonald & Harrington, Ltd., at Los Angeles, and will call on the retail lumber trade in the Long Beach territory, Orange County and Imperial Valley' He was formerly with the Long Beach Lumber Co. at Long Beach.
One of the most interesting publications on the subject of lumber ever issued is the booklet "Origin and History of Hardwoods," written by C. H. White, vice president and general manager of White Brothers, hardwood dealers, San Francisco, now in its fifth printing.
The first printing was in November, 1923, and since that time large quantities of the booklets have been used by prin'cipals, teachers and manual training instructors in the public s'chools up and down the Pacific Coast.
It was published by White Brothers in response to the many requests for information regarding hardwoods of the world as used on the Pacific Coast, and the trade practices of the hardwood lumber industry. It contains much information that is of inter'est and value to retail lumber dealers and hardwood users.
Copies of the booklet may be obtained without charge from White Brothers, sth & Brannan Streets, San Francisco.
Annie Christenton
Bdwin Chrictenron
Catherine G. Sud&n
Eleanor Chrirtenron
Charles Chrirtenron
Open house was held by the Gibbs Lumber Co. of Anaheim, Calif., on Saturday afternoon and evening, March 29, f.or an inspection of their attractive new office building. This is also the twenty-fifth anniversary of the company. Many beautiful bouquets of flowers were received from their business friends.
The new office building is a combination of the old office of the Henry Adams Lumber Co., in service for some forty years for the Griffith Lumber Co., Adams-Bowers Lumber Co. and Henry Adams Lumber Co., which is the rear portion that extends out to the right and across the rear of the building, and the new part of the structure which is shown in the front of the photograph. The rear elevation has been left with the old rustic siding, having only been painted to show how remodeling improves the appearance.
Both the old and new portions of the building have been carried out in Norman-English architecture, designed by Everett E. Parks, Anaheim architect. Three panels of wooden shingles were used on the roof, the lower panel is No. 1 Certified Redwood shingles, S-inch exposure; the center panel, 24-inch Royal, No. 1, Red Cedar shingles, Zfinch exposure; and the upper panel being l6-inch No. l, Red Cedar shingles, S-inch exposure. Redwood and stucco are used on the exterior of the structure.
The interior of each room is finished differently, and seven grades and types of hardwoods and fir flooring are found on the floors. An alcove displaying knotty pine paneling on the walls is finished in natural, shellac, flat white paint on the knotty pine with cream paint on the spline, and Monterey style. One room is stu,c,co finished with a brocaded effect, and another is stucco in panels of various colors.
The main door to the offi,ce is of California sugar pine with four panels and two-lights and displays flush moulding
on one side and raised moulding on the other. Another door is finished in Philippine Mahogany on one side and on the other in wax gum. A steel sash, diamond light casements and double hung windows complete the window openings. Combed textured walls greet the eye in the private office which is partitioned ofi with glass windows.
Cedar lining and 3-ply Douglas fir wallboard cover one partition wall. Celotex standard board insulation, tooled for beauty, is found on the ,ceiling of one room in the old office part, while the walls in the old se.ction of the building are of pulp wall-board with battens covering the joints and finished'in ivory paint.
The display room is surrounded with cabinets, ironing boards, doors, and an attractive paint section.
A large sash on the south wall ,contains plate glass, double strength "A" glass, five different maze glasses, and light and dark amber cathedral glass. Samples of hardvvoods and Douglas fir trim surr,ound the various window openings.
One further unique idea is carried out. An ironing board built into the wall is hinged, cab,inet and all, so they can take their customers to the rear of the wall and show the different plaster bases, Schumacher grip lath, USG rock Iath, w,ood lath and metal lath.
The principals of the company are widely known and prominent Southern California lumbermen. Frank N. Gibbs, president, started the Gibbs Lumber Co. at Anaheim in 191 1, which was incorporated in 1922. Henry M. Adams, vice-president, has been in the lumber business in Anaheim since 1903 having been connected with the Griffith Lumber Co., Adams-Bowers Lumber Co. and Henry Adams Lumber Co. The Gibbs Lumber Co. and Henry Adams Lumber Co. consolidated in 1935. They also have yards at Fullerton and Placentia,
J. Harbld Dollar of San Francisco, son of the late Robert Dollar and vice president of the Dollar Steamship Lines, died at the San Francisco Hospital, San Francisco, April 8, of a heart attack.
He was born in Marquette, Mich., Optober 7,1887. For approximately twenty-five years he served in the Orient where he had ,charge of the Dollar operations.
The Robert Dollar Company has for many years been a large factor in the import and export lumber business.
He is survived by his mother, his wife and four children: Robert Dollar II, Alice, J. Harold, Jr., and Virginia. His brother, R. Stanley Dollar, is president of the Dollar Steamship Lines. Funeral services were held in the First Presbyterian Church in San Rafael.
James H. Claiborne, former well known San Francisco lumberman. died in San Francisco March 28.
Mr. Claiborne was at one time with Pope & Talbot, and later was California agent for A. J. West Lumber Company, Aberdeen. Wash.
Raymond Spencer, of the Spencer Lumber Company, Walnut Creek, passed away in Berkeley, March 26.
Mr. Spencer was a native of California. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Isabelle Spencer, his mother, Mrs. May Spencer, and a brother, Guy Spencer.
Funeral services were held at the American Legion Hall, Walnut Creek, on Sunday, March. 29.
William A. Hammond, former San Francisco wholesale lumberman, died in San Francisco, April 5.
In 1906 Mr. Htammond was agent for McKay & Co., Redwood manufacturers. Later he be,came sales manager for The Pacifi'c Lumber Co. until he organized the W. A. Hammond Co. and represented Albion l,umber Co. and Metropolitan Redwood Co. In re,cent years he was engaged in selling building specialties.
' Ife was a native of San Fran,cis,co, and is survived by his widow, Mrs. Estelle Hammond; a son, W. K. Hammond; two sisters, Mrs. H. G. Dahler and Mrs. C. G. Dean, and two brothers, Robert E. and Charles Hammond.
Portland, Ore.-A very neat and convenient Directory of Membership has been put out by the Western Pine Association, under recent date. It contains a complete listing of the one hundred twenty members, who produce Ponderosa Pine, Idaho White Pine, Sugar Pine and .asso' 'ciated spgcies. The names are listed in alphabeti'cal order under State headings, according to the location of the plants. Pertinent information for each operation is shown in a columnar classification that gives the address of general sales offices or exclusive agency; the annual capacity; production by species, indicated for ten woods in percentages; nine classes of staple products handled; and eleven groups of factory products or specialties.
The lay-out of the pages is cleverly devised to cover so many details very clearly and concisely, within the limits of the form, for rapid and convenient refe[ence. An ingenious scheme of vertical and horizontal rulings, with simple symbols, avoids confusion and shows the classifications applicable at a glance. Each page carries an abbreviated state index in the margin for easy finding.
The form is an eight-page folder, Slxll inches in size, and punched for a three-ring binder. It may be further folded in thirds for mailing and to fit the pocket or desk drawer. Conveniences and utility are the dominant features in the make-up.
This directory will be very handy and useful to buyers, dealers and lumber salesmen, as a means to locate sources of supply for the various items of lumber and related products that are obtainable from Western Pine Association mills. Copies may be had gratis on request to \Mestern Pine Association, Yeon Building, Portland, Ore.
The final preview of "California Giants," the new talking pi'cture of the California Redwood Association, was held in San Francisco. Manch 31.
The consensus of those who have seen the previews seems to be that the Association has in "California Giants" an exceptional picture, some saying it is the best picture of its kind they have ever seen.
Additional prints of the picture are being made and the announcement of the release date is expected shortly.
You don't have to tell how to live each day; You don't have to say if you work or play i A tried true barometer serves in its place, Ilowever you live, it will show in yow face.
The false, the deceit, that you bear in your heart Will not stay inside where it first got a start, For sinew and blood are a thin veil of laceWhat you urear in your heart, you wear in your face.
If your life is unselfish, if for others you live, For not what you get but how much you can give, If you live close to God in His infinite graceYou don't have to tell it, it shows in your face.
-Edward H. Gobber.If that I were where I should be, Then should I be where I am not; Ilere am I where I must be And where I wo,uld be I cannot.
{tren a mine is mined, it is mined. It gives out; it prac- \l tic{y ceases to exist as a wealth producer. But when a forest is properly cared for it goes on for ever and ever. As a wealth producer the forest is immortal. Only the ignorance of man can make it otherwise.
-Arthur Richardson, Ontario Forestry Department."Say, dad, do you remember the story you told me about he time you were expelled from school?"
"Yes, son, f recall it very clearly."
"WelI, isn't it funny how history repeats itself ?"
Men are valuable just in proportion as they are nble and willing to work in harmony with other men.-Elbert Hubbard.
We went to a picnic the other day and ate a lot of dill pichles and ice cream. The next day the doctor told us we were sufrering from an acute attack of indiscretion.
A Texas frontiersman came into camp riding an old mule.
"How much for the mule?" asked a bystander.
"Jist a hundred dollars," answered the rider.
"I'll give you five dollars," said the other.
The rider stopped short, as if in amazement and then slowly dismounted. "Stranger," said he, "I ain't agoin' to let a little matter of ninety-five dollars stand between me and a mule trade. The mule's yourn."
Old version: A pat of butter underneath a bough, a wedge of cheese, a loaf of bread and thou.
Modern version: A snappy roadster underneath a tree, a pint of hooch, a pack of cigs and thee.
Rufus-ttHello, Rastus'."
f,a5fus-"IJello, Rufus."
Rufus-"I heah yo'all been quarrel'n ovah t'yo'house."
Rastus-"Yessuh, dat no count wife of mine am all de time got de habit ob 'xaggeratin'."
Rufus-ttHow come now?"
Rastus-"She done gone an'had twins."
"f wouldn't insult you by l"V)fS that you were large," cooed a woman to a portly Frend, "I'd simply say that whether you are coming or going, sideways, or revolving, you look all the same."
The following correction appeared.ina small-town paper: "Our paper carried tn" y#i^st week that Mr. John Doe is a defective in t\fpofice force. This was a typographical error. Mr. Doe is really a detective in the police farce."
Willie was being measqred fSAi" first made-to-order suit of clothes. "Do you \tf the shoulders padded, my little man?" inquired the tailof.
"Naw," said Willie, "pad the pants."
Washington, March 24.-The National Lumber Manufacturers Association announces that its annual meeting will be held at the Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, April 23, 24 and 25.
In view of the optimistic outlook for industry in general, and that of the forest industries in particular, the meeting is expected to be the most inspiring national gathering the lumber industry has had since l9D. All of the regional and species associations of lumber manufacturers qualified for membership in the national federation of such associations are now in active affiliation with it or about to join.
In keeping with the business spirit of the times, the program of the gathering will be intensively devoted to plans and projects for the aggressive extension of the activities of the associations and of their members. Accent will be on trade promotion.
T. O. (Tommy) Thompson has opened a retail yard at Arcadia which he is operating as the Arcadia Lumber Company. He was formerly manager of the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. yard at Bloomington.
A. L. Rogers recently opened the Rogers Lumber Co. at 807 Centinella Ave., Inglewood. Mr. Rogers was formerly assistant manager of the hardwood department at the Hammond Lumber Company in Los Angeles.
Every member of the NOYO organiza1ig11 is constantly trying tobehelpfrrl and considerate of your problems. That's our way of keeping
Effective April 1, members of the Lumber & Allied Products Institute of Los Angeles representing more than 80 per cent of the volume in the area embraced by the Institute, began selling and delivering grade-marked Douglas fir in the Common grades, No. 4 to Select Structural, inclusive.
To support the movement, they will pay 10 cents per thousand feet on all sales (except to other lumber dealers) in the area served by the Institute into a general fund to be u-sed exclusively for promoting the sale of grade-marked Itrmber.
The promotion program as at present outlined by the Institute is as follows:
Advertising direct to the consuming public the proper grades to use for the purpose intended and that the way to be assured of getting proper Common grades of Douglas fir is to specify "\M. C. f. A. grade-marked." Advertising in the large Los Angeles daily newspapers is favored as a medium for this.
,d direct mail campaign, plus personal contact by the local W.C.L.A. staff, to all lending agencies to inform them that the Institute is now set to cooperate with them in prote,cting their loans and that they can do this by simply rerequiring that "W.C.L.A. grade-marked" Common Douglas fir be used.
A direct mail campaign to contractors urging them to cooperate with the Institute by using grade-marked lumber.
The West Coast Ltrmbermen's Asso,ciation is behind the program and they have furnished the Institute with a list of mills which are now prepared to furnish grade-marked lumber at no additional cost. A list of these mills has been sent out by the Institute to its membership.
Large display advertisements appeared in the Sunday, April 12 editions of the Los Angeles Examiner and The Times under the head "Your Lumber Dollar Now Buys Guaranteed Grade-Marked Douglas Fir." Commenting on the movement, Kenneth Smith, secretary of the Institute, says: "ft is going over in a big way."
Jerome Higman, Reliable Lumber Co., Rosemead, has returned from a short trip to Ensenada.
LUMBER
Cbamberlin & Cc, W, R., rth Flm, Fif. Bldg. ............Douglac 5,1?0
Dolber & Cmm Luubcr Cq, ?3a Mdchut! Excbange Bldg.......Sutter ?{56
Geoge \il. Gonan tic Samomc St.,..............'...Dougtas iFtt
Hall, Jamee L, 1026 Mill. Btds. ...................Sutter lSts
Humond & Llttl" River Redvood Cc, !!0 Saroonc SL ...,.DOuglu !8tt
Holmo Eureka Lmbcr Co.. 1506 Flnaactel Centcr B-l&..'.'..GArfield ll2r
C. D. Johnson Lmbs Corp250 Califonia Strut.........'.....GArfield 625t
MacDondd & Hffiinrto! Ltd.' rf Califomb Strut.....,..........GArfield t3l3
Mooru Mlll & Lrnb.r Co. 323 Mrr&rt Strat ...,...........,EXbroL |l?it
LUMBER
Pacific Lmber Co.. Tha
l(|0 Bush Strci............,.......GArficH lrtf
Red River Luober Co3r5 Mrufra& 81dS...............GArfie|d 0022
Santa Fe Luber Co, 16 Califmiir Stret............KEany 20i14
Schafer 'ru. Lumbcr & Shrngle Cor lZlt Fifc Btdc.......................SUtter l?t
Shevlin Pine Sales Co.. 1080 Mmdnock Bldc. ...,.......KEmy ?fll
Suddea & Christmn" 310 Samc Strelt......,.,.......GArfield 44e
Trcw* Lmb* Co., ll0 Muket Street........,.....,.....Sutter Clza
Union Lumbcr Co., Ciockcr Building ..Suttcr al70
Wadling-Nathu Cc. U0 MarkGt Stnot ..................SUtter 5it.3
E. K. Wood Lumbcr Co. I Drum Street.......,............KEamy Jll0
Wcyerhaeura Salcr Cq. lat Cdifmir Strcrt,.....,........GAr6e1d t9?{
LUMBER
Hill & Mntoo. IDc.. Danlro St fffuart .....'....'.AN&t r ran
Hocm Lrnbcr CmPanY' -2nd & Alie StrcGb.............Glacourt $el
Pmid Lmber Salet Co.' - ll3 Prcific Building ........'..GlscilrttA:l
E. K. Wood Lunbcr Cc. Frc&rick & Kfnt 56.............Froitva|c cu2
LUMBER
HARDWOODS AI\D PANELTT
Fonyth Hardrrcod Co, 355 Bayrhon Blvd. ....,....,..,..ATwat6 llSt
White Brcthers,Fifth and Bnmn Strets .........Sutter ltaS
SAI'H-DOORS_PLYWOOD
Niolai Dm Saler Co., t0,15 lttb Street ...............,....Mlsloo ttn
Orego-Waahingto Plywod Co, 55 New Montgomery Strut...,...GArfiald ?lll
Wbeler-Orgod Salcr Corpratlo, 3045 ltth SL ...,..................VA|enc|a Z2,lt
CREOSOTIED LUMBER-POLEI;-PILING_ TIES
Arericu Lumber & Tmting Co, ll0 New Montgomery St. .,........Sutter 1225
Hall, James L., l02C Mill. B:ds. ...................SUrt r lttt
PAI\TEIS-DOORS-sASH
Ell|ott Brt Sale. Co, ftzl Bmdrry ..,.Hlsat6 24iU
Cdilcab Buil&n Sugply Co., tlf tth Amu. ..................ANdwer lttl
Wectcn Du. & Sash Co, 5tb & Cyprcg Sti ..............LAkcri& lr00
HARDWOODS Strablc Hardwood Co- $U Firrt Strut.,....,..........TEmp|cblr 5llt| White Brctherc, 9t0 High Street ..............,'..ANdovrr l60C
Boketavcr-Bung Lubcr Co' 550 Chambcr of Comcru BldS'..PRGPcGI 'Ztf
Dolbcer & Cmo Lmba Co.' l2t Shcll Builditg.........'........VAndikc 0792
Hammmd & Little River Redwood Co' l03l So. Bmdmy ...'.'.........PRcpcct ISI
Holmes Eureka hnbr Co., ar-?r2 Architectr Blds. ..........Mutud utr
llovq' A. L.70 Sc L Bna Avo. ............'...YOrk ll6t
D. Johm Lmber Ccp.' dll Petrclem Smrities Bldg....PRGp€ct ff55
mePbilipc Lrubcr Cq, Glil Pctrdeu Ssrltia Bl&...PRcFct atl, rDmald & Hmingtm, Ltd-, 517 Petrolem Smritiec Bltlg....PRosp€ct 3fA
LUMBER
Peclflc Lunbcr Co, Thc ?0 l3o. Lr Brcr Avo. ,.............'.Y(H. uat
Pattcn-Bllnn hnber Co-
52r E. srh St. ....................VAndikc Zl2l
Red Rtvoc Lubcr Cq, Tltil E. Slauro .CEntury 2lOill
Sante Fe Lunber Co., 3ll Fimcial Centcr Bldg...,..,VAndike a,l71
Schafer Bros. Lumba & Shlngh Co., r?2t W, M. Guland Blds.........TRhity fir
Shevlin Pine Salec Co-
328 Petrclem Securitier Bldg. PRGped 0615
Sudden & Christeum, 6:t0 Bard of Tn& Bl&. ........TRirity EE{1
Tacma Lumber Sale. 423 Petrolerm Smrities Bldg...PRospect llllt
Union Lutber Co.. 923 W. ltil. Guland Bldg...........TRinitt Zt2
Wendling-Nathu Ca, 7|l0 So h Brea Are. ..............YOrt ll6t
E. K. Wood Imber Co, a70l Santa Fc Ave. ..............JEfrenm tlll
Waycrheeua Saler 6, t|9 Paboleu- Sccurldcr Blds...PRcDcct 55E0
HARDIVOODS
Cadmllader-Gibmn Co., Inc., 362E Miner Ave. .,. ....,. ,...Angclur lll0l
Findlay Millar Tlmber Co, lll W. Seventh St, ,..,..,,.,,....TUcks l12l
Perfetio Oak Florlng Co, EZO E. dlth St. .......,........,.....ADams 320t
Stantq, E. J., & Son, 2050 Eut lttb Stnet............CEntur7 2t2ll
SASH-DOOR:I-MILLWORK
PANEIS AND PLYWOOD
Calilmi. Parcl & Vereer Co., 155 So. Alameda SL................TRbif 0067
Elliott Bay Saleg Co- 53! Petrclam Seoritles Bldg...PRcp*t tatl
Kchl, Jno W.. & SmA 65i! Sc Myen SL ............,...ANgclurtlll
Oregon-Washingtor Plywood Co., 3lt W6t Ninth Strcte ..,..........TUcka l n
Red River Lmber Co., 702 E. Slauso ..CEntury to7t
Wbeler-Osgood Sdee Ccpoatioo, 2153 Sac@ento SL ...............TUcLc11!||
CREOSOTED LUMBER_POLES_PILINGTIES
American Lumber & Treating Co., lGtl So. Brmdway ,......,,..,..PRGpect 555t
The Tri-annual Convention of the Millwork Institute of California was held at the Lin.coln Hotel, Stockton, on Friday and Saturday, March 26 and 27. It was largely attended.
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The monthly meeting of the Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club was held at the Senator Hotel, Sacramento, on Saturday, March 20. President E. S. McBride presided over the meeting.
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The Central California Lumbermen's Club held its monthly meeting at the Wolf Hotel, Stockton, on Saturday, March 13.
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J. E. (Ted) Higgins, well known San Fran,cisco lumbermen, announced to his many friends the arrival of a fine baby girl, March 2. "Ted" is now the proud daddy of four daughters' ** ,r
The A. F. Stevens Lumber Company have just completed construction of a new lumber shed at their Healdsburg yard. They operate yards at Healdsburg, Geyersville and Cloverdale.
The Watsonville LumJ",.a.Lo"ny, Watsonville, have recently completed the constru,ction a nerv warehouse.
w. P. Mclntyre, w. p.-rulrrlrr" t Son, manufacturers of the famous "Big Tree Brand" Redwood shingles spent some time in San Francisco looking over business conditions.
H. H. Smith of Daly City is now constru,cting a new office building and lumber shed on Mission Road at Daly City.
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J. H. McCallum, pioneer San Francis'co lumber dealer, is prominently mentioned in this issue in an article covering his career and his many activities in the San Francisco distri'ct'
All officers of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company were re.elected for another term at the annual meeting at Eugene, Ore.
1,250,000 feet of California Redwood will go into the trestle across Big Lagoon, ten miles north of Trinidad, Humboldt County, according to R. M. Morton, State H'ighway Engineer.
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Jimmy Atkinson is wearing a big smile these days. He is the proud father of a baby girl that arrived March 13.
The Barr Lumber a"-;""; oir"n." Ana has purchased the yard from the Smith Lumber Company at Orange.
Wayne F. Mullin, of the Mullin Lumber Company, Los Angeles, at a Hoo Hoo Club meeting, March 18, told of his six months' trip around the world last year.
The Diamond Match of the Shasta Lumber ter Citv and Honcut.
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Company has purchased the yards Co. at Marysville, Wheatland, Sut-
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The United States Shipping Board has sold to the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company of San Francisco six freighters. The vessels included in the sale are the West Camargo, West Cactus, West Notus, West Conob, West Gambo, and the Hollywood. Under the McCormick house flag the steamers will carry lumber and general cargo to South America. ***
C. McC. Johnson, Reedsport, Ore., has bought 50,000,000 feet of Fir and Spruce timber at the mouth of the Smith River.
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More than 5,000 members of the National Association of Purchasing Agents will attend the annual convention at Los Angeles, June 9-12, inclusive. A. E. Carlson, Purchasing Agent of the Pioneer Paper Company, Los Angetes, is chairman of the Publicitv Committee. 'f**
This issue carries an interesting photograph. It shows seven large trucks of the Patten-Davies Lumber Co. at the Schumacher Wall Board Corp., Los Angeles, loaded with wallboard products and ready for delivery to some of their lumber yards.
Reprerenting in Southern Calilornia: Thc Pacific Lumbcr Company-Wendling-Nrthcn Co.
Seattle, Wash., April15.-A handbook on structural use of Douglas fir that will help lumber dealers regain solne of the sales opportunities they have lost to other materials has been issued by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association.
The Douglas Fir IJse Book, which supplies all the information on Douglas fir an ar,chitect or engineer needs in using it for any construction purPose, is being sold to lumber dealers and designers at $1.0O per copy.
All lumber dealers have lost important sales to steel and concrete because designers have been better supplied with technical information about these materials than about wood. Designers having a copy of the Douglas Fir Use Book will be able to design in Douglas fir as easily and surely as in any other material, the Association believes' Lumber dealers are urged by the Association to obtain a copy of this book and make sure that every architect and engineer in their community knows of its availability. Designers who already have received copies of the handbook have expressed strong appreciation of its usefulness.
The Douglas Fir Use Book contains more than 200 pages of technical information useful to the architect and engineer; covering load design tables for joists and rafters, beams and stringers, columns and studding, plank and laminated floors, structural grades and their uses and other essential design and use information. Architects and engineers wanting to know what size of Douglas fir timber to use in supporting a certain load over a given span, or how large a timber to use for a post or column, can easily find the right answer by referring to one of the tables in the handbook. I{eretofore, designers have had to spend considerable time on each construction job in rvorking out these figures for themselves.
The Douglas Fir Use Book also contains a great deal of information that is of as much interest to lumber dealers as to architects and engineers: an exposition of the development of structural grades, an explanation of the grade marking service offered by West Coast mills, a comprehensive grade-use guide, and information about timber connectors, the invention that makes it possible to increase the strength of bolted joints two or three times. The data is conveniently segregated under 45 different classifications.
Fred Dill of the Dill Lumber Co., Arlington, is back froru a boat trip to Panama, Havana and New Orleans. He returned from New Orrleans by rail.
Roy S. Brown has resigned as secretary-treasurer of the 'Western Retail Lumbermen's Association eftective April r. 1936.
At a meeting of the executive committee, the offices of managing director and secretary w-ere consolidated and W. C. Bell appointed secretary-manager. Harold Ostergren has been appointed treasurer and assistant secretary.
Arrangements are under way by the Federal Housing Administration and the Building Material Exhibit for a housing show to be held from May 1 to May 17 in the Architects' Building, Los Angeles. Austin L. Bla'ck, western director of the exhibit section of the Federal Housing Administration, will be in charge of the event. The exhibition rvill be free of charge.
Up to March 28, "Timber Giants," two-reel Warner Brothers short, made in the Redwood E,mpire, was booked for shorving in 700 towns, and notification of the bookings was sent to over 2,000 lumber deale(s by the California Redrvood Association. Out of this number California has only had 2l bookings, whereas Texas has had 57, which might indicate that the Redwood lumber industry is more interesting to the Texas public than to Californians.
California dealers can cash in on the advertising opportunities presented by this picture by getting in touch with their local theaters.
Built lor lord sircr ranging from 36'x36" to 66"x81t' any lcngth of load.
Also spccial typer lor special necdr.
Ratc--32.50 Pcr Column
Inch. Minimum Ad One-Half Inch.
Yard manager, shipping clerk, estimating, sales. Fully qualified in all branches of yard and office work. 25 years' experience in Idaho, Washington and California. Age 49. Will go anywhere. At present employed in Los Angeles. Good references. Address Box C-608, California Lumber Merchant.
A retail lumberman of mature age, judgment and business ability desires position. Fifteen years in Los Angeles County. Best of references as to ability, honesty and char' acter. Address Box C-606 California Lumber Merchant.
Established yard in Northern California wants a man approximately between the ages of 28 and 40 with $2500 to $3000 to acquire one-third interest in the business who will work under present management and develop into a conscientious, hard working member of the firm.
Should have some knowledge of office work, at least be able to figure estimates and sketch u,p a rough schedule of materials for small buildingp. Be willing to take his place in the yard getting out orders and, if necessary, take a delivery on a truck. A man who likes to meet and takes pleasure waiting on the trade. Preferably, a man with a small family, good mixer, and willing to work. Sdary S125 a month plus his share of the profits. ADDRESS BOX C.615, CARE CALIFORNIA LI'MBER MERCHANT.
WANTED: TO BUY LUMBER YARD, SMALL OR MEDIUM SIZE, ANYWHERE SOUTH OF SACRAMENTO. WILL TREAT ANY PROPOSITION CONFI. DENTIALLY. WILL PAY ALL CASH. ADDRESS BOX C-616. CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCI{ANT.
A group of members of Lumbermen's 'Post, No. 4O3, American Legion, accompanied the Lumbermen's Troop of the Boy Scouts to San Pedro on Saturday, April 11, to inspect the battleships stationed in Los Angeles harbor.
BAY DISTRICT VISITOR
Russell J. Hubbard, Winchester Bay Lumber Co., Reedsport, Ore., was a recent visitor to San Francisco'
Position as bookkeeper in lumber office. Can run bookkeeping and billing machine. Have had several years' experience, both retail and wholesale. Willing to work on the outside. Address Box C-609. California Lumber Merchant.
Lumber-Planing Mill-Hardware-l yard point. 25 homes under construction. Good mofirey maker for live wire. Address Box C-614, California Lumber Merchant.
A-1 retail lumberman experienced in country business. Must be good salesman and manager. Address Box C-617, California Lumber Merchant.
Certified architect and engineer, thoroughly experienced in all phases of architecture, residences, commercial, remodeling, structural engineering, etc., will exchange services for lumber or building material. Address box C-610, California Lumber Merchant.
Do you want to buy an outstanding retail lumber yard near Los Angeles? Never before offered for sale. Shows handsome profit for the last four years. Will require about $16,000. Twohy Lumber Company, 549 Petroleum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 8746.
Salesman For \Tholesale Lumber WANTEDSALESMAN F''OR WHOLESALE LUMBER FIRM TO COVER CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. STATE AGE, EXPERIENCE AND SALARY REQUTRED. ADDRESS BOX C-6r2, CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT.
Don M. Oder, Northwest Lumber Agency, Los Angeles, Southern California representative, Aberdeen Plywood Co., Aberdeen, Wash., made a round trip by air to Tacoma and Seattle at the end of last month.
ANNUAL MEETING APRTL 2I-22
The annual meeting of the board of <Iirectors of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Assoc'iation will be held at the Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, April2122.
Then read this message from Caprarx Pat P.tncntt, and MolassEs and JaNuenv of
These grand artists have frequently broadcast many of the stories which have been made famous in t'CultuD" FuN, and, upon receipt of a copy of "LotsA" FuN, they sent the following wire:
tl I JACK DroNNE, I
I Houston, TExAs I
DIONNE, HOUSTON, TEXAS
I necervED youR LATEsT BRArN cHrLD ToDAy. MANY TtlANKs. I
I ler IHERE BE N0 DoUBT rN touR MrND TI{AT YotR I I xrroress rs DEEPLY APPREcTATED. HoPE THrs xMAs I
RECEIVED YOUR BRAIN CHILD TODAY. TIIANKS. LET NO DOUBT IOUR MIND YOT'R KINDNESS IS APPRECIATED. HOPE THIS XMAS WILL TTIE IIERRIEST OF ALL YOU YOURS.
I wrll BE TUE t[ERRrEsr 0F ALL FoR You AND YouRs. I
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(Signed) M0LASSES JANUARY.
tSigned) PAT PADGETT, MOLASSES AND JANUARY. I I .--o----' I
The abooe telegram, of course, ref ers to that fnest collection of stories eoer told
JACK DIONNE'S NEW BOOK of Dialect Stories
$Z.OO PER COPY <
A TREASURE HOUSE FOR PUBLIC SPEAKERS }
California Lumber Merchant'
318 C€nlral Buitding' 1O8 Wert Six$r Street, Lor .Angeletr Califortria"
Enclorcd fiDd ( ) Dollars for which please rend me postpaid ( ) copier of yorr new Book of Didect Storier, "Lotsa" Frm.
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REDWOOD LUMBER ALL DIMENSIONS a t
PATCO RED$TOOD Scaional SEPTIC TANKS
Reasons ouhy rnore Retai I Yards bn!,,,
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PALCO RED$TOOD MONTEREY SHAKES o
PALCO REDWOOD RUFF.RIFT SHINGLES
\7'ith the multiplicity of items carried by the modern retail yard,, maintaining adequate stocks and at the same time profitable turn-over, is a real problem.
MIXED CARS are helping PALCO Dealers to meet this problem.
