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May 1,. 1935

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Pioneer.Flintkote Co.

Hogan Lumber Co. ------------,---------------------------18

Red River Lumber Co. --------------------------O.D.C.

Flolmec Eureka Lumber Co. --------------..-.--------21

Reilly Tat & Chemical Corp. ----------------------lt

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Schafer Broc. Lumber & Shingle Go.-------21

Buckley Lumber Dealeret Supply Co. ---------- 5

Koehl & Sons, Inc., Jno. W. ---------------.----.--2t

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

California Builders Supply Co. ----------------------21

Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co. ------------------------2L

Stanton & Sons, E. J. ------ ---------------------10

California Panel & Veneer Co. ------------------.---21

Loop Lumber Company

Strable Hardwood Co. ---------------------------------

California Redwood Associrtion ---------.------.-.- 7

Lumbermen'e Credit Ascociation ------------------- *

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McComick Lumber Co, Chas. R. ---"-----.--------21

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Cclots Company, The ----------------------------------11

MacDonald & Bergetrom, fnc. ------------,-------21

Union Lumber Co. ---------------------------------*1?

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MacDonald & Harrington, Ltd'. --------.---------21

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Moore Mill & Lumber Co. --------------------------2O

Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Qo. ----------------------21

Oregon.Washington Plywood Co. ----------------21

Veyerhaeuser Salea Company ----------------:l

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Pacific Mutud Door Co. ------------------,-----------21

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

J. E. MARTIN Managing Editc

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May, 1, 1935

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Incorpuated ud* the lawc of Califmia J. C. Dione, Pres. and Trear.; J. E. Martin, Vie-Pres.; A. C. Merrymaa, Jr., Secy.

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Published the lct ud lSth of eacb moth at 3f6-f9-al Central Buitding, lOE West Sixth Street, Los Angeles, CaL, Telephc. VAnd&e 496 Entered as Second-class mtter Septembe 25, 1922. at the Pct ofrie at Loa Angelea, Calilomia, uder Act of March 3, ffl0.

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LOS ANGELLS, CAL., MAY I, 1935

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Lumber Sttke Threatened in Douglas Fir Region The threatened strike in the Fir region by the Sawmill and Timber'Workers' LJnion, which is afrliated with the American Federation of Labor, set for May 6 has had an important infuence on the Fir market during the past two weeks. The (Jnion is asking for a thirty-hour week, and an increase of wages from a minimum of 42Yz cents to 75 cents per hour. ff the strike is called, it is reported that the mills plan to go down for an indefinite period.

Lumber handlers at Los Angeles Harbor are also threatening to stdke. ft is understood that (Jnion oficials have modified their original demands of a thirty-hour week and an average wage increase of 30 cents an hour and would accept a forty-four.hour week and a minimum wage of 60 cents an hour; May 1, which was the date set for the strike, was also withdrarm.

Demands for a 5 ller cent wage increase have been made by the truck driverst union in the Los Angeles Harbor area under threat of a strike on May 7. A large percentage of the truck drivers in the area" ere employed by the lumber and oil

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the week were 4.58 per cent below production, and E.51 per cent_ below shipments. Shipments v.erc 4.30 per cent above

production.

Orders on hand at the end of the week toteled 51g08rOO0 feet, equivalent to 21472 cats.

The Vestern Pine o.l""i"" i", L" same week, 103 mills reporting, gave orders 4510501000 feet, shipments 4019011000 feet and production 33r4OlpOO f.eet. Thesl milts reported a loss in production of 24 per cent, and in new business a gain of, 12 per cent compared with the same week a yeet ago. *{.{<*

The California Redwood Association for the week reported production from 15 mills as 518281000 feet, shipments 519531000 feet and new business 9r94Or0O0 feet OrderJ on hand at the end of the week totaled* 3912101000 feet.

230 hardwood mills for the week ended April 2O geve new business as l4r22OrO0O feet, or 9 per cent a6ove productionn

and shipments 141619rOOO feet, or-13 per cent above produc-

New business for the week ended April 2o was the heaviest of any week of 7935 or 1934 accotding to reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. Production and shipments were reported as slightly less than for the previous two weeks. Compared with the corresponding week ot 1934,

production was 3 per cent lower, shipments 18 per cent heavier and ' orders 25 per cent greater.

Reports from 1,039 mills gave production l8Or522rO0O f.eet, shipments 2001262,000 feet and o*rd"ri 22O,765,000 f.eet. . The Vest Coast Lumberrnen's Association for the week

ended April 20, 519 mills reporting, gave new business l23r

77rr70t feet, shipments 10717441296 f.eet and production 99r.

6821842 f.eet. Current sales were over production by 23.8 per cbnt, and shipments were over production by S.1 per cent.

Orders booked during the week by this group of mills were over the preceding week by abot* l2r5O0rOOO feet or approximately 11.2 per cent. Unfilled orders on hand at the end of the week totded 394,898,958 tfo.

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The Southern Pine Association for the week ended April 20, 144 mills reporting, gave orders as 22r4l7r0o0 feet, shipments

24,5O2rOOO feet and production 23,492,OOO f.eet. Orders for

WALTER KELLY VISITS S. F. Kelly, general manag'er, Consolidated Lumber Walter J. Co., Wilmington and Los Angeles, was a recent San Francisco visitor. He attended the annual Reveille of Central and Northern California lumbermen held in Oakland, Friday evening, April 26.

tion. Production was t2,r987r0***.r;

Douglas Fir. Buying has been heavy the last two weeks due

to the desire of retailers to protect themselves to some extent against the threatened strike in the Fit region. Prices are somewhat higher. There is no No. 3 Common to be had.

Many cargo mills are refusing to quote, and othets are excepting orders subject to strike. Most of the Fir mills have all the business they can handle.

Redwood. Volume of business in the last two weeks greatly increased owing to the possibility of a strike. _ Pine. Pondetosa prices are firm, but the demand is light.

Stocks are badly broken. Late snows in the mountains Gve retarded Sugar Pine production, and in the meantime most wanted assortments are hard to get. {<{<**

Unsold stocks on the public docks at Los Angeles Harbor tgtaled lr454rOOO feet on Aptil 22. Cargo arrivals at Los 4rrg.t= Flarbor for the week ended April iZ totaled 8,930,000 feet, which included 12 cargoes of Fir-carrying 7,6E5,0fi) feet, and 2 cargoes of Redwood with lr245r}00 feet.- 64 vessels were operating in _ the coastwise lumber service on April 22i 36 vessels were laid up.

J. H. HOLMES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA J. H. Holmes, president, Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., San Francisco, recently made an automobile trip to Arizona, where he called on a number of his friends in the retail business. He is now spending some time in Southern California.

May l, 1935

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

E. L. Green Appointed Sales Manager o[ Union Lumber Co.

Oakland and East Bay Clean-up Paint-up Campaign

Announcement is made by the Union Lumber Company of the appointment of Edward L. Green as vicepresident in charge of sales at San Francisco, suc,ceeding the late Harold P. Plummer.

Mr. Green was born in Aberdeen, Wash., and went to school there and in Los Angeles. After leaving school he decided to enter the Redwood business and went to work for the Union Lumber Company at Fort Bragg, where he has had a total of about 15 years' experience in the various departments. He was in charge of production at the mill when he was called to his new position.

The new executive has a real lumberman's background, as his family was in the lumber business in Michigan from Civil War days until 1885, when they'came West to settle at Grays Harbor.

Oakland, Calif., April 16.-,4. great deal of interest has been shown up to the present time, financially as well as morally, in support of the Clean-up, Paint-Up, Fix-Up Campaign to which the Commercial Relations Committee of the Junior Chamber of Commer'ce is giving all its time and directorship without ,cost to the community. The Campaign is scheduled to start April 29, and is to cover Oakland and the Eastbay area. A very thorough and comprehensive advertising build-up for the Campaign is definitely organized, with Glen C. Holtwick, as Executivd Secretary of the Committee of the Junior Chamber in charge of the set up. Newspapers, radio stations, motion pi'cture houses, truck transportation ,company's moving bill boards, and many other'channels of advertising have been secured through the efforts of the committee.

Ross Lumber Co., with offi,ces in the Pacific Building, 608 16th Street. Oakland.

ATTENDS N. M. L. A. ANNUAL Harry W. Cole, Code Executive of the Redwood Division, left San Francisco by plane April 24 for Chicago, to attend the annual meeting of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, April 25, '26 and 27. He also attended a special meeting of the Lurnber Code Authority in Chicago, April 27.

BACK FROM HONOLULU Geo. L. Meissner, Valley Lumber Co., Lodi, returned recently from a trip to Honolulu.

MILL STARTS OPERATION The mill of Buzard-Burkhart Pine Co. at Lakeview, Ore., started operation April 24.

New \(/holesale Firm Sam Humphrey, formerly of Humphrey-Farrar Lumber Co., Berkeley, and Tom Ro'ss, formerly with Smith Lumber Co., Oakland, has formed a new wholesale firnr, Humphrey-

A NE\T DEAL IN DISTRIBUTION Just the kind of mixed car service you have been looking for. Ponderosa Pine doors, glazed windows and sash and screen doors, can be included in the same car with Oregon Pine doors, plywood, lumber and Red Cedar shingles.

By pooling your orders only the following quantities are necessary to make a minimum carload (38,000 [bs. in a 36-foot car). These quantities can be reduced proportionately if lumber is ordered to make minimum weight.

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THE CALIFORNIA IJMBER MERCHANT

May I, l9J5

V.gabond Editorials

By Jack Dionne Poor Old NRA ! They are really making a punching bag

out of her these days. And even those who appear in her defense put her in the very dubious position of being what one William Shakespeare was wont to call "damned by faint praise."

*** IIer once chieftan General Hugh Johnson administered some of that faint praise damnation. He said NRA should

be cleaned up, not thrown down the drain pipe. t<**

Then the Brookings Foundation appeared before the Senate investigators and suggested that the baby wasn't worth the soap and water it would take to do the washing.

vinced our people generally and definitely and beyond the need of endless argument that it is worth saving, then that very fact proves its unworthiness. **<*

Nothing could be sillier than the partisan proclamation that the reason some group wants it or does not want it is because they have an ax to grind. I beliwe the people of this country are united in one definite and explosive thought, namely, that we want to get out of this depression.

And to say that NRA has helped the little fellow against the big fellow, or the big fellow against the little fellop, is plain nonsense. I think it hurts them all. *rk*

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The Brookings outfit an independent investigating body-told the Senators that NRA had boosted prices faster than wages, retarded recovery, diminished the volume of production, and thereby increased unemployment.

Outside of that they seemed to think it was a great thing. **t(

What shall become of this muchly publicized NRA? What saith the poet?

One ship sails East, the other West, By the self-same winds that blow; It's the set of the sail And not the gale That determines the way you go.

*** If NRA were a good and worthy ship, the winds that are blowing would establish her worthiness and do her no damage. Somehow I like that simple school of philosophy that says that whatever is worth saving in this world and in this universe, will be saved, and that there is no need of tearing the nether ends of our shirts about it. That goes for humans as well as other things.

Few men in this country today talk to as many men in as many lines of business as I have been privileged to do in the past six months. And with practically no exceptions few that they only prove the rule-all men want to -so get rid of NRA. All worthy men, at least, who want to work, and want normal things to come back again. Now and then soine sound man takes the other side of the case, but not one in a hundred, in my experience. *:l*

I asked an independent druggist the other day how he was getting along with his business. He is entirely surrounded by the clrain stores. He replied with venomous emphasis that he would be in great shape if he could get away from the blankety blank code, but that the code held his nose under water most of the time. And he is the sort of guy the code was supposed to help against his stouter opponents.

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And one thing ir certain. Nationally speaking the lumber industry has certanly improved its condition and position with every strap and chain that has been dropped from *** its load of code bondage. Right now the lumber business Sorrrq wise guy once remarked that whenever he saw is certainly looking up. The lumber people are going back somq hurnan being just having spasms about saving his to work. fnstead of waiting for the code to save them over foul bJ invariably found that said worried soul was aburrt' the fixe{ price-fixed production, fixed everything route, tha ciac ol a peanut, and hardly worth worrying about. they att dcring some individual thinking, individual work*** ing, individual selling-and their business is getting betten, If NRA has not proved its worthiness by now, there isn't .There may be spots in the counlry where this is not true, a Chinaman's chance that it ever will. If it hasn't con(C.mtinned on Page 8)

May I, 1935

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Over 2OO,OOO people are expected to visit the Home Building Exposition, to be held in San Francisco May 4 to 12.

California Redwood is playing its part with an interesting venture into the field of window displays for lumber.

The exhibit consists of four unit win' dow displays, each designed to sell

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You are cordially invited to visit this exhibit and make it your headquar, ters at the show.

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May I, 1935

Vagabond Editorials (Continued from Page 6)

but almost all over the nation the lumber business is on the definite upgrade.

A wise business -"r, ,lru*,o--u an" other day: "r believe that if all the business of this nation had its code restrictions removed right now, and every man would go back to running his own business along sound fundamental lines just as he used to do, we would soon be entirely out of the woods. I think business men are ready and anxious to resume normal business and that conditions justify the dropping of harnesses and restrictions." *rt*

That is my personal view exactly. Dr. Gus Dyer, Professor of Econornics at Vanderbilt University, has been making a series of addresses on economic conditions, and he opines that the reason and the only reason we are still in the depression at the end of over five years of depression is because this is the first time Government ever tried to cure a depression and he thinks that as soon as the artificial efforts to make all the world do certain things regardless of fundamentals are discontinued, we will get well. He thinks depressions are constructive things, that Providence sends them to correct evil practices and conditions, that they are always followed by improvement of evef,y sort, and feeding them only prolongs them. :fri*

Dr. Dyer very pertinently remarks: "The American theory is that it is the function of Government to regulate, not direct business. Recovery is retarded when business fundamentals are ignored. Sometimes a stimulant is needed,

but a stimulant never cures, and the long continued use of stimulation results in wreck and ruin. {igh prices should not be the cause of prosperity, but should be the result of returning prosperity." {.rk*

In other words, a sick person may need emergency treatment. So may a sick nation. But artificial respiration, blood transfusions, hypodermic injections, leg braces, etc., are not cures. They only assist the patient until mother nature gets in her restorative work. You don't keep them up forever. Dr. Dyer thinks the time for discontinuing these emergency treatments of our entire financial, economic, and business structure has long since passed. To that I must add my Amen.

By the way, I heard a United States Congressman talking about the cotton situation the other day, and he was really skinning the present cotton control situation. As an illustration he said that the Government taxed the cotton farmer to raise the money to pay the cotton farmer for aborting his cotton crop-for not raising cotton. Of course this policy has thrown a great arrny of tenant cotton raisers on relief throughout the cotton raising portions of the Old South and Texas. Then the Government taxes the farmer again to raise money to take care of these relief dependents, whose ranks are swelled by the tens of thousands of people who worked at cotton picking and ginning and handling, and the additional army of people thrown out of work by the present complete prostration of the cotton marketing business. rfrt+

The Government loans the farmer more money on his cotton than it can be sold for in the world market. So the once great business of selling and distributing the Southern cotton crop through the world, has practically disappeared.

And so Southern cotton is rapidly disappearing from world markets, and there is grave danger that it will never come back. Cotton men simply declare that the United States Government has utterly destroyed the cotton industry.

Witness the fact that exports of American cotton for the eight months ending March 31st, 1935, were 3,532,000 bales, as compared with 6,098,000 bales for the same eight months

ending March 31st, 1934. rf**

BUT WE HAVE SHIPPED ABROAD FIVE AND ONE-HALF TIMES AS MUCH COTTON GINNINC MACHINERY IN THE PAST YEAR AS WE DID IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR. Even the simpletons who arrange our crop planning at Washington ought to be able to understand those sort of figures. ,F**

It is such facts as these that convince me that it is utterly vital that the people of this country insist that all these labyrinthine alphabetical restrictions that have drawn this nation into a maze that nobody understands, be gotten rid of as fast as possible. Drop them all ! f would like to see maximum working hours, minimum wages, child labor preventatives, and intelligent relief for those actually in need and willing to work continued, and all the rest of this mess thrown down General Johnson's drain pip+RIGHT NOW.

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

May I, 1935

"City Days" Will be Faatured at Housing Exposition "special D"y" programs by delegations from many Southland California cities will be feitured at the National Housing Show at Los Angeles which will open on May 18. Programs featuring Culver City, Santa Monica and Torrence will be held May 2O; Compton and Alhambra May 21; Pasadena and Glendale May 22; Burbank May 23; Hollywood May 24 and Redlands May 27.

Construction work on the large auditorium rvhich will cost $125,000 and provide 108,000 square feet of exhibition space is proceeding rapidly. It is expected that more than 250,000 home owners and prospective builders will visit the exposition between May 18 and June 2.

With Consolidated Lumber Co. Jim Chase is now with the sales stafi of the Consolidated Lumber Co. of Los Angeles and is calling on the industrial trade. Jim has been associated with the lumber business in the Los Angeles territory for a good many years and is well known to the trade. He was formerly with the W. E. Cooper Lumber Co.

Buys Partner's Interest W. D. Farrar, Humphrey-Farrar Lumber Co., Berkeley, recently purchased his partner's interest in the business.

Openr Wholesale Lumber Distributing Yrrd at Los Angeles J. A. Brush has opened a wholesale lumber distributing yard at 900 East 59 Street, Los Angeles, which he will operate as. the Brush Industrial Lumber Co. He will handle pine, spruce and hardwoods.

Mr. Brush has been connected with the lumber business in Los Angeles for a long period where he is widely known to the trade. IIe was formerly sales manager of the W. E. Cooper Lumber Co. of Los Angeles and manager of their Pine department.

Arizona Annual M.y 10-11 The Arizona Retail Lumber & Builders Supply Association, fnc., will hold their annual ,convention at Phoenix on May 1O and 11. An interesting program is being arranged for and a large attendance is expected at the meetit g. The annual election of officers will be held and a nrember of the National Code Authority will be chosen' .The Association's officers are: , John G. O'Malley' O'Malley Lumber Co., Phoenix, president; C. A. Ilayes, Prescott Lumber Co., Prescott, first vice-president; C. J. Killen, Foxworth-McCalla Lumber Co., Yuma, second vicepresident; Chris Totten, Phoenix, secretary. M. H. McCalla. Foxworth-McCalla Lumber Co., Phoenix, is the member of the National Code Authority.

PE RM A NENC Y oI the Harnnond Redwood operatlon is assured by

Our great stands of Redwood timber in Humboldt County, including the famous Big Lagoon tract of over 70,000 acres, which is conceded to be the fi.nest body of standing timber in the world.

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

May I, 1935

Lumber Code Authority Decides to Continue Washington, D. C., April 10.-The National Control Committee of the Lumber Code Authority issued today to

its 85 odd administrative agen'cies throughout the United States a summary of the outcome of the negotiations which have been going on for the past week with officials of the National Industrial Recovery Board, which resulted in continuation of the Code. The statement says that there was manifest throughout the discussions "an excellent spirit of fairness" in all the representatives of the industry

and the Recovery Administration, both sides doing their best to reach a solution "of this most difficult and complicated situation" r'i'hich covered both the situation preceding and arising from the dismissal of the Belcher case in the Supreme Court. At the final meeting on April 9th, C. C. Sheppard, Chairman of the Control Committee, presented the views of the Committee to the Board and Chairman Donald Richberg responded rvith certain proposals which were later crystallized into an agreement.

The Control Committee agreed with the NIRB view that because of the public and labor, as u'el1 as industry problems involved, the action taken is the wisest possible under all the circumstances, and recommends that the industry give it most serious and careful consideration and expects each divisional agency to carry on.

The statement of the Control Committee (given in full below) summarizes and discusses the program for the future, saying "it was recognized that it rvas the final responsibility of NIRB in behalf of the Government."

Mr. Sheppard candidly reviewed the troubles of the Lumber Code growing out of the difficulties of getting equitable enforcement of the Code and the demoralizing effects of the withdrawal of the Belcher ,case from the Supreme Court, saying, among other things, that the earlier opinion of the resident ,committee of the Lumber Code Authority that the Code should be suspended and the sentiment of the industry which it reflected should not be taken to mean "a refusal on the part of the industry to relinquish the discretionary power which the Code now gives it. That is not the meaning of the industry's reaction."

Mr. Sheppard also took the position that if the Code was void, "then compliance rvith some of its provisions was perhaps a violation of the Federal anti-trust laws, and a criminal offense. On the other hand, if the Code was valid, non-compliance with its provisions was a crime. The injustice to the citizen was evident. It meant that one department of the government seemingly took a position which would render the doing of a certain act criminal, while another took the position which would render a failure to do the same act criminal.

"We would be lacking in frankness, however, if we did not say that there is sentiment in the industry opposed to the making of this change. Theri are members of the industry who think highiy of these Code provisions which

give them a measLlre of rvhat they terrn 'industrial selfgovernment'. We will not enlarge on this point. However, if the Government for ,controlling reasons of policy feels that the Code must be changed in this respe,ct, the objections of the members of the industry may not be insuperable. We think that a frank and clear statement of the Government's views and the reasons for them may secure the industry's voluntary assent. We should also be lacking in frankness if we did n.ot sa;r that at the present moment there is substantial sentiment in the industry opposed tr-r the continuance of any Code."

President Rootevelt to Recommend Forestry Legislation to Congress Washington, D. C., April 2|.-That President Roosevelt rvill urge Congress to enact forestry legislation which will "supply an organic basis" for private and public particiiration "for the next ten or fifteen years" is made known in an exchange of letters between the President and Senator Fletcher of Florida, just made public.

Characterizing forestry as "a subje,ct near to my heart," the President stated that "it will be necessary to provide for such,things as public acquisition of forest lands, a strengthening of the provisions for making existing national forests and those to be acquired fully produ,ctive, and in doing so to afford opportunity for the relief of unemployment and stabilization of local communities, an authorization of the shelter belt, a rvell ,coordinated program of forest research, and finally, ,comprehensive provision in a variety of fields for stimulating and insuring both State and private activities."

In his letter to the President, Senator Fletcher, after re-

ferring to the President's letter of January 2nd to State

Governors, and stressing the importance of "a revitalization of forest industries," asked for suggestions as to legislation "to be introduced at an early date in this Congress,

having for its object the promotion of reforestation and utilization of products thereof."

In his letter to the governors of the States last January, published at the time, President Roosevelt stated that some provisions of the lumber code,could not be carried out efiectively without new legislation. He declared his intent to submit to Congress recommendations for Federal legislation, but pointed out that some ne,cessary statutes came rvithin state jurisdiction. "Among these," he stated, .,are measures dealing with the taxation of forests, tax delinquen,cy, forest fire lalvs, cooperation between the State Forest agencies and forest owners in developing and maintaining permanent local forest industries and communities. and other measures falling within the police powers of the States."

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May I, 1935

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

Lumbermen's Golf

at Brentwood May 17 The Southern California Lumbermen's Golf Tournament r,r'hich is being sponsored by Lumbermeu's Post, No' 403, of the American Legion, rvill be held at the Brentwood Country Club, Brentrvood Heights, Los Angeles, on Friday afternoon, May 17,1935. Following the tournament, dinner will be served in the Club House at 6:30 P.M. after which the prizes r,r'ill be arvarded to the rvinners of the various events, and a fine entertainment has been arranged by the committee. Lumbermen visiting in Southern California are especially invited to attend. This will be a big day for the lumber fraternity and a big turnout is expected.

The Low Net winner will be awarded the Ameri'can Legion Trophy which has been donated by Lumbermen's Post, No. 4O3. To gain permanent possession of the Cup, it must be won twice. The low net ptize is open to golfers with a handicap of.24 and under.

There will be Four Flight events: First Flight, handicaps 1-12; Second Flight, handicaps l3-2O Third Flight, handicaps 2l-28, Fourth Flight, handicaps 29-36. Prizes will be awarded in each of the Flight Events as follows: first prize. $10.00; se'cond prize, $5.00; and third prize, $2.50. Prizes will be in cash, but any golfer who wishes to retain his amateur standing, 'lvill be given merchandise or its equiva-

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This, of courser is the situation that naturally de' velops when a product wins and maintains a Ptonounced leadership over the years.

And so when home owners and farmers set out to buy insulation, it is usually Celotex they ask for and

lent.

it is Celotex they should get, because something else

Special attention i,vill be given to golf beginners and the handicap flights have been so arranged as to give everybody a chance for the Prizes.

The cash prizes which will be awarded the winners have been donated by the Sun Lumber Company, Lounsberry & Ifarris, E. K. Wood-Lumber Co., Owens-Parks Lumber Co., Ilammond Lumber Company, Kerckhofi-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Co., Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., E. J. Stanton & Son, California Wholesale Lumber Association and

ofiered as a substitute, may anttgonize a good cus' tomer+ven though the substitute rrray be accepted ONCE!

No other material gives ALL the advantages of Celotex. Lumber merchants appreciate the importance of maintaining full inventories on Celotex. See your Celotex rePresentative, or wtite.

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The Golf Committee arranging for the affair in'cludes: Leo Hubbard, Commander, Lumbermen's Post, No. 4O3, American Legion, Chairman; Don Philips, Fran'cis Boyd.

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Lumber Distributors, Inc. Expand Lumber Distributors, Inc., have extended their crane bay and shed at their Port Stockton terminal, the crane bay being extended about 20O feet.

WHEELER OSGOOD EXECUTIVE VISITS CALIFORNIA Norman O. Cruver, sales manager, Wheeler Osgood Sales Corporation, Tacoma, recently paid a visit to the firm's San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.

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He \(/as Really Busy They tell about a very ordinary sort of fellow who got suddenly rich by striking oil, and who got awfully swellheaded and biggotty about himself, always trying to impress those with whom he came in contact with his great importance.

One day he rushed into the railway station, laid a twenty

Northern California Division, American Institute of Architects, Convention The biennial exhibit of works of the Northern California Division, American Institute of Archite,cts, will be one of the outstanding features of the annual Building Exposition and Convention, to be held in San Francisco's Civic Auditorium May 4 to 12, inclusive.

Held for the purpose of bestowing honor awards for outstanding achievement of architects of northern California, the exhibit will occupy a 4,000 square foot space in the balcony of the auditorium.

It will consist of models, drawings, paintings and photographs of fine examples of architecture in northern California.

Exhibits will be confined to ar,chitectural conceptions that have been fulfilled and members of the committee of judges, which will consist of outstanding architects of southern California and the Pacific Northwest, will probably visit various completed structures before final awards are made.

The exhibit will be moved to the War Memorial galleries after the close of the Building Exposition, continuing at the latter from June 15 to July 15, inclusive.

dollar bill down at the ticket seller's window and said: "Gimme a ticket."

"Where to?" asked the ticket agent.

"Anywhere. ft don't make no difference," said the newly rich guy. "I got business all over."

Retail and Redwood Relationship Committees Meet W. K. Kendricks, Valley Lumber Company, Fresno, presided at a meeting of the Lumber Committee of the

California Retail Lumbermen's Association and the Redwood Relationship Comrnittee, held at H,otel Sto,ckton,

April 13.

There lvas a good attendance of retailers and representatives of the Redwood industry, and problems common to both were discussed. One of the principal subjects discussed was that of Redwood shingles.

Talks were given by Harry A. Lake, of Garden Grove, president, California Retail Lumbermen's Association, and

by Kenneth Smith, Secretary, Lumber & Allied Products Institute, Los Angeles.

Elmore King, King Lumber Co., Bakersfield, and George Gorman, Hammond & Little River Redwood Co., San Francisco, tied for first place in the golf tournament held in the afternoon. The tie was decided by the toss of a coin, and Elmore King was de,clared the winner, and holder of the J. H. Holmes Redwood trophy.

\(/allboard Made by New Process is Highly !(ater Resistant

New Paciftc Coastwise Lumber Conference Rates At a regular meeting of the Pacific Coastwise Lumber

Conference on April 17, new Conference minimum lumber freight rates from ports in Oregon and Washington to California ports were established. The nerv Conference rates which became effective bn April 17 follorv To San Francisco Bav Ports $s.m To Points about San Pablo s.50

To Stockton, Humboldt Bay . . . ..

6.00 To Santa Cruz-I\[onterey Landing 5.5U To Santa Barbara, Port San Luis 6.00 To lfueneme, Ventura 6.50 To Los Angeles Harbor 5.50 To San Diego . . .. 6.00

The new Upson product, Upson "stabilized', Board, advertised in this issue by Strable Hardwood Company, Oakland, is a wallboard that is water resistant to a greater degree than any other manufactured rvallboard.

This is accomplished, aocording to B. E. Bryan, president of Strable Hardwood Company, by mixing the sizing with the pulp, with the result that the fibers are more thoroughly sized or enveloped in a film of gums and chemicals.

"In addition to this waterproof quality, there has been developed a richly pebbled surface on one side and a satin smooth surface on the other, both of rvhich are prepared for painting. No sizing is required. The new product comes at an opportune time when so much modernization and alteration is going on all over the country," Mr. Bryan said.

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May I, 1935

Hammond a Little River Redwood Co. Opens Lor Ang eles Oliice Lloyd Cole, who was formerly in the wholesale lumber department of the Hammond Lumber Company at Los Angeles, has been appointed Southern California representative for the Hammond & Little River Redwood Co., Ltd. A Los Angeles office has been opened in the Western Pacific Building, 1031 So. Broadway. The telephone number is PRospect 0053.

Lloyd re'cently returned from a two weeks' trip to the various Redwood mills in Humboldt County. Most of his time was spent in the 'company's Redwood mills and timber operations. He reports that the main topic of conversation among all the Redwood operators is the extreme shortage of dry Redwood uppers, a shortage that is becoming more acute each week.

FHA Loans Increase Approved loans under Title I for alterations, repairs, etc., of the National Housing Act in Southern California totaled $4,650,000 on Aprll27. Approved loans under Title II for

new residential building and refunding of existing construction totaled $1,819,245. Of the Title II loans, $801,745 t'as for new 'construction, and $1,017,500 for refunding existing mortgages.

Applications for Title II loans in the Southern California district on April 27 reached a total of $4,806,591, of which $2,231,571 is for nerv construction, and $2,575,020 for refunding existing mortgages.

Sllver and Inflation !7hat will be the economic consequences of the advance in silver? How will this infuence .in{lation possibilities? These subjects are discussed in a recent issue of the Brookmire Forecaster.

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Retail Lumber Code Authority Supports NIRA

Harold Plummer

Washington, D. C., Aprii 20.-The National Retail Lum_ ber and Building Material Cocle Authority, meeting here this week, took a position in general srlpport of the Na_ tional Industrial Recovery Act ancl its continuation in a "satisfactory form".

"While practical operatlon of the code", says the resolution, "has not been uniformly successful, to abolish the code norv rvould, in many sections of the country, check recovery and destroy returning confidence,', In the event of the continuation of the National Indus_ trial Recovery A,ct, the Authority takes the position that a ner/'code should contain the present regulations relative to hours and rvages and that definite fair trade practice provisions should be enactecl for the protection of the public. The Authority also favorecl open price filing pro_ visions for divisions and subdivisions which desire io-,r." that device; also the administrative units should be per_ mitted to make effective the so-called liquidated damage clause.

The resolution said that if wages ancl hours are to be stabilized destructive competitive practices must be checked if the smaller business units are to survive. If the fair trade practi.ce provisions are to be swept away, it is l-reld that depletion of capital and the demoralizatjon of wages, now held in check, r,vill become active. The Code Author_ ity opposed the 3O-hour rveek.

Openr Builders Supply House Fred E. Conner is now in business for himself and is owner and manager of The Builders Supply House at Nevada City which he recently opened. Fred has been connected with the retail lumber business in the Sacra_ mento Valley for many years, and was formerly with the

Nevada County Lumber Co.

A. C. TEBB LOS ANGELES VISITOR A. C. Tebb, A. C. Tebb Lumber Corporation, Aberdeen, Wash., is a Los Angeles visitor. While in the Southland, he is making his headquorters at the office of G. E. Man_ speaker, rvho represents his firm in the Southern california

territory.

May I, 1935

Harold Piefson Plummer, vice president in charge of sales for the Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, passed away at his home as a result of a hiart attack. Sunday evening, April 14.

His sudden passing was a great shock to his host of friend's, and the Redwood industry and the lumber inclustry as a whole have thereby sustained a definite loss.

Mr. Plummer was born in San Francisco, December 2, 1881. His boyhood was spent on the Mendocino County Coast, where his father, the late William P. plummer, was for years manager of the Union Lumber Company at Fort Bragg. He entered the University of California at Berkeley with the class of 1906, and was a member of the phi Gamma Delta fraternity there.

After leaving the university he entered the employ of the Union Lumber Company at Fort Bragg, lvhere he gained experience in the woods, mill ancl yards. In 1909 he came to the San Francisco office and became salesman in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys. IIe was later made assistant sales manager in San Francisco, and in i912 was put in charge of the Los Angeles office.

In 1927 Mr. Plummer tvas made vice president in charge of Eastern sales, with headquarters in Chicago. He remained there until 1930 when he returned to the San Francisco offi'ce to suc'ceed H. M. Co,chran as general sales manager, which position he held at the time of his death.

His entire business life was spent with the Union Lumber Company, except for the time he served as a Dollar a

Year man during the World War in the Hoover Foocl Administration in Washington, D. C. \{r. Plummer was married in 1914 to Miss Doris Wilshire, who survives him. He is also survived by his mother, Nfrs. Ella F. Plummer, and by two children, Jane and Harold P., Jr. IIe was a member of the Bohemian Club and the Menlo Country Club.

Forrest \Tilson \7ith Masonite Corp.

Forrest W. Wilson is now associated with the Masonite Corp., with headquarters at San Diego- Forrest is well known in California lumber circles and was formerly rvith the Little River Redwoocl Co.

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Lumber Employment Spread Out \\,'ashir.rgton, D. C. Aprrl 22.-In 1934 the lumber and timber proclncts industry, including sarvmills, logging camps, veneer mills, and planing mills ancl box plants operated in connection with the sa.ivmills, employed 66 per cent as many wage-earners as in 1929. Each one rvorked 40 per cent fewer hours in 1934 than in 7929 bttt received a 5 to l0 per cent higher hourll' wage; the total of wages paid amounted to 43.5 per cent of that paid in

1929. These comparisons are made b1' the statistical department of the National Lumber l'Ianufacturers Association from 1934 monthly employment reports received under the Lumber Code and those for I9D oI the U. S. Census Bureau.

In the sawmills, comparison may be made in hours ar-rd hourly wages between 1934 and 1928 rvhen the Bureau of Labor Statistics made one of its special bi-yearly surveys. Average hours rvorked rnonthly by 'ivage earners in 1931 rvere 135.5 ; in 7928, rveekly hours rvere 53.1. Converting the latter to a monthly basis, the 1934 hours rvere 60.7 per cent of those recorded for 1928, brrt hourly wages in 1934 rvere nearl1'11O per cent of those paid in 1928.

In the independent planing mills, number of employes rvas about 44 per cent that 1n 1929 comparecl vvith 66 per cent in sawmills. Average hourly \\'ages t'ere 43.87 cents in planing n'rills in 1934 as compared l'ith 40.62 cents in

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sawmills, 34.25 cents in box plants and 40.18 cents in the combined groups. The number of ernployes in box plants in 1934 was 82 per cent of what it rvas rn l9D. Output did not fall off so much f.ron \9D in box factories as in

lumber mills, and the hours rvorked per week were as much, if not more reduced.

Average hours per month in lumber clivisions ranged from 171 and 190 in Northern nrills, dne largelv to r,vinter iogging totals, to 116 in Southern Hardrvood mills and Il2 in North Central Hardrvood. Average hourly wages ranged lrom 6O.32 cents in the West Coast logging camps and 54.92 and 53.78 cents in West Coast ancl Western f ine mills, to 28.5 cents in Southern C1'press and 29.55 in Southern Pine establishments.

Estimated total product:on nf lumber in 1934 was 15,263,000,000 feet or 41.4 per cent of rvhat it was in 7929, shipments .rere 42.1 per cent of the estimated 1929 total and stocks on hand at the close of 1934 rvere 7,822,nO,000 feet or 60.6 per cent of the amount at the mills at the ,close oi 1929. A considerable portion of the 1934 inventories rvere made up of items, slow-moving because of continued lorv building demand.

The average value of the lumber at the mills during 1934 was approximately $22.17 per thousand feet. This rvas 82.3 per cent of ff26.94, the average value per thousand feet; but the small production resulted in total value of only $338,381,000 in 1934; or 34 per cent of that of 1929, rvhich rvas $993,70O,000. Exports in 1934 of 1,330,0@,000 feet of lumber and sawn timber were 43.2 per cent of the volume exported in 1929, but lumber imports (exclusive of cabinet woocls) totalled only 265,0@,000 feet in 1934, or 17.6 per cent of the 1,504,000,000 brought into the conntry in 1929.

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May I, 1935

First Volume of \(/ood Structural Design

Data Published bv N. L. M. A. Washington, D. C.-The first Volume of Wood Structural Design Data, comprising 296 pages of information and tables dealing with structural design and use of lumber, has just been published by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. This book is one of a series planned as a lumber library. The data in Vol. 1 supplements and amplifies the extensive existing techni,cal data on wood for structural purposes. It collates for the designer much information for which he heretofore must have resorted to several or many other publications.

The material was abstracted, compiled, computed and arranged by R. G. Kimbell, A. T. Upson and M. Ahern, with the assistance of L. N. Ericksen and H. R. Northup, all members of the Association staff. During the prepara tion of the book Mr. Kimbell consulted rvith many architects and engineers to ascertain their opinion of what information was most needed and horv it nright be presented for the maximum convenien,ce of the designer and technical professions. As a result the $ook is unusual in several respects and represents a num$er of innovations in engineering and architectural handfiook arrangement

Glossary of Lumber Terms.

Abbreviations of Lumber Terms.

Board Measure.

Lumber Quantity Costs.

Sizes of American Standard Yard Lumber and Timber.

Notations and Technical Symbols.

Properties of American Standard Lumber Sizes.

Wood Beams-Design; Maximum Loads Limited by

Deflection; Safe Loads Determined by Blending.

Wood Columns-Design; Safe Loads on Dressed Sizes; Safe Loads on Rough Sizes.

Plank and Laminated Floors-Design; Safe Loads.

References.

As Mr. Kimbell points out, this first volume treats in logical 'continuity with the first fundampntals with which the architect and the engineer and building designer must be acquainted in order to use t'ood str{cturally in a safe and e,conomi'cal manner. The general stibjects included in

Decimal Equivalents.

The manual is made up primarily of factual and mathematical data in such a form that it can be applieC to any rvood. It makes no attempt to influence the choice of the kind of rvood nor does it usurp the place of the architect, the engineer or specification writer. It provides him with information r,vhereby he can reach a conclusion quickly and easily.

Lumber Grade Use Guide, also recently released by the Association. and "Wood Stru,ctural Design Data" provide, a'ccording to Mr. llpson, the user of lumber first, with information on the proper selection of lumber, and, secondly. with the engineering data on how to use it to the best

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Chemical Properties of Wood.

Mechanical Properties of Wood.

Timber Quality Strength Relations.

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It ain't about the roses That have withered in the blast, It ain't about the summer skies Nor the blossoms that have fell, But I'm thinking, sadly thinking, Of the folks that's gone to Hell.

And even more depressing Are the thoughts that now arise, And tears of hot resentment Come unbidden to my eyes, With each haunting recollection Much more bitter grows my woe, I am thinking, sadly thinking Of the folks that ought to go.

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NO DIFFERENCE The man in a hurry to catch a train rushed into the depot, and was dismayed to find that the two depot clocks, one in the waiting room and the other in the office, were twenty minutes apart in the time they showed. So he said to the porter: "Boy, one of these clocks says it's three-fifty, and the other says it's four-ten, and my train is due here at exactly four, and I want to know which of those clocks is right?"

The boy scratched his head. "Cap'n," he said, "I don' know which o' dem clocks is right, an' hit don' make no diffunce, cuz de train goes at fo' o'clock in spite of 'em."

CONFIDBITCB

May 1, 1935

ONE OF THE NOBLEST LETTERS EVER WRITTEN Preserved in the sacred archives of the State of Texas at Austin, Texas, and protected by panes of glass from the wear and tear of the fingers of those who sit in awe to read the faded words, is the noble letter written by Lt. Colonel Travis, Commander of the forces that were massacred in the Alamo at San Antonio. The letter was written with pen and ink on both sides of a sheet of paper in Travis' own hand, and was gotten through the Mexican lines several days before the Alamo fell and these brave men died to the last soldier. Col. Travis asked for help that never arrived, but the noble character of his plea is enshrined in the hearts of all patriotic men and women who read them. Here is the letter: "To the people of Texas and all Americans in the worldFellow citizens and compatriots-I am besieged by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Ana. I have sustained a continual bombardment and cannonade f.or 24 hours and have not lost a man. The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise the garrison are to be put to the sword if the fort is taken. I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our fag still waves proudly from the walls. I SHALL NEVER SURRENDER OR RETREAT. Now I call on you in the name of liberty, of patriotism, and everything dear to the American character to come to our aid with all dispatch.

The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily and will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due his own honor and that of his country.

VICTORY OR DEATH. (Signed) William Barret Travis, Lt. Col. Comdt.

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May I, 1935

Redwood Shingle Sales Increased

by Campaign The following Redwood shingle operators, through their membership in the Shingle Bureau of the California Redwood Association, are contributors to the expense of the new promotional ,campaign on Redwood shingles. The list comprises practically the entire Redwood shingle manufacturing industry: Hammond & Little River Redwood Co.. San Francisco; The Pacifi,c Lumber Co., San Francisco; Union Lumber Co., San Francisco; Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., San Francisco; Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco; Navarro Shingle Co., San Francisco; W. P. Mclntyre & Son, Fortuna; E. P. Rasmussen, Smith River; Dunn's Mill (Earl Williams), Carlotta; N. P. Burgess, Weott; H. L. Reid, care Summer Home Farm, Glenwood; Highland tumber Mill, Box 59, Wrights; Santa Cruz Box Co', Santa Cruz; M. F. Mitchell & Co., Carlotta; Percy J. Brown, Box 52, S'cotia; Monterey Bay Redwood Co., Santa Cruz; California Shingle Co., Santa Cruz; Ilalvorsen Bros., Bayside; Herbert H. Neff, Ar,cata Star Route, Arcata.

Discussing the trade promotion campaign for Redwood shingles, Jim Farley of The Pacifi,c Lumber Co., Chairman of the shingle committee of the California Redwood Association, said that the operators realize that the grades of Redwood shingles have not been uniform in the past, and that therefore one of the first actions of the organization has been a movement to improve and standardize the shingle grades.

"We feel," Mr. Farley stated, "that a sound merchandising program cannot be built without the establishment of the basic groundrvork of a product of uniform and high quality.

"A modest start in promotional work has been made, and we are confident from the results cif the first few months that a larger fund as a result of increased shipments will soon be available to broaden the scope of the

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durability are necessary, such as: Roofs- Decking - Factory Floors Barns - Posts - Fencing - Cooling Towers - Walks - Ttoughs."

Calling on Industrial Trade Harland Wentworth has joined the sales staff of G' E. Nfanspeaker, Los Angeles wholesaler, and will call on the industrial and re-manufacturing trade in the Los Angeles and Southern California te.rritory.

Union Lumber Company

IVIr. Wentworth is well known in lumber circles on the Pacific Coast where he has follorn'ed the lumber business

Calif ornia

for a goocl many years, both in a wholesale and retail caoacitv.

San Francigco

Redwood Lor Angelcr

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

May I, 1935

Wood Conversion Co. Increases Plant Capacity Taking full advantage of the wide range of possibilities Ior its broad line of insulating, sound deadening, and acoustical products during the past two years, Wood Conversion Company, Cloquet, Minnesota, has obtained a volume of sales that make necessary a substantial in'crease in plant capacity.

Balsam-Wool, known for years as one of America's leading house insulations, has enjoyed a substantial increase in sales because of the demand for this product in the insulation of attics in homes already built. Nearly three times as much Balsam-Wool was sold for this purpose in 1934, as was used during the best previous year in the company's history. The Nu-Wood line, once sold entirely for use as structural insulation and plaster base, has become in-

purpose. A large percentage of all mechanical and ice refrigerators to be made this year will be insulated with slabs made from Wood Conversion Company pulp.

This increase in capacity of Wood Conversion Company's plants can be traced to the development program which began in 1932- Each product in the company's line was checked for possible improvements which would make it more acceptable to the trade to which it was being sold. When surveys of markets indicated a need for a new produ,ct, it was developed and added to the line. BalsamWool was redesigned, made more rnoisture-proof, windproof, and fire-resistant. Three thicknesses were offered so the house owner could obtain just the amount of insulation his climate required. The process of producing insulating slabs within the manufacturers' factories was introduced. The line of Nu-Wood products was changed to provide an attractive interior finish. For the first time. color and texture were introduced in the insulation board industry. A careful study of interior decorating requirements was made so that these- pre-decorated units of NuWood Tile, Plank and Wains,cot on walls and ceilings would harmonize with any style or design of interior furnishings.

Prize-winning Booth of Wood Converrion Company at Northwertern Lunbcrmen'r Acrociation Convention, Minneapolir, Minnesot.

creasingly popular throughout the country as pre-decorated interior wall and ,ceiling finish. In the industrial division, the demand for a specially refined pulp has built up a volume which is requiring more than double the previous capacity.

Additions have been made to most of the present buildings and new equipment set up for each department. Three tbicknesses of an improved, more efficient house insulation are being made in the Balsam-Wool plant. A new board forming machine, unlike any now in use in the industry, has just been installed in the Nu-Wood plant. With it the interesting and unusual texture which has played such an important part in making Nu-Wood Plank, Tile and Wainscot so popular, is being further improved. Completion of experiments on mixing various proportions of northern coniferous woods for pulp used in the manufacture of NuWood have resulted in the production of a board which is considerably stronger, lighter in weight, and which possesses a more efficient thermal conductivity rating.

New grinders, a filter press, and a large digester make up the additions in the company's insulating pulp mill where ,current orders required doubling the capacity. Used largely for box insulation by manufacturers of mechanical refrigerators, this pulp is shipped compressed in bales of high density. Manufacturers "fluff out" the bales in their own plant, forming insulating slabs of sizes to fit their particular needs.

Special patented machines are licensed to them for this

This line of Nu-Wood interior finish has gained rapid popularity because of its beauty of color and texture.

Wherever shown in lumber dealer conventions, building expositions and repair and remodeling displays, it has at, tracted favorable attention. At a recent Northwestern Lumber Dealers' Convention held in Minneapolis, the booth made of these products, and pictured here, won first honors in the building materials division.

Findings of study and research in 1932 are given full credit for the volume of sales in all departments. According to the management, an extensive research program will be carried on so that new and improved products can be offered to the company's industrial customers. It will be the aim of the company's executives to supply their lumber dealer,customers with up-to-date construction materials which can be sold at a profit in substantial volume.

ilOORE FIR Structural Tirnbers and Joists MrLLS AT BA|IDON, OnEGON 526 Underwood Bldg., San Francieco

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May l. 1935

First All-\(/ood Radio Tower in America Completed \7RVA Tower at Richmond, Va., 32O Feet Hish, Uses Modern Connector Construction-Opens the Way for Exrensive Field of Timber Utilization Richmond, Va., April l2.-Completion of WRVA's new around the bolt hole in each of the joined pieces equal in all-wood triangular tower, a sturdy tripod thrusting 320 depth to half of the width of the ring. As the tool works feet skyward at Richmond, Va., to suspend the station's from the bolt hole there is assuran,ce that the grooves in vertical broad,casting antenns.-the first radio tower of any- the overlapping pieces will be exactly opposite each other. thing like such height to be built of wood in America-has The "split ring" connector is placed in the groove and the evoked a flood of curious inquiries. Although the advan- two wooden members bolted together. Again, as in the tages of the new type of structure are quite apparent to the case of the "toothed ring" type, the connector carries all radio and structural engineering mind, the general public of the load, the bolt merely holding the pie,ces together. The is naturally ,curious as to the reasons for the use of wood, flexibility given by the break in the ring enables it to bear and for the triangular design, and holv the trick was done, against the encircled core as lr'ell as against the outer edges it being generally believed that a wood-tower of sufficient of the groove. strength would be too heavy and ,cumbersome to reach such The difference between the ,conventional bolted joint and a height and yet achieve a lacy, graceful appearance. Even the new joint employing timber connectors is somewhat engineers are revealing some curiosity along these lines. like the differen,ce between a hand ,clasp effected by pla,cing Wood has been long known to radio engineers as ideal the palms together and merely ,crossing the index fingers, material for tower constru'ction because of its slight inter- as compared with a hand .clasp in which all of the fingers ference with broadcasting and its low cost as compared are tightly entwined. This device enables the designing enwith other materials. Until recently, however, its use was gineer to employ from 80 to lW/o of the allowed working considered impracti,cable because of the necessity of em- stress of any wooden member, so that, with this new sysploying bulky members, on account of the weakness of the tem of construction, if the allowable rvorking load of a 4x6 old fashioned bolted joint. The designer was constantlv timber is of itself suffi,cient for the intended purpose, a confronted with problems arising from the fact that it was thicker piece need not be used. As wood, pound for pound, impossible to make the ,conventional bolted connection as has the same strength as steel, and is, of course, much strong as a cross-section of the members entering it. For cheaper, it will be seen that modern timber connectors perthat reason he could only figure on using 50 to 60% of the mit the use of wood in innumerable structures where it allowable working stress of any wooden member. Where might otherwise be considered impractical. a piece 4"x6" would be strong enough of itself the designer Familiar Type in Europe. would have to employ, perhaps, a 4'txl0" or 4"x12,,, in The timber connector principle has been applied in order to get the necessary room for bolts at the joint.

Europe in the .construction of radio towers, bridges, and Where the Connectors Come fn many less specta,cular struslulss, in,cluding commercial With the advent of a simple 'contrivance known as the buildings of many kinds, espe,cially those demanding a wide modern timber ,connector, however, this problem was expanse of floor space, uninterrupted by columns-as the solved. There are several typeS of these connectors, which timber connectors permit the constru,cti.on of wood roof were introduced into this country from Europe, where thev trusses of almost any desired length. At Meuhlacker, Gerwere proving highly successful, by Axel H. Oxholm, Chief many, the use of timber connectors has made possible the of the Forest Produ,cts Division of the U. S. Department of construction of a wood radio tower 190 meters, or about Commerce. Chief among those which have come into wide 625 f.eet, in height and supporting at the top an antenna commer'cial use here are the "toothed ring" and "split ring" ring 10 feet in diameter and weighin g l32O pounds. In adtypes. The former is a ring of corrugated steel, both edges dition to strengthening the joints, the connector principle of which are toothed. It is placed betrveen adjacent sur- gives wo,oden structures a rigidity not otherwise obtainable. faces of two pieces of lvood, forming a joint in such a way Triangular Plan Novel in Radio Towers that it encircles the bolt hole. As the bolt is tightened the While the connectors found their real initial development toothed edges of the ring become embedded in the wood, in Europe, the patented triangular form of tower ,construchalf in each piece. This operates to distribute the load, tion is 100/o American in origin and, thus far, in developtransmitting it from one structural member to another. ment. WRVA's new structure is the first completed adapThe burden is ,carried by the connector, the bolt function- tation of this newest method-although fourteen governing merely to hold the assembly together. ment forest lookout towers employing this ingenious The "split ring" connector employs the same prin,ciple, method of ,construction are now being built in the northbut is a smooth ring of steel rvith a tongue-and-groove west. break. A simple cutting tool carves a circular groove The tripod has tr,vo important advantages over the time-

May l, 1935

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

honored square-base, or four-legged, type of tower-advantages which promise its adaptation for all sorts of towers, such as water-tank supports, poles for high-tension trunk wire lines, and the like. It opposes only three, instead of

four, faces to the elements, with resultant decrease in wind resistance. The cost is lower-materials and labor of erection being under that of the square-base variety.

The corners of the base are 381 f.eet apart at the tops of the concrete foundation piers, the structure tapering gradually and gracefully until, at a height of 280 feet, the corners are but 15 inches apart. From this point a top-mast projects 40 feet upward to attain the desired height of 320 feet from whi,ch to suspend the antenna.

Detailed drawings were prepared from the plans for each piece, so that the various members could be 'cut, bored and grooved in the shop and brought to the site ready for assembly, just as is usually done in the erection of steel framirg. The contractor, however, elected to do this work on the job.

Credit for Pioneering Credit for pioneering courage goes to the owners of WRVA, Larus and Bro. Co., tobacco manufacturers, and the general manager of their radio department, C. T. Lttcy.

Anxious to add to the effectiveness and widen the range of the station's broadcasting, rvhi'ch had been done from a horizontal antenna suspended from two steel towers, they accepted the recommendations of Paul F. Godley, Upper Montclair, N. J., radio consultant, for the type of tower just completed. Mr. Godley was anxious to employ the allwood construction which had proven so successful abroad, and WRVA, willing to pioneer in that direction, accepted his further recommendation and decided to employ the tripod plan.

The WRVA tower was designed by Mr. Frank P. Cartwright and checked by Peter Landsem-both being engineers associated with the National Lumber Manufa,cturers

Association, Washington, D. C. The connectors were supplied by the Timber Engineering Company (a subsidiary of American Forest Products Industries formed for the purpose of promoting improvement in timber design and construction) owner of the American rights to various connector types. The builders of the tower are the Wise Granite and Construction Company, Richmond, and the work was personally supervised by Lee Pachall, president of the company. The high quality structural long-leaf heart Southern pine of which the tower is built was furnished by the Putnam Lumber Company, Shamrock, Fla. Steel structural workers were employed in the sle,sfienwhich brings up the thought that timber connectors may warrant these daredevils making theirs a hereditary voca. tion-for, though industry may some day extract the last ton of iron ore from the bowels of the earth, wood is a natural resource which constantly renews itself, and the undertakings of the lumber industry in connection. with conservation of forests, as provided in its covenant with the government, promise that wooden members such as those used in WRVA's new tower will be perpetually available.

C. C. STIBICH VISITS PORTLAND C. C. Stibich, sales manager, Tahoe Sugar Pine Lumber Company, San Francisco, was a recent visitor to Portland, Oregon, where he attended the meeting of the trade promotion committee of the Western Pine Association.

PETE RUTLEDGE VISITS S. F. P. J. "Pete" Rutledge, plant superintendent, Dolbeer &

Carson Lumber Co., Eureka, left for Eureka April 14 after a visit to the company's head ofiice in San Francisco. Mr. Rutledge spent a few days calling on the trade in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys with Henry M. Hink, sales manager. He also attended the Redwood Relation-

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

Ten Years

May 1, 1935

Ago Today

From the Files of The California Lumber Merchant, May 1 , 1925 The Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Company has opened a Los Angeles office with R. E. Seward as their Southern California representative. *>F*

Dr. Ng Poon Chew, editor, founder of the first Chinese newspaper in the United States, being first published in San Francisco over twenty-six years ago, addressed HooHoo Club No. 9 at their meeting at the Palace Hotel on April 23. Chas. Dodge was Chairman of the day.

The Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club met at Sacramento on Saturday, April 18. State Forester M. B. Pratt

The Pacific Manufacturing Co. at Santa Clara has moved their retail yard to their new site which is located on the main highway where they have erected a new ofiice building and rumber sheds.

* *

Harry Hanson was chairman of the Los Angeles HooHoo Club meeting on April 23. *rt* The Bay District Hoo-'Hoo announces a dinner and concatenation at the Commercial Club, San Francisco, on the evening of May 14. Ed Chamberlin and Frank O'Connor are arranging for the entertainment program.

was the principal speaker. *t<rF

The Orange County Lumbermen's Club held their regular monthly meeting on April 23 at Fullerton. The main topic for discussion was "Hardwood Flooring," and a number of hardwood men from Los Angeles attended, some of whom addressed the meeting on the subject.

***

The Lumber Salesmen's Club of San Francisco held a dinner dance at Marquard's on Thursday evening, April 23. During the dinner hour the "Marquard Revue" presented several excellent entertainment numbers.

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Hoo-Hoo Club No. 37 held its first monthly meeting at the Alpine Hotel, Susanville, on Monday evening, April 6.

Forest Supervisor W. G. Durbin was the principal speaker, who talked on Reforestation. ***<

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The Central California Lumbermen's Club met at Tracy on Saturday, April 11, where they were the guests of the Tracy retail dealers. The business session included a continuation of the discussion of the "Code of Ethics" which was also taken up at the March meeting.

*** Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wells were the recipients of many congratulations from their many friends at the recent celebration of their twentieth wedding anniversary. Frank Wells is a prominent and widely known California retail lumber dealer.

*** Dick Ustick, Stanislaw Lumber Co., Modesto, was elected

a member of the City Council at the recent election held at Modesto. +>F*

Miss Josephine M. Campion became the bride of James

W. P. Coles, Arkansas Oak Flooring Company, Pine E. Atkinson at San Francisco on April 15. Following the

Bluff, Arkansas, was a California visitor and spent several days calling on the hardwood trade in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

ceremony, a wedding breakfast was served at the Hotel Whitcomb. Mr. Atkinson is connected with the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.

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M. N. Salomon, formerly with the Acme Lumber Co. of ' San Francisco, is now associated with the William Smith Co. of San Francisco. Mr. Salomon was the guest of honor at a dinner given by the Acme Lumber Co. force at Marquard's on Saturday evening, April 18. Jack Johnson will succeed 1\{r. Salomon with the Acme Lumber Co.

***

The Two Rocks Commercial Co. at Two Rocks is building a new mill that will be operated in connection with their retail lumber business.

***

The Progress Lumber Co. of Redwood City has moved

to its new site. At their new location, they will have a

large new planing mill, lumber sheds, and a new modern lumber ofiice. 'f**

Larsen Brothers of San Leandro recently completed the constrirction of a modern combined lumber ofiice and shed.

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The S.S. "Lewis Luckenbach" recently arrived at San Pedro harbor with a lumber cargo in excess of 8,000,000 feet. The boat was loaded on the Columbia River and was en route to New York. The stop at San Pedro was made for the purpose of loading bunkers.

The Santa Clara Lumb; ; iu. op.r,.a a yard.at Santa Clara where they are operating a general retail lumber busiNESS.

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M. A. Harris, Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco, has been elected president of the Rotary Club of San Francisco. **'k

The San Diego Hoo-Hoo held a dinner dance at the La Mesa Country Club on the night of April 18. There was a splendid entertainment and dancing continued until midnight.

May l, 1935

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

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At their annual meeting on March 29,1935, held in Seattle, Washington, the members of the Red Cedar

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shingles, manufactured by Bureau member mills. has designated them as being "Certified" red cedar shingles, whereas the new label reads, "Certigrade" red cedar shingles. This change becomes effective immediately.

There is no ,change in the grades of the former "Certified" red'cedar shingles, but the Bureau members felt that the word "Certified" has been used in ,connection with so many different products that it would be advisable to change to a coined trade mark, hence the selection of "Certigrade." The literal meaning of the r,'r'ord "Certigrade" is that the shingles thus labeled are certified as up to the grade required by Commer,cial Standard CS31-33 for red cedar shingles, as issued by the U. S. Department of Com' merce, Washington, D. C. As will be noted in the illustration, there is no change in the Bureau label other than

Sterling Lumber Co. Buys Two Yards Sterling Lumber Company, with headquarters in Oakland, recently pur,chased the yard of Cochrane Lumber Company, Petaluma, and the yard of S. G. Beach Lumber & Box Company, Placerville.

New Hardwood Lumber Company Howard Thompson and Geo. A. Ryness recently'organized the Thompson-Ryness Hardwood Lumber Co. with office and warehouse at 6614 McKinley Ave., Los Angeles' Mr. Thompson formerly operated the Thompson Hardwood Lumber Co. of Los Angeles, and Mr. Ryness the Commercial Floor Company of Los Angeles.

W. H. DALTON VISITS S. F. Walter lI. Dalton, manager of the mill of Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., Eureka, was a recent visitor to the San Francisco office. He also attended the meeting of the Redwood Relationship Committee in Stockton, April 20. c. H. GRTFFTN, JR., VTSTTS LOS ANGELES C. H. Griffin, Jr., sales manager of the Monterey Bay Redwood Co., Santa Cruz, recently spent a few days in Los Angeles visiting his father, C. H. Griffin, Sr. His father' who was associated with the retail lumber business in Southern California for many years, retired from business a few years ago when he sold his yard at Artesia.

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POSITION WANTED Yard foreman, order'clerk, tallyman, salesman. Twentyfive years lumber experience on the Pacific Coast. Last ten years in California at wholesale and retail yards. Ag" 44, active and intelligent. Best lumber references. Will go anywhere. Box C-551, care California Lumber Merchant.

EXPERIENCED YARD MAN WANTED Retail Lumber Yard in large country town wants experienced yard man. Must know paints, hardware and general building materials. State age and past experience.

Applications confidential. Address Box C-545 California Lumber Merchant.

LUMBE/R YARDS FOR SALE Some first class retail lumber yards in Southern California have been placed in our hands for sale. Twohy Lumber Co., 549 Petroleum Securities Building, Los Angeles.

Telephone PRospect 8746.

RETAIL LUMBER YARD FOR SALE Good location, excellent possibilities. Low rental railroad lease. Address Box C-547. care California Lumber Merchant.

WANTED EXPERIENCED ACCOUNTANT FOR WHOLESALE LUMBER OFF'ICE Man wanted as accountant, full or part time. Must be thoroughly experienced in wholesale lumber office work.

San Francisco Bay district. Address Box C-549, California Lumber Merchant.

POSITION WANTED AS MANAGER Or assistant manager of a good going lumber yard. Experienced in both retail and wholesale, and capable of keepirg books, operating bookkeeping machine, and all branches of office management. Am a rustler, and have been successful in the past. Position desired is one where if everything proves satisfactory, purchase of a substantial interest in the business could be had after one year.

Address Box C-550, California Lumber Merchant.

LUMBER SALESMAN WANTED For wholesale lumber concern. Man who is well acqtrainted with retail trade, particularly in San Francisco Bay district, Peninsula and Coast Counties territories. Address in confidence, Box C-548, California Lumber Merchant.

Have You Anything to Sell? or Do You Want to Buy Anything? in the way of Sawmill Machinery - Planing Milt Machinery - Lumber Handling Equipment - Trucks or Miscellaneous Equipment.

\(/hv Not Use Our Classified Ad Columns? $2.50 per Column Inch - Minimum Ad One-Half Inch The California Lumber Merchant, 318 Central Bldg., 1O8 West Sixth St., Lor Angeler, California: Please publhh tihe following Claosffied Ad:

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practical interest to every California lumberman.

Isn't this then an ideal medium for those who have a business story they want to send to these lumber folks?

Let [Js Carry Your Message Adaertising Rates on Request

MODERNIZE THE MODERN WAY CATIFORNIA PIYWO0D and WAIIB0ARD To assure the success of modern interior treatments, "Paul Bunyan's" California Pine Plywood is specifred. For the finest finishes in paints, enamels or lacquers there is no base equal to California Pine at anywhere near the cost. trn some of America's finest stores this Red River

product is used extensively for the construction of fixtures and wall decoration.

Quality is the first consideration for installations of this class. At the srne time its low cost makes this strong, light, easy-working material available for a multitude of uses where economy is vital.

WM. TAYLOR, SON & CO. CLEVELAND, OHIO

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Over $50O,OOO was invested last year in modernization of this leading mercantile house. ttPaul Bunyan's" California Pine Plywood, supplied by the Davis Plywood Corporation, played an irnportant part in this work. The Taylor management has expressed their entire satisfaction with its quality and economy.

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