Ship Entire Trainload Edgegrain Sningles

Last month a unique sight was witnessed at Vancouver, B. C., when the Huntting Meritt Lumber Company sent forward an entire trainloid of fifty cars of red cedai shingles, the train destined for Bufiilo, New York, where it will be broken and distributed to various points througF the east.

The train of fifty cars contained million edge grain red cedar shingles, Since approximately nine about twelve thou-

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sand squares of roof covering. Estimating an average roof to_ r.equire about fifteen squares this triinload wouJcl be sufficient for about eight hundred average homes, or about 4,000 people. That'i a lot of shingles.

The Huntting Merritt Company are large producers of shingles. _The amount in this train represented just about eight working days output of their mill, and the trainload took in the neighborhood of a million and a quarter feet of cedar logs to produce the amount.

The manufacturers claim that these shingles, being ED-GE GRAIN, r,r'hen properly laid with copf'er or zinc": clad nails should last from forty to fiftv veans with verv little up-keep expense. Many of them'*i[ b. dipped in creosote stains of various colors and shades. Good shin- gle stains help to preserve the wood and add to the life of the shingle.

The Huntting Merritt Lumber little over 280,0m,000 read cedar produce, with its subsidiary mills in

Co. produced in 1914 a shingles and expect to 19 24, ab out 400,000,000.

Homer T. Hayward

rward Lumber $ompany Buys Yard V

Fresno Lumber Industry Gets Boost

_.A fult page display, headed "LUMBER, Fresno's First_ Major Industry," was prominently iocated in the Fresno "Republican's" Raisin Day Annual, pub- lished recently.

The article was beautifully illustrated, showing a view of a sawmill in operation, and of two large stigar pine logs, ready to go in to the mill.

{ -gr.a_t many facts and figures were given in the article. It stated that the Sugar pine Lumber Company has spent $7,000,000 on their plant and railway line, and that there will be 1250 men employed in the woods and at the mill to turn out the 600.000 feet daily that this mill is capable of.

CHANGE IN PELTON & LEVEE COMPANY

Mr. R. P. Holmes, who has beenr managing the pico Street yard for Pelton & Levee, Los Angeler, his resigned that position and has gone with the Coisolidated Luirber 99*pgly. Mr. F. E. Pelton has taken charge in p.lace of Mr. Holmes.

E. D. TENNANT MOVES OFFICE

Mr. Homer T. Hayward Lumber

Hayward, president of the Homer T. Company, has just completed the details of the purchase of the Tynan Lumber Company at Paso Robles.

The deal includes all the stock and fixtures of the yard, in addition to the ground that the same occupies.

Mr. L. M. Hebbron, manager for the Hayward Company at Paso Robles, states that his company will occupy this site as soon as their lease expires at their present location.

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Manufacturcrr of C,alifornia White and Su$r Pine Lumber Milb at Sunnvillc and Hilt, Cd.

I5O,OOO,0OO Fect Annud Cepacity

B. W. ADAMS, Mgr. Salcr Dept.

Firrt National Bank Bldg. - San Francirco

Mr. E. D. Tennant, secretary-manager of the Los Angeles District Lumbermen's Club, hai moved his offices from the Pacific Electric Building, to room 514 Central Building.

He Got Service

"Enclosed find check for the want ad in your last issue. Please do not run this ad again.

"We have eleven inquiries up to date, and do not think that it will be necessary for it to appear again."

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and furnishing them to Door Manufacturers. The fact that it is necessary to caution Buyers against imitations of our Trademark, is its own strongest recommendation for our Bataan Bagac

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has long been known for the beautiful finished floors it makes.

Color and texture are exceptionally uniform and when manufactured with proper cire it makes the very finest Oak Flooring it is possible to produce. suPEH"8tr* is most carefully manufactured from this Oak and makn" a finished flooi which cannot be excelled. All flooring lumber is cut to size while green and great care is taken in drying, selecting and grading.

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Moisture content is carefully gauged and every precaution taken to reduce cupping and buckling to a minimum. We will be glad to send samples to interested dealers.

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By Susan Marr SPalding

Two shall be born the whole wide world apart' And speak in different tongues, and have no thought Each of the other's being, and no heed. And these, o'er unknown seas, to unknown lands, Shall cross, .escaping wreck, defying death; And all unconsciously shape every act

And bend each wandering step to this one endThat one day out of darkness they shall meet And read life's meaning in each others eyes.

And two shall walk some narrow way of life

So nearly side by side that, should one turn Ever so little space to left or right

They needs must stand acknowledged, face to face, And yet, with wistful eyes that never meet, And groping hands that never clasp, and lips

Calling in vain to. ears that never hear, They seek each other all their dreary days, And die unsatisfied. And THIS is FATE.

News Item

At the funeral of Mrs. Miranda Jones, prominent Ethiopian society leader, the pall bearers wore black frock suits. One of the pall bearers had a large hole in his trousers, but it didn't show.

Wonderfully Identified

"This check is doubtless all right," said the assistant cashier politely to the beautiful young lady, "but how can we identify you?"

The pretty young thing faltered: "I have a mole on my left knee" she said blushingly.

Slightly Blase

Cholly: "I say, Chappy, why do you never go to the sea shore this summah?"

Chappy: "I'll tell you, old thing, the shore is all right, tr suppose, but after all, when you see one wave' you've seen them all, you know."

Cooperation

Now this is the law of the jungle-as old and as true as the sky;

And the wolf that shall keep it, shall prosper, but the wolf that shall break it, must die.

As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the law runneth forward and back-

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the PacL (Kipling)

DIDN'T WORK

Smith complained to his fellows at the office that he wasl frequently embarrassed by the fact that he couldn't seem to remember the name of his new boarding house landlady'l the name was so peculiar, being "Ilummock."

One of the gang suggested that he could iron out thatl difficulty very readily by employing an ordinary trick ofl the memory sharp, such as creating a little rhyme to fiti the name one that would readily call it to memory. HEi suggested that as she was the boarding house lady, thei following would do: "Mrs. I{ummock fills my stontach.?', This pleased Smith very much, and appealed to hirn ab a winner, so he repeated it over several times to make surel he would remember it, and that evening he sat down to the dinndr table without fear, smiled at the landlady and said sweetly: ' ..:i

"Good evening{s. Kelly."

Farther Off

"I remember, I remember, the Fir tr€es tall and high, I used to think their slender tops were close against the sky. It was a childish innocence and now'tis little joy, To think I'm farther ofi from }leaven than when I was a boy."

Progress

"I do not believe that it is showing respect to our parents to believe something simply because they did. Every good father and every good mother wish their children to find out more than they knew. Every good father wants his son to overcome some obstacle that he could not grapple with. And if you wish to reflect credit on your father and mother, do it by accomplishing more than they did, for you live in a better time."