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Portland, Oregon
Car and Cargo Shipments
Mills-Pacific Spruce Corporation
Capacity-40O,000 feet per S-how shift.
Ships-S. S. Robert Johnson, S. S. C. D. Johnson III.
Species-Old Growth Yellow Fir and Sitka Spruce
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Published the tgt md lSth of each nonth at lOE_ West Sixth Stet, l-or Angelea, Cal., Tetephone, \ cod-ds F, iUEz,;t rh; pcrifite'lt Angeles, Califmla, under Act of Mfth 3. lS?0.
Douglas Fir. .A, large proportion of the lumber millr in the Douglas fir region are finding it necessar5r to curtail their prod'uction for an extended period, according to advices received by the Wect Coast Lumbermen's As$ociation. Large inventoriec, decreared demand from practically all important markets and operating locses under present conditions are given by the Aesociation as the causeE.
A number of mills which normally operate two shifts have indicated their intention of reducing to a one shift basis in the near future. Other will reduce their cutting scheduler to four or five days a week. M.rry aingle shift mills are now operating at five days a week, or otherrpise cnrtailing their production, and more will undoubtedly follow suit. A considerable number of mills have closed down for the time being. Since January 1 the West Coast lumber industry has operated, on the average, at somewhat less than 7O per cent of its nonnal capacity; and the Association estimates that these further reductions will place the average output at less than 6O per cent of capacity.
Curtailment which is now being carried out by mills which represents about 8O per cent of the total production in Washington and Oregon has already had a slight effect on prices. No. 3 Gommon is SOc to $1.OO stronger. Lath ig a little stronger but Clears show no change in prices. Some items in Comrnons are acarce, particularly 2x4, and are stronger. It is difficult to get protection on cutting orders at t'he mills, there is more inquiry and more busineEs is being actually placed. There is a fairly good volume of business being placed in the California market but prices continue entirely too low and are rmprofitable. Unsold stocks at San Pedro on May 28 totaled 7,O28r0O0 feet, a considerable decrease as compard to two weeks ago. 39 vessels in the coast-wise service are tied up, and one vessel is openating off-shore.
Redwood. Manufacturers report that the tone of the
market is improved, and the outlook for buciness during thc second half of the year is a little better. For the week eidea lulay-17, the California Redwood Ascociation reported production from 13 millr as 618571000 feet, shipmentr'Sr 991'OOO feet, and orders 8rl3ZrO0O feet.
California White and Sugar Pine. Reporte of the Cali- fornia 'White and Sugar Pine Acsociation show t{rat pro$'uctign for the period Janrnry 1 to May f Z ir Bg per cent les.r ttran for sarne pgriod last year, and for t{re camc period shipments shor,rrs a decrease ol 22.2 per cqrt, and orden a decrease of 2O.6 per cent. Stockr on hand at the millr on $ay 17 show an increaae of 9.5 per cent over the figurer at the sa,me date lart year. For thi wee& ended May1Z, the 4:t"gr9!iq reported production from 18 millr- as'19,qqg,ggg feet, shipments 15,171,OOO feet and orderr 13r566,0OO feet.
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For the first twenty weekc of 1930, bared on reports received from the regional acsociations to the National Lurnber Manufacturerr Asrociation, the current relationirhip of shipm-ents and orders to production ir ar follorw: '
West Coast Lumberrnents Association-productbn 3r?qg,qqt M t"a; Shipments 3,OO?,O19 M feet; Orden 3,- 065,579 M feet.
California White and Sugar Pine Arcociation-produc49ry ?!e,976 M feet; Shipmentr 4ll,490 M feet; Oders 424,811 M feet. .
C.alifornia Redwood ArsociationProduction lElrESE M fq.t; Shipments 133,923 M feet; Orders 13Z,865 M i€c,t Southenr Pine Arsociation-Production f;2lZrSlO M feet; Shipmenb 1,1271427 M feet; Orden frfZgrOf+ M feet.
Total Hardwoods-Production g04rg82 M feet; Ship- rnents 760,272 M feet; Orderr 748,579 M feet.
Oakmont Country Club, Glendale, California
Friday, June 6, l93O
Sponsored by the Los Angeles Hoo Hoo Club
Luncheon will be served from 11:30 to 1:00 P. M. at the Club Flouse Dinner will be served at 6z3O P.M. Sharp
This tournament is open to all lumbermen of Southern California and visiting Lumbemen. Make your reservations through Ed. Martin, 318 Central Bldg., Los Angeles. Telelhone VAndike 4565.
, Committee HARRY HANSON, Chairman DON PHILPS
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"Producers of White Pine f or Over Half a Century"
By JackDionne
Everybody is asking everybody else how long this business depression is going to last, and what the lumber in_ dustry has to expect for the next week, month, and year. ft's all they think about, naturally.. Which reminds me of a story that Ray Wiess, Sales Manager for The Kirby Lumber Company, has been teLling for many years. It,s easily the best story of its kind I ever heard, and very frequently when some lumber friend insists on knowing what I think of the immediate future of the industry, I tell them Ray's story.
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He was at Saratoga one season, taking in the races, in company with a big, smiling, jovial Texan. They played the races, and got acquainted with a certain bookie whom they liked, and to whom ,they gave their business. One day there was a Whitney horse in a certain race that was coming up. To this bookie the two Texans went, and the big, smiling one said to him, confidentially: .,Listen, old fellow, is this Whitney horse going to win this race?" And a look of great longing came over the wise face of the gambling man, as he answered: "Friend-THAT'S ALL I'D EVER WANT TO KNOW.''
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However, it looks like we'll all have to wait and see what will develop, and do the best we can in the meantime. Let us hope that from the bitterness of the situation thej lumber industry learns something about helping itself. Unless it does, the lesson will have been in vain. perhaps you've heard the story of the farmer who had the three big hound dogs. Times got hard, the farmer got very poor, and he called the three dogs in, and taid the facts before them. They were named Merchant, Lawyer, and Lumberman. He told them how things were, and that from then on they would*have to rustle for their grub.
Immediately Merchant rushed out the door, and in five minutes he came trotting proudly back into the yard with a big rabbit in his mouth. When Lawyer saw this, he rushed at Merchant and tore a big half of the rabbit away from him, and fell to dwouring it. "Andr what," a friend ast<ed the Farmer, "did Lumberrnan do?" "Oh," replied the Farmer, "He just sat o'n his tail and howled."
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ff f were in the retail lumber business right now, and there was anything in the lin-e of building materials that I didn't se[, f'd start selling them right now. If there ever was a time when the lumber dealer needed to get every possible drop of business out of his territory, it's NOW.
The Lumber dealer who doesn't sell white and green paint-if no other colors-in the springtime of the year, is simply flying in the face of Providertce, and refusing help where help is easy to get. Because spring and early summer is white and green paint tirne. Those are the two great colors that make wooden things look bright, and fresh, and clean, and nerr, and this is the time to be bright- ening up. The dealer who is trynng to help himself through a time of depressio..* by improving, and repairing, and remodeling the buildings of his territory, just can't do it successfully without PAINT. For paint is absolutely a fundamental of the thought o;,f renair and improve.
So, if you haven't some paint,'Mr. Dealer, and yotr earnestly desire to continue eating through this year, go out and get you some paint, and go to selling it. Thp fellow with the old home may not be a possible prospect for a new one this year, but almost any kind of a salesmgtr can sell him a gallon or two of fresh paint to take the dinginess off. And the small order is the thing that's going to take the lumber dealer through ant: t:rt;"nd don't you forget it.
To hear a lot of lumber manufacturers talk in times like these you would think the lumber industry was the only basic business that was being crowded in its particular field by the substitutes. Such men should talk to some smart man who makes bread for a living, and they will find that when i,t comes to substitution and. mod"ernized competition, lumber is getting off very, very lightly. The good old "staff of life" is sure getting a run for its money. Thousands of modern articles and fashions of food have , come in to compete.for the business of the human appe- tite. And diet has come, which generally forbids bread. And abstenance has come, with the millions of people who are trying to cut down on their eating. When you get to thinking that the world has turned against lumber (as you sometimes will in times like these) think of the bread business. And there will always be plenty of bread, just as there will always O" Ot;."y of lumber. Don't doubt it.
"There are too many lumber yards', is a remark you frequently hear, when the lumber business is discussed. I never heard anyone say yet that there were too many gas filling stations, and yet, by comparison with gas stations retail lumber yards ale mighty scarce articles.
There is a lumber yard in the United States for each 4,000 people. There is a gas station for each 360 peo-
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ple. There is a gas station for each 72 motor vehicles. And gas stations are still going in on numerous corners in every section of the country, while the number of lumber yards is not increasing. There is nothing to indicate that the saturation point has been feached in the gas station business.
That's because we are increasing the sale of motor cars, and increasing the opportunity for using them. In the United States last year we built 92,000,000,000 worth of new roads-just to run motor cars on. Of the 34,200,000 motor cars Listed in the whole world last year, 22,000,000 were in the United'States. We imported Zl0 foreign cars last year, and exported 11015,000
Which means,that they will be busy building more gas filling stations in other parts of the world also. Well, it takes some lumber to build gas stations, regardless of what type they are, so this is continual business for the lumber folks.
I heard quite a famous high brow economist the other day deriding tJris era of super salesmanship that this country is going through. He interpreted sal,esmanship, as we view it today, to mean inducing gullible people to exchange their cash and credit for things they do not need, do not want, and can't afford.
That is somewhat true in most lines of endeavor. It is the opposite of true in the lumber industry. Many of our great and growing industries undoubtedly over-sell. When the automobile man induces the fellow with a perfectly good car to trade it in on a newer and shinier one, he is creating useless waste. But when th'e retail lumberman induces the home owner to spend two hundred dollars on a new living room floor, a new plate'glass mirror door for a bedroom, and a built-in boolrrase for the bare wal,led living room, he is creating something good and constructive. The auto man overdoes it, and the lumberman underdoes it.
House and Senate conferees on the tariff bill agree'on a rate of $l per thousand board feet to be placed on dressed Fir, Spruce, Pine. Hemlock and Lar,ch lumber, on May 2t, in spite of the recent. defeat on the House floor of a levy of 75 cents on these softwoods.
The House group would not accept that part of the Senate's lumber amendment applying the dutl to railroad ties and telephone poles of all kinds of wood, and this section was eliminated.
Ro-y Barto, president of the Cadwallader-Gibson Co.. Inc., Los Angeles, is on a trip to the Philippine Islands for his annual tour of inspection of the company's operations. He made the trip on the Dollar Steamihip Linis' transPacific liner President Jefferson. He sailed from San Francisco on Friday afternoon, May 9.
The Weaver Lumber Co., Ltd., Los Angeles, and the T. A. Bennington Hardwood Flooring Co., Maywood, have consolidated and will operate as the T. A. Bennington Commercial Co. 'Ilhe officers of the new company are: Ollie A. Topham, president; T. A. Bennington, vice-president, and H. O. Russell, secretary-treasurer. E. J. Thompson is in charge of sales, and Paul Thompson will act as service manager. The T. A. Bennington Commercial Co. will occupy the offices and yard of the former Weaver Lumber Co.. Ltd.. which is located at 164O East Florence avenue. Los Angeles.
Walter Scrim, Findlay Millar Timber Co., Los Angeles, is back at his desk following a business trip to the Northwest, which included stops at Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, B. C. Mr. Scrim plans to leave on an eastern business trip around the first of June.
-you know that DRY LUMBER is what they need to assure permanence and durability of the structure they intend building. Every lumberman knows that DRY LUMtsER possesses greater strength and durability than partly dried or green stock. (Government tests have proved this.) And that's one of the reasons why you find more and more dealers filling out their stocks with C. C. & C. C. Kiln-Dried Lumber-They know it's DRY. Because the C. C. & C. C. Trade-mark appears only on thoroughly Kiln Dried Lumber.
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Manufacturers of Kiln Dried Old Growth Yellow Fir and Southern Yellow Pine. And Miners of Coal.
\(/hen Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co. began the manufacture of Redwood at Eureka, Cali[', the Great Redwood Forests stretched untouched oyer a huge territory-the Wortd's most marvelous virgin forest. From this mighty stand o[ timber this Company made its selection ol quality trees-the raw material on which its mills have been cutting steadily lor 67 years and whth will permit the supplying o[ its trade with the same quality stock lor many yea]s to come.
Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co.'s customers have no need to worry oyer their luture supply' ,,QUALITY
'f Joe W. Tardy, Douglas Lumber Co., phoenix, was elected president of the Lumbermen's Club of Arizona at the thirteenth annual convention held at Douglas, Arizona, on Y"y 9, l0 and 11. W. F. Edens, Cottonw6od'Lumber'Co., Cottonwood, was'elected vice-president and E. H. Wheat, Phoenix, secretary-treasurer. The following were elected to serve as directors: Irving Jennings, Jennings Lumber
9o- ?o-ugt"li L. _H, DeMund, DeMund Lumber eo., yuma; J. A. Mulcahy, Mulcahy Lumber Co., Tucson; Frank Tutt,
V. Baker, former secretary, for the excellent work accomplished during his three years in office and wishing him success in his new business venture; expressing tlanks t_o the City of Douglas and the Arizona Gypsum Plaster Co. for their help during the convention; condemning the unethical practice of certain yards not members of the-Club of violating the territory of other legitimate retail dealers; expressing respect and sorrow for the families of members who died during the past year-these members being Ray Pearson, Francis C. Groves and John A. McNary-. The next annual meeting will be held- at Yuma during April, 1931, the exact date to be determined later.
Immediately following the business session, a Hoo Hoo concatenation was held at the Elks' Club. The following Kittens emerged from the onion patch with their taili properly curled: J. C. Raymond, Northwestern Mutual Fire Association, Phoenix; George Reitzer, Duncan Lumber & Improvement Co., Duncan; E. G. Lewis, FoxworthGalbraith Lumber Co., Ray; and Claude C. Mitchell, Douglas Lumber Co., Douglas.
The luncheon for the ladies on Thursday, May 9, was held at the Gadsden Hotel with about 35 -being- present. Thursday evening, at 7 :30 p.ft., o banquet for the-Hbo Hoo me-mbers_ and guests was held at the Social Club, Agua Prieta, Mexico.
lohn H. Wood, Retiring Presiden|
Jgrgme Lumber Co., Jerome; and John C. Light, NormanLight Lumber Co., Miami.
Headquarters for the convention were at the Gadsden Hotel where the regist,ration of the members and their guests was held on the morning of May 9. At 11 a.m. there was a meeting of the Nominations and Recommendations Committee.
The business meeting, which was open to Arizona retailers only-, was held on Thursday afteinoon, May 9. The reports of Secretary E. H. Wheat and the various committees were read and adopted. Egan W. Jones, Wheeling Corrugated Co., read a paper deiling with rates, weighti and mixtures of flat and corrugated theets, formed miterials, nails, wire, etc. Mr. Jon-s cited certain discriminations that are affecting the Aiizona dealers and promised his aid.in bringing about better conditions which will compare with those existing in neighboring states. A committee was appointed to work with Mr. Jones and aid will be solicited from those handling such lommodities. Acting on the suggestion of Secretary E. H. Wheat, a committee"Was appointed to work with the next legislature in an effort to obtain a new lien law, a state housing act, a notice of completion law and a law compelling the bonding of contrac'tors on state and municipal work. The Club went on record as favoring some action that will bring relief from the insurance rates prescribed by the Arizoni'Workmeds Uompensation Act and Secretary Wheat was instrircted to take whatever action he deemed necessarv.
Resolutions were adopted expressing ihanks to Robert
Friday _morning, May 10, the members were brought logether by the Douglas Boy Scout Band, consisting-of 35 members, which played in the hotel lobby for an h-our. The general meeting, ivhich was open to jll, was called to order at 1O:0O a.m.
^4. C. Horner, San Francisco, manager of the Western office, and J. E. Mackie, fieldman, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, addressed the meeting on the trade promotion work and other activities being iarried on by the National.
--A._C. Baker, Los Angeles, and J. C. Raymond, phoenix, Northwestern Mutual Fire Association, put on a dialogue .that was inte-resting and educational. Mr. Raymond ac-led the part of the moss-back dealer of Tombstone while Mr. Faker repres'ented the progressive insurance salesman try- ing to_ save his client some money. Many excellent ideis were brought out and the act went ovei big, in fact, it looks as though "Amos and Andy" are going io harr. some real competition from now on.
l-o!n.A. Johnson, John A. Johnson Lumber Co., phoenix, and Arizona Lumber & Timber Co., Flagstafi, read a paper on the manufacturing end of the lumbdr industry in Arizona giving the lumber production figures since 1882. Mr. Johnson's address contained many-facts and figures of interest to all lumbermen.
E. U. -Wheelock, E. U. Wheelock, Inc., Los Angeles, gave an excellent talk on present conditions in the l-umbei industry.and an outline of what has gone on before, also a prediction that "this too shall pass.t
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The lumbermen of Southern California will hold a golf tournament on Friday afternoon, June 6, at the Oakmont Country Club, Glendale. The tournament is open to all lumbermen of Southern California and visiting lumbermen. The prizes include the Frank Burnaby and The California Lumber Merchant trophies for the winners of the low gross and low net scores-these cups becoming tle prop6rty of the players who win them twice. First and second prizes will be-awarded to the winners of the four Flight Events.
Luncheon will be served at the club house from 11:30 to 1 p.-. Play r,r'ill start at 12:30 p.m. 11 lhe evening there will be a banquet which will start at 6:30 p.m. sharp.
Guy Wallace, for the past year purchasing agent at -the Los Angeles plant of the E. K. Wood Lumber Co., died at I os Angeles on May 13. He is survive4 b-1 a-wife- ard five children. He was connected with the E. K. Wood Co. since 1906 when he went with his uncle, the founder of the company which bears his name, the late E. K. Wood, at Bellinghim, Wash. Since that time, he held various positions with the company at their several Pacific Coast operations. Funeral services were held at Los Angeles on IVIay 15.
Several new building and loan associations appear on the horizon, all in the souihern part of California. Permission has been given by Chas. A. Whitmore, State Buildilg ana Loan Commissioner, for the organization of the following associations, according to a report of the California Building-Loan [.eague.
Royal Building-Loan Association. to be located in South San Gabriel. Lee C. Reed of Pasadena. secretary and manager of the Crown Building and Loan Association, pres.id-ent, and L. A. Daily, formerly in the banking business in Baldwin Park, manager.
Glendale Guarantee Building and Loan Association; authorized capital ahd surplus, $55,000.
Balboa Building and Loan Association, San Diego; authorized capital and surplus, $110,00O: W. H. Fraser of Fraser Mortgage Company, president; M. P. Duffield. secretary.
West I-os Angeles Guarantee Building-Loan Association; authorized capital and surplus, $62,500; F. C. Wilson is one of the principal organizers, together with R. F. Barnett and F. H. Hamilton.
Valley Wide Building-Loan Association, El Centro; authorized capital and surplus, $57,500. The three incorporators are E. E. Pratt, Los Angeles; A. W. Hamilton, Covina, and J. J. Kilrain, Walnut Park.
C. W. Hornibrook, sales manager for the Ewauna Box Co., Klamath Falls, Ore., was a Los Angeles visitor around the middle of the month, where he spent several days calling on the trade.
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By special invitation members of the California Redwood Association turned the regular May meeting of the club heid at the Hotel Senator, Sacram"nio, on M?y lZth, into Redwood Day.
Fred \r. Holmes, of the Holmes-Eureka Lumber Co., was chairman of the day, and in his talk gave a brief out- line of the good work being clone by thE manufacturers' and'retailers' relationship committee, starting with the idea behind the formation of [hese, telling rvhat his already been accomplished, and the various programs now under-way.
.R { Hammatt, se,cretary-manager of the Association, told of the increased use ol struciural Redwood in State and County bridge projects.
YuT E. Cook, farmstead engineer, in charge of the Association's agriculturai service department, describecl the new_ standard patterns of Redwood furrow tubes, and told of the gratifying interest being shown by dealers in this line, and also announced the new agricultiral bulletins and s.upplementary helps rvhich are now available as part of the Association's agricultural service.
. C. E. De Carnp, vice-president of the Rechvoocl Manufacturers Co., stressed the fact that the Redwood industrv is purely a California industry, and that therefore closer co-
operation between retailers of lumber and the Redwood manufacturers will result in actual benefits to all concerned.
In. the general discussion which followed the general o1lillon seemed to be that the consumption of Redliood in California can be materially increased, and that through Plo.pgr co_operation there is much that can be accomplished vl'hich lvill benefit both retailer and manufacturer.
Retailers who took part in the discussion in,cluded, E. T. Itobie, Arrburn Lumber Co., Auburn; Jo H. Shepard, Friend & Terrr- I-umber Co., Sacra.mento;-E. S. McB-ride, Davis Lr.rml:er Co., Davis, and T. F. Holmes. Woodland Lumber Co., Woodland.
Door prizes rvere awarded as follows: Beautiful framed picture of a Redrvood forest, won by Fred Burgers, IJnion Lumber Co.; Sancl-blasted plaque,-spanish Gilleon, won lry Nf E. Coulter, If enry Cowell Lime-& Cement Co.; Cash prize, won by Chet Minard, Cutter Mill & Lumber Co.
President J. Ir. Holmes presided, and at the con,clusion of._th9 program announced that the June meeting of the club rvill be the last to be held before the summeirecess, and that the {irst meeting in the fall, to be held September 20 a.t the Universitl' Farm at Davis, will be an all-day farm buildinq conference, all arrangements for which wili be in charge of E. S. ndcBride, of Davis.
-9"o€"-R. Hicks, of Kansas City, was elected president of the lickering. Lumber Company, at a meeting hild April 26 in Kansas City, to succeed \\i. A. pickerin[, who d-ied Aoril 15.
Russell C. Pickering, soll of the late presiclent, and the third generation to engage in the lumber business, tvas named vice-oresident.
The directbrs, including the newly elected members ol the board are, George R. Hicks, Russ-ell C. Pickerine, T. M. Barham, .fesse Anclrervs, P. H. Neyhart, J. W. Deal, all of Kansas City, and D. H. Steinmetz of San Francisco.
The new president is also president of the BowmanHicks Lumber Companr', Kansis City.
The Western operations of the compally are under the direction of Mr. Steinmetz.
The Robert l)ollar Lumber Co. of San Francisco, recently sold 1,000,000,000 feet of timber located in Linn and Lane .counties, Oregon, and the old Dollar-Portland Lumber Co.'s mill at Portland, which was destroved bv fire last July, to the Eugene Lumber Co. The price was itrted to be $1,830,4@. No plans for milling the timber have been announced.
Fire of unknown origin completely destroyed the waterfront mill of the Puget Sound Lumber Co.,-Tacoma, May 9. The damage ry?,s estimated at 9500,000. L. L. Knapp, manager of the mill, announced that the plant, which fiis operatecl for more than 20 years, rvill be rebuilt.
Above: Plant of The Shevlin-Hixon Company at Bend, Oregon. This mill has an annual capacity of 8000 carloads of Pondosa Pine.
Below: Plant of The McCloud River Lumber Company, at McCloud, California. This mill has fifty-two modern dry kilns, and an annual capacity of 8000 carloads of California White Pine and California Sugar Pine.
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Reproduced below are illustrations of the new standard patterns of Redwood Furrow Tubes, (for ditch to furrow irriga.tion), taken from the new Agriculiural Series Cir,cular No. I of the California Redwood Association.
Imbodied i4 the designs are all of the important features as determined on by interested retail dealers and Redwood mills. The four standard patterns included are recommended by University of California, Division of Irrigation Investigation and Practice, as sufficient to meet all "ordinary requirements.
The market for these tubes is very largely undeveloped. Where dealers have featured them, ttre aeirana for them'has greatly_increased, and some very satisfactory business has resulted. As an example of whit is possible, one dealer in the Imperial Valley sold 300,000 tubes in 1929. This is equivalent to about 200,000 feet of Redwood, or 10 carloads, rvhich is a lot of business for a single specialty item.
Dealers advocating the use of Redwo6d F-urrow-Tubes can depend on the support of Farm Advisors, Agri,cultural E,ngineers, Extension Service workers, and otherslnteiested in the economical distribution of water.
These four tubes were recently submitted to a number of tests in the outdoor hydraulic Laboratory at University f"J-, Davis, Calif. To-determine capacitiJs under """r"!"" field conditions each tube was tested in lengths of Z fe?i and 4 feet under heads of 2 inches and 6 inchis.
The following table gives the approximate capacities as determrned by these tests, making this valuable information availabie to farmers for the first tfme:
_. Cross Sectional rDischargc ..,Size Area (Sq. In.) (Gallons pii tftinute) fi" round. -.44 1Ui"-i --:--' l".round .78 5' to 9 1r7$" round. .g 6 to ll l"x?' oval l./B 11 to Z) f450 gallons _per minute:sO customary miners.inches:l flbic foot per second :1 acre-inch per hour.
Dealers can obtain the two-page circular referred to above for distribution to their tiade, with their name and address, gr any four lines overprinted, at nominal cost from the California Redwood Association,24 Calif.ornia St., San Francisco.
"Business with us is better, thank you," said Ray B' Cox, general manager qf the Built-In-Fixture Co', of Berkeley, iecently to a representative of this paper.
"This is mainly due to the fact that old home improvement and home modernizing are creating an important market for built-in furniture. Architects, dealers and conttactors are paying more attention to this market, and manu{acturers of ttris iquipment are in a splendid position to serv€ such a demand because of consumer acceptance ot a standardized, product.
"standardization has made it possible for the manufacturer to apply modern selling an-d distribution methods in marketing built-in equiPment.
"Our sales last year were equal to those of the previous year, in spite of a falling ofi experienced in the latter part of ttte yea.. Business for the first four months of this.year has be-en satisfactory, and the outlook for future business is excellent."
Ninety members and guests sat down to dinner at the regular monthly meeting- of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39; held at the Athens Athletic Club on Monday evening, May 12.
President Bert Bryan presided, and in his opening remarks expressed his appreciation of the fine attendance'
H. Sewall Morton toot< the gavel for the roll call, and.in his usual good humored fashion livened up this part of the evening.
C. W. "Bill" Lannom, who was to have been chairman of the evening, was indisposed and Rod Hendrickson acted as pinch hitter in this caPacitY.
Maior A. P. Simmondsl F.A.G.S., was the speaker of the evening. and his talk on his experien'ces in a recent trek a'cross l,abrador proved most inferesting. M,"ty incidents of a blood-curdiing nature were related -by this abl.e sDeaker, who in the course of his trip traveled ovef terrttory on which no human foot ever trod.
Fresident Bryan reminded all those present of the big '49 night to be given by this club on Monday eVening, Tune 9.
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7:00 o'clock, at the Social Club, Agua Prieta, Mexico, and was an enjoyable afiair and largely- attended'
Sunday,"May 11, was a day of golf, impromptu meeting.s in the trttet and going home. The convention was well attended, about 156 being present, 30 of whom lvere ladies' Telegrams were received -from various California wholesaleri who were unable to attend, and an invitation was extended to the visiting lumbermen by the Arizona Gypsum Plaster Co. to visil and inspect their new plant'
The'committee in charge of the entertainment included the following: John H. Wood, Lowell; Emil Marks, Lowe4; T. R. Hendbttott, Warren; Albert Stacy, Douglas; R' E' "Webster, Douglas; and Irving Jennings, Do-uglas' Itrrsl J' H. Wood, MrJ. Albert Stacy, Mrs. Irving Jennings, Mrs-' Emil Marks, Mrs. R. E. Webster, Mrs. George Dawe and Mrs. L. S. Palmer acted as the ladies' entertainment committee.
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, T\"t there are great possibilities along the line of popu- ta-rrzlng a modern, up-to-date, good looking rvooden type of home for California, was thJconclusion-rea,ched at ihe last conference of the Retailers-Manufacturers Relationshio Committee.
It was felt that excellent results can be obtaineri fiom a well thought out campaign in which both manufacturer-s and retailers will cooperate, a campaign that rvill help to establish the idea "that in a real uD-to-?ate horne the tienrl is back to woocl". It u'as recognized that styles are con- tinually changing, but that they revert again to a modification of rvhat has gone before, and thJ-efore a wooden type of home can be rnodified to be moclern, goocl looking and in style.
The campaign will be unrler the direction of Ralph p. Duncan, general nlanager of the Merced Lurtrlrer Co., who is chairman of the Retailers' RelationshiD Cornrnittee. Rer-rben W. Smith, field man of the Californii Reclwoocl Association, has been loar-red by the association to assist in the rvork, and is at the disposal of the retailers cornmittee.
It was decidecl that the first step to lte taken is to clis-
cover the material already available in the way of types of homes alrerdy built that have possibilities of being-made more popular, and to do this a census of all the best looking rvooden homes in the State will be taken, which wrll give the committee a wealth of material to rvork rvith, and from which to pick a selected group of hornes.
During the next thirty days a drive- will be made to cornplete this census. Every retailer in the state has been circularizecl by the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, requesting that they make a list of the most attractive rvooden homes in their territory. A11 Redwood salesmen have been requested by their firms to be prepared to follon' up these lisfs rvith the retailers, to take pictirres ancl turn in the material to R..W. Smith, California Redrvood '\ssociation, 24 California Street, San F'ran.cisco. The preliminary pictures may be of any size. Homes ultimate- ly selected by the committee will be photographed again bv a commercial photographer.
It is believed that this project nor.v being worked out by the retailers will prove most interesting, and that it will help to stirnnlate residential construction of the better tvoe.
Directors of the Northern District of the California lle- tail Lumbermen's Association met at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, May 24. President H. A. Lake and D. C. Essley, manag'er of the association were in attendance, ancl the_Jollowing directors were present: E. T. Robie, .r\ubnrn; F. Dean Prescott, Fresno; Chas. G. Bird, Stockton ; E,lmer Ellis, Palo Alto; C. H. Griffin, Jr., Santa Cruz; NI. A. lfarris, San Francisco; Iilmore King, Ilakersfielcl, ancl A. NL S. Pearce. Oakland.
E. T. Robie, r'ice-presiclent of the Northern l)istrict presided.
Reports of the various committees lvere received and discussed, but the chief subject discussed at the rneeting was the matter of credit stabilization, and as a result the directols decicled to make a sllrvey of the credit sitrration throughout California.
Among the Californians who attencled the annual conr-ention of tl,e Lumbermen's Club of Arizona, at Douglas, on NIav 9, 10 ancl 11, were the {ollorving: Paul Penbertii, W. ii. Cooper Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Frank Curran, li. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles; A. C. Baker, Northrvestern Mutual Fire Association, I-os Angeles; E. U. Wheelock, E. U. Wheelock, Inc., I-os Angeles; FI. \\r. Srvafford, E,. J'. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles; E. B. Culnan, Cl-ras. R. N{cCormick Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Fi. F. Bowles, Long-Bell Lumber Company, Los Angeles; L. A. Beckstrom, I-, W. Blinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles; A. D. Squires, Lillard-Squires Co., Los Angeles; Paul Hallingby, Hammond Lnmber Co., Los Angeles; A. C. Horner, National Lumber Nlanufacturers Association, San Francisco: Leslie Lynch, L. \ r. tslinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles; li. A. Goodrich, Union Lumber Co., Los Angeles.
Floyd V. Baxter, general purchasing agent for the retail intere'.sts of the Lon[-I-lell Lumber Compiny, has tend-ered his resignation, to become effective July 1. He has been with thJcompany trventy-seven years and has held his pre-qent position ilnci 1uty, i0t5. He leaves to become actively engaged with his iath.er, S. W. Baxter, in the management rni &oanrion of the Baxter Lumber and Mercantile Company. -This company rvas organized in-1919 and norv opeiates eight retail yards in southrvestern Missouri and southeastern=Kansas. Heaclquarters are at Pittsburg, Kansas.
In announcing Mr. Baxter's resignation, J' H. Eol-esman, vice-president and general manager of the Long-8e11 retail interests, said:
"We are accepting Mr. Baxtet's resignation rvith profotrnd regret; but honor him in his clecision. We have watched him dcvelop from an inexperienced but rviiling boy into the solendid. finished and valuable business mar-r that he is and would that our close relations could continue for many years to come. But he is doing the right thing in going with his father to relieve him of some of the cares norv incumbent upon him. We commend Floyd for his decision and wish him every success. In the rvords of our leader, X4r. Long, our loss is a father's gain."
Mr. Baxter rvas born at Pittsburg, Kansas, April 19, 1884. He comes of a family of lumbermen. His father, S. W. Baxter, ou'ned and operated a yard. at Pittsburg for vears before he sold it to the Long-Bell company in 1882. Fo. yearr {ollorving, one or anothbr of the Ilaxter family rvas in charge. His father resigned as a division manager for the company in 1919 to attend to the business of the Baxter Lumber and Mercantile Company. It rvas but natural then, that Floyd Baxter should follorv in the footsteps of his father and uncles, altl-rough he says as a young man he rvanted to be a large-scale farmer until his wife prevailed upon him to think otherrvise and accept employment lvitir the Long-Bell company.
He went to Weir, Kansas, in the fall of 1901 as weigher at coal mine No. 18 of the Central Coal and Coke Company. In April, 1902, he married Miss Mary C. Poweil, daughter of Nlr. and Mrs. Thomas Pou,ell of Weir.
N{av 5, 1903, Mr. Baxter began his first work rvith LongBell, as assistant to his uncle, L. C. Baxter, then manager of the Pittsburg 1'ard. After three years there, he was promoted to managership of the yard at Nervkirk, Oklahoma, then to San Angelo, Texas, back again to Pittsburg and again to Newkirk. Flom 1909 to 1915 he was traveling relief manager for the company with headquarters at Columbup, Kalrsas, and July 12, 19t5, went to Kansas City to bect,nre purclrasing agent.
IIr. and Mrs. I3axter, and their daughter, Laura Marie, age i3 years, will make their home in Pittsburg after July 1.
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Henry M. Hink, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co.. San Francisco, was a recent Los Angeles and San Diego visitor, where he spent several days on business. While in Los Angeles, he conferred with -R. E. Seward, their Southern California representative.
_ Ray Cox, Built-In Fixture Co., Berkeley, was a recent Los Angeles visitor, where he spent severil days on business. While in Los Angeles, he made his headquarters at the company's l-os Angeles office.
H H. Barg, Barg Lumber & Shipping Co., San Francisco, spenr a felv days in Los Angeles around the latter part of the month on business.
The engagement was recently announced of William H. Nigh,.Jr., and Miss Kate Salisbury Boardman. Mr. Nigh is assistant sales manager of the McCloud River Lumbir Co., San Francisco.
Elmore King, of the King Lumber Co., Bakersfield, was a reqent visitor to San Francisco on his way back from a trip to Southern Oregon.
W. P. Mclntyre, Redwood shingle manufacturer of Fortuna, was a recent visitor to San Francisco.
George C. Cornitius, of the George C. Cornitius Hardwood Co., San Francisco, returned Mav 15 from a week's business !4p to Los Angeles, having hade the trip both ways on Western Air Express planes. Mr. Cornitius has made several round trip journeys by air from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and is thoroughly sold on this mode of travel, which bring the two cities within three hours of each other.
P. R. "Bob" Kahn, manager of the Forsyth Hardwood Co., San Francisco, coveredlbout 1600 milis in the air in three jumps recently. He flew from San Francisco ,to Portland.in a Boeing air mail plane, leaving Oakland air- port at 4 a. m., and arriving at Portland at 9:15 a. m. After -completing his businesi he made the return trip in one of the tri-motored Fokkers of the West Coast -Air 'I'rans,port Corporation, and a couple of days later flew to Los Angeles on a Continental Air Transport plane. He returned to San Francisco Mav 16.
_ Albert J. Nolan, western sales manager of The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, left on the steamer H. F. Alexander May 17 for a lGday business trip to Seattle.
'Ihe telephone number of Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., Inc., San Francisco, has been changed to GArfield 3600.
R. M. fngram, sales manager of the E. C. Miller Cedar L_uqrber Co., Aberdeen, Wash.,.recently visited the offices of the S. E. Slade Lumber Co., San Francisco, California, representatives of his company. Mr. Ingram was on his way home from a two months" trip to the eastern and middle western states.
_ Pat Sublett, manager of the Pacific Hardwood Flooring Co., Berkeley, recently spent a few days in Los Angeles.
R. F. Hammatt, secretary-manager of the California Redwood Association, returned to San Francisco Mav 10 from a month's trip to the East during whi,ch he attended the annual meeting of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association at Chicago, and on the way home made some calls on association business in Nebraska, Kansas and New Mexico. Since returning Mr. Hammatt made a trip to the northern part of the Sacramento Valley, and expects to visit the San Joaquin Valley in the first rveek in iune.
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First prize of $25.00 in the essay contest for Imperial Valley sthool children on the subject, "Why Father_and Moth-er Should Own Our Own Home," \Mas won by Kathryn I. Heil, age 13, a student at the Wilson School, El Centro. Second prize, $15.0o was won by Aletheia Osburn, 16, of the Brarvley Union high school. Other winners and the prizes they won are: third, Faye La Dene Kerr, $1O.0O; Josephine Brown, $5.00; Rosemary Daniel, $5.0O; Ocie Eveiett, $5.00; and Oliver D. Faulkner, $5.00.
The contest was conducted under the auspices of the 'Better Homes in America Campaign for El Centro, o{ which Mrs. O. G. Horne is chairman, and sponsored by the El Centro Chamber of Commerce, El Centro Junior Chamber of Commerce, Building Service Bureau, lmperial Valley Master Plumbers' Association, Imperial Valley Hardware Co. and the Imperial Valley Loan Co.
The judges were: Rev. Charles Wilson Baker; J. P. Green, Editor Imperial Valley Press, and Carlton D. Joy, Editor Imperial Valley Farmer. The contest was arranged for by W. W. Wheatley, secretary of the Imperial Valley Lumbermen's Association.
Miss Heil's prize winning essay follows:
"There is nothing more permanent in life than a home. It has been said that the home is the cradle of civilization, and the foundation of happiness. Think of the joy we can have in our home in the future. A place of warmth and
comfort, where rve can entertain our friends as we grorltr up, where the mellow, happy. years can settle about us like a beneficent cloud amidst pleasant and secure surroundings.
"In the early times of civilization the people had homes and implemenis, but they were not as convenient and modern as oufs.
"If our fathers and mothers own our home rve have an exiellent chance to get a good education. Boys and girls whose mothers and fathers are continually traveling are deprived of a chance of education ; they no more than get started to one school when they have to change.
"The man and wife who have saved suffiqient money to build a house and pay cash for it are greatly to be envied. By far the majority of house-owners build on borrowed mone1r') and it frequently takes years before the property paises entirely into their hands' But in the meantime while they have been paying for their homes, they have been living in them.
"They have been rearing families in their olvn homes and by this example they have planted the seeds of thrift, so that their children may reap some of the benefit'
"A home owned by our parents can kindle many helpful human qualities such as ambition, responsibility, economy, resourcefulness, pride and love. Therefore, all parents should strive to own their own homes for the welfare of their children."
The wise man says: "!7hen big business is slow get busy hauling in the small orders."
The still wiser man says: "The small order is ALWAYS desirable business and should NEVER be neglected, regardless of how the big game hunting is going."
Remember that F. W. Woolworth piled up a fortune of f,6),000,000 selling articles for I and l0 cents each.
There is a tremendous amount of business to be had in the building game in the shape of small orders.
The fact that this sort of business has to be created and produced is the fence that the average dealer hesitates to climb.
There is not a household anywhere where "a board and a nail and a can of paint" is not needed. 'l07hether it is ITANTED or not depends,on the efforts of the merchant in calling attention to the NEED.
This is especially true in spring and early summer when the sunshiny days point out dull spots that might be brightened, and vacancies that might be filled.
Thete are a thousand and one things that a few boards can be made to do around the average home.
And when you hesitate, Mr. Dealer, to start a little campaign to develop this class of business . remember Mr. ItrToolwotth.
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Frank J. O'Connor, manager of the Donovan Lumber Company, and vi.ce-presidenf of the marine committee of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, was the guest of honor at a banquet tendered by fellow members of the Shioowners' AssoCiation of the Pa'cific Coast, of which he has been president for eight consecutive years, at the Pacific Union Club, San Francisco, on the evening of May 22.
In recognition of Mr. O'Connor's services in this office he was presented with a beautiful and costly silver service. The presentation was made by Ralph Myers, of HobbsWall & Co., who expressed to him the appreciation of the members for his splendid work in behalf of the organization.
Those who attended the banquet were Ralph l\{yers and W. J. Hotchkiss, Hobbs-Wall & Co.; A. B. Hammond, Ilammond Lumber Co.; C. R. Johnson, Union Lumber Co.; James Tyson, Chas. Nelson Co.; Nat Levin, se'cretary Shipowners' Association; Harry Vincent and C. B. McElroy, E. K. Wood Lumber Co.; John Reed and Walter Ball, J. R. Hanify Co.; John M,cCabe, Andrew F. Mahoney Lumber Co.; J. Walter Kelly and Joseph Lunny, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.; Henry Faull, Hammond Lumber Co.; Frank Lawler and Ernest McMahon, Sudden & Christenson; Fred Barg and William Barg, Hart-Wood Lbr. Co.; Bert Johnson, A. B. Johnson Lbr. Co.; Dare Freeman, S. S. Freeman Co.; W. R. Chamberlin, E. A. Chamberlin and J. E. Peggs, W. R. Chamberlin & Co.; Fred Baxter, J. H. Baxter & Co.; Capt. Leb Curtis, Pillsbury & Curtis; Fletcher Monson, General Engineering & Dry Dock Co., and John C. Rolphs, Standard Oil Co.
Leonard }fowarth, who retired recently as first vi,cepresident and treasurer of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co., Tacoma, on account of ill health, died at his home in Santa Rosa, Calif., on May 12, at the age of. 64. Mr. Howarth was a native of England, and came to the United States in 1889. Ffe came to Tacoma in 1891, and since that time had been identified with the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. up to the date of his retirement.
A. C. Horner, manager of the \Mestern Division of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, returned to San Francisco May 13, from a month's trip to the East, in the course of which he attended the annual meeting of the aisociation and the meetings of the techni'cal advisory committee in Chicago, and spent a week in Washington. Otr the way home he attended the annual convention of the Lumbermen's Club of Arizona, May 9 to 11, at Douglas, Ariz where he was one of the speakers.
T) UILDERS, arclitectc, ho-.U o*o"t" consiJer tLe narne "W'e"ret-Ifeo.y *hen th"y thioL of "oofiog materials. That concideration io juetified. Fot'W'e"t"tIf*.y toofirrg receivec a dictinction....tLe finect roofing that ecierrce "rrd raateriale c"o p"odrrce. Dealetc *Lo h"odl. \ife"t"t. Ifeo.y products combat oo Ligh sales resistao"e. Theit e"les contioue to increaee....witL the popularity of 'W'."r"t-ffeaty toofiog.
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'flirough a cliscovery made rvithin the last year an entire r.rerv fielcl has been opened up to the lumber merchant which holcls possibilities for aclditional profitable business that as yet are only faintly realized. This field is that of the floor
Presdu'ood, forms a combination that makes an icleal floor covering. Orving to the extreme hardness of Presdwood, the problen.r of finding a suitable finish was a difficult one, and this was solved only by the use of Inwood. which has a penetrating property' -thai permits the finish to become an integral part of the base, and not mereiy a surface film that must be renerved each year.
This finish is said to improve rvith age, and many exatnples can be shown where tl-ris one coat floor finish has scrved for as long as eight years lvithout rener.val.
Presdwood as is generally known is an all-rvood product, and being easiiv rvorked into any pattern, and finished in a vatietv of Inrvoocl colors, the lumber dealer is norv in a position to compete successfully r.vith linoleum and rubber for the floor covering ltusiness, r.vith an all-u'ood product, that is drrraltle, attractive and economical.
Recently the San Jose Lumber Co., San Jose, lvas {ortutrate in olttaining a contract to furnish 62,000 square feet of Irru'oo.l lilri r'-r'.r pr:s,rlrvoocl flooring in cornPetition with Iirroleum. This job included 62,0ffi feet of Misonite quar1et- boar rl l;ricl under the Preschvood as an insulator and sound deadener. Both of these were laid over concrete u.aterp:oofed by Inrvood. The amount ol, the contract, u'hich rvas for floors in neiv buildings of the University of Santa Clara, was approxirnately $22,000. In this case the insulation and lorv maintenance cost were t\\,o factors greatly in favor of the wood product.
In'tuood-fitti.rhed -1[tsottitt Prcst]tt'ood floor in sociol rctour of tltc []ottl Entbassy, Son Fran.cisco. covering irusiness, in competition u'ith such coverillgs as linoleurn ancl rubl>er tile in particular.
This cliscovery was that ir.rwoocl trinish, knou,n ior the past l6 years as a superior wood finish, applied to Masonite
George Il. Hicks, of Kansas City, presiclent of the lrickering l,umlter Company, and Jesse Andreu,s, <lirector and general counsel for the company, recently spent a week in California, when they visited the San F'rancisco offices, and inspected the company's sawrnills at Standarcl and Tuolomne, and the sash and door plant at Sonorzr.
Inrvocicl is not only a rvoocl finish, but has a wide rat.rge oi uses, being applicable to cement, magnesite and all po1ous material. ln the case of cement it not onlv wateroroofs but l.rarclens and seals the surface to the_point thai it is impervirlus to oils and grinding <lirt, and is dust proof.
'I'he Hills-Flamiiton Co., of 2@ Davis St., San Francisco, are exclusive distributors of Inwood.
WILL SPEND SUMMER IN COLORADO
_ Hcmer T. Hayward, of the llomer T. Hayward Lumber Co., Salinas, left recently to spend the summer months at his summer home in Colorado.
HOPE GOES TO REDWOOD CITY
-Llarrv llope, formerly with the D & S Lurnber Co., Mountain Vielr., is norv associated with the Progress Lumber Co., Redwood City.
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Washington, D. C., May 15.-In explanation of the declaration of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association in favor of a lumber tariff, after it had remained silent on the subject throughout the tarifi debate, it was said at the ofihces of the Association here today that the chief consideration was threatened Russian competition
Advices from Portland, Oregon, state that Fred Horskotte, sawmill designer, has received a contract from the Soviet government for the installation of I2O modern American sawmill plants in the Russian state forests. The same advices say that contracts for sawmilling machinery have been let to American firms aggregating $30,000,000.
Accor,ding to American Federation of Labor sources the labor in the Russian logging camps and sawmills is practically all forced or convict labor.
The purpose of the Russian emphasis on the manufacture and exportation of lumber is to obtain gold credits abroad. Russia no longer exports gtain, which was formerly its chief ,export. Lumber has been chosen to take its place. As the government has confiscated the timber itJ raw material costs it nothing, and any money return is considered a benefit. In these circurristances almost any price in the United States that will leave a margin above the cost of manufacture and transportation will iatisfy the Soviet authorities.
The 1930 edition of Abbey's _B.gigl._t and Year Book Mrs. Anna Bale Wood, u'ife of Fred J. Wood, president \Mestern_Logging, l umber and Wood-Using Industries is of the E. K. Wood Lumber Co., died at bellingham, Washnow-ready for distribution. ington, on Sunday evening, May 11. Funiral services
The. new Register is _larger than any .previous issue, were held at Bellingham on-Wednesday, May L4. Besides some important features having_ been added. her husband, she iJ survived by a daughteri Marion, who ___A gepalaJe section of over 5O pages is devoted to the resides at Bellingham, and a son, W-arren B., assistant Woodworking .Industry. {-umb91 Exporters and names go th.. president, who makes his headquarters ai the com- of County Engineers are also added features. fany's Los Angeles office.
The book contains 20 pages more than previous edi- I
tions, and is considered by the publishers to be the bes( I they'.have.ever issued. Ii coveis "u ,iJt#.#!,.i"1r",:;V KIwANrs f*EB f;EJ!$[[H
Rockies, also British Columbia, Alaska, Philippines andHawaii.
R._W. Bianchard, Bianchard Lumber Co., North Holly-
The information given includes personnel, capacity, woo{, was in charge of thb program at the Kiwanis Club equipment, rpu"i.. of-wood sawed and all other informa- meeting at North-Hollywood 91 M?y 8 when he showed tion'necesi"ry to enable the selter t"..i;;;;;;r;;;'l;- moving-picturesgf theRedwoodlumberandloggi-ngo?eraieuigeniry, "i-a uuy.,,_ to ;lace_.orders and-iiq"iir",-*iln
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The book is airanged alphabetically b| states, cities and Angeles, assisted Mr. Blanchard in putting on the Program. towns, and a ,complete index, with over 10,000 references, enables users to locate any operation, even though its geo-
FIRE LOSS $10,000 graphical lojation m3y ngt-.b.e known.
Fire of undetermined origin whi,ch threatened to destroy
_ Ab!-ey'9 Register rr published by the Industrial Service the 91,000,0@ plant of the ealifornia Door Co. at.Diamonl Co., Sherlock Bldg., Portland, Ore. Springs, caused a loss of $10,000, on May L2.
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Dorcthy Cahill Charlet Chrl*oto
Full consideration of the possibilities for using lumber "where it meets requirements of economy, safety and modernity" will be emphasized as a policy of the Southern Pacific Railway system in its planning of all equipment, right of way and structure projects. This assurance was given A. C. Horner, in charge of the San Francisco office of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, by President Paul Shoup and other leading ofificials of this important western carrier.
In addition to a natural preference for wood as a material, these officials realize that lumber and other forest products are among their most important traffic factors and feel that the road should not only use such material extensively itself, but that it should do everything possible to promote its increased use by others.
President Shoup, in the conference arranged by R. B. White, of the Exchange Sawmills, Inc., chairman of the National Lumber Trade Extension Committee, explained that this was not a new policy, but an emphasis of an old practice. The principal nerv feature of the roa<l's attitude will be that trade extension representatives, now that they are available, will be welcomed to all offices of the Southern Pacific to assist road ofifrcials in making the best use of wood and to suggest points at rvhich it is believed wood can be used advantageously.
As an instance of the Southern Pacific's already favorable attitude, Mr. Horner pointed out that it had recently ordered 25 cabooses, all to use wood extensively. It was orig- inally specified these should be of steel but road officials felt that lvood rvould be more comfortable for employees and less costly. In addition, it would be stimulation of the use of forest products.
In his discussion with his former superior officers Mr. Horner, having formerly been a civil engineer with the Southern Pacific, found them particularly interested in recent advanced developments in the lumber industry. They especially inquired about the extent of trade extension work, the effort of the lumber industry to market an identified, or a grade-marked and trade-marked product, research and distribution of knowledge concerning buildine to avoid termite attack, the possibilities of further us. oJ structural redwood and_ Douglas fir and where they might be used with special advantage. Mr. Horner has -adviied the Washington trade extension office that this contact will be closely followed and developed.
The Radio advertising manager had been working hard for months trying to line up Levy, the local dry goods mercharrt, for a campaign of advertising over the airr and finally had brought him to the point where he was willing to listen to details of their'proposition.
"Fortunately", said the Radio advertising man, "we are so situated right now that we can give you almost anything you like in the way of position on our evening program, and position on the program, as you know, Mr. Levy, has
Lester C. Sterett, manager of the Service Bureau of the Millwork Institute of California, left Fresno May 2I for Los Angeles, after spending two weeks there in connection with the establishment of the office of the Institute, taking care of matters incident to the reorganization. H9 will spend about ten days in Southern Califoraia, and will then leave for a scheduled trip to Northern California.
practically everything to do with the success of such a campaign."
"Sure", said Levy, on whom the light of a great idea had broken. "Sure, I agree mit you. And I'll tell you chust what I'll do. You gif in:e my choicd of location, an' I gif you a contract for a whole year".
"Wonderful !" cried the Radio man. "And what position do you prefer?"
..I CHUST WANT TO GET IN BETWEEN AMOS AND ANDY", replied the Hebrew.
GEORGE BURNET'T VISITS SAN FRANCISCO
Geo. C. Bnrnett, of the Burnett Lumber Co., Tulare, was in San Francisco recently on a business trip.
CHARLIE BIRD VISITS BAY
Chas. G. Bird, of the Stockton Lumber Co., Sto'ckton, spent a r,veek end in the San Francisco Bay district recently, and called on a number of lumber offices May 10.
Dne of the most beautiful tributes ever paid to wood is a marvelous new book that has just been issued by a great lumber firm that believes in doing things to ennoble its product, the Shevlin, Carpenter & Clarke Company, of Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is called "Pine Homes and Pine Interiors."
Nothing cheap, shoddy, or happinstance about this book. This concern always does things in a big way, and they have published a book under the above title that will warm the heart of every lover of wood. It is probably the most beautiful and valuable volume of photographs of Pine home interiors that has ever been published.
It isn't for the trade, it's for the consllmer, and the prospective consumer. And they aren't giving it away. They are selling it to consumers for one dollar per book, and the dollars are rolling in, demonstrating the splendid impression of the volume. It isn't a profit-making scheme. The dollar doesn't cover the cost of the book-but it helps.
The book r.vould grace any library. The size is nine by twelve inches, the cover is rich, heavy, but pliant paper, sepia in color, and the interior consists of forty pages, heavy enameled paper, each page illustrated. The frontispiece is a picture of the home of the author of "IIome Sweet I{ome." Each page is a beautiful picture done in warm brown colors of a Pine interior. Not only are these marvelous demonstrations of the use of wood, but likewise of architectural perfection, home arrangement, draperies, rugs, furniture, etc. It is a volume of home beautifying.
Pine as used in the early American homes, is the first department. Then Pine l-romes of the eighteenth century. Then Pine interiors in modern homes, clubs, offrces, shops, etc. Very, very unique and lovely, all of them. In the back is a short illustrated storv of their Pine production at four
huge mills.
rn" youth of today would say, "It's a keen job."
-lhere are rnany retail lumbermen who might follow with profit the example of Fred A. Hutton, manager of the Dixon Lumber Company, Dixon, in the rnatter of advertislng.
This live retailer uses a three-column half page space once a week in the Dixon Tribune, in which he gets out a little "newspaper within a newspaper" entitled "The Weekly Optimist". In a recent issue he used two-thirds of this space for news items relating to building improvements made b1. his customers, information regarding the building of a home. and general information on various kinds of lumber and building materials, with a joke here ancl there. The material is well edited, and is attractive and readable. 'Ihe other third of the space is taken up with a display advertisement, which happens to be on paint in this particular issue.
Here is a sample paragraph from "The Weekly Optimist" that speaks for itself:
"Orders sent to the mail order houses for any commodity must be accompanied by cash to secure their best prices. 'fhe same cash tenderecl rvith an order at our counter will obtain the same commodities at those same best prices. Try the experiment and be convinced that trading at home pays."
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WHOLESALE LUMBER
FIR and REDWOOD
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SALES
AGENTS FOR
CRANNELL, HUMBOLDT CO.
OPERATING
STEAMERS:
W. R. Chambenlin, Jr.
Stanwood
Phvllis
Barbera C
OFFICES:
Hcad OGcc 1025 Matron Bldg. SAN FRANCISCO
LOS ANGELES
2E2 Chamber of Commercc Bldg.
SAN FRANCISCO
lf you have ncver had
Four million, six hundred thousand feet of lumber olaved an important part in creating the motion P-r-ct-gre ["tlit"i"*.nt^brought to the world by Paramount's Hollywood studios durin[ the past year, according to figures-presented to Jesse L. Lasky at.the annual conventron ot the ;;;p;"t, ireld at San Francisco from May 23 -to May .26' Lurnber; it was emphasized in the report,.ranks with hurn"r-e-otions, skilled energy' film, and textiles, as a major commodity without which Gotion pictures hardly could be produced.
Let us sell you a car. It can be mixed with any other items of Old Growth Yellow Fir worked uppers.
Main Office: A. L Hoover, AgL San Francisco Los Angeles
I l0 Market St. Standard Oil Bldg.
Of the footage listed in the convention report, the major o"rt *". used"in the construction of settings for pictures. it t"pt.t.ttts a close approximation of the annual lumber .o".-'i."ption at the wesi-coast studios and does not include ift. 1""t'"g. used in the extensive permanent construction Drosram "carried out during the palt year' This building was" done for the company by outside contractors' It ;"; pointed out'thit each feature picture requires from tweniy-five to sixty settings. !he9e vary. from royal palaces to western frontier houses. Each requires lumber' ^ Oregon pine, white pine, redwood and spruce ?t.t "::d in set conJtruction. The detailed report complled Dy the ri"ai" purchasing agent, L. H.- Buell, .for Lasky, .Para*ount's' productiin ihi"f, li.t. the yeal's consumptiol^^in aooro*irnate round figures as follows: Oregon pine, 3.000,Obb feet: redwood, 1,000,000 feet; white pine, 300,00O feet; spruce, 300,00O feet.
The Oregon pine is used for the rough, heavy construction work. Reclwood plays the more showy role in the nf-r "t it is employed tbr att surfacing- and so comes under ih;;i*.i "y. "t t'he camera frequenily. White pine.and ;;;";; are irtilized for lighter rough construction' Thouii"at of feet of spruce alJ go into the construction of film shipping boxes. - d&.r?f thousand feet of hardrvood, not listed in the detailed report, is consumed each -y9a-r fo1 panelling, flooring and in tfre construction of Special furniture. Large qtlantities of wood lath and redwood shingles also swell the unlisted lumber consumPtion.
Tb 150 carpenters, employed at the studio carpenter shop' soes the mammoth tas^k of transforming the millions of ieet of lumber into finished settings.
Would you increase your profits? Then increase your sales without increasing your expense. When you sell Supercedar Closet Lining you also sell studding, siding, doors, hardware, quarterround, nails.'etc. See the point. You can't lose. Every home needs a Supercedar Closet; every woman wants one.
For quotations and. literature address Calilornia distributors:
Exoorts of lumber, logs and shingles from British Col";bl;1; the United Siates decreased, while exporls- o^f poi.. i".*"ted in April, 1930- as compared with April, 1929, lccording to a repoit fiom Consul Gineral E]y E' Palmer' V ""."""-"t, to the Lumber Division of the Department of Commerce.
Fisures presented by Mr. Palmer show that the lumber .*po?tr in April, 1930.-totaled 4912,ry as compar-ed^rvith 51;133,Cn0 boa.d feet in April, 1929; log exPorts, 7r4?3^?? compared with 22,378 board feet; shingle exporr's, .lJ):23I ", .t*p"t.d with 201,730; and- pole exports, l,4D,7Q as comparid with tr,06O,834 linear feet.
Lumber shipments from the Vancouver consular district to the United'States, during April, 1930, totaled 32,915'000 board feet as compared with shlpments of 39,062,W bo-ard feet in April, 1929) and 32,!37,W boal{ feet in March, 193O' Shipments of shingles to the United States from this distric't totaled I02,627,W, a decrease of 88,111,00O as compared with shipments for April, 1929, which totaled 190,738,000. Exporis of shingles 1o the United States in March, 1930, totaled 100,518,000.
.l He may have a greasy hat, and the seat of his trousers I fnay be shiny, and the banker may not be very well ac6 puainted with his signature; but if you see his children pr''\ith their noses flattened against the window pane watchI irtt for him a half hour before he is due home for supper. you can go right ahead and trust him wiih anything you have.
Police Commissioner (questioning applicant): "And now, how would you go about it to disperse a mob?"
Applicant: "I would pass around the hat."
Commissioner: "You'll do. Get measured for your uniform.tt
Drearns are an escape from yourself.
They are a kind of carpet on which one steps and rides away from his wounds and his mediocrity.
And they are more. As far as you can dream, so far you can one day go; for dreams are the lovely plans of the unknown reaching towards us to be fulfilled; they are the multi-colored promise of that which can come to pass.
What is a flower but the completed vision of a quiet little seed, dreaming in the dust?
What are these terraced buildings all about us like strong hands lifted towards the sky in grave salute, but the dreams of men come true?
What are the stars, and beyond, more stars too far for us to see-all the mystery and movement of the universebut the reveries of God expressed in form?
When one no longer dreams of the beauty that could be, he has begun to die.
there was the boy who said he didn't want tJbecome a surgeon because he couldn't stand inside work.
The most precious thing that arryone, inan or store, anybody or anything, can have is good will of others. It is something as fragile as an orchid and as beautiful, as precious as a gold nugget and as hard to find, as powerful as a great turbine and as hard to build, as wonderful as youth and as hard to keep, intangible something, this good will of others.
"Is your husb4nd much of a provider, Malindy?" ry/
"He aint nothin' else, ma'am. He's gwine to get/ some new furniture, providin' he gets the money; he's gwine to get the money, providin' he gets to work; an' he's gwine to get to work, providin' the job suits him. I nevah see sech a providin' man in all my days."
IIow sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy ! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of fowers.
-James T. Fields."Feed a cold and starve a fever," says the doctors. we would like to know'is why every girl we take out has a cold instead of a fever.
Many imagine that the higher you go, the easier the climbing. Don't be governed by that theory unless you have a soft place to fall back into.
His hunting companion had mistaken him f#a deer, and shot him. "Tell them I died game," were his last words.
Tn recognition of the great practicai'value of the i\gricultriral Rulletin service of the California Reclwood Association "The California Lumber Merchant" has arrangecl rvith the Association for permission to publish the nerv series of Agricultural Bulletins and supplementary trade helps as educational matter, and these lvill appear in succeeding issues of this journal.
This new material, iust off the press is tton' lteing ntade available to more than 1500 users of the Agricultttral Sen'ice, and more than 500 Countl' farm advisors, schools u,ith farm mechanics classes. and others interested in agricultttre are also being serviced.
,\s is generally knou.n this service is preparerl br- NTax E. Cook, Farmstead Engineer, in charge of the Agricultural f)epartment of the Association, and the ns11' plans incluclecl in this service are the result of his long and thoughtful exoerience in this field of endeavor. and the clealer u'ho offers such assistance to his fatm friencls can rest assured that these are as practical, econouical and useful as those which have preceded them.
The new material includes the following: Bulletin No. 17, General Utiiity Barn; Bulletin No. 18, Portable Poultry Ifouse; Bulletin No. 19, Nerv t1.pe of Poultry Feecler; Ilulletin No. 20. Redwood Septic Tank (U. C. T1.pe) ; an enlargecl descriptive prospectus, iliustrating a number of ner,v nlats for use by dealers in their local advertising, and other added features. It also includes a new circular series covering fabricated articles for the farm, to be made at the mil1s, of rvhich the first is descriptive of the nerv standard patterns of Redwood Furrorv Tubes. A review of this circular with the illustrations reproduced will be found on another page of this issue.
Robert S. Sharv, n'ell knorvn North'ivest lumberman, died at Portland, Ore., May 7, after a short illness, at the age of 55.
Mr. Sharv was nanager of the llamtnoncl l-umiter Company's plant at Mill City, Ore., from 1900 to 1911, rvhen he 'ivas tlansferred to this cotnpany's Astoria plant as general manager. IIe was asso'ciateci with -'\. S. Iierrr'. of Seattle, in logging operations from 1919 to 7926, r,vhen he became associated with l-ris ltrother, J. R. Shaw in the Sharv-Bertram Lumber Co. at Klamath F'alls, Ore., of rvhich ,concern he was first vice-president. He was a member of the board oI clirectors of the \A/est Coast Lulnltermen's Association for several years' and {or tlvo vears rr'as its oresiclent.
You ma1'be reasonal>ly "wild and tvoolly" when yotl go camping in the National Forests of California-but don't leave your good manners at houe. Take them r,vith you. You need thenr rnore on vour vacation than rvher-r l'ott are at home. The rules for Goocl Manners as given by tlie U. S. Forest Service are easy to learn and are follon'ed by all goocl sportsmen, good campers and good tottrists. They are
First obtain a camp fire permit i carry a shovel and ax; smoke only in camp; put your fire dead out n,ith rvater; leave a clean and sanitary camp; observe the State fish an<1 game lar,vs; co-operate n'ith the Forest Raugers in reporting and suppressing forest fires; practices these rttles ancl rrreach them. too.
Kiln
Redwood has Permanence and beauty. These qualities coupled with strength and workability, make Redwood the ideal aII around building material
H. Sewall lVtorton,-prcrident of Hill & Morton" lnc., Oaklandn wg born end reircd in san Francieco. Hc graduated from Lowcll High School and entcrcd Belmont Military Scho-ol !o prcptrc for Stauford, but the ntg"-to cntcr borine". w.. too .trong and hc remained at the univcraity terl than a ycir, loaving to worL f"t hie frthcr], w. R. Morton, head o!_tf,_e Morton Dray & walehourc co.irnd M"tt". sp""i"i p"- llvery. Hc rtayed with hir fathcr in tle tranrportation burinc.r up to thc timc of thc 6re.
_ _Early in l9l)7, the ycer after the 6re, he dccidcd that he wanted to lcern the lupfcr burincu, and that he wanted to start in thc rawmilt cni of th" g"-", ro hc got a job with the Madera sugar Pine co. in their rawmilln and efter -"it i"g iJ thi; yearr in vario-ur departmrentr of thcir burincr returncd to Sen Francircol whcre hc becsmc arociated with__Potterd & Company, wholerale lumbcrmen, -f"'i" ."r"i rtcam echoonert to the Northwcrt. He rcmaincd with thir concern .until thcy cloecd their office.
^ Then f-ollowed a pcriod of 10 ycars with thc Char. Neleoa Co., rnd Sulrct Lunrber $, ". aarietaut rnaDagcr -of the latter concern. Six yeare of thir ii-" *"r" apcnt on the rold relling lumbcr for both 6rma, Hir tcrritory war from Rcdding rluth to san Luir__obiepo, and neither the roads nor the automlbilee *"re ".ry gooi i11 tio.. day!. He rccallg that hic Maxwell Mercury grv€ a3 good rervicl, -and ar little troublc a3 mo3t of the other makee in thoec "!et-out and lct under" d;y;- fl- ra"t f-our-yean of thir period^w-c_re rpent inaiilc, ii hie cepccitiy ar agirteoi m"o.g"r of the Sunret Lumbcr Co. Oaklaud
In l9lE Mr. Morton went into the wholerale lumber burincre with L. S. Hill in Oakland, under the 6rm name of Hill & Morton, and hae becn very active in con- ducting e cargo and rail burinese up to the pt"..ni d"t..
He war married in l9l5 to Miee Flora M. Mceuarrie, and livea in oakland, which he belicver ir dertined to bc one of thc largert ciiier in the 'lvcrt. He ir a ic-b", of the Athenr Athletic Club, and of the Elkr, In hir rchoot deyr he war noted for hir speed in rprint racea on thc-track,_and !e rhowed more tlen avcrage ability in tennir and bareball, but now hir athletic effortc arc rnainly confined to-hunting-and fiahing, which are hir hobbier.
Hc ic an active worker in Hoo Hoo, ir vicegerent snarL of thc Golden Gate Di:-trict, and a rtr-ong believer in the idea that if men in the rarne line of burincl will^ sit doyl a1{ enjoy _themeelver rocially togcther occarionslln thir bettcr ic- quaintanceehip will inevitably lead to irnproved burineu relationr.
Ar preeident of the_ Ehat Bav Hoo Hoo club No. 3g in r92E-291 hc had a big part in building up the mbmbcrrhip of thir organization.
H. Sewall Morton ie one of the mort likablc of mann and hc holdr the erteem and affcction of a large nr;mber of hig fellow lumbcrrnen.
Kenneth Smith is now carrying.on some special work for the Los Angeles Hardwood Flooring Bureau with headgu?+_ers at 6420 Avalon boulevard. The telephone number is YOrk 9131. Mr. Smith has just complefed a vacation trip in Arizona which was followed by a'three weeks' triD to the Northwest.
SANTA ROSA YARD HAS FIRE
Fire destroyed the office building and a small warehouse at the yard of the White Lumber Co., Santa Rosa. May 21.
George Adams, Noah Adams Lumber Co., Walnut Grove, is back o"^t!tg jop agqin after a two months, sojourh in Sou,thern California. While in the Southland, he visited in San Diego, Los Angeles and Pasadena.
, / PURCHASES YARD AT CHULA VISTA
' .T.J-. Butcher o.f New York City, but formerly connected with the lumber industry in the Northwest, hai purchased the T. G. Hersum Lumber Co. at Chula Vista. ^The new firm is to be known as the South Bay Lumber Co., Ltd.
ABERDEEN. WASH.
ESTABLISHED 1885
LOS AI\TGELES PETROLEUM SECURITIES BLDG. WErbrm 5Ztt
Wholesale Cargo Shippers of Douglas Fir and Spruce Lumber
THE E. C. MILLER CEDAR LUMBER CO. WITH MILLS AT ABERDEEN, VASHINGTON
MANUFACTURERS OF MILLER SHINGLES AND MILLER CEDAR LUMBER
Published
Under the specific authority of ^section 9 of the McS*"."i.y-fr'i.N"i'y F.tt"tf Research Act' the Forest Service ii'tn. t"ited Siates Department o^f Agriculture has 'com;i.;;;, i"-..op"tuuon-wiin the U' S' Dlpartment.of Com;;;;;. stt."i of the bltttttt, its investigation of Pttt:lt arrd oto.p.ative forest requirements, cohstitutlng'.one pnase ;i';#;;,il"r-*ia. For'est Survev, recentlv initiated'
The set of statistics, in booklet form on lumber used in -;""f;; 1i tgil,'consists of three tables' showing il;;;;t.t ,rr"a uy;";;;t of mattufacture' bv kinds of wood, and bY states.
There is also a condensed summary sheet' Tlle. g^r11{ t"Gi'.il"Lt..-"t.a i" manufacture is-put at 18'698'440'000 ?;.;.i-tii tgzs. irtit- tig"t includ-es' howe-v91'- !{F'; $i,d;d f;;i ;;;i".ing mirT products and 3'317'3a6'00p of sash, doors, blinds ""i gt"ttif m.ill work' Crediting these two items to building ?onstruction'.the actual industrial "l;iir"ti"" of lumber -is approximately 10'000'000'000 feet' ii ;iii ;; seen thaf -s"Lsili,tialty half, or a little more, of the annual lumber p-toaottio"'of the United States is i"t,t,.i'i"rti;;i;J b.f;; it gets into the hands of the ultimate,consumer.
In a letter of transmittal R' E' Marsh, in charge..of. the Ofi;" .f F"rest Economics, Forest. Service' says: "These statistics constitute ffi'"tit-Jtp in the inveitigation of ;h;';;ii;";t ,teed, for w"ood and fbr forests which' in turn' bears directly upon ih" l""a-"tt angle of our forest pr-oblems. They must be-supplemented-by additional studies "i'""ti"*-i.irrat' fl is rroi to be inferred from this state;.;;'ih;; ltt" ".tio";t iequirements for forests are to be J.i"t*i""a wholly, or even mostly' by what might--be ;""t;; ;;;modity t"quitttnt"ts, since the more intangible
;"t.rrh"d-p=t"Poses, and for recreational'--inspir.l-i"Li-""a. in geneial, social uses are very great.''
Copies of these summary tables *"i !,: obtained from the N. L: M. A. upon request of its members'
Russia is now exporting doors-of " g99d q-uality to EngdA;;t"; report'from J"*tt Some.rville' Jr'' trade com-
Lon^don, to the Lumber Division of the Department of Commerce.
"We are reliably informed that doors of ^a g.ood^quality are now coming on the market from the Soviet Russta'" *tit.r IvIr. SomErville' "These doors are made in a factory near Petrograd from Archangel pi.nt'" '^-i" lfr. op-i"io" of one age'ifoiAmerican doors who has e*a-irr.d ^Russian doors] they compare favorably with ".*. "i the Scandinavian pine doors owing,. it is -said, to itr"ii et..t.r freedom from knots and other imperfections' Wt if.-tt. sales of these Russian doors have so far not been .rr.i.,n t.r*.. it is believed in British circles that their sale r,r'ili be iutn"a since it is rumored that the selling agents have ma-'de it known that they are prepared to reduce their prices substantially. It is not thought that any development '*ni.ft may take place in sales of these Soviet doo-rs qilt -cu! into the American door trade. Scandinavian trade will feel the competition of Russian doors most on account of the similarity of material employed by Scandinavia and Russia' The opinion of the London-trade is that it is the intention of the Soviets to manufacture these doors on a mass production basis-the factory in Petrograd having been equipped with the latest American machinery.
ttOnly the Piston moves"
Yz to 2-inch Drilling CaPacitY.
Verghts 1o to 20lbs.
Priced at t100 and up.
Eleccrlc ltrllltr All 8-lzcr
Portablc Gr{nder and Bench TY?cr
Goncrete Surfaccm
Strand Fledble thaltr and EqulDmcnt
Electrlc lland 9awr
Hearings are set to begin in Los Angeles on June 2nd on the complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission against Gillespie Furniture Company, which, in effect, is a reopening of the old Philippine Mahogany case which was decided several years ago. In the old case seven Respondents were ordered to discontinue the use of the name "Philippine Mahogany" as applied to certain woods imported from the Philippines. So much dissatisfaction over the old decision was expressed by numerous other users of Philippine Mahogany that a number of concerns, of which the Gillespie Furniture Company is one, requested the Commission to institute new proceedings which would finally settle the question.
Walter G. Scrim, President of the Philippine, Mahogany Association, when interviewed in connection with the case,
stated: "In the old case the Federal Trade Commission found that Philippine Mahogany was not suitable as a cabinet wood. Experience with this wood for the past twenty years has convinced us that this finding is ridiculous. At the present time more than fifty percent of the furniture manufactured in Los Angeles is manufactured from Philippine Mahogany and the great majority of the trim used in new buildings'on the Pacific Coast is Phillippine Mahogany. Philippine Mahogany can be carved, turned, fluted and finished equally as well, if not better, than any of the other cabinet woods. The trade in general feels that these Philippine woods are entitled to be called Philippine Mahogany because of the long established use of the name and because of their general appearance, and that full consideration of the evidence will result in a reversal of the old decision."
Seattle, Wash., May 25.-A substantial gain in the amount of Douglas fir exported by Northwest mills to Peru during t9D is rdported by the United States Department of Commerce, according to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. Peru's imports of Douglas fir last year totaled more than 84,50O,000 feet.
Douglas fir is being imported in incieasing quantities by various South American countries, according to the Association, where it is used for a wide variety of purposes. Whereas this wood was practically unknown in the Argentine ten years ago, this country imported more than 70,0W,000 feet last year.
At least 90 per cent of the lumber brought into Peru is Douglas fir. It is conspicuously employed in competition with tropical woods for ornamental finish of furniture, fixtures, interior trim, general construction purposes and in vehicle and freight car building. It is the chief material for sash, doors and blinds, and has become indispensable in mining operations. It has many uses on farms and plantatrons.
Taunton, Mass., May 15.-The Edward Phillips lfouse, built in 1767 at.Taunton, Mass., has been removed to Springfield where it will be erected along with other old houses and buildings as part of the Better Homes Movement colony on the Eastern States Exposition grounds. Resting for 163 years on the original foundations this wood house is a fine example of good workmanship and rugged, yet artistic design. Each board in this house is hand h-ewn, each nail hand forged, each window sill hand cut and the bricks in the chimney and fireplaces hand molded. No studding appears. Planking, with hand hewn boards, from foundation to roof, without braces, has withstood the wear and tear of over a century and a half. All the panels are pine, some of the boards being over three feet wide. All the partitions of plank are lathed with hand split laths, with plaster on either side. The sills and beams are oak. A hand-carved corner cupboard, according to dealers, is one of the few which can be found in this section. The huge panels over the fireplaces are of pine, some over four feet wide, of perfect grain and are entirely free of knots.
We are now able to supply the California and Arizona trade with Grade-Marked
,
lumber, which is in demand by architects, contractors and engineers.
WHEN ORDERING SPECIFY GRADE.MARKED LUMBER
Institute of California, ARCHITECTVRAL wooo@woRK
Designed in the Colonial manner, the superb beauty of this receptidn hall and stairway is at once charming and impressive. Stair treads and hand rail are Mahogany, stained a rich dark red. Wall and staircase panelings and other woodwork are edge grain Douglas Fir, antiqued ivoryenamel finish. Millar & Hayes, architects.
Vacationists who are looking forward to a camping trip this summer in the mountains of California will find much of interest in the new map-folder entitled "National Forests of California," according to U. S. Forest Service officials. This folder shows all the main roads and highways of the state and lists improved free camping grounds, and scenic and recreation areas. Rules which must be observed by national forest visitors are also listed. These include the securing of a camp fire permit, the carrying of a shovel and an ax suitable for fire fighting purposes, and no smoking in the forest during the fire season except in camps, at places of habitation and in special posted areas.
Among the outstanding scenic attractions located in the national forests of California are Mt. Shasta (14,161 feet) on the Shasta National Forest, the Marble Mountain region of the Klamath National Forest, Lake Tahoe in the Tahoe and Eldorado National Forests, Kings River Canyon in the Sierra, Sequoia and Inyo National Forests, Mt. Whitney (14,496 feet) on the boundary line between the Inyo National Forest and Sequoia National Park, Lake Arrowhead in the San Bernardino National Forest and the Laguna Recreation Area in the Cleveland National Forest.
The map folder also describes the different forest regions of the state and the commercial resources of the national forests, such as water, timber and forage, which are so important to the economic progress of California.
More than 200,000 cattle and horses, and 550,000 sheep and goats are said to graze annually on national forest ranges; the sale of mature Government timber results in an annual cut of over 2%) million feet of lumber, and hydroelectric plants develop 1,500,000 horsepower from streams rising in the national forests. The total revenue from all resources of the national forests is approximately $1,400,000 each year. Of this amount. 25 per'cent is returned, in lieu of taxes, to the counties in which the national forests are located, for schools and roads. An additional 10 per cent of the receipts is spent by the Forest Service in road and trail construction within the national forests. The Forest Service has constructdd L,647 miles of road and 3,028 miles of trails within and adjacent to the national forests, with a total expenditure to 1929, for the construction and maintenance of existing roads and trails, of $11,300,000.
National forest visitors are cautioned about the danger from forest fires and their serious results are explained by reference to a five-year record of fires in the national forests of the state. The total loss from forest fires from 1924 to 1929 is estimated to be $5,800,000.
Copies of the "National Forests of California" map folder may be secured on request from forest supervisors located in Yreka, Mt. Shasta, Bishop, Weaverville, Willows, Alturas, Susanville, Quincy, Nevada City, Placerville, Sonora, North Fork, Porterville, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and San Diego, and Minden, Nevada. and from the U. S. Forest Service. San Francisco.
Noah Adams, Noah Adams Lumber Co., Oakland, spent several days in San Diego around the latter part of May. On his way north he spent a few days in Los Angeles and Pasadena. Mr. Adams is head of the Noah Adams Lumber Co. and operates yards at Fairfield, Walnut Grove, Isleton, Clarksburg and Rio Vista. He makes his headquarters at Oakland.
A quality product is the first requisite towards dealer satisfactiop-$sl back of such a standard there must be an organization ProPerly geared to render a cooperative and helpful service that is in full keeping with the buyer's needs.
'Hammondts organization represents a complete link of lumber facilities from sawmill to yard. ft provides a definite service that is as dependable as the product itself. It means a guarantee of speedy shipment and of adequate means to handle any siz.e of an order for any grade of West Coast Forest products.
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Planing Mill, Maclllnery and Stock. Will dispose of our entire stock of windows, doors, glass and kilrl dried mill stock; also modern machinery. New 3 years ago. Office equipment. Will sell by unit or as a whole. Property 325 ft. x 150 ft. with Santa Fe trackage. Los Angeles Planing Mill Co., 1800 Industrial St., Los Angeles, Calif. Phone VAndike 8460.
Young man,26 years of age, five years' experience wholesale lumber-familiar with all details, logging, manufacture, selling and office-desires position in Philippines or South America with importing company. Best of references. Address Box C-331, California Lumber Merchant.
An experienced lumber salesman and estimator desires employment. Reasonable. A-1 references anil bond. Address Box C-332 care California Lumber Merchant.
Complete Planing Mill plant and business of going concern. Will sell as a whole, or will sell inventory at market and lease building and equipment. Plant located fifty miles from .San Francisco in prosperous agricultural and resort section. Has been established fifteen years; certified by Millwork institute ; patronized by leading contractors to exclusion of competing mills and yards. Owner, age 66, desireg to retire account of health. $10,000 will handle deal. Address Box 334, California Lumber Merchant.
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California lumberman with executive ability and with fifteen years practical experience in the logging, mill, wholesale and retail ends of the business is open for a position with a progressive lumber,company where respon-. sibility and initiative is essential. Position must have good future prospects. At present employed and for the past ten years has been manager and sales manager of large metropolitan wholesale and retail yard in California. Extensive acquaintanceship with lumber executives, manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers on the Pacific Coast. Will consider going to Orient, Central or South American countries. Address Box C-330. Care California Lumber Mer'chant.
This is me. I need work--rvife, kids, landlord and grocer needs the money. You need an experienced lumberman that can sell and estimate-install, audit and keep bookspile and grade lumber-manage a yard, or handle cementAnything. Lumbermen have kept family and me for l0 years-your turn now. Good looking, good manners and character-bum reputation-3? years old and large for my age-$l50.00 per month-no less. Prefer small town where I will be found out. Address Box C-335, California Lumber Merchant.
Vestern Loggttg, Lumbet and Vood Using fndustty. 1930 Edition Now Ready
Covdts all states rtfest of the RocLies, British Columbia, Alaska, Philippines and l{awaii. fndustries include Logging Operations, Saw Mills, Shingle Mills, Woodworkers, lfood Preserving Plants, Manufacturers of Bores and Box.Shooks, Cross Arms, Sash, Doors, Fram.es, Flandles, Excelsior, Veneer, Cooperage, Furniture, Pulp and Paper, Lumber Wholeralerr, Brokers, Buyers, Company General Stores, Company Hotels, Camp Cornmissariee, Camp Mess or Boarding Houses and County Commis. sioners.
Abbey's Register is not simply a directory of leading operations, but lists both large and small; consequently, it contains approximately l0o/o more names than. any similar book published. There are many splendid selling and buying opportunitiea among thc srnall and medium sized operations.
Abbey's Register shows personnel, capacity, equipment, species of wood sawed and all other information necersary to enable the seller to select prospects intelligently, and buyers to place orders and inquiries with an understanding of what the mill can supply.
.{bbey's, with its 528 pages and over 10,000 listings, makes an "open book" of the vast lVestern Lumbcr fndustry.
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For more than a decade this trade-mark has appeared on the lumber and lumber products of a company half a century in the business. It means the ready identification of lumber in the manufacture of which long experience and skill have had an important part. From the selection of the tree to the finished product, the utmost care is used to make sure that maximum constru'c' tion aalu.e is pledged the buyer. Builders recognize not only the quality of this lumber, but the sales importance of utilizing know'a lumber in construction that is to be offered prospective buyers. Depend on the LongBell tra,de'mark on lumber!
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I)ouglas Fir Lumber, Timbers, Door and Windoll' Frames, Trimpak; Western Hemlock Lumber; Western Red Cedar Siding and Shingles; Southern Pine Lumber ar-rd Timbers ; Southern Hardwood Lumber, Timbers aud Trimpak; Oak Flooring. *CELLized Oak Flooring Strips, *CELLized Oak Floor Planks, *CELLized Oak Floor Blocks ; California White Pine Lumber, Sash and Doors, Box Shooks; Creosoted Southern Pine Lumber. Timbers, Posts. Poles, Ties, Guard-Rail Posts, Piling.
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The danger of fire is always presenr with wooden ironing boards. The electric iron carelessly left curned on is frequent cause of serious fires.
It is an effective selling argumenr to urge the
installation of the all-metal Handi-Ironing Cabinet to eliminate the above mentioned fire hazard. Moreover there are other superior qualities which make the Handi-froning Cabinet an easy article to sell.
