Bakersfield Firm Adds Flard- Functions of West Coast ware and Plumbing Dept. Office of National Enlarged

The Bakersfield Sandstone Brick Company, at Bakersfield, have opened up their new plumbing department and hardware store in connection with their lumber and brick business, and are now handling a complete line of building materials.

This progressive concern started in business in 1885, and added their lumber depar,tment in 1918. The company was incorporated in 1903, and at the present time with a capitalization of $100,000 is doing a volume of business amounting to about $6m,0p a year.

James Curran, the founder of the business, is manager, and his four sons, Arthur, Charlie, Hugh and Robert Cur- ran are directors, and are all active in the business. Arthur Curran takes a great interest in Hoo Hoo in the southern part of the San Joaquin Valley.

Washington, D. C., May 1.-Follorving administrative reorganization of the field promotion staff of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. it was announced here today that A. C. Horner in charge of the Western Office of the Association at San Francisco, which has been raised from a divisional office status. will assume full Western representation of the National Association onthe Coast. An enlarged territory, including Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah and Arizona, has been apportioned to the Western Office and Mr. Horner will direct the activities of the lumber field promotion staff in that territory co-ordinating them with the national trade extension program as developed here. Contact will also be maintained, as heretofore, with the British Columbia lumber interests.

Mr. Horner is well known particularly in building and erlgineering circles on the West Coast where he spent four years as Secretary of the Pacific Coast Building Officials Conference and was largely responsible for the development of the Pacific Coast Uniform Building Code. He also spent seven years as an engineer in the Maintenance of Way department of the Southern Pacific Railway. For the past two years he has been associated with the trade extension activities of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association on the West Coast, prior to which time he was connected with the Portland Cement Association. Heis an engineer graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Curran is said to bp the oldest brick manufacturer in the United States who has rernained continuously in the business.

The company owns an area of 12 square blocks and employs 50 men.

Orange County Lumbermen Meet

The monthly meeting of the Orange County Lumbermen's Club was held at Anaheim on Monday evening, May 13. 45 lumbermen were present. Following a general business session, R. L. Titus, West Coast Lumbermen's Association, addressed the meeting.

In addition to furnishing engineering service to lumber consumers the Western Office of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association will work out with the four affiliated western regional lumber associations plan for closer co-operation in lumber trade promotion. In leaving here today Mr. Horner said he would make immediate contact with representatives of the Western Pine Association, the Redwood Association, the Western Coast Lumbermen's' Association and the California White and Sugar Pine Association to discuss plans whereby co-ordinated effort in trade promotion will eliminate duplication and add to the effectiveness of all lumber promotion activities undertakCn.

MARK W. LTLLARD AND A. D. SQUTRES COVER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

MarkLillard and A. D. Squires have returned from a trip on which they covered the Southern California territory. They made the trip in one of the new Studebaker Commander Sedans the company has just purchased.

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