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STATE HO,USING ACT PASSES SENATE WITHOUT A DISSENTING VOTE

Senate Bill No. 29 as amended April 13th, 1923, being the State Housing Act passed the senate without a dissenting vote. fnc'orporated in the Act as passed were the amendments which the California Retail Lumbermen's Association fought to have incorporated.

Hammatt Returns From San Joaquin

R. F. Hammatt, secretary-manager of the California Redwood Association, has returned to San Francisco after a weeks trip through the San Joaquin Valley, which covered the territory from Kingsbury on the south to Stockton on the north. Mr. Hammatt was calling on the retail lumber dealers that have asked for the Redwood Service. During his trip he placed with the retail dealers 11,000 copies of the "Silent Salesmen" (letter inserts) ; 35 trewspaper cuts for advertising purposes ; 22 motion picture slides; and 2 motion picture reels showing the manufacturing operations of redwood. During the early part of May, Mr. Hammatt will make a similar trip calling on retail lumber dealers of the Sacramento Valley.

FRED neUr-rN nB'rUnlls FnoM vAcATroN

Fred Hamlin, of the Bennett-Hamlin Lumber Co. of San Prancisco, has returned to San Francisco after spending a weeks vacation at Capitola. Fred reports that he had a delightful time and feels much improved after a week of recreation in the great out-doors. He was accompanied by Mrs. Hamlin on his trip.

HALSTEAD LUMBER COMPANY TNVADES ,./ CALIFORNIA

The J. D. Halstead Lumber Company has purchased the entire plant o{ the I-. Rosenberg Lumber Company at Fresno.

The Halstead Lunrber Company, with main offices in the Douglas Bldg., Los Angeles, have been operating fifteen yards in Arizona for a number of years, handling a complete line of building materials.

Mr. W. M. Robbins, of the Los Angeles office has been in Fresno for the past few weeks attending to the details of the purchase.

Mr. J. D. Halstead is president of this progressive companl, J. R. Halstead vice president, and Mr. A. E. Halstead is secretary-treasurer.

H. A. BROWNING LEAVES FOR NORTHWEST

Mr. H. A. Bnowning, wholesaler in the Stock Exchange Bldg., I-os Angeles, has left for an extended trip through the northwest, where he will visit various mills.

Mr. Browning returned just a short time ago from a trip through Old Mexico, made to ,cruise a,nd appraise some timber land for the N. J. Morehouse flardwood Timber Syndicate.

H. \v. MCLEOD S;CK FROM IMPERIAL VALLEY

Mr. H. W. Mcleod, manager of the Hammond Lumber Company in Los Angeles, has returned from a motor trip through the Imperial Valley where he visited the various yards operated by the Hammond Company there.